cant believe im the first to add this, can you see it coming ?
time to stock up while you can since its cheaper than cost price, keep hold of them and sell at full retail when asdas deal ends, although wii demand is falling rapidly in my view, and the software for wii, hmm dont get me started,

Koch media Charge xVat. All the indies will be buying from asda more often than not. Nintendo Decide to put a price increase up to xrrp then sell to Asda at sub x . Asda are great! but are wrecking every industry possible. And it started with the milkman! Hairdressers are next mark my words

Asda £145 Argos £176 with Wii Play And Accessory & then KOch, Gem and advantage £182 incl vat. Us Indies are fighting a losing battle with this one so lets all go to asda.

I will get my Buying team George & Mildred to get down there now and they can get the biscuits for my tea as well

What other Distributor offers Biscuits, Veg, Pizza & nappies with their games. All Indies should get down to their local ASDA Distie

koch oh yeah we wont use them, they dont know the products they sell and nothing is ever in stock ,we get more nintendo products from gem and centresoft, advantage, dont bother with koch now

how comes us indies allways get screwed £182 is a joke

only time koch have ever got stock is when you have to take some other piece of crap they cant sell with it ...

lets all get mum dad brother and sis down to asda

and you know for £155 you get wii play as well

Koch told me that they have increased the price as Nintendo have increased the price. In light of other retailers still offering prices at 179 and lower they have excess stock from the old price which is why they can do it. Or as stated above they have a direct trade to Nintendo and get a better deal than Koch do!

Fair play an all that, its competition, its meant to be like this...however the gap between indies and the bigger boys is becoming increasingly larger...distributors should be fighting our corner more because we keep them in business! If the indies go, so do the distributors!...cos we all know these bigger chaps have direct teams.

i've not delt with koch since january as anything you can sell is never instock the sales staff think they are something special and talk down to you if you dare ask for wii fit because i'm not entitled to any because i've not bought 1000's of pounds worth of crap which i couldn't give away. I was told before xmas that i wouldn't get any wii consoles because they have bigger customers but now i get e mails daily telling me wii's instock any amount available @ £182 well p**s off i wouldn't have them off you @ £140

Surely this is a loss leader! If not then nitnedo are out of order and selling cheaper to these guys and i dont think they would do that!!
You cant blame Koch or any other Disties either!
Asda comments are laughable and very unbelieveable!
Too much stock more like!!

Does anyone still buy from Koch?!

Who is in their Top 10 retailers, we were but have since slipped wayout - they either haven't got the stock or, well that usually the case!

@ukdazza. Indeed disties should be fighting our corner, however I think the disties will go bust first & the remaining indies will simply have to buy from supermarkets.

Guess what !!!!!!! I went to my 2 local asda this morning and they are both out of stock of Wii's and not getting anymore till Saturday.

Offer ends on Sunday seems like another publicity con by a supermarket

Since when does Aggressive Pricing mean selling at a loss - oh yes its Asda Price

Mmmm tasty loss leader. There's no way they could have got stock cheap enough to make profit from Nintendo or otherwise. Happy days for those who get them mind!

Supermarkets vs Game vs Online, round 2...

Nothing's changed, it'll keep happening, get over it. Supermarkets will continue to trash pricing as they aim to build market share as the high street falters. Expect the same from Best Buy when they join the party next year. Each store would have had such tiny stock levels as its Asda's goal to get a weekly shop out of the visitors, not the sale of a Wii. Noticed Asda stores are being remodelled pushing the gaming section further away from the entrance?

No-one was complaining when the Wii Fit was in constraint and you could sell them for £99 and above or bundle them with anything and everything? Or Xmas 2007 when the Wii fetched £299+?

The price hike of the Wii was pre-warned, as an indy ourselves we forecast that to continue to compete with the larger retailers... we needed to take 6 months of Wii stock whilst we could at the old price as this is the sort of levels others would take. As a result we are still happily selling the Wii at £176 and will continue to until our stocks run dry.

Sure Amazon, HMV, et all - are writing down Wii Play or various other games to throw into the mix, but again they've always done it - and the indys have always coped.

Whilst i'm not trying to paint a pretty picture on what is clearly a tough market right now... everyone just needs to keep their heads high and fight like we've always fought. We're indys, the supermarkets and mega-onliners are NOT in our arena.

Its all con, Distributors told resellers that price would be going up? Well it was a ploy to get customers to spend money them and take advantage of old price and sell at higher cost! Well the advise of people like Koch should know better. Also they dont give a chance for smaller reseller to sell run rate products but sell the entire range to one BIG customer. If they worked on giving smaller resellers to chance to buy some stock before selling onto bigger stores who have the funds and power to buy in volume. There excuse now is these stores are going in as loss leader?? i mean come on you have full control who you sell to and need to advise the customer on RRP OR SRRP All you are doing by selling to these BIG stores is talking the market value down on the goods hence why there so many who can just end up buying from these big stores not giving the little stores any chance of survival in the current economy crisis! i say SACK THEM ALL

When is this going to end? Now that Tesco, Asda and now John Lewis are having a go!

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