Amazon's Zelda "Deal"

**RoleTroll** · 27 Jan 2003, 09:38 PM

Looks to me like Amazon is just making it clear to gamers that the bonus disc is worth $70, so by paying $50 for Wind Waker you are getting $120 worth of software.

**Jeremy** · 27 Jan 2003, 09:41 PM

By that logic, MS should be selling Jet Set Radio Future and Sega GT 2002 for $100 since they come packed-in with the Xbox.

**RoleTroll** · 27 Jan 2003, 09:43 PM

The picture of the box at the Amazon link calls it a "two game bonus disc." That is proof and settles once and for all that it is a bonus disc, not a disc unto itself.

**Jeremy** · 27 Jan 2003, 09:45 PM

What the fuck?... Of course it's a two-game bonus disk, it's got two games on it.

**RoleTroll** · 27 Jan 2003, 09:48 PM

Originally posted by Jeremy
What the fuck?... Of course it's a two-game bonus disk, it's got two games on it.

True, but that was not my point. The point isn't that it is a two-game bonus disc, as opposed to a one-game bonus disc, but that is's a bonus disc as opposed to a regular, stand alone disc.

**Jeremy** · 27 Jan 2003, 09:49 PM

Okay... I don't exactly get what you're trying to say. They're selling it like it's a stand-alone item, despite it, by their own admission, being a bonus disk.

**RoleTroll** · 27 Jan 2003, 09:55 PM

Sorry, I was responding to this:

Originally posted by CybrGamr
Agreed. And we have no knowledge as to why (only assumptions - because this message board knows everything). So until that point, Amazon has done nothing wrong. I always thought it was "innocent until proven guilty" in the USA. Show your proof that they are selling the bundled discs (the Not For Resale discs) without Nintendo authorization, and you have your case. Burden of proof is now on you....

This thread started by blaming Amazon for price gouging. I believe Nintendo provided them a retail price for it and they applied the same standard mark up. It is not irrelevant. I have emailed Nintendo as well to see what their stand is on this...

If Nintendo were going to sell the OoT disc separately, it wouldn't be called a "bonus disc." The picture that Amazon shows is called a "bonus disc."

**Drewbacca** · 27 Jan 2003, 09:56 PM

Originally posted by Korly
Which would explain Killer Instinct.

What? KI never taught violence! I played that game all week once, it's the greatest and if you don't shut the fuck up I'm going to smash your face in with a gigantic bucket, the likes this puny world under my middle finger, have never known! MWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA!

Topic related:

It's all business. They try to trick you with weasel words (yes, that's what they call them in advertising) such as 'new' and 'big' or 'deal'. I don't know what's going on anymore.... alls I know is that I'm going to kick all your fucking d@#$ h**l b&^%* asses if you don't smarten up!