Bloody Gerry Harvey. 'The Australian government needs to stop direct imports from overseas. Don't import. Support Australian jobs. I don't make enough money.' the only one he has missed is 'Someone think of the children!'. Yesterday Harvey Norman announced to the gaming world that they would start their own direct import site for games. They were carrying on about how ga
mers should check theor prices adn see how much cheaper they were. The site went live at 6pm last night.
This morning the gaming world is abuzz with price comparisons and as usual their prices are Hardly Normal. First I need to reiterate that they charge $3.95 shipping and that is not included in these prices (courtesy of gizmodo.com.au) and that Ozgameshop is the go-to store for gamers as they have free shipping and the best prices.
Assassin’s Creed Revelations (360)
Harvey Norman: $55
Ozgameshop: $57
Play-Asia: $50.50
Battlefield 3 (360)
Harvey Norman: $59
Ozgameshop: $43
Play-Asia: $67
Modern Warfare 3 (360)
Harvey Norman: $63
Ozgameshop: $54
Play-Asia: $55
Batman Arkham City (PS3)
Harvey Norman: $58
Ozgameshop: $45
Play-Asia: $64
Now these are all newish games and on the one item that they are actually cheaper on than OGS the saving is completely wiped out by the shipping cost. On everything else they are significantly more expensive.
Now Jerry I am not sure if you have shit advisors or you are actually stupid. I will give you the benefit of the doubt because you are about 190 years old and have no idea when it comes to gaming or the gaming community. I personally refuse to buy from your stores as all the furniture I ever bought from you was worse than what I got at Fantastic for half the price and your electronics are so overpriced its not funny. The only thing I buy from your stores are my laptops because I always wrangle it so I get a good deal and last time I paid $100 more than the best price I could find online and got a free Iconia Tab, so I won.
Gamers are obviously internet smart. We can sniff shit out for next to nothing and many of us can find the rarest items and collectables when everyone else has failed. We frequent the dark dank corners of the interwebs and make them popular. Your corporation has no chance of pulling a swifty on any of us. The only companies that survive in the online world are the ones that can move fast and not get left behind, this is why OGS has succeeded, it is also why Gametraders is taking the fight to GAME and EB. They don't have tons of red tape to get through to make things happen.
My free tip to you, Mr Harvey, is to take one of two options. Option 1. Abandon this idea before you lose even more money. or Option 2; Employ some gamers, let them make decisions and implement them outside of the usual bureacracy, be open and honest with sites like Kotaku/Gizmodo, Gamespot and independent game media, have a spokesman that knows what he is talking about and actually compete with companies like OGS. Until you take option 2 you will continue to have no influence on the gaming and wider community and you will continue to be an old bag of hot air.
Onto other things that are irking me today. The top-ten facebook searches are in for 2011 and 'facebook', 'facebook login' and variations appear 4 times in the top friggin' ten. I was going to start weeping at how fucking retarded people are then I noticed that one of those entries is 'www.facebook.com'. WTF is wrong with you morons. Why the hell are you typing the URL for facebook into google. You know what the URL is, type it into the address bar, moron. If you are unable to do this, or you don't know what a URL or address bar is, please remove yourself from the interwebs and smash your computer with a hammer. You obviously don't deserve one.
I highly recommend the range of veggie burgers at Grill'd. They are fantastic and even taste better for you. It was part of my experiment to start introducing two vegetarian days a week to my diet. Of course that can wait until after Christmas...too much delicious animal flesh to be eaten to start now. My aim is to be under 110kg by the end of next year, wish me luck. I am also going to have at least four alcohol and soft drink free days a week. Drink only water and black tea at work. Spend at least 30mins a day on the exercise bike and continue my already started regime of parking 1.5km from work. This gives me the benefit of walking and free parking.
Some fuckwit tradie has left his dog on his ute and fucked off to do his shopping. The dog is in the sun with no water and no shelter and is clearly in distress, the tray is so hot I can't touch it and the dog has burnt its feet.. We have given it water and called the RSPCA (who were really unhelpful) and the rangers (who will be investigating the matter). People like this fucktard do not desrve animals. He is a fucking moron and I would love to leave him naked chained on the ute in the sun for 90 mins. See how he fucking likes it. See ya later, alligator.
This morning the gaming world is abuzz with price comparisons and as usual their prices are Hardly Normal. First I need to reiterate that they charge $3.95 shipping and that is not included in these prices (courtesy of gizmodo.com.au) and that Ozgameshop is the go-to store for gamers as they have free shipping and the best prices.
Assassin’s Creed Revelations (360)
Harvey Norman: $55
Ozgameshop: $57
Play-Asia: $50.50
Battlefield 3 (360)
Harvey Norman: $59
Ozgameshop: $43
Play-Asia: $67
Modern Warfare 3 (360)
Harvey Norman: $63
Ozgameshop: $54
Play-Asia: $55
Batman Arkham City (PS3)
Harvey Norman: $58
Ozgameshop: $45
Play-Asia: $64
Now these are all newish games and on the one item that they are actually cheaper on than OGS the saving is completely wiped out by the shipping cost. On everything else they are significantly more expensive.
Now Jerry I am not sure if you have shit advisors or you are actually stupid. I will give you the benefit of the doubt because you are about 190 years old and have no idea when it comes to gaming or the gaming community. I personally refuse to buy from your stores as all the furniture I ever bought from you was worse than what I got at Fantastic for half the price and your electronics are so overpriced its not funny. The only thing I buy from your stores are my laptops because I always wrangle it so I get a good deal and last time I paid $100 more than the best price I could find online and got a free Iconia Tab, so I won.
Gamers are obviously internet smart. We can sniff shit out for next to nothing and many of us can find the rarest items and collectables when everyone else has failed. We frequent the dark dank corners of the interwebs and make them popular. Your corporation has no chance of pulling a swifty on any of us. The only companies that survive in the online world are the ones that can move fast and not get left behind, this is why OGS has succeeded, it is also why Gametraders is taking the fight to GAME and EB. They don't have tons of red tape to get through to make things happen.
My free tip to you, Mr Harvey, is to take one of two options. Option 1. Abandon this idea before you lose even more money. or Option 2; Employ some gamers, let them make decisions and implement them outside of the usual bureacracy, be open and honest with sites like Kotaku/Gizmodo, Gamespot and independent game media, have a spokesman that knows what he is talking about and actually compete with companies like OGS. Until you take option 2 you will continue to have no influence on the gaming and wider community and you will continue to be an old bag of hot air.
Onto other things that are irking me today. The top-ten facebook searches are in for 2011 and 'facebook', 'facebook login' and variations appear 4 times in the top friggin' ten. I was going to start weeping at how fucking retarded people are then I noticed that one of those entries is 'www.facebook.com'. WTF is wrong with you morons. Why the hell are you typing the URL for facebook into google. You know what the URL is, type it into the address bar, moron. If you are unable to do this, or you don't know what a URL or address bar is, please remove yourself from the interwebs and smash your computer with a hammer. You obviously don't deserve one.
I highly recommend the range of veggie burgers at Grill'd. They are fantastic and even taste better for you. It was part of my experiment to start introducing two vegetarian days a week to my diet. Of course that can wait until after Christmas...too much delicious animal flesh to be eaten to start now. My aim is to be under 110kg by the end of next year, wish me luck. I am also going to have at least four alcohol and soft drink free days a week. Drink only water and black tea at work. Spend at least 30mins a day on the exercise bike and continue my already started regime of parking 1.5km from work. This gives me the benefit of walking and free parking.
Some fuckwit tradie has left his dog on his ute and fucked off to do his shopping. The dog is in the sun with no water and no shelter and is clearly in distress, the tray is so hot I can't touch it and the dog has burnt its feet.. We have given it water and called the RSPCA (who were really unhelpful) and the rangers (who will be investigating the matter). People like this fucktard do not desrve animals. He is a fucking moron and I would love to leave him naked chained on the ute in the sun for 90 mins. See how he fucking likes it. See ya later, alligator.
