I'm sorry if this has been brought up before, but after searching the forums I could not find any mention of this topic.
A lot of us, myself included, don't like the practices of Gamestop EBGames, and would prefer to shop at an alternative game chain/store. However with almost all the national USA chains now owned by this sole corp., there seems to be no alternatives. When this Gamestop in my town opened, I was apprehensively excited, but soon those reservations were quite justified.
Even before the store's arrival I have been an online shopper for quite a while. Now while eBay is nice, it isn't the optimal place to buy new games. Sometimes you can get a deal on older and/or used games, but new stuff tends to go for more than MSRP and usually doesn't include those nice preorder bonuses.
So my question to you, my fellow Roundtable members, is where can one hope to find decent prices and preorder incentives online and in the brick and mortar world? Are there viable alternatives, or is the country's retail world being monopolized?