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Originally Posted by Bringer Of Funerals  Then they wonder why they are on the verge of shutting down, they blame people for not shopping in the store but with prices of £30 for the MOC Nosferau and £25 for New Jack City I even saw a Don The Dragon Wilson boxset of Bloodfist 1-4 for £40. High considering they were straight to dvd films to begin with |
Matching online pricing if your a high street store is impossible, I work at blockbusters and we dropped all the big titles to £13.99 on pre-order for blu and £10.99 on dvd (were still doing this I should add, Looper is currently available for pre-order at £13.99, and Dredd £14.99 for example.) and dvds at £9.99 (some of the big'uns like ted and dark knight down to £8.99) and still amazon and play turn round and undercut us...
Why?
Well they dont pay taxes for a start and they don't have all these shops employing people, in fact most online retailers only actually employ a fraction of what a high street retailer does. So when all these highstreet retailers shut then thats extra on our tax bills (not play or amazons, they dont pay it) to keep the staff on benefits.
That said at least we made something of an effort, HMV are nuts charging somke of the prices they do instore, far better to keep as low as possible and hope for goodwill from the public imo. Other than that online will always have the upper hand.