{"id":54629,"date":"2013-05-31T10:42:26","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T08:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=54629"},"modified":"2013-05-31T10:51:55","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T08:51:55","slug":"bt-games-selling-smartphones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/54629-bt-games-selling-smartphones","title":{"rendered":"BT Games selling smartphones?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, 30 May, BT Games listed a promotion regarding a Sony Xperia Go smartphone and Vodacom 4U bundle. MyGaming asked BT Games if the retailer will now be selling cellular packages and smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do not retail cellular at all and this deal is available from Gauteng Vodacom 4U stores, not BT Games stores,&#8221; said BT Games\u2019 Karl Klopfer. &#8220;We have partnered up with 4U to offer their clients a BT Games gift card on the Smart Light contract offer, so as to extend client options and bring a smile to Gamers looking for a good deal on the Xperia Go. We are not of plan at this time to retail cellular packages.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Klopfer explained that the promotion is a once-off special, but the possibility for more is an option.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pending popularity we may extend the deal later to other Vodacom 4U stores or even work on a new deal should Vodacom 4U want to. It is too early to tell yet as we have launched around a week ago,&#8221; added Klopfer.<\/p>\n<p>MyGaming also asked whether there are plans to expand the promotions beyond Vodacom products.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Based on the above there is no plan at this stage to move into the Cellular market \u2013 we are working hard to offer gamers the best stores and gaming product offerings in SA and that remains our priority.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_54630\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/BT-Games-Xperia-Vodacom-4U-package-ad.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-54630\" class=\"size-full wp-image-54630\" alt=\"BT Games Xperia Vodacom 4U package ad\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/BT-Games-Xperia-Vodacom-4U-package-ad.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-54630\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BT Games Xperia Vodacom 4U package ad<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For the latest gaming specials, check out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/54597-gaming-specials-this-weekend-29.html\" target=\"_blank\">MyGaming\u2019s weekly gaming deals roundup<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More SA gaming news:<\/h3>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/53982-sa-game-rooks-keep-hits-steam-greenlight.html\">SA game Rooks Keep hits Steam Greenlight<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/53858-pc-format-discontinues-sexist-and-offensive-advert.html\">PC Format discontinues \u201csexist and offensive\u201d advert<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/53690-bt-games-stands-by-bioshock-competition-winner.html\">BT Games stands by BioShock competition winner<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BT Games explains the smartphone promotion featured in this week\u2019s newsletter; remains focussed on games<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":51239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2480,21,10162,2752,5793,5794,10163],"class_list":["post-54629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-bt-games","tag-headline","tag-karl-klopfer","tag-sa-gaming-market","tag-sa-gaming-news","tag-sa-news","tag-vodacom-4u"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54631,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54629\/revisions\/54631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}