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I just got an email from HMV saying that they aren’t going to be honouring the misprice on 12 months of Xbox Live.

I was going to copy and paste the email they sent out in it’s entirety, but I thought it might be more fun to heavily doctor it first.

We are very sorry, but it has come to our attention that BLAH BLAH BLAH incorrect price of £2.99, instead of the more PROFITABLE FOR US price of £35.16. We trust that you CAN’T ACTUALLY DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT.

We very much regret NOT BEING ABLE TO KEEP YOUR MONEY. No doubt you will be wondering what your rights may be in this matter, but, as we trust our terms and conditions governing our online sales make clear, YOU CAN’T DO SHIT BOY. As you may be aware, hmv has not yet taken payment from you for the goods listed above nor, indeed, taken the final step of confirming the shipment of your order to you by email (please see point b. in the section entitled ‘WE OWN YOUR ASS’ on the first page of our Terms and Conditions). So we trust you will therefore appreciate that there is not a legal requirement to make this item available at the PRICE THAT WE LISTED ON OUT WEB SITE FOR SEVERAL DAYS.

Once again, we really are very sorry about having to take this course of action resulting from what is a genuine error on our part, and whilst we do, of course, very much value you as a customer we hope that you will also understand our position and that you will be kind enough to accept our most sincere apologies AND NOTHING ELSE.

If you’re still after and Xbox live subscription, Amazon have got 12 months for £32.99, or if you don’t care when you get it, The Hut will have them for £30.36 when you use a 10% off voucher.

Edit: I guess I was in a bit of a foul mood when I got this, and I didn’t like the tone of the email at all. Sorry, I will try to not let things like this get to me.

Every Monday, you can catch my new column over at VG247, where I’ll be doing a roundup of the best deals across all formats each week. It’s mostly going to be stuff that has been posted on SavyGamer already, but it’ll be good for if you want to see the best offers all in once place, make sure you haven’t missed anything, or just read more of my sexy sexy words.

Hope you like it.

I’ve just had a chat with someone from Coolshop‘s very helpful customer service department, and they have confirmed that the Civ5 for £2.35 deal was indeed a pricing mistake, and the reason their system stopped giving out keys was because they had ran out.

They are in the process of issuing everyone who did not get the game a full refund, and in addition to this they are giving everyone 3 coolpoints as compensation. These will get you £3 off your next order with them.

They’ll be sending out an email with the details and an apology shortly. [Update: Check your emails, some people have already received this]

It’s a shame for those that didn’t manage to get a key, but no loss in the long run, and you can save some money another game in the future.

Cheers Coolshop.

Here are a selection of decent deals they have on at the minute for you to consider using your 3 coolpoints on. The prices I’ve quoted are including the £3 off.

Xbox 360
Rock Band 3 – £31.99 delivered
Rock Band 3 + Rock Band 1 drums – £36.99 delivered
Pure & LEGO Batman – £5.99 delivered

PS3
Rock Band 3 – £31.99 delivered

Wii
Sonic Colours – £22.99 delivered
Rock Band 3 – £19.99 delivered

DS
Professor Layton and the Lost Future – £22.99 delivered
Last Window: The Secret of Cape West – £21.77 delivered

PC
CODBLOPS – £28.77 delivered
Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit – £20.49 delivered
RUSE – £18.99 delivered
HAWX 2 – £18.77 delivered
Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days – £10.49 delivered

Edit: Content of the email if you’ve not got it yet/are just an interested bystander:

Hello
We write to you because you have made a purchase of our Civilization 5 Download game. Unfortunately there was a price error on this product causing it to be shown at an obviously faulty price. The company that supplies us with the download games only supply a certain number of codes. Unfortunately this means we are unable to cover all the orders with the supply of cdkeys we can get from the supplier. We sincerely apologize for the inconvenience and will naturally issue you a full refund. Furthermore we will give you 3 Coolshop points (a value of £3) as compensation.

We thank you for your custom, and look forward to seeing you in our shop again.

Kind regards
Coolshop

Here’s out second compilation of links for publicly playable games from the Independent Games Festival 2011. Here you’ll find, conveniently all in one place, links to IGF games that are available either commercially, freeware, web, beta, or just as a demo. If I’ve missed any, or got any details incorrect, please let me know. You can see part 1 here, and keep your computer tuned into SavyGamer for part 3 & 4 in the next week or so. (more…)

Update:
Gosh you lot are quick.

That’s all the prizes gone now. Sorry to any last minute entries.

Yes, I just now hit 1,000,000 visitors on SavyGamer. Years ago, in the early days of the internet, I once clicked on an image much like the one you can see here, and it turned out I didn’t get a prize.

I was terribly disappointed, so I decided that one day I would have my own web site, and on that web site, when I’d had one million visitors, I would do the same thing, but actually give out prizes.

Thanks for all the support guys.