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

[CD AGES]

Lol! I'm not trying justify this individuals actions, but honestly what do you expect when such hostility and rudeness is dispalyed in such a manner in a place of business. Dude may be used to making transactions on busted media to little kids and clueless parents... but the lamestop worker must be an idiot to think that damaged goods will be purchased by any rational gamer or customer.

[noiseredux]

lamestop

if I pretend I laughed at this word will you make a post without using it?

[CD AGES]

ahh NO. Problem?

[CFFJR]

Concerning the removal of Gamestop stickers from inserts:
[quote=""strikeratt" on Cheap Ass Gamer"]I do hate how they do this with their stickers now, quite annoying and unessecary. There are two methods of removing this problem easily.

1. Already mentioned by the others in the thread.

2. This method is very useful if you have quite a couple or more labels you need to remove at once. Take the insert(s) out of the game case and take some strong alcohol, I personally perfer to use a vodka based alcohol such as 151. Now your going to want to pour that alcohol into a bottle, whether it's beer, soda, or whatever, a glass bottle just works best. Now take your insert(s) and gently slide them into the the bottle until the sticker portion is soaking in the alcohol.

The next step is tricky but should work very nicely and quickly, you have to be fast about it though. Prepare yourself a lighter and hold it at the top of the insert sticking out of the bottle. Here's the part when you have to be quick because it's tricky. You now must light the insert on fire and throw it into the Gamestop of your choosing and run away. If it had been done correctly the bottle will explode and catch fire to the Gamestop, hopefully in it's entirety. A note will be left behind saying along the lines of "Fix your shit now or there will be others ... no more glitter rack bull shit" Hopefully after the 10th Gamestop you've gotten to they will finally listen to our demands.


Of course I will leave my usual disclamier of: This method may not work. It may be very dangerous and could harm or kill yourself / others. Do not try at home. Do not expect for this to work. I am not resposible for your actions or any property / persons that may be harmed or damaged because of anything that was metioned / said / typed by me. Your results may vary online of course and is only available to U.S. citizens in the contenetal 48 U.S. states. Yadda Yadda Yadda.

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Brilliant.

[Opa Opa]

Dude may be used to making transactions on busted media to little kids and clueless parents... but the [G]amestop worker must be an idiot to think that damaged goods will be purchased by any rational gamer or customer.

Well, if the consumer were indeed rational a transaction would go like this:

• Consumer: I would like to buy Game X and may I examine the disc prior to the purchase?
  
  Employee: Here you go.
  
  C: I don't believe I'll purchase Game X. I like my games to be in good condition.
  
  E: You're crazy for checking discs. Condition doesn't really matter.
  
  C: Well, I care about condition. Thanks anyway. I'll take my business elsewhere.
  
  Consumer exits store peacefully and then proceeds to check other stores in a calm manner.

[weaponepsilon]

The only thing that I can honestly say in my many years of dealing with the now mega corp, is how consistent the pricing is. Selection may vary, but I can pretty much guarantee the price wont change. There has been a number of independent shops out here in the Minneapolis area and they mostly seem like they're bent on price raping. Even the little known shops where shit just doesn't happen they seem to enjoy gouging people. I once popped into a local in-the-country type shops to see some decent prices, but the classics they wanted an arm and a leg for. Plus I was chatting up the guy behind the counter and we got to talking about system repairs, of which they didn't do. I explained my experience and how I had worked for companys repairing consoles. The guy, no shit, told me that they had people who did that for them but one guy simply disappeared with a bunch of broken units and the other they were working with. Seriously as if on cue, some 13 year old kid walked in with a PSP and was all, "Uh hey. I fixed that PSP. You said you'd pay me $15 for it...." Later on I found out that he was their "repair guy" and that was his only repair. Plus it didn't even work out.... It had broken again.

When I worked at Software ETC/Gamestop, we were pretty much all gamers who loved the craft. We cherry picked the good stuff and were picky about what we took in. In the corps global conquest, they sacrificed that quality for the quantity over the course of time. I get that pretty damn near every time I walk into a GS, preorder this, buy that...

What Arbitern1 did was kinda of crappy, but look at it like this: The store probably paid about $12 for the game they probably shouldn't have bought to begin with. However that doesn't really justify his actions or the actions of poor customer service. This is a result of the general apathy they have with the over saturation of the preowned market. Plain and simple: they don't really care. Honestly, most of us don't either. (relatively speaking of course since most of us on this board probably do) When a store I walk into (whatever it is) and I get a snobbish attitude, I walk out and they get none of our money. They haven't earned it. I've done this at Dairy Queen, the John Deere tractor store, and countless other shops.

The shitty thing is I'd love to open up my own shop (i've tried) but there doesn't seem to be as much love in it as it used to be.

[CD AGES]

Yeah I'm sure lamestop worker was porbably imagining the transaction would go like that as I'm sure he's used to ragging on customers for not buying his stores games. Shitty customer service does more than kill a potential buy. Maybe now he has learned this

[harper]

Lol! I'm not trying justify this individuals actions, but honestly what do you expect when such hostility and rudeness is dispalyed in such a manner in a place of business. Dude may be used to making transactions on busted media to little kids and clueless parents... but the lamestop worker must be an idiot to think that damaged goods will be purchased by any rational gamer or customer.

This is just a generalization but I think that people who want their games to be in guaranteed good condition, probably don't hit up Gamestop first thing. I always think of Gamestop as being for more casual gamers, who don't mind not having the original case art or don't care if there's a sticker on the case, or at least someone who doesn't mind having to take the stickers off themselves. *gasp*

That's not to say that "hardcore" gamers won't pop in and want to buy a game that's on sale or whatever, that's cool, anyone who wants to go there can go and anyone who has a problem with the place can go at their own discretion. It's just annoying to hear people bitching about things that are completely avoidable. I personally don't go there much because I don't have much to do with modern gaming, it's just too pricey and not appealing enough to me. But if I want a Wii game, I'm not afraid to pop into Gamestop and check out their selection/prices. And yeah, I like to make sure it has the art and manual, so what? That doesn't mean I'm going to start bitching if they don't. That's when you turn to ebay or your local independent game store (which, face it, probably won't have what you want.)

Maybe it's cool to hate on Gamestop for being a big corporate company who "rips people off" and doesn't take care of their shit, but look at independent game stores. Someone said it on the first page of this thread, your hip little retro store isn't going to leave you feeling any more satisfied when you go to trade something in, they are there for the money just as much as Gamestop is, that's why it's called a store.

[noiseredux]

Gog! I'm not tryinl justify this individuags actions, but honestgy what do you expect when such hostigity and rudeness is dispagyed in such a manner in a pgace of business. Dude may be used to makinl transactions on busted media to gittge kids and cguegess parents... but the lamestop worker must be an idiot to think that damaled loods wigg be purchased by any rationag lamer or customer.

dude, this post is really confusing.

[CD AGES]

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Nice points you got there. But this particular issue involves customer service (or lack therof) and not about missing cases, stickers and shit. The dudes actions were a result of shitty customer service. The guy chose not to buy the game due to condition, worker gave him shit for it and here we are lol!