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I find it amusing how they sell a used copy of Super Smash Brothers Melee for $40, while I can get a new and sealed (most likely a reprint, but not player's choice) copy for $29.99 at my local game store.

molotovwars wrote:I find it amusing how they sell a used copy of Super Smash Brothers Melee for $40, while I can get a new and sealed (most likely a reprint, but not player's choice) copy for $29.99 at my local game store.

Here in Japan, Melee still sells for $60 new... Everywhere pretty much.

HoboJoe wrote:Gamestop doesn't have QA teams...they buy your games/consoles that just came out this year from you for like 10 bucks....sell it for 45-55 and hope it works. I saw a used copy of SSBB in their and I was like...cool...I'll buy it. Get home and it doesn't even work. It's not like we should hold them to test used games or anything, cause then they'd like....be doing their job? Every time I've bought something from Gamestop I've had a problem with it. So screw them because I refuse to ever even walk into one ever again.

That's the spirit. But actually the guy at GS did specifically tell me they have QA teams.

I think the biggest group of people that trade stuff into GameStop are kids. So you are going to have alot of systems and games in bad shape. But really thats no excuse, they should clean and inspect everything before selling it.

ott0bot wrote:I think the biggest group of people that trade stuff into GameStop are kids. So you are going to have alot of systems and games in bad shape. But really thats no excuse, they should clean and inspect everything before selling it.

I know people my age that trash their games and stuff far worse than any child.

They're also dicks about shipping stuff between stores. My girlfriend bought a copy of the GBA Lunar title, got it home, and it didn't work. So she takes it back to get it replaced, something they said they would do if neither copy worked, and the Gamestop employees tell her there's no copies left in town and they can't replace it. She argues with them until they eventually tell her there's a copy in a Gamestop in Birmingham, which is a two hour drive, and unless she drives up there to change the games herself, she'll never get a replacement because Gamestop apparently doesn't ship items from one store to another.

The sad thing is, the other GBA title she'd bought that night hadn't worked either, but they did have one copy left, and it did work. I hate Gamestop, I wish they would give me my Rhino Games back.

Mozgus wrote:

ott0bot wrote:I think the biggest group of people that trade stuff into GameStop are kids. So you are going to have alot of systems and games in bad shape. But really thats no excuse, they should clean and inspect everything before selling it.

I know people my age that trash their games and stuff far worse than any child.

I've seen the video of your "friends" so I can believe it.

But generally I think kids treat there stuff far worse than the fully grow memebers of out race. Kids do not care about manual and boxes, and they do not generally have any concept of collectibility unless one of their parents is a serious collector. Kids don't wash there hands hands and really thrash controllers.

I've even seen a spill and entire glass of orange juice on a playstation and just shrug his shoulders and keep playing. Then their mom or dad clean it off and they trade it into GameStop who doesn't test it who then sells it to an unsuspecting customer who's system dies just past the return policy. ugh.

I guess I'm in the minority here because I've never had a bad experience at gamestop. No one has been rude to me and all of the games that I've purchased have worked fine. Not that I'm defending them or anything. Their trade-in practices are pretty shady and obviously many, many people have good reason to detest the place.

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I was fed up with them since FuncoLand days back in the mid 90's.

lordofduct wrote:I was fed up with them since FuncoLand days back in the mid 90's.

Amen.