Bargains, Bargains, Bargains!

Scarysheep3000 · **Posted:** Wed May 07, 2008 12:24

myoptika wrote:

Dudley wrote:

Hey look everyone, it's that £17.99 price a bunch of people were waiting for on Katamari!

Sold!

Me too! Hurrah!

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Grand Theft Auto 4, Xbox 360 - £34.99 delivered

quick!

CUS · **Posted:** Wed May 07, 2008 20:50

Broken link - Here

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

LewieP wrote:

Grand Theft Auto 4, Xbox 360 - £34.99 delivered

quick!

FLFY

Edit : Damn you CUS!

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Man, I fixed it straight after, gimme a break.

CUS · **Posted:** Wed May 07, 2008 20:57

Er. It's still broken, sir.

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

hush you.

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!

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Curiosity · **Posted:** Wed May 07, 2008 23:59

Link or not, I have ordered it.

Many thanks, LewieP!

The same site also has the Super Smash Bros Melee Brawl Fight Club Fun Kick Game Thing on pre-order for 29.99 - that sounds bargainlicious too... is it?

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Thanks, if you have a digg account, it would be fantastic if you would digg it.

(I am pretty new to the whole digg thing, is specifically asking for diggs considered bad form?)

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Don't know if any of you guys use Twitter, but if you do, you can now use it to get all the SavyGamer deals sent to you via Twitter. This means, if you want, you can get them sent you you via email, the twitter page, instant message, or even SMS text should you so choose.
http://twitter.com/LewieP
You even get my random musings thrown in for free!

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Call Of Cthulhu: Dark Corners Of The Earth, PC - £4.99 delivered
Brothers In Arms DS, DS - £9.99 delivered
Grand Theft Auto IV: Special Edition, PS3 - £64.98 delivered
Driver 76, PSP - £9.99 delivered
Mercury Meltdown Remix, PS2 - £4.99 delivered
Heavenly Sword, PS3 - £17.95 delivered

Curiosity · **Posted:** Thu May 08, 2008 10:32

LewieP wrote:

Thanks, if you have a digg account, it would be fantastic if you would digg it.

(I am pretty new to the whole digg thing, is specifically asking for diggs considered bad form?)

I have neither Digg nor Twitter, I'm afraid!

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

You are so web one point zero.

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Sony PS3 40gb - £218.49 delivered

ElephantBanjoGnome · **Joined:** 22nd Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 8175

Find me an incredible xb360 deal, LewisP :hat:

Dimrill · **Posted:** Thu May 08, 2008 12:44

Release the bargain hounds! :hat:

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Premium?

Any games in particular?

Edit: woof.

ElephantBanjoGnome · **Joined:** 22nd Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 8175

Yes and no, respectively

CUS · **Posted:** Thu May 08, 2008 12:51

CRACKDOWN sorry reflex.

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

Hows this?

I can't have a proper look now, doing some uni work that is in tomorrow, but I will have a btter look over the next few days if you want, but there won't be anything much better than that I think.

myp · **Posted:** Thu May 08, 2008 13:02

LewieP wrote:

Sony PS3 40gb - £218.49 delivered

Very tempting, but I'm going to hold out for another 8 months.

ElephantBanjoGnome · **Joined:** 22nd Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 8175

LewieP wrote:

Hows this?

I can't have a proper look now, doing some uni work that is in tomorrow, but I will have a btter look over the next few days if you want, but there won't be anything much better than that I think.

Nice one, thank you kindly sir :hat:

LaceSensor · **Joined:** 2nd Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 3137

£10 off GTA 4 when bought with a 360 at amazon, too.

NervousPete · **Posted:** Thu May 08, 2008 18:03

LewieP wrote:

Sid Meier's Civilisation IV - Complete, PC - £7.93 delivered

If you don't have it, you'd have to be incredibly foolish not to go for this one.

("Curse you, Tokugawa!")

SuperFunGordon · **Joined:** 8th May, 2008 **Posts:** 131

the amount of things that come with the game are worth that on their own.

Squirt · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 6510

I want to get that, but I've a feeling my cruddy PC won;t be able to handle it. It really struggles with Civ3 on a busy map.

CUS · **Posted:** Thu May 08, 2008 18:21

Civ IV is worth buying a new* PC for. And then you could play STALKER too. And *looks at card* 'Peggle'? Am I saying that right?

* Ish. Not THAT new. A PC World laptop, perhaps.

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12243

LewieP, I have a question: how much time would you say roughly you spend looking for your bargains?

I ask because I have set up a similar site this week, but based on DVD bargains ( I have not advertised it outside my sig except for this post because it is both new, and shamelessly ripped off from your own site).

Mr_Grinch · **Joined:** 8th May, 2008 **Posts:** 84

I wouldn't advise getting a 360 with Crackdown. Whilst it's one of my favourite games it's only about £6.99 second hand (I've seen it in a few second hand shops and even that cheap in the local Currys).

Also, Hi, this is my first post here. I still need an avatar and stuff

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

It depends.

If I am at my PC all day, which I have been recently, then I would say around 5 minutes every hour.
If I am not going to be at my PC all day (so most of the time) I would try to spend at least 10 minutes in the morning, and 10 in the evening.

In case you're interested, I have around 1000 individual hits a day these days, most of which are from the UK. It was around 400/500 before I got kotaku'd. I would say I earn £100-£200 a month, but that really varies depending on what deals are around, like when the Rock Band bombshell hit I earned £200+ in 24 hours, but I can go a week and earn less than a tenner.

My advice -
Get a facebook, Digg, Stumbleupon and twitter account. Also get a seperate email address for just the blog, and encourage people to email you (and once you have their email addresses, add them as friends on facebook/Digg/Stumbleupon/twitter)

If you ever feel strongly about an issue, and capable of writing and interesting post about it, do it. This post of mine got me a lot of traffic.

Edit: 'sup Mr. Grinch!

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12243

Hehe, well naturally I'm completely inspired by what you've done, and would love to achieve something similar. I had hesitated mentioning it actually, because I don't want to sort of step on your toes.

But those are all awesome suggestions sir, thankyou very much. I have earned precisely zero from mine so far - it's had about 23 hits in total so that's nothing to be surprised about, but I do seem to be spending quite a long time putting each post up. Probably because of putting in the images though...

LewieP · **Joined:** 29th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 7600

The priority of SavyGamer is empowering consumers and fostering an economic environment where retailers who offer competitive prices are rewarded with more sales over those with higher marketing budgets, by reducing Asymmetric information in the marketplace.

Me making a profit is, and always will be secondary. I actually maintained a thread on the penny-arcade forums that essentially was an earlier version of SavyGamer, without any commission at all.

I applaud anyone trying to do similar with DVDs. I have no claim to the model of "a blog with good deals", I hardly invented that. The only reason SavyGamer has any success at all is that people trust me to do a good job, and I like to think I don't abuse that trust.

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12243

Well it's difficult, so I applaud you sir.

Dudley · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 8679

LewieP wrote:

The only reason SavyGamer has any success at all is that people trust me to do a good job, and I like to think I don't abuse that trust.

Plus it's an awesome name.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Thu May 08, 2008 23:42

Post your findings here too Russ, linked back to your blog natch like Lewis The Pea does.

LaceSensor · **Joined:** 2nd Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 3137

RE: 365 games camera offer xbox360

I havent received
ANYTHING AT ALL

and they sent me a dispatched notice, 30th April.

:'(

Runcle · **Posted:** Fri May 09, 2008 10:43

I didnt bother sending mine back but I quite like the new headset so Im keeping it.

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12243

If people would be happy for me to link the bargains on here I will do so from time to time.

Your starter for ten is that the Peep Show boxset from earlier in the thread is now back in stock at HMV for 15.99 for all series.