Visited several EBs and Kay Bees this weekend.
NBA Jam and NHL Breakaway are on the shelves. Good
news is that no one bought them. The shelves are also
fully packed with QBCs, Warzones and Extreme Gs.
posts that attempt to manipulate the stock price, please give me some more ammo before I go to the SEC, you continue to dig a rather deep hole
Madden"the sky is falling" drools may always be
negative, and there's nothing wrong with that; he's
entitled to put in his two sense. Most of waht he says has
some basis-its just that he always draws the most
negative conclusion form any thing that happens to the
company. The key is what other readers do with the info,
and I think everybody who is at least a semi-regular
poster knows what is agenda is.The proof is in the
pudding though; since earnings came out and though he is
doing some ranting and raving, the stock has gone from
5 1/2 to 10+.
I think the trading today is part
of the recent big buying with people who want to
position before T2 is released-this may be fantasizing on
my part, but I think once people see the hi-res
graphics, the new weapons, and the dinosaurs, a lot of
attention will focus on aklm-guess we'll see over the next
few weeks. It looks like the last 5 minutes of
trading today was about 34,000 bought on the offer at 9
5/8, and 1000 sold at the bid. Stock should open okay
tomorrow, but who knows?
I've been playing Zelda and am
curious about when your in the room with the plant
shooting nuts at you -how do you bounce them back? Tried
using the shield and the sticks like a baseball bat-no
luck. It looks like a great game, but if I could choose
only one game, it would be Turok2.
Madden you just give useless info and you act is getting old. You seem to have too much free time on your hands. I once asked you what you did for a living, funny how you never replied.
>>Visited several EBs and Kay Bees this
weekend. NBA Jam and NHL Breakaway are on the shelves.
Good news is that no one bought them. The shelves are
also fully
packed with QBCs, Warzones and Extreme
Gs. <<
I like to do channel checks
because I can see for myself that a game is OUT. It is
hard to tell by looking at the shelves how the game is
selling or not, unless you ask someone that works there.
For example, how do you know they didn't restock
right before you got there?
I went out checking
today at Toys R Us. To me, it seemed like they probably
were keeping the shelves full, as no one game seemed
to have a lot of copies missing. The only glaring
exception was for Zelda. Yes, it is obvious that a game is
doing well if it there are none to be bought, but it
also represents mismanagement - not anticipating and
meeting demand.
I'm sure if T2 were to immediately
sell out, you would be the first to point out that
they are losing money by missing potential sales while
the shelves are bare.
The entire time you were
hitting AKLM for missing getting out QBC on time, I went
to stores and saw LOTS of Madden on shelves. I guess
that was bad for ERTS, too, by the same
logic.
I don't know about KayBee's where you live, but
here they only have 2-3 copies out at a time, in a
glass case behind the counter. In that case, there is
NO way to even begin to see how the game is selling.
Thanks for your observations. It is a good data point,
by that's about it. The same goes for my channel
checks - they mean nothing except proof that the game is
out, and whether it has sold out or not.
Anyone
here who works in retail, speak up and let us know
what is REALLY going on!
--j