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Woops! Target made a boo-boo.

Chris

Chris

Old Coot
The following error has been fixed, so don't even bother trying it now.

Earlier yesterday, Target.com screwed up and listed the Nintendo DS on their online catalog for their "December Gather Round" as being only $99.99. People immediately saw this and took advantage of this by printing out the site and showing this to Target clerks. It got to the point where Target decided to just say the hell with it and had just allowed people to buy Nintendo DS' for the advertised price as long as they brought in a legit proof (aka a print out of the site).

Others, including myself, got an even sneakier idea. People took even more advantage and brought in these print outs to places such as Wal-Mart and Circuit City. They matched the price with a DS being under $90 and added a game to add onto the matched price. Circuit City gave you the DS for under $90 (usually for $80) and a crappy $20 game (ATV Quad Frenzy). In the end it would cost less than $110. Of course, it gets even better when they'd return the game for a refund the next day or so, ending up having a DS cost them as less as $77.

Target has now fixed their online catalog to $129.99. However, from what I've heard, you can bring the $99.99 print out in stores until Dec. 12. If you don't have it printed out, you cannot get the $99 deal.

Here's how it's worked out for me.

• Promo Package - $0.00
• Nintendo DS Game System - $80.00
• ATV Quad Frenzy - $19.99

• Subtotal - $99.99
• Sales Tax (on $99.99) - $6.50
• TOTAL - $106.49

So by returning the game tomorrow, I'll have paid $86.50 for a Nintendo DS as well as getting $20 back.

Here's a link to the full story (with a link to their previous story about the $99 deal before finding out it was an error): http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000563069679/
 
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snorlax4eva

Hive Trainer
Oh, yeah I saw this too. Whoever took advantage of this is lucky. I just bought the Nintendogs bundle like 2 or 3 weeks ago and now I could have gotten something like this. I wonder if Target and other stores are losing a lot of money from this?
 
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ViNe WhIp

Johto Champion
Holly crap where was I? The stores must have lost some big money.


I would just like to tell everyone that someone on the site EE gave has a screen shot of the add and if you take it in to Circuit city they'll honner it with an extra 10% (because of their price matching policy) and give you a free promo game (they're giving them out with new DS purchases.

heres the screen shot http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/154/ds1ca.png
 
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Skiks

Skiks

MUCH RESPECT
Solembum said:
Holly crap where was I? The stores must have lost some big money.


I would just like to tell everyone that someone on the site EE gave has a screen shot of the add and if you take it in to Circuit city they'll honner it with an extra 10% (because of their price matching policy) and give you a free promo game (they're giving them out with new DS purchases.

heres the screen shot http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/154/ds1ca.png
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Your my hero. o_o I am so getting mariokart DS now. =D
 
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indigestible_wad

Well-Known Member
I don't really care too much. My cousin got bored of his so he's going to sell it to me for one cent more. And taht includes all the games he has. And he's offerening that for a lot longer than a couple days.
 
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ViNe WhIp

Johto Champion
^ go to circuit city much better. The offer is for almost two weeks good enough for me. Dont go to target I read a lot of them arent actually honering the add if its a print out. Skiks if you meant you're going to get MK: ds as the promo game you cant they automaticly give you ATV Quad Frenzy
 
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Chris

Chris

Old Coot
Solembum said:
^ go to circuit city much better. The offer is for almost two weeks good enough for me. Dont go to target I read a lot of them arent actually honering the add if its a print out. Skiks if you meant you're going to get MK: ds as the promo game you cant they automaticly give you ATV Quad Frenzy
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If you go to Circuit City, you HAVE to make sure they do price matching with Target. A Target has to be nearby in order for them to price match with it.
 
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ViNe WhIp

Johto Champion
^ Really? I never heard of that. Because I've done price matching with stores quite a ways away from Circuit City
 
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Chris

Chris

Old Coot
Depends on the location, anyways. Have heard from people having difficulties due to there not being a Target in the area. Doesn't have to be like across the street, but at least the same area code.
 
Skiks

Skiks

MUCH RESPECT
Solembum said:
^ go to circuit city much better. The offer is for almost two weeks good enough for me. Dont go to target I read a lot of them arent actually honering the add if its a print out. Skiks if you meant you're going to get MK: ds as the promo game you cant they automaticly give you ATV Quad Frenzy
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No I ment getting it myself. I can't buy the game if I don't have a DS. So yeah =D Now I can play it.
 
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ViNe WhIp

Johto Champion
Oh I guess the CC by us doesn't have rules like that then. Okay just making sure ya understood me ^_-
 
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Polaros

Jade Star Trainer
So did it actually work for anyone. do they ask any questions or any thing. I am so Happy I'm going to Target or Walmart Tomorrow
 
MidnightScott

MidnightScott

Super Gamer
Yeah - I'm gonna go to Circuit City and if we can't get it to work we will just go to Target. ;)

I wanna get one for my older brother in the Air Force, so yeah.

~Scott;229;
 
Chris

Chris

Old Coot
Polaros said:
So did it actually work for anyone. do they ask any questions or any thing. I am so Happy I'm going to Target or Walmart Tomorrow
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Yep. Got mine for only $86.50 after returning the game and getting my money back for it.
 
Chris

Chris

Old Coot
Circuit City. That's the one where you get a game with the DS (which is worth $20).
 
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Charziken 13

Enigma
That is hillarious! Man, if I didn't have a DS, I'd fnd a way to get that ad, cause that is a great deal. Good thinking, going with the price matching at Circuit City. I bet whoever made that mistake on the site has been fired by now. They must have lost a lot of money on that, especially the other stores that had to match that price. I can only imagine the look on the cashier's face when you came in and showed them that, then reminded them of their price matching policy. Priceless.
 
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Ethereal

Guest
Call me a cynic, but I can't stop thinking that this was intentionally done...and that Nintendo had some part in it. I wonder if Nintendo made some quick little deal to get an arseload of DS's sold quickly for the holiday season. If they sold a lot of systems, a lot of games would be sold. I imagine that if this was the case, they made a deal with Target, and that kinda backfired, because employees at Target didn't know about it, which resulted in them having to pull the ad.

Meh, ignore me and my dumb theories. :)
 
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