EB Games Closing down??

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#3453076 14-Jan-2026 22:40

Real shame going to miss taking my son in to the store looking at all the cool stuff. They've been my go to for limited edition releases.

Really feel management didn't keep up with times, looking at similar web they have 800k visitors on website past 3 months seems not converting sales.

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#3453144 15-Jan-2026 08:52

Ah should have held off on the couple of games I bought last week at 30% off until the actual closing down sale, but I guess no guarantee they'd still have them. Will have another look and see if there's anything else worth getting.

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#3453191 15-Jan-2026 09:08

invisibleman18:

Ah should have held off on the couple of games I bought last week at 30% off until the actual closing down sale, but I guess no guarantee they'd still have them. Will have another look and see if there's anything else worth getting.

technically you could return them under their 1 week return window and just buy them again since they're still allowing these returns.

But think that'll be a bit of a dick move to staff 😊 - no doubt people will still try.

I'm in the same boat having purchased some games last week but think it's not really worth the $40 or so I'll get back.

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#3453192 15-Jan-2026 09:21

Yeah it works out to about $23 difference for me so not going to bother trying that.

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#3453194 15-Jan-2026 09:39

I wonder if the site will crash at 1pm when the closing sale starts...

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#3453222 15-Jan-2026 11:22

I expect anything good will be sent to Australia. I see the website now says excludes hardware (it didn't last night) so you won't be getting a PS5 50% off.

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#3453226 15-Jan-2026 11:27

invisibleman18:

I expect anything good will be sent to Australia. I see the website now says excludes hardware (it didn't last night) so you won't be getting a PS5 50% off.

Oh well..... just saw that as well.

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#3453281 15-Jan-2026 11:50

invisibleman18:

I expect anything good will be sent to Australia. I see the website now says excludes hardware (it didn't last night) so you won't be getting a PS5 50% off.

Yeah all the consoles were returned to suppliers.

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#3453286 15-Jan-2026 12:19

LostBoyNZ:

invisibleman18:

I expect anything good will be sent to Australia. I see the website now says excludes hardware (it didn't last night) so you won't be getting a PS5 50% off.

Yeah all the consoles were returned to suppliers.

They were possibly on consignment anyway...

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#3453297 15-Jan-2026 13:01

And as probably expected it's 1pm and the website won't load.

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#3453300 15-Jan-2026 13:13

I just took a lunch break and thete are probably a couple of 100 people waiting outside the store, with a small trickle inside. At least 6 cops watching the crowd and the shelves looked empty.

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#3453307 15-Jan-2026 13:22

Lol I get "your wait time is 50 minutes" on the website now.

Edit: it's changed to 1 hour and 15 minutes now.

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#3453308 15-Jan-2026 13:22

My two minute wait in the queue has been ten so I guess all the decent stuff is gone.

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#3453310 15-Jan-2026 13:29

I don't rate their website queuing system very much.

My session started out at 1pm with a 1 minute wait, and every 20 seconds the page refreshes and changes to another number anywhere from 3 minutes to 10 minutes. It's all over the place.

25 minutes actually waiting in the queue so far. I don't think I can be bothered with this!

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#3453313 15-Jan-2026 13:37

Just saw a video posted by one of the Lower Hutt City Councillors showing the queue for EB Games at Queensgate, easily 100m long extending right out into the carpark

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