Wii Why so expensive

i work for a certain high street retailer on games products. Were selling them in bundles cheapest for 299 and we can only sell them in the bundles as dictacted by head office ( 3 games + sims 2 pets ). Our managers dont like it as they say the consumer shouldnt have to bear the burden. But when i worked it out you do actually save about 20 squids as long as your buying 39.99 games. But selling the console its self for £300 i think is rude, but then supply and demand. They are a business after all
 
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OCUK are not the only ones to be charging over the odds for the Wii, I have seen others doing the same in Members Market.
Business are run to make a profit, if they don't do this they cease to function. I feel that private sellers are vastly overpricing secondhand Wiis but they are not pounced on and criticized nearly as much as businesses.
 
dannyjo22 said:
You should have been reading these forums at xbox360 launch and wii. Loads of people got all hissy over members making a profit.
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I can completely understand why they do as well, I know a few of mates sold their launch 360's around crimbo when they were hard to come by for between £500-£600.
I just find it strange that there are so many threads on here having a pop at OC and other companies but there are members doing exactly the same thing.
 
EvilGrin said:
It's called supply & demand mate, fact is with stock being so limited on the wii, the market has bumped up it's average price for selling on the console. If you think about it, if a company is limited to a certain amount of stock, to make up for the lack of units sold the price has to be bumped up to retain a certain level of revenue from that line of products. At the end of the day it's a business and it's there to make money. I wouldn't hold it against them!
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If the stock is so limited, OcUK should at least throw in bundled package deal only, with 2 or 3 games, like the other online retailers do but OcUK don't...
 
=C0ld c4Th0d3= said:
It's called being a business. Deal with it.
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No it's not. At the very least it's not good business at the worst it's bad business. If I started selling the stuff I sell at work at higher prices because of one reason or other, pretty soon the customer will go elsewhere. I've seen it happen with one of our competitors who had a price increase of 10% 1 year, a lot of their customers came to us instead.
 
I wonder how many of the high-price Wii's OcUK have sold.

If they can get away with it, then good on them.. I just hope they aren't left with the stock because people aren't/won't buy them.
 
R0551 said:
No it's not. At the very least it's not good business at the worst it's bad business. If I started selling the stuff I sell at work at higher prices because of one reason or other, pretty soon the customer will go elsewhere. I've seen it happen with one of our competitors who had a price increase of 10% 1 year, a lot of their customers came to us instead.
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Supply and demand forces a business to adjust their prices so they can make a profit. It's simple business. Same goes for oil prices - supplies go down, so prices increase.

As a business, you're there to make a profit, not to make the customer happy. You can cut prices to increase satisfaction, but when you've got 10 Wiis and 200 people wanting them, then you're going to increase your prices as to make money.

Regardless of whether it's a 'good' thing to do, it's what businesses do.
 
People must be buying them for that price. Fools if you ask me but as long as they keep selling the price will stay.

High prices for products you actually need though would be wrong IMO e.g petrol or whatever.
 
=C0ld c4Th0d3= said:
Supply and demand forces a business to adjust their prices so they can make a profit. It's simple business. Same goes for oil prices - supplies go down, so prices increase.

As a business, you're there to make a profit, not to make the customer happy. You can cut prices to increase satisfaction, but when you've got 10 Wiis and 200 people wanting them, then you're going to increase your prices as to make money.

Regardless of whether it's a 'good' thing to do, it's what businesses do.
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Maybe the ones you deal with, but the company I work for don't do that and neither do the other 4 companies in our group.
 
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