Saints Row 2 back to full price at Tesco News

not anymore, back up to £39.97 :(

NULL AND VOID THEYVE JACKED THE PRICE BACK UP!!!

I think you're a teensy-weensy bit late with this article, EG, as the game is not only now showing at £39.97 but is out of stock.

I particularly like the advert next to the articale for shopto.net offering SR2 on PS3 for 34.99...

edit, well now i guess it doesn't look so dumb

Think they'll cancel everyones order? Seems like a mis-price to me, as Saints Row 1 on the 360 was that same price of £15.97. I hope they do, but I'm simply jealous 'cause the 360 version wansn't the same price!

link dont work lol

@Kosumo - I'd expect Tesco to honour the price since that's the price they were selling the game at. They wouldn't be the first store to do this and I'm sure they won't be the last either.

Online stores are usually covered by terms and conditions now and I've known a few stories like this where they don;t honour the price due to the small print.

this was mentioned yesterday, there is a thread in the forums about it.
I ordered two whoop whoop.

Dear xx

We've cancelled your cheap as chips order, but you can re-order it at just £40 (more than everywhere else).

love from tesco.com

Every little helps

The contract between the customer, and Tesco, only exists once the item's shipped.

I got my order in minutes before the price changed. I sincerely hope they honour it.

Even if I don't like the game I can trade it in safe in the knowledge I'll get more than £16...

@Darren - Like someone else said there's the small print. Also I've heard Tesco Direct aren't the best at honouring prices online. And they'll probably just tell you like chrisjm has said.

Nothing to lose though, they can't charge me more than i agreed so at the worst it will be cancelled :-)

Managed to get one, but now they have hiked the price back up! Phew!

Some firms do honour price but last time Tesco made a mistake on a price on their website they cancelled everyones order so i imagine they will cancel

I'm sweating, constantly checking my e-mail to hopefully see no message! Come on baby.

Wahey! I sneaked in there before the price jack. I'll update if I get an email.

way back, they cancelled my links crossbow game pre order before putting the price up by 2 measly pounds. so good luck to those that think this will work out in your favour :(

First one maybe:

http://jersey.tesco.com/product.aspx?R=7...

Doesn't anyone remember that incident with the 360s, where they were selling them at a crazy low price because it's Tesco policy to sell for the price advertised? I'd hope this same company policy would extend to this game on the website, though the policies for the site and the shops themselves will differ.

lol i see its been changed now. anyone who pre ordered when it was at that cheap price is entitled to it at the price they placed the order i think.

Well I got it for 16 quid (if they honour it).

You students should have got up earlier

i heard about this yesterday but Tesco.com was being a bastard and wouldnt accept my card =/ oh well give it till christmas and it will be £15 again

Wow, Eurogamer always at the cutting edge of news

How is the consumer supposed to benefit from this when the CEO Lisa Morgan of GAME group openly allowed managers of the stores to buy out all the stock from supermarkets who ran the cheap 360 and Wii promotions last week, as was clearly the case with this title last night as I personally saw people walking away with 5 copies of the game and I was left with nothing.

By the way, that’s 670 GAME and Gamestation stores, in case you were in any doubt of the scale

I ordered 4 copies last night. I want the 360 version so I will be trading all 4 copies into cEX, then buying a proper copy with decent online.

get in! I'm getting the 360 version but when I saw this I ordered it on PS3 too in case any of my friends get it on there. I ordered it this morning for £15.97 and its just gone back up! victory

@ SEVQA

its called unfair competition, I dont blame game and gamestation for going and buying up all the stock of games that cost less than Game & GS can buy them for.

Will everyone be happy when tesco have shut down all of their competition?

no you wont benno

@t8yman

It was a short term promotion, only to attract people into the stores! No way could it be sustained for a long period of time.

If you’re saying supermarkets are being irresponsible then why do game behave like that too, maybe all the failing bankers in city should get their 15 million pound bonuses as well.

It proves that regulation has gone out of the window and retail has turned into the Wild West!

If they honor the price I will. They might not, but hey, i aint lost nothing

I've ordered it on PS3 - however it's now gone back up to full price...so hopefully they will honour my pre-order.

On a side note - it's probably all the scaffy b@stards that pre-order 4 and 5 copies at that price, that screw the people buying one at a bargain price.

Essentially the same as ticket touts and therefore scum !!!

They have to honour the lower price don't they even if they have now jacked it back up again

No they don't, they can simply refuse the sale. That version of the law is an urban myth.

Tesco are usually quite good about holding their hands up an honouring pricing mistakes.

There was some monumental cock-up at one store where they priced 360s wrong, and people got paid £300 to take away Premium 360s, but they honoured their deal until they corrected the price.

They paid me to take home a crate of stella once because of a price mistake, I was well chuffed.


... my bruised wife less so :)

from tesco's t&c's

4. Payment and acceptance

If you buy an item from the Tesco Direct Catalogue on the phone, in-store or online you will be charged for an item at the time you place your order. After this time, you cannot amend your order (but please see our cancellation policy in section 6 below).

Your order is an offer to buy from us. Nothing that we do or say will amount to any acceptance of that offer until we actually despatch an item to you, at which point a contract will be made between us. At any point up until then we may decline to supply an item to you. If we decline to supply an item to you and you have already paid for it, we will give you a full refund of any amount already paid for that item in accordance with our refund policy in section 7 below.

Where items are despatched separately, our acceptance of the order in respect of each item takes place when that item is dispatched.

If you place an order for a television or television receiving equipment (e.g. DVD recorders, set-top boxes or PC with Broadcast (TV) cards) we will inform the TV Licensing Authority of your name, address and order details.

Haha, I bagged myself a copy at 9am this morning.

They better fucking honour it. Most supermarkets would, the PR is worth more to them than a few hundred (or thousand) quid.

thanks for the clarification from T&Cs T8yman - I live in hope. if it's honoured, then great, if not, thems the breaks!!!

@ butler - what PR? they are bleeding the high street dry, eventually you wont have any alternative to the big retailers, and you will pay what they say.

they have already got tons of free publicity from this cock up, that alone is worth 1000 herberts moaning that tesco didnt give them something for nothing.

Moral of the story here is shop online - if you want to be first at getting the deals!

Seen as we are all blogging here it’s within our means at least! Stuff the high street, it’s choked up with chain stores and franchises anyway the supermarkets might as well have it all.

If the shops were independent and unique then I'm might be interested to take a walk, but no our government made sure that wasn’t happening. So why waste efforts, time and money to walk into a shop and pay more! When everything is cheaper on line! Stuff GAME and GAMSTATION and all those rubbish chain stores on our high street, and time to get rid of a few banks too, has anyone walked down Kingston upon Thames high street, 7 banks in row c’mon what the hell!

According to videogamesplus the 360 version is region free anyway, so you can still order it cheap and hopefully have it by Friday.

Either way t8yman supermarkets do generally honour pricing cock-ups, big or small, though I'm not feeling particularly optimistic about this one.

Got my order confirmation email, confirms the bargain price

Tesco are the biggest scumbags on the highstreet. If they honour this I'll be shocked.

GOOD NEWS!!!

Just called Tescos and was told that i will be charged a confirmed price of 15.97 for the game :)...gonna go trade it in for PES 2009..a game i actually want :)

Yep wouldn't be surprised at all if they honour the original price. I hope so because I got an order in!

They're not obliged to honour it at all, but it's pocket change to them and it's probably better from a PR point of view to just let it go.

Lol...

There is no chance Tesco's will honor the lower price. It was clearly a mistake, and it is hghly unrealistic to expect them to let it slide.

If Tesco don't honour it...I suggest those who have ordered at £15.97 visit their nearest Tesco, load their trolley up with all the expensive food that goes off out of the refrigerated aisles, some nice steaks etc. take a leisurely walk around the store, go through the checkout, then when the kind lady asks for payment, say "I don't think I want any of this anymore", and let them sort that mess out !!!