On Friday 05 January 2007 13:58 amicus_curious wrote:
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> "Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:5426145.NIem7EtrzA@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> GameStop's in the Game
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>> | The healthy store-level gains were expected. The company took
>> | advantage of the voracious demand for the limited supply of Sony
>> | PS3 and Nintendo Wii systems by, in some cases, bundling them with
>> | higher-margin software, peripheral, and extended-warranty offerings.
>> | The company did the same thing with Microsoft's Xbox 360 last year,
>> | but this time it had two new systems to market, along with an ample
>> | supply of pricey 360s on hand to satisfy frustrated parents that
>> | ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> | weren't able to secure a Wii or a PS3.
>> ` ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2007/01/04/gamestops-in-the-game.aspx?source=eptyholnk303100&logvisit=y&npu=y
>> http://tinyurl.com/tah6m
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> At the end of the day, the scoreboard only shows the winner, not how he
> got
> there. It seems to me that is always Microsoft. They are sometimes
> winning
> 100 to 0 and sometimes only 86 to 12, but they win nonetheless. The
> losers can point with pride to their 12 points and say, since it used to
> be 0, that they are making great progress, but they are still losing by a
> very wide margin.
I've nothing to add.
I just thought I'd reply, then your posting is in my "sent" box, against the
day when the "losers" as you call them have been on the market for more
than a few weeks....
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