$100 PlayStation demo disc at Best Buy

Factual Questions
1

PlayStation Greatest Hits Demo Disc contains five games. Gran Turismo 2 is one, Final Fantasy Tactics is another, and the others are unmemorable.

These games have been out for a couple years. Since a current PS2 demo disc sells for about $5, you’d think this antique PSone demo disc would sell for less, right? Wrong. My local Best Buy is selling it for [dr. evil]one HUNDRED dollars.[/dr. evil]

I thought it was a misprint, but their computers confirmed the price.

I thought someone accidentally typed the wrong price, and his mistake was somehow overlooked by everyone involved in the chain between entering the price into the inventory system and placing the plastic price cards on the shelf… but aren’t the prices centralized? Don’t they come from Best Buy HQ, like a papal edict?

I thought maybe it was just supply & demand - maybe everyone wants this demo disc for some reason (comes with nekkid pics of Janet Reno?) and it sells out so fast they can’t keep it on the shelves. But 1) they had two whole stacks of the discs, and 2) it’s the year 2002, who really wants a demo of Gran Turismo 2?

Then I thought, maybe Best Buy has a contract with Sony where they’re obligated to offer the demo disc for sale, but Best Buy doesn’t really want to sell them for some reason. That sounds plausible, at least, but I don’t know why such a contract would lead to the demo disc selling for $100.

So what is it: innocent mistake, diamond in the rough, or fiendish plot?

2

are you sure it has demos and not the actual games compiled onto a single disk? cause that would make a lot more sence. (i mean, they GIVE AWAY demo disks in game mags for gosh sakes.)

did you ask anyone who was working what they thought of it?

3

For 4 dollars. Ever notice how the price is usally around 8 dollars on a magazine with a cd, and around 4 dollars on the version without the cd?

4

Asking anyone who works at a Best Buy about anything sold at a Best Buy is an exercise in futility.

5

PlayStation Greatest Hits Demo Disc
It says ‘demo’

No, I don’t think you can get all those games on one disk.

Probably a price typo, they should have it changed soon.

6

The girl who I asked about the price (who didn’t work in video games, btw) said “See? There are one, two, three, four, five games on this disc!”

I still believe they’re demos, since the word “demo” is all over the case. The full version of Gran Turismo 2 is two CDs, there’s no way they could fit the full game plus five more full games all on one disc.