The problems people have with Gamestop can apparently be reduced to four complaints.
1) They gut games to put on the shelves.
2) The employees can borrow/play the gutted games which are then sold as new.
3) They put stickers all over everything.
4) They pay jack for trades.
In the long run, what you have here is not some evil corporation hell bent on making people's lives hell. What you have is a retail chain. There's nothing technically wrong with #1. They could do worse. #3 is annoying but really only the insert stickers are a real hassle. #4, well, you aren't going to get top dollar anywhere going through a middle man like that. Only #2 is genuinely deceptive. But this is really par for the course with major retail establishments. We could make lists like these for Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Target, Blockbuster, Toys 'R' Us, the former Circuit City, etc. The lists might look different but there's always going to be some little pet peeve. Gamestop just takes most of the abuse here because this is a video game site and Gamestop is the biggest video game retailer so we have the most experience dealing with the company and its annoying habits.
I don't much like stickers all over my games either and waste little time in removing them as carefully as possible. But in the end, it's just a sticker. We might be a little more OCD about that stuff here but a little perspective can go a long way. I certainly wish that things would be a little different but it's not like there's some huge exposé about corporate headquarters refusing to hire minorities or employees wiping their asses with game manuals.
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