I think we should start a positive gamestop experience thread considering 95% of the hate gamestop threads are all user error.......
I think we should start a positive gamestop experience thread considering 95% of the hate gamestop threads are all user error.......
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I have no love for Gamestop but, seriously gals, it's your own fault you got raped. You should wear a longer skirt and stop showing your midriff... Makes you look like you just WANT IT! Or, you could simply, I don't know, think before you spend! 99.9% of buyers remorse cases is the buyers own doing.Didn't want to wait for shipping? Your choice. Only copy on the shelf? There's sure to be one on the internets! Yeah, it's not just for bitching anymore (CompuServe). Bigfoot made me do it? Your choice (we all know you're a sasquatch hunny
). The guy at Gamestop hypnotised me? Not true, that is only a contact high... You lightweight.
Sometimes, the horse deserves to be beat... Most times, not.
Is Ubik the MergeKing up to the task of coralling all the Gamestop indirect hate mail/love letters to bad decisions? I can't think of anyone more qualified... Hell, it's MergeKing for a reason... Just pretend they're random videos man!
Last edited by Icarus Moonsight; 05-12-2009 at 09:15 AM.
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Personally, I think it's inevitable we'd end up with all these gamestop threads. It's a collector forum and they're the biggest chain in the US dealing in used games... hmmm....
I don't like dealing with them, but as long as you're aware of their policies the choice is yours if you want to go through on a transaction.
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Originally Posted by Daltone
I understand your issue, I just don't get why it's Gamestop's fault or why you didn't go home and buy it online. It's not like it's a rare game and I'm pretty sure if you ordered it from Amazon it would get there more quickly than two weeks and still be shrink-wrapped. For a little extra dough you could get it there in just a couple of days.
I do always prefer getting a shrinkwrapped game and I always ask for one, but since I'm going to open it soon after I get it home anyway to look at the manual, my main concern is just having the best shot at having the manual and disc in pristine condition. I've no emotional attachment to opening shrinkwrap. So, if I look at the disc and it looks like new, I'll still take it.
I would have a problem with a game that employees have taken home and played being sold as new, though, that does seem deceptive.
Gamestop is far, far from perfect, but as a person from a rural area, I have to say that having Gamestop is better than not having Gamestop. The only other real option if you want to walk into a store and buy a game brand new here is Wal-Mart.
Last edited by shopkins; 05-12-2009 at 11:29 AM.
On the rare chance a Gamestop has a game that I want to buy and I'm offered an opened copy, I always tell the clerk before he puts the disc in the case to show it to me. I guess I just don't really care about it being sealed as long as everything is intact and the disc is perfect.
The one thing I really don't understand is why two copies of the same game are exactly the same price when one is missing the manual, or even the original box/artwork. Years ago I bought a lot of used games from them and I didn't realize until I got home that some were missing manuals. Call me anal but the next day I went to several Gamestops, to find copies of the games I had bought, and simply stole the manuals out of the boxes and left. Haven't really had any respect for the company ever since I had a bad experience when they sold my pre-ordered Dreamcast back in '99. Matter of fact, it seems everytime I walk into a Gamestop I have a bad experience. Back then there were more options for buying games elsewhere, but nowadays (for someone like me who doesn't like buying games online) it's hard.
It was technically not Gamestops fault but overall the fault of the thief employee. The fact that their computer system allows for an employee to add in "generic trade in title" means that they are also responsible, because an employee could do that any time that they want. Instead the only thing that should be allowed is the barcode number with the title of the game so something like that couldn't have happened. This was over 10 years ago so nothing I really care about now, but being younger, probably about 13 at the time, pretty harsh thing to happen being fucked over like that.
Last edited by kupomogli; 05-12-2009 at 01:25 PM.
Everything in the above post is opinion unless stated otherwise.
If the place totally bugs you, don't shop there.
Time will be when the broadest river dries
And the great cities wane and last descend
Into the dust, for all things have an end
I dont buy from game stop, I agree with him, a opened game is a Used game & it should be sold as a USED GAME......
It's also a waste of time to say "don't shop there." If you're interests extend beyond the top-10 selling games and shovelware, you have to go somewhere other than Wal-Mart/Target. Best-Buy comes to mind, but GameStop is much more ubiquitous. There's two GameStops within 15 minutes of my house, and they're in shopping centers across the street from each other. Best Buy is three times as far. Play N Trade is twice as far as Best Buy.
The other option is to order online, dodging state sales tax and having to deal with shipping costs and hassles.
It might take a "Boston tea party" of sorts to really convince GameStop to change their ways. Has anyone considered forming a group to cosplay and put the display cases in plastic bags, or something symbolic of sealing games?
I do shop there and the place doesn't totally bug me. What gave you the impression that it did?
An opened game is not a used game. It's an opened game. When an employee takes it home and uses it, then it becomes a used game. That's actually an important difference and why the shelf copy concept isn't bad by itself but when combined with employees borrowing said shelf copies...then problems begin.
Last edited by TonyTheTiger; 05-12-2009 at 01:51 PM.
I have a good story for that, I have a close friend that tried to buy a GCN game from GS, they had three or four copies in stock and only one was missing the manual and they flat out refused to sell him a complete copy and insisted that he buy the one missing the manual, he did refuse to buy it though. He was pretty mad though and later on his cat ended up pissing on a few of his games and he let them dry out and then casually traded them to the same store that refused to sell him the complete copy of the game he wanted.
It's a true story and definitely a story of someone screwing GS but this time around they deserved every bit of it!
I fixed your quote so that it was closer to reality and more truthful.
If they made a movie out of your top five worst sins, what would it be rated?
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How is that possible when the game cases, manuals and all, are right there on the shelves to be taken up to the register?
Yeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaah!
Oh, and Garry Shandling
Apparently Gamestop is the biggest end game boss in video game history. And just like the latest celebrity gossip scandal, this boss cannot be stopped.
ALL HAIL THE 1 2 P
I should have taken your name out of the quote, as I was simply trying to end your sentence "The problems people have with Gamestop can apparently be reduced to...." with what I said.
It wasn't directed at you - just the morons who keep shopping there and complaining about it. It's obvious they go there because Gamestop offers them something they can't get somewhere else (variety let's say).
They can't seem to grasp that the pro (variety) outweights the con (selling used as new) when they go to make whatever purchase they're griping about. They'd rather just bitch about it over doing something (finding variety somewhere else).
In the end, if you put your money on the counter, shame on you for supporting them if you dislike them so bad. Talk with your wallet, not your keyboard.
Last edited by Nature Boy; 05-13-2009 at 09:03 AM.
Time will be when the broadest river dries
And the great cities wane and last descend
Into the dust, for all things have an end
Yeah, that doesn't make sense. You have access to it in the store before you take it to buy it, so you can always mix and match. The employees at the ones I go to don't seem to give a shit about this, I mean, no one has ever yelled "don't open those" at me.
No need to throw out insults you dick (and not just you, also the other jerks who also called me a moron). It was my first time making a purchase there so I wanted to talk about it. I didn't realize the topic was taboo in this forum. Maybe I should have done a search but whatever
...and yes, I did suck it up and pay for it because in this instance I preferred the convenience. Does that prevent me from voicing my opinion about my dislike in the transaction? No! Last time I checked you can voice your opinion freely, so suck it.
Unfortunately your idea is just too idealistic. After reading the many posts about GS that someone kindly posted earlier it seems like they will do whatever they feel like it whether we like it or not...and why not, they are *pretty much* a monopoly as far as local game stores?In the end, if you put your money on the counter, shame on you for supporting them if you dislike them so bad. Talk with your wallet, not your keyboard.
I don't mean to beat a dead horse (but hey I pretty much did when I started this topic so it's fair game) Microsoft sells us shitty products and people bitch about it all the time. Do they change their practices? No because for each person that no longer buys from them there are 3 new customers lined up.
So why not complain in a discussion forum? I think the biggest offense I committed in creating this topic was posting it in modern gaming as opposed to off-topic. (but really it belongs half and half)
I think people are mostly annoyed because you claimed you were ripped off, yet knowingly and willingly still paid for what you recieved rather than just walk about.
Your like someone that complains about politics, but never does anything about it like voting each November.
Also, this was your first purchase at a GameStop? You must be just about the last person in this country that plays videogames and had never been at one before...
I had been there many many times, but I usually just browse around get mad at the lack of discounted PS3 games and play a couple of demos. This was my first purchase.
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