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

[Fragems]

Yeah the store copies are considered "new" even though they are opened and sometimes played by clerks/managers . I have noticed recently they at least mark down their last copy before selling it "new" to somebody. If you watch you can occasionally get the last copy of a newer game for 25-50% off this way.

Like others the only reason I go in there is to dig through the bargain bin $10 an less games. There is some good stuff to be found for under $5 there and occasionally they miss price harder to find games.

[Luke]

Bought a pair of jockey underwear briefs "New" at Sears a few weeks ago since it was only $6 and I wanted to see if it was as bad as it is said to be. They grabbed a tube off the shelf opened it and put a pair in it... Never going back to Sears.

Do you guys have any idea how stupid you sound?

It's posts like this that make me think I could make a billlion bucks a year selling idiots used cars.

[Ack]

Bought a pair of jockey underwear briefs "New" at Sears a few weeks ago since it was only $6 and I wanted to see if it was as bad as it is said to be. They grabbed a tube off the shelf opened it and put a pair in it... Never going back to Sears.

Do you guys have any idea how stupid you sound?

It's posts like this that make me think I could make a billlion bucks a year selling idiots used cars.

But why do that when you could be doing it with yarn?

[MrPopo]

I'll be honest, Luke, I'm not following your Sears modification.

As for me, I've spent my time trying to minimize my contact with other people in retail settings. Online shopping is amazing; I can find what I want and not have to hunt through racks, then ask a clerk if it might be in the back, then make awkward small talk with the cashier.

[Luke]

But why do that when you could be doing it with yarn?

Don't get me started on the incredibly increasing prices of petroleum.

I'll be honest, Luke, I'm not following your Sears modification.

If you don't want it, don't buy it. Buying something and then saying "That dumb store sold me something I didn't want" is in itself dumb.

Don't want it, don't buy it. It's not like the employees at Gamestop are great at being in sales. They read their script, and that's that.

That said, I once met a woman in Boone NC that I would dare people to not buy a car from. Not sure if she could read minds, was too jaw dropping attractive, or had made a pact with the devil, but boy was she good. A friend of mine took my bet of "Dude. I dare you to not buy a car" and he ended up buying a Dodge Ram Dually.

I think her big pitch was "See over here, and here, and here, and here? Four 'oh shit! handles' for everyone in your family". That, and we took the truck through the Richlands of Blowing Rock (google it).

Ice to Eskimos.

[s1mplehumar]

Blowing Rock is mental. Talk about the lords of the manor surveying the peasants. I need to get back down to Boone, have lots of family in Watauga County.

[prfsnl_gmr]

Don't get me started on the incredibly increasing prices of petroleum.

Adjusting for inflation, relative income, and improving gas mileage in our automobiles, the "cost" of fuel has not actually increased at all.

http://www.cato.org/publications/commen ... erspective

http://inflationdata.com/Inflation/Infl ... lation.asp

[Ack]

If you don't want it, don't buy it. Buying something and then saying "That dumb store sold me something I didn't want" is in itself dumb.

Don't want it, don't buy it. It's not like the employees at Gamestop are great at being in sales. They read their script, and that's that.

I don't think that is necessarily it. Everybody wants to buy the games that they are buying(such as the guys who enter and discover there are only enough games available for the pre-orders and none for the spontaneous walk-ins). But Some of the guys here don't want to buy them in the condition that Gamestop keeps them in, such as games being kept separate from their case.

The biggest reason this would be an issue is because Gamestop has over the years managed to buy out most of their competitors and largely monopolized their market, meaning many consumers have the choice of purchasing from them or only a few select outlets(specifically Target and Walmart). The consumers want the games, they dislike how Gamestop goes about their business, but there are few local shops to turn to. It's partly why MrPopo is advocating online retailers, because they provide an alternate source for purchasing the same desired games without dealing with the business practices that many of the guys here are complaining about.

It's not a question of not wanting and not buying. It's a question of wanting but not being able to buy anywhere else even when you dislike the practices of a business.

[Luke]

Blowing Rock is mental. Talk about the lords of the manor surveying the peasants. I need to get back down to Boone, have lots of family in Watauga County.

Must sees:

Waterfall Road on 321 going to Blowing Rock.

Richlands Road, near Cheeks Crossroads.

Indian Grave Road, 321, near Blowing Rock.


Indian Grave road looks exactly how you would picture it in your mind. One lane, unpaved road, tons of cemeteries and trailers that tout hundreds of dangling animal skeletons hanging from nearby trees. Place is straight out of a King horror novel that isn't set in Mass. Even on a sunny day the place is creepy as all get out.

[Luke]

It's not a question of not wanting and not buying. It's a question of wanting but not being able to buy anywhere else even when you dislike the practices of a business.

What?

So Gamestop is the ONLY place to buy games now?

Plus, people don't NEED to buy a game. Like hookers, don't like the condition, don't fucking buy them (I've never bought a hooker).

Look between shit and syphilis if you're upset at a store for selling you something you didn't want to buy. It IS that simple.