PLEASE REMEMBER: YOU CANNOT TALK ABOUT COMPETITORS!

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lolwut?

This is gonna need some clarification!


In my book a competitor is someone competing with OcUK...

OcUK sell games via a website and then a couple of days later the postman brings you a DVD. Thus websites where you order it and get it a few days later are competitors to OcUK. The rain forest lot, the jersey based lot, etc. They are all competitors.

The purple shirts are a retail store in your local town, where you walk five minutes from your office, pick up the DVD there and then, and then walk back with it in your hand. This is not competing with OcUK (though many of the retail store companies do infact have websites which compete with OcUK).

Steam is a digital download. This is not competing with OcUK.
 
Antar Bolaeisk said:
If I remember correctly a competitor was deemed to be anyone who's core business was the same or overlapped with that of Overclockers UK (which is why we can mention places like Amazon) so if Overclockers were to choose to see gaming as part of it's core business then talking about the aforementioned digital distributors would be in breach of the rules.

Absolute clarity will be required as to how a competitor is defined with examples of what is considered to be a competitor and what is not.
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This basically... I'm now pretty confused...

I've known for a while there's nothing wrong with naming Amazon, but for respects sake actually called it 'the rainforest' most of the time...

I can perfectly understand some of the other online e-tailers who focus on Computer hardware, or the purple shirt people!

This does sound a bit surreal though.... Are you really saying we can't mention Steam? Because 5UB has been promoting the Steam group more and more, and lots of stuff in the gaming theory is being done through Steam...

Again like many of the people above, I'll try and buy from OCUK. On my build the only thing I didn't buy from OCUK that I bought directly was my 4 fans, because I was after some specific ones that OCUK didn't sell (I even suggested them two months before buying from a competitor!) But I wouldn't really buy a game...

Mostly for two reasons:
OCUK don't do Digital DL's and struggle to compete with things like the Steam Summer Sale...
If I want a boxed version of the game (I tend to prefer boxed versions) then I'm faced with the fact that most of the games I can buy from OCUK I can get in a store (with being able to get it faster as it's only a short trip into town) and if I want something different where I might have to go to a different etailer then chances are OCUK don't stock it....

Also yeah the number of companies that sell games (supermarkets) would severely limit what you can talk about across the whole forums :S

Just really some clarification would be pretty good!

I should also add that I always saw the competitors we couldn't mention as those who compete with OCUK's Core business with their core business... No offence guys but games clearly aren't your core business (unless there's something in the pipework we don't know about)

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Are major publishers competitors too?

Because they sell their own games too and it's hard to mention World of Warcraft without mentioning Blizzard.

Another point, is indirectly mentioning competition ok?

What about a game price comparison site like this - http://www.find-game.co.uk/

Besides a free voucher for use with one of the competitors, it doesn't mention any competitors directly unless you'll look for a specific title.
 
skullman said:
Looking at the selection and pricing, they arent even competitive, therefore they have no competitors.
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That's the point, anyone of us could buy these 8 games and a few gaming cards and start selling them at a profit once they bought it from elsewhere, therefore OcUK is not a competitor in the true meaning of this word.


It would be different if they were stocking as many games as Game/Gamestation and other high-street retailers, and I would totally support their decision in that case as that would mean one day they could become a well-priced competitor in this field as well.

They're sadly doing something opposite and breaking the once great section of the Forums along the way.
 
i just had a thought. OcUK sell preowned things in the clearance line (eg, stuff thats been DSR'd). sooooo....

goodbye members market. sorry, no competitors of OcUK allowed
 
I'm just waiting for them to start selling kitchen eqipment so they can kill that forum too. No competitors! Buy our OCUK teatowel!
 
Not this old Chestnut again. OcUK start selling games therefore discussion of half the internet is now off limits. Games sell hardware, which is the core business.

Clarification needed, and make it simple.
 
I would imagine that the greatest benefit of the games forum (from OcUK's point of view) is that active members here are presumably more likely to buy hardware here. But this restriction, which seems extremely odd given there are so few games stocked by OcUK, will simply cause a lot of bad feelings and invite ridicule. Which will probably lead to a far greater loss to OcUK's sales than the loss (if any) from their game sales.....
 
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