These are not toys for you

A Muscovite earned 25 thousand rubles in an hour by reselling discs from M.Video

Blogger Timur Seyfelmlyukov, who learned about a sale on games in M.Video stores, made an agreement with friends from the retail store and resold several dozen discs, receiving about 900 percent of the profit. The story about the adventure on Seyfelmlyukov’s Twitter caused a heated discussion among the gamer community: some were jealous and scolded him for his behavior as a “huckster,” others congratulated him on his successful “gain.”

TJ talked with Timur about the details of the action and the operation performed.

Timur Seyfelmlyukov

As Seyfelmlyukov himself told TJ, on the morning of December 5, a large-scale campaign began throughout the entire M.Video chain of stores. Old games for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 consoles were sold online for 99 rubles (new ones usually cost about 2.5 thousand rubles).

The network itself did not notify in any way about the start of such a sale, but on that day one could see on the website that some of the goods had actually dropped in price to 99 rubles. TJ was able to find at least 40 different items on the site, and about half of them could only be purchased at a retail store - including Battlefield 3, BioShock: Infinite, Fable III and other popular games.

As the blogger stated, he learned about the sale from his friends and went to the store to buy old games for himself. Having seen the assortment, he changed his mind.

I have always envied those people who manage to get to the right place at the right time. I called my retailer friends and found out who was willing to accept a large number of games from me at a time and pay me for it.

Timur Seyfelmlyukov, blogger

After that, he bought all the available games on the PlayStation 3 for 99 rubles at the Moscow M.Video on Alekseevskaya - twenty discs in total. He managed to get a small amount of money for them: friends from a retail store were ready to pay him only 200 rubles apiece.

Then he and his friends checked the assortment on the store’s website and found a very good offer in a store nearby. The rare edition of Destiny for Xbox 360, usually sold for 2,790 rubles, had a price tag of 99 rubles.

I went and asked the sellers how much Destiny they had in stock. They told me that there are 28 pieces. I said: bring everything.

They could only find 25, and began to wonder if we were making some kind of gaming area or club. When we brought all the discs to the cashier and the amount of 2.5 thousand rubles for 25 games was displayed on the screen, their faces stretched out and they immediately understood everything.

Timur Seyfelmlyukov

Seyfelmlyukov explains: the price was official and was displayed on the website, but someone found out about such sales earlier. “So everything was legitimate,” the blogger added.

Timur managed to sell these 25 Destiny discs for 1,000 rubles - the cost was high due to the collector's edition and relative novelty (Destiny was released on September 9). Seyfelmlyukov did not disclose the name of the store, noting only that it is a chain store, but explained: some retail chains have an official service for buying used discs. Later, a representative of the Republic of Games himself said that their store bought the discs.

According to the blogger, friends from the store assured him that they would tear off the packaging from the Destiny collector's editions and sell them as used ones at half the price.

It is unknown what explains such a low price for usually very expensive goods. Seyfelmlyukov suggests that this could be caused by a bug in the M.Video system. Other expensive games also appeared on sale for 99 rubles, including those with the PlayStation Move controller, as well as payment cards for the Xbox Live service (about 1,500 rubles at retail).

The M.Video call center confirmed the price reduction and the availability of games in many stores. The head of the M.Video press service, Anton Panteleev, said that what was happening was a pre-New Year sale, and several well-known games were added to the list to attract attention. According to him, the company has not yet planned to limit sales per person.

Readers and acquaintances of the blogger greeted his adventure with a storm of emotions. Some of them were offended that Timur did not warn about the sale in advance, but told them only after he had completed such a deal. Seyfelmlyukov was also charged with the fact that making money from resale is bad.

HE CALCULATED THE PRICES OF GAMES IN HIS MIND, GOT UP, EARNED HALF OF AN IPHONE, BUT NEVER FOUND HAPPINESS IN LIFE, THE MAN OF GOLDEN RAIN

— c y b e r t o h a (@cheeseinthedark) December 5, 2014

not a huckster, but an ENTREPRENEUR, not a businessman, but a BUSINESSMAN

— sam (@vicesam) December 5, 2014

They are trying to compare me to a thief and a drug dealer. That is, officially coming to the store and buying a game = stealing a candle / buying spice?

— Timurse ( ᵒᴥᵒ) (@Timque) December 5, 2014

Here you are laughing, and at our work one eccentric buys buckwheat, so that he can later sell it at three times the price

— Thoughtcrime (@kenalix) December 5, 2014

Why are you judging me? Because I'm better, smarter, more resourceful than you? You ask me for Destiny for 100 rubles, but you ask without respect...

— c y b e r t o h a (@cheeseinthedark) December 5, 2014

WOLF FROM MVIDEO STREET

— c y b e r t o h a (@cheeseinthedark) December 5, 2014

Others simply didn't like what happened. Without explaning the reason.

I don’t know what exactly I don’t like about the story of reselling a bunch of sold-out games for the sake of profit, but this story just reeks of shit.

— Biffy (@_bas1l_) December 5, 2014

Others, on the contrary, supported the successful blogger. As you know, not everyone is so lucky .

I don't understand something, why do people condemn @Timque ? Does everyone still live in Sovka?

— Ramu Baieru (@RamBayer) December 5, 2014

Shit on Twitter again. Summary: @Timque is great, and Twitter is full of latent communists.

— Angry Gamer (@veryangrygamer) December 5, 2014

- What did you do? - Resold the games. - You are complete scum! - What did you do? - Collecting money for the war. - Well done, our man, hero!

— Dmitriy Zombak (@zombak) December 5, 2014

Timur is the hero of the day. If not December.

— Alexey Tyurenkov (@SolidPumba) December 5, 2014

Timurka can be treated differently, of course, but in this case the scheme is quite working. There's a lot of hassle, but if you need money...

— Ilya Ovcharenko (@Lale4ka) December 5, 2014

Some also went to M.Video for shopping.

@cheeseinthedark my catch on @mvideo pic.twitter.com/uBv971GsRa

— Demitsan (@Demitsan) December 5, 2014

And only a few tried to find a logical explanation for the M.Video action.

And why is MVideo so carried away with fresh games for 100 rubles on the site (but on old platforms). Did the white digital wind blow in their direction?

— Alexey Tyurenkov (@SolidPumba) December 5, 2014

Seyfelmlyukov himself regards his action as an experiment and claims that the original goal was not to make money. “If this were serious, then I would now be traveling with my friends, who sent messengers to all parts of Moscow, and I would have gained much more money,” the blogger admitted.

When people pirate games or rejoice when someone in the US buys a PlayStation for $98 because of a Walmart mistake, and then judge their friend for making such a big deal, it's funny to say the least.

Timur Seyfelmlyukov

So lucky, so lucky
Nikita Likhachev,
TJ

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