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

[wip3outguy7]

The end of that video was awesome. Everything should end with evil laughter.

Wrd, I've watched this like 3 times today. The beginning is pretty weak but the Gamestop manager impersonation was gold.

[Replica]

The end of that video was awesome. Everything should end with evil laughter.

Wrd, I've watched this like 3 times today. The beginning is pretty weak but the Gamestop manager impersonation was gold.

Yeah, the beginning does suck. But those last 45 seconds are great.

[coastercrazy10]

Ha ha ha, oh man. I always get a hoot out of seeing people that have no earthly idea how game trades work.

You're never going to get half of your investment back, especially on games as fucking old as those. Won't happen at GameStop and it won't happen at any other store either - and if it does happen at another store, I can assure you, that store won't be staying in business for very long.

It's called a fucking middle man. GameStop? They aren't going to play your games. All they want is a profit. Buy low, sell high. Run a business any other way, and it will be going belly up the same way Game Crazy did.

I don't think there's anything evil about it either. It's just business. Margin doesn't care how cool your games are.

There's a difference between reselling games at 50% markup and 75% markup. Doesn't sound like much, but if you're selling a game for $20, giving the person in store $10 is fair. Giving the kid $5 for his game is really unfair, and it's not like it takes $5 worth of labor to plaster the game with stickers that don't come off and put it on the shelf. 50% profit is plenty to run a business on, and bumping up in-store game trade in values would encourage more people to trade more games.

The idea of buy low sell high isn't new. But GameStop is taking it a bit too far in my opinion. If you bring something into a pawn shop you can barter with the broker and get close to your asking price, usually. In GameStop, it's take pennies or nothing. It's just a really shady way of doing business.

-CC10

[the7k]

There's a difference between reselling games at 50% markup and 75% markup. Doesn't sound like much, but if you're selling a game for $20, giving the person in store $10 is fair. Giving the kid $5 for his game is really unfair, and it's not like it takes $5 worth of labor to plaster the game with stickers that don't come off and put it on the shelf. 50% profit is plenty to run a business on, and bumping up in-store game trade in values would encourage more people to trade more games.

The idea of buy low sell high isn't new. But GameStop is taking it a bit too far in my opinion. If you bring something into a pawn shop you can barter with the broker and get close to your asking price, usually. In GameStop, it's take pennies or nothing. It's just a really shady way of doing business.

-CC10

But what are you going to do when those games don't fucking sell? You have any idea how many games get taken in that won't fucking sell?

Alright, so you're giving a kid $10 for a game you'll sell for $20. A year goes by. It doesn't sell. Another year goes by. It's collecting dust. Another year goes by. Are you just going to let it sit there, taking up space - or are you going to lower the price so it gets out the fucking door? Lower it possibly even less than $10, just because freeing up floor space for more profitable games is more important?

When they retire the Gamecube and PS2 collections, they're going to drop them to obscenely low values just to get them out of the door. Who knows how many of those were games that were traded in for a $25 the week they came out, and now they're being dropped to $2.50?

Seriously, though - to expect $25 for a Gamecube game is absolutely insane. Anyone with half a fucking brain should know that everyone that hasn't already gotten rid of the Gamecube games is in the process. They don't want your GCN games because 99.9% of the public doesn't want your GCN games.

[CRTGAMER]

The buy sell dilemma happens at any used CD, DVD, Game or Pawn shop. Thrift stores the exception due to donated product.

Store has to maintain a profit, while maintaining expense of overhead costs. Agree with the7k, most older games brought in do go down in value, reason for such a low return on consumer's initial investment. Selling games-hardware to Gamestop is not going to pay out much, better to Craigs List, Amazon or E-Bay it.

Glad there are people willing to donate to Gamestop, allows us used game buyers to get good games at a low price.

[Replica]

I got a random urge to buy a copy of KillSwitch on PS2 today. It kicks ass and is down to about $5 now. I head over to the one by my house and the game didn't have a fucking case! Stop it! Stop pricing games as if they had cases!

[CRTGAMER]

I got a random urge to buy a copy of KillSwitch on PS2 today. It kicks ass and is down to about $5 now. I head over to the one by my house and the game didn't have a fucking case! Stop it! Stop pricing games as if they had cases!

Agree, a Gears of War inspired good game. Maybe buy it, see if another Gamestop has it? Exchange for the more complete copy.

Then try this idea:
http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopi ... 68#p263968

[Jmenglan]

Agree, a Gears of War inspired good game.

Heh, It's the other way around. KillSwitch came out in 2003

[s1mplehumar]

The end of that video was awesome. Everything should end with evil laughter.

Wrd, I've watched this like 3 times today. The beginning is pretty weak but the Gamestop manager impersonation was gold.

Hah! That was sickening. Something in those last few moments made me back away from my monitor.

[IIICCCPIII]

Meh. I'm torn. I don't like that they phased out mom and pop stores, but I kinda feel like those same stores would've died out anyway, and I'd rather have a game store overthrow a mom and pop game store than another sotre that you see on every block.