Is Gamestop Evil? The Good, The Bad and The Ugly

[Sarge]

Yeah, I just got my haul in from the last sale, too.

TMNT
MMBN4
MMBN5
Sonic Advance
Kirby: Nightmare in Dreamland
Mega Man II
Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories

I just need Mega Man Battle Network 2 and I'll have that entire set of games... for whatever reason.

[CRTGAMER]

The Bad
The store employee at Gamestop visited today mentioned THEY ARE NO LONGER TAKING WII TRADEINS! Could just be local, but the eventual expected for the older consoles until they become retro classics again in the market.

The Good - Three ideas
1) Gamestop right now is having a "Buy 4 Wii under 5 for ten bucks" sale; that is $2.50 a game.
2) Note that the Gamestop website shows games at $4.99 or above. Many of the $4.99 games in the store are only $2.99!
3) I have been buying various Wii games the last few weeks as the stock dwindles down. Most of the games beat online prices with no shipping charge. Trick is to verify CIB which is easy to do at the local stores vs online.

[Segata]

Gamestop now making employees work on Thanksgiving. They claim employees asked to. ROFL WAFFLE! What a POS company I don't miss working for.

[Ziggy]

They claim employees asked to.

You seem skeptical about this. I was able to dig up an email that an employee wrote to the board of directors...

Dear GameStop,

Although it is one of the 4 biggest holidays in the United States, I can think of nothing I would like to do more on Thanksgiving Day than work at one of your fabulous stores, with its glaring fluorescent lights and tacky B2G1 signage. Please, don't be like one of the countless other heartless American retailers and close your doors on this day. Please open your stores for Thanksgiving, and allow your loyal employees to work on this day. On top of having nothing better to do, you pay such fabulous wages that missing this one day out of the week severely hurts my income. I wouldn't be able to enjoy the holiday anyway, just knowing how empty and alone the store would be if it closed for one day. Who would actually enjoy a holiday off from work when we work for such an amazing company!?

Sincerely,
No One Ever

[Sarge]

Aaaaactually, I know a guy that works at our GameStop that loves to work holidays. He doesn't have many friends or family, and likes making a bit more money.

[Segata]

Aaaaactually, I know a guy that works at our GameStop that loves to work holidays. He doesn't have many friends or family, and likes making a bit more money.

Thank goodness his one voice speaks over the thousands of them who hate it. What a relief they listened to the one dude. Next he might ask for less money an hour then everyone gets less!

[wclem]

Think about it, most people fear losing their job. The employees would not say no because they would fear being fired, losing hours, bad raises etc.

Been there at jobs, as most of us has sadly.

[Segata]

Think about it, most people fear losing their job. The employees would not say no because they would fear being fired, losing hours, bad raises etc.

Been there at jobs, as most of us has sadly.

Yep. I used to be a manager at GS during the early years of 7th gen. Did the launch for PS3,Wii,Halo 3 and the like. I quit due to such a BS company they are.

[CRTGAMER]

I hadn't been into Gamestop since before Xmas. Y'all may recall my story about the overly aggressive sales tactics in December.

Well, I went back into Gamestop for the first time in a long time. I found Rodea Sky Soldier.

I struck up a conversation with the guy behind the counter. Dude wasn't pushy at all about signing me up for copies of game informer or pre-ordering anything. He said Rodea sold so poorly they couldn't sell a single new copy, so they marked all the new copies as used.

Sure enough, I got a brand new copy of Rodea including the WiiU version, the Wii version, reversible cover, and manuals for both (not that the manuals are anything to write home about) for $13. There was no cellophane, but the disks were brand spanking new - not a single hair, scratch, or fingerprint.

I would recommend you pick this game up now. The has collectability written all over it.

Just some months later a change of market strategy for this game. I had already picked up an extra CIB copy months ago and have been checking the Gamestop site for price drops. Upon searching Wii games, Rodea appeared to be a very good price at only $6.99!

THE UGLY
Checked the Gamestop site which now lists Rodea Sky Soldier under TWO console listings. WiiU and Wii, maybe a mistake depending on if the cover was reversed during a tradein? The blue case would have drawn up a flag though. Already suspicious of what had happened, but decided to take the short drive.

WiiU Rodea Sky Soldier $12.99 - http://www.gamestop.com/wii-u/games/rod ... ier/120700

Wii Rodea Sky Soldier $6.99 - http://www.gamestop.com/wii/games/rodea ... ier/147730

In addition to tossing out cases and manuals for older consoles, Gamestop has a reputation of tossing out any extra soundtrack or bonus discs with trade ins. Upon inspecting the Wii listed Rodea at the store, confirmed just a generic case and no manual for just the Wii game. Looked inside the shiny WiiU Rodea case on the shelf above and sure enough, THE 2ND DISC HOLDER REMOVED AND DISPOSED! Of course the Wii game manual was tossed out as well, store too lazy to at least move that to the generic case.

Sam is right. WiiU/Wii Rodea Sky Soldier thanks to Gamestop trashing the case even more collectable!

[Sarge]

Looks like I bought a copy just in time. Woot.