Retailer Goes Bananas, Exchanges Videogames for Fruit
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BALLS!Onyx Oblivion said:What would they do for a trade-in for Pokemon?!
Yeeeahh..
Ontopic: This is kinda awesome, but think of the guy who's just bought a bunch of bananas and is guy no. 21 in the queue.
That must suck, but at least he's got some healthy food
You know what would be amusing, if incredibly unfunny for the people in line? If they revealed that they meant the agricultural "bunch" and not the normal "bunch". What people think of as a bunch is actually a "hand". A proper bunch is actually about 100 pounds of bananas.
Certainly better then their other idea of giving away free giant gorillas to the first in the queue. They tried that before. So much blood...
Crazy, I wish I could get a deal like that. I'm just not that lucky.
I ended up not being able to get one until 4 months later in early April.
I wish I had a pick-me-up like that when the Wii first came out way back when, during a Christmas time. I waited in line outside a Best Buy in below freezing weather. There were 20 people in front of me. I wasn't worried because I couldn't fathom how a store so big could only have a small amount. But it ended up that they only had 19 of them. I then went over to the mall nearby which was about to open. Everybody crowded around the entrance and when it opened, it was a mad dash to the game store that was in there. I was 10th in line and they ended up only have 9 of them.Lucifer dern said:
I ended up not being able to get one until 4 months later in early April.
I wonder what their cash flow is like with bananas. Plus I wonder how the shareholders will react
Edit: Sorry, having re-read what you said, what's written below doesn't quite make sense. Oh well.BioTox said:
Um, the article talks about GAME, as in, the retail chain called "GAME", which is the largest chain in the UK.
It's Pretty much our equivalent of GameStop, if that gives you any idea of how many stores this promotion would cover. - Although the article points out it's only some of them, not every one in the country.
If it were every single store, this quote would give you some indication of the scale of the giveaway.
That means in the unlikely even they were doing this, they'd be giving away 13,540 copies of the game.
Seems a little extreme to me.
It's probably nowhere near that many stores taking part in the promotion.
The closest one to me is Merry Hill, I'd get it but I wouldn't be up early enough to be in the first twenty D:GamesB2 said:The closest one to me is Merry Hill and I hate it there... also not too bothered about this game so I'm definitely passing.
Still a very odd marketing ploy
