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Originally Posted by Locke
I cant even remember the last time I purchased anything at HMV because their 'inflated prices' was an open secret.
You could browse their selection, find something cool that you liked and buy it at half a dozen different places for almost half the HMV price.
Its like when you browse somewhere and then go home and buy it on Amazon because you can have it delivered to you for less than the store price.
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Yeah and that's one big reason they failed. It was paying rent to operate as a physical show room for people to go browse things in person and then go home and order it online. It's a huge problem for niche retail. Looking at this model, stores like EBGames might not even survive in the long run. You can see them on the HMV path right now with selling all the random toys and clothing, etc. now in the EBX stores. taking up over half the space - trying desperately to make extra margin. Most of their profit comes from used games but more and more games have game codes that render the physical copies useless or people are buying them digitally.