fastbilly1 wrote:
Perhaps, but Ive worked for a dozen companies and by far the worst was them. The whole company was fishy. I mean corporate would lay down rulings from on high that made no sense.
I've worked for a few different corporations and decisions made from the corporate office have never made since. What's funny is that each time I've changed jobs I've gone to a larger and larger corporation up until now, and now I work for a fucking huge national insurer. Not going to name names, but we're friends with Lebron James. I've found that the larger the company I work for the less sense and more idiotic the decisions made seem to make.
That's just my personal experience though, and every person will have a different one. I just am of the firm belief that within any large corporation you will find someone and usually many people who have encountered glittering towers of colossal idiocy.
Bought some games from Gamestop. Just submitted a survey, I gave the Sales Associate high marks.
However addressed to Corporate, this nasty gram on the last survey page additional notes section:
CRTGAMER wrote:Lucky, this has not happened at this store yet, please read on.
Other local Gamestop just received shipment of used PS2 games via UPS. Associate proceeded to toss manuals, cases and covers and then put only game discs in a yellow envelope in a cardboard display. Not just the Five dollar games either, what a waste of gaming history. All games should be sold with all material traded in, part of gaming experience, even the rare five dollar games.
PLEASE STOP DOING THIS! SELL GAMES WITH ALL ORIGINAL COVERS, ORIGINAL CASES (WHICH HAVE A MEMORY CARD HOLDER) AND ESPECIALLY GAME MANUALS!
As a side note the new Retro Racks are also shopper unfriendly. One has to flip thru cases to find a particular title. Old racks had ends showing easier to quicky scan.
NEW ROLLING RETRO RACKS DISCOURAGE LOOKING FOR A GAME, HURTING SALES. EVEN WORSE IS THAT DISC ONLY TRAY OF ENVELOPES, WHO WOULD WASTE THEIR TIME LOOKING THRU THAT?
Voice your opinions, maybe it'll sink in! (By all means you can copy-paste this to your survey)
I was at a Gamestop today and witnessed the throwing away of game cases, game artwork, and manual. The disc was then put in a yellow sleeve and inserted into a tray of probably around 100 or more games in sleeves only.
This was at my favorite GS in the town (of about 20 GS). The people there are very friendly, and definitely know their gaming stuff. They were doing it while laughing, talking about the shitty movie Splice.
I have heard of them doing this, and I have even seen the games in sleeves only. However I guess I was naive enough, or too optimistic that these games were just traded in as disc only and the artwork wasn't disposed.
I don't do a lot of business there, and never buy anything new there, but they do have some great deals sometimes on Gamecube and GBA stuff. I don't know if I can continue supporting this business if stuff like this is going on.
@l0whit07:
You're going to stop doing business at GameStop because they were throwing away the covers and cases for a bunch of sub-$5 games?
Over-reaction, much? It's not like they were throwing away the cases to games like Shin Megami Tensei: Nocturne, Metal Gear Solid 3: Subsistence or Shadow Hearts - they were games like Naruto: Uzumaki Chronicles, World Series of Poker and EYETOY: Groove. Who really cares?
...I'm sure you could have asked for some of those empty cases, and got a bunch of free PS2 cases to replace the crap ones with your games in them.
Ack wrote:You WILL be respectful of each other, or I WILL shove my mod foot so far up your Internet ass that your avatar will wince. Do you understand, children?
Who the hell cares what games they are throwing away cases for? Why should I only want to buy complete copies of the "expensive" games and not also complete copies of "cheap" games.
It is overreacting to want a complete copy of a game?
They were throwing everything away for games priced $10 and under.
Fuck yes. When GameStop stopped selling PS1 games, I wanted to burn down the shop. Now they're going to stop selling PS2 games. After they refused to order in Persona 4 and Tatsunoko vs Capcom, I decided never to go there again. Unfortunately they are the only major video game store chain in Ireland. GAME only have a few stores. And their trade-in prices suck.
I've seen worse prices at true retro stores. I saw a copy of Contra on NES, loose, for $50 at Gameover in Austin. I wanted to barf all over the counter.
For a brief amount of time I worked at a retro store called "Player One" in Friendswood TX. I had been a customer since they opened. He offered me a job in store credit and I worked there a few days. I felt really bad offering people pennies on the dollar for their games, but that's the business. Buy a game for $2, mark it at $11.99.
Sigh.
Gamestop kicks ass for cheap GBA and PS2 games. Now is the time to collect that generation before those games start appearing at retro stores for that imaginary retro premium.
Yes, they are. I hate having to shop there, and my overall experience is that they are dishonest and would not sell me their last stock games because some employee already "reserved" it. GS needs competition, badly. I'm sure the smarter of the gaming demographic would flock to it.
Replica wrote:Gamestop kicks ass for cheap GBA and PS2 games. Now is the time to collect that generation before those games start appearing at retro stores for that imaginary retro premium.
That's exactly what I've been doing lately. It's like with the Dreamcast 6 years ago. Even if I'm not looking for a specific title, I'll stop into GS just to browse the PS2 titles because if I find something quality, it will likely be sold at sub $10.
Actually, I've often said that GS needs to resurrect the Funcoland stores and get back into selling retro games.
