Saints Row 2 back to full price at Tesco

By Robert Purchese Published 14 October, 2008

Someone must have noticed.

Update: Tesco has returned the PS3 version of Saints Row 2 to GBP 39.97.

Earlier, the online retailer had offered the game for the minuscule amount of GBP 15.97, which caused rather a lot of excitement.

Now, however, the Xbox 360 version is the cheaper of the two at GBP 34.97. Or, alternatively, there's the PC offering for GBP 24.97.

Saints Row 2 is due for release this Friday and is really very good. You might have even noticed our Saints Row 2 review this morning, in which the game was awarded 9/10.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (60) Latest comment 3 years ago

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  • loop7 #1 3 years ago

    not anymore, back up to £39.97 :(

  • gooners2006 #2 3 years ago

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

  • Darren #3 3 years ago

    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.

  • Sir_TimAlot #4 3 years ago

    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
    Edited by 1 at 14/10/08 @ 09:57

  • Kosumo #5 3 years ago

    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!

  • ArcticWolfx #6 3 years ago

    link dont work lol

  • Darren #7 3 years ago

    @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.

  • CannonAnBall #8 3 years ago

    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.


  • Scurrminator #9 3 years ago

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

  • chrisjm #10 3 years ago

    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

  • Machetazo #11 3 years ago

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

  • Blakester #12 3 years ago

    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...

  • Kosumo #13 3 years ago

    @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.
    Edited by 1 at 14/10/08 @ 10:15

  • Scurrminator #14 3 years ago

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

  • Nightbite #15 3 years ago

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

  • CraftyNigel #16 3 years ago

    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

  • Ninja_Tino #17 3 years ago

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

  • Doctor_What #18 3 years ago

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

  • chrisjm #19 3 years ago

    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 :(

  • mrpon #20 3 years ago

    First one maybe:

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

  • DFawkes #21 3 years ago

    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.

  • peeps #22 3 years ago

    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.

  • jamespo #23 3 years ago

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

    You students should have got up earlier

  • gooners2006 #24 3 years ago

    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

  • Wezi #25 3 years ago

    Wow, Eurogamer always at the cutting edge of news

  • SEVQA #26 3 years ago

    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

  • Benno #27 3 years ago

    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.

  • andywilkie35 #28 3 years ago

    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

  • t8yman #29 3 years ago

    @ 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?

  • chrisjm #30 3 years ago

    no you wont benno

  • SEVQA #31 3 years ago

    @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!

  • Benno #32 3 years ago

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

  • BartonFink #33 3 years ago

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

  • Doctor_What #34 3 years ago

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

  • TipTop #35 3 years ago

    Edited by 1 at 14/10/08 @ 11:16

  • MENTAL1ST Verified Senior Software Engineer, Picsel UK Ltd. #36 3 years ago

    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 :)

  • t8yman #37 3 years ago

    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.

  • butler` #38 3 years ago

    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.

  • W_Wonka #39 3 years ago

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

  • t8yman #40 3 years ago

    @ 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.

  • SEVQA #41 3 years ago

    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!

  • neilqpr #42 3 years ago

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

  • butler` #43 3 years ago

    Either way t8yman supermarkets do generally honour pricing cock-ups, big or small, though I'm not feeling particularly optimistic about this one.
    Edited by 1 at 14/10/08 @ 12:32

  • sebsal #44 3 years ago

    Got my order confirmation email, confirms the bargain price

  • Darkedge #45 3 years ago

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

  • dom6918 #46 3 years ago

    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 :)

  • steoc4 #47 3 years ago

    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.

  • bigbadbeasty #48 3 years ago

    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.

  • chrisjm #49 3 years ago

    there price policys online and instore are totally different. if you want the game uncancel your pre orders at hmv/game/gameplay etc. just wait and see :p

  • thewisemonkey #50 3 years ago

    A mate of mine ordered last night, to which tescos charged, now without confirmation they withdrew the charge and have not sent him an email to explain why. :/

  • CB.Gamestation #51 3 years ago

    In reference to the comment regarding GAME and Gamestation buying stock of Sainsbury's 360 and Wii offers, there is no law preventing this, and anyways, someone I know bought a 360 premium from Sainsbury's which was advertised as a 60GB model, when they got the console home it was in fact a 20GB inside a 60GB box!
    Sainsburys didn't care much, just said he could have a refund!

  • DFawkes #52 3 years ago

    Might not be illegal, but to the letter of the law you no longer qualify for the warranty since you aren't the original purchaser. I doubt they could tell though.

  • dodgymate #53 3 years ago

    Just got a dreaded email from Tesco cancelling my order. They didn't want to fulfil the nice price. It's such a shame. I have had more than a few unhappy shopping experiences at Tesco lately.

  • bonker #54 3 years ago

    "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,"

    That disgusted me and I'm still convinced that it contravened some trading law or other ...

  • bonker #55 3 years ago

    "Might not be illegal, but to the letter of the law you no longer qualify for the warranty since you aren't the original purchaser. I doubt they could tell though. "

    That crossed my mind ...

  • mobeus #56 3 years ago

    That's a fair comment snedwan. I get frustrated at the fact that games cost so much these days, but to blatantly leave the £15.97 running for 2 days is shameful. Don't tell me nobody noticed!! Probably they just wanted some more people to sign up to the site !! Surely they noticed when people started ordering x4 of the same game!!

    I went and ordered Saints Row to get into the mood too.....



  • CB.Gamestation #57 3 years ago

    Well in the case of Gamestation we'd swap it over within first year if something went wrong anyways....standard 12 month warranty....plus the extra warranty we do :)

  • BBIAJ #58 3 years ago

    @ thewisemonkey:

    The same thing happened with me when I pre-ordered the Gun Pack from Tesco.

    They are just pinging the account, to make sure that all the details are present and correct. The amount should be returned to the account within the next couple of days, and then withdrawn proper at the time of dispatch.

    Ubisoft are worse, they just took the entire amount there and then, never returned it, and then the game turned up nice and early on a Wednesday, which was nice, but no warning they were going to do it like that forst.

    Quite why they can't just test it for a quid or two, like most other online retailers that do such a thing tend to do, I don't know, especially since you get no prior warning, meaning you could quite easily go overdrawn or something were the funds not in your account prior to placing the pre-order.

  • TheRook21 #59 3 years ago

    "Thank you for your recent order for the Saints 2 Row PS3 game from Tesco.com.

    Unfortunately, there was an error in the price at the time that you placed your order, and as a result we have had to cancel your order. Please refer to our Terms and Conditions on the Tesco.com entertainment site for further details of our acceptance policy.

    If you would like to re-order the product, it is available on our website for £39.97.

    We sincerely apologise for any inconvenience this may have caused.

    Kind regards

    Tesco Customer Service"

    Lame...

  • BBIAJ #60 3 years ago

    I may well end up cancelling with Tesco after all at this rate, as despite saying this about pre-ordering new releases:

    "pre order now for delivery on date of release", right next to it, they also offer the following explanation:

    "This product has not yet been released for sale. You can order this product now and we will dispatch it on the suppliers release date", which roughly translates as I won't be seeing it arrive anytime near the date of release. If I'm lucky, on Saturday, but far more likely to be from Monday onwards. Which isn't the same as it being delivered on the day of release now, is it Tesco!?

    *slow claps Tesco*

    Idiots...