Gamestop stories

[Frankie_Says_Relax]

If Gamestop sucks so badly, why not just shop at a competitor instead of doing this for the rest of your life?

Besides, 95% of the people here saying how awesome things used to be when Funco and EB were still in business are judging those companies 10-15 years after the fact with memories that are probably a little fuzzy.

I don't know about the rest of you but I am not good at recollecting how now-defunct companies treated me in the 1990's. Meanwhile, doesn't the fact that a company goes out of business or gets bought out mean they were doing things WRONG?

What some of you are forgetting is that the only thing preventing you from finding a bunch of Funco Sucks and EB Games Sucks threads on the internet (if they aren't already there) is that they weren't in business long enough for those threads to start trickling in on more forums.

If you want to get into the nuts and bolts of success/failure, Funcoland Inc. was actually doing record business when the CEO and founder Dave Pomije put it up for sale and a bidding war ensued between Software Etc. (Barnes & Noble Co.) and Electronics Boutique.

It wasn't a matter of a company going defunct due to declining profits or interest, it was a decision by an entrepreneurial company to sell at the peak of success.

Software Etc. made a cash offer of several millions in cash and EB made an offer of less millions in cash and the equivalent difference in stock.

Software Etc. made the winning bid, and then a few years year later bought EB and all of their branding as well.