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-Mike- said:
The new console Hire Purchase System. Pay a frankly crazy £300 deposit and then only £10.99 a month over an undecided period whilst we both wait for the other to announce your final settlement figure ;)
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To be fair, PS3/Xbox360 was £300+(around abouts?) when released, I'd imagine this would be more from a personal guess. People can obviously wait until release to find out the actual price, but the ordering is available now so people can be on the list to get one.
 
If the games do cost £89.99 as listed on another site, then I don't think they need to worry about the console cost, MS could sell it for £100 and make silly money off the games.
 
Games won't be that high.
I'm expecting £49.99+ for games, which is still stupidly high.
May as-well buy a PC and get cheap games of steam....you will spend a fortune on xbox games.
 
5UB said:
To be fair, PS3/Xbox360 was £300+(around abouts?) when released, I'd imagine this would be more from a personal guess. People can obviously wait until release to find out the actual price, but the ordering is available now so people can be on the list to get one.
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I'm not dissing you guys 5UB, I just think the original £5xx and now £3xx is frankly stupid. The customer is just lining someone elses bank account with interest when they can pre order elsewhere for £20.

If you did £20 I bet you'd have a lot more orders rolling in. £20 also isn't a great deal to lose.
 
I believe the PS3 was released at £429.99. I bought mine when it was at £299.99 bundled with 3 games.

I have heard that the Xbox One will be £399.99. I got this from a staff member in a high street store. No idea if there is any truth behind it though.
 
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I remember seeing preorder pricing for the XBOX one (the first one, not this new xbox 'one' :p ) at around £700 in some local (independant) game shops, and they sold their allocation (actually I think that may have been for NTSC US imports), point is, some people will always care enough to splash out, even if they know they could wait a month and save a few hundred (much like many of us did with TITAN -> 780gtx, we all knew it was coming, yet I've seen a couple of Quad SLI titan builds!)

people want it, so OCUK are stocking it, and with such a small workforce, compared to some broader interest etailers, I don't blame them for not doing the '£20 deposit, then they have to chase you for the rest or reallocate stock' model, and even if they DO pocket the deposit for now, and settle any balance later, then they can use the interest to fund 8Pack to put one under LN2 :D (no idea if you can still clock modern consoles!)
 
-Mike- said:
I'm not dissing you guys 5UB, I just think the original £5xx and now £3xx is frankly stupid. The customer is just lining someone elses bank account with interest when they can pre order elsewhere for £20.

If you did £20 I bet you'd have a lot more orders rolling in. £20 also isn't a great deal to lose.
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+1 i just paid my £20 Deposit at a well known Store and kept the rest of my money in my own bank.
 
-Mike- said:
There isn't anything wrong with £20. Read the rest of the thread! Ocuk wanted nearly £600 which has now been reduced to £300.

£20 is a lot better!
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I'm aware the original price was £589.00 which was hilarious, as is £300.00.

I want to know what is wrong with a £20.00 deposit?
 
Considering Overclockers is the first place I've seen offering a £589.00, now £300.00 deposit, I think it's quite hilarious.

There are retailers offering deposit free pre orders and some offering pre orders for ~£20.00.

I just don't understand the thinking behind such a large pre order deposit, when no specific RRP has been confirmed by Microsoft.

Overclockers are kind of asking you to pay what they think the console could cost, now, to receive the console in ~6 months.
 
By the sound of things they'd like to see some demand for this console before it's bought in. I wouldn't have thought the demand will be massive compared to high street stores but you never know.. If there is a shortage which there probably will be, people will go crazy regardless of price.
 
Great move, I don't usually like plaice holders, who knows if I'll have the amount in my bank account, at some random day in the future. Much prefer pay up front. Still waiting for E3 though. Toss up between this or a NUC with kinect for windows.
 
They could still take the deposit of ~£20.00 and when they actually have the RRP confirmed from Microsoft offer a discount of ~£20.00 and a 'buy now' option for those that pre ordered, or just charge the rest when the product is available.
 
An amusing thread. Bit of a customer relations disaster, but amusing non the less.
Is there any reason why the deposit would not be similar to what other places are offering?
 
MatsyLR said:
Games won't be that high.
I'm expecting £49.99+ for games, which is still stupidly high.
May as-well buy a PC and get cheap games of steam....you will spend a fortune on xbox games.
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Think I will stick to my current setup and skip the xbox, PC and TV with steam big picture mode. At least then I can upgrade the system as time goes on and keep those games at ultra settings.

Still got my 360 in a box since moving house gathering dust.

Understand the placeholder price, if it was £20 pre-order they would be in-indated with pre-orders and just wouldn't be able to get enough stock on release day (could be wrong there). Believe amazon are doing the "place holder" method too.
 
A £20 pre order would attract loads more orders but £300 is a bit much. Even people who may be on the fence about getting one would order as a £20 loss is not that much.
 
I'l probably place my pre-order if any after E3 which is happening in about a week and half. I'm always worried about first iterations of consoles, because they usually have some sort of defect which people end up finding a few months later after release.
 
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