If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say the kind that likes video games, and finds many available (locally) at a reasonable price.Originally Posted by Koa Zo
If I had to hazard a guess, I'd say the kind that likes video games, and finds many available (locally) at a reasonable price.
I don't know about you, but not all people have access to internet shopping. Does this really make those people "retards"?
No big surprise. It's sad from the perspective of those of us that care about the preservation of video games, but what can you do. Personally, I have barely shopped at GameStop since they got rid of their NES, SNES, and Genesis games. Almost anything used can be had cheaper (and probably in better condition) on eBay and Amazon is usually cheaper for new stuff AND you don't have to even leave the house (plus you don't have to be concerned about gutted copies being sold as new).
People who don't feel like paying $6-7 in inflated shipping for the same games on 99 cent Ebay auctions or BIN's, or people who don't feel like meeting certain purchase minimums to receive free shipping from Amazon.com.
Anyone buying used PS2 games at Game Stop are crazy. You do realize that many of these games are kept in spindles when shipped to and from stores, right? They can bang around and scratch each other as they please.
Also, the infamy of EB shrink wrapping "new" games with a hair dryer shouldn't be forgotten.
Geez. Seriously? You act as if we don't have the ability to examine the condition of the games in person. About a third of the games I buy there are in brand new condition.
I could care less about gutted new titles -- people are crazier to be paying fifty bucks for games that will sell for half that a few months later. And if you planned on opening it anyways to play, what difference does it really make? fucking ocd types.
Exactly how much less could you care about it?
Zing!
It's the principle of it. When a store sells both new and used goods, I'm not paying the new price when the item clearly has been opened and is thus not new. And actually, it's a bigger problem for the folks that do wait awhile. If you're buying a game at release, they probably have lots of sealed copies to hand over. If you see a game on the shelf being sold as new a few months later, then you're much more likely to be told that the gutted display in your hand, the one that's been handled by greasy fingers a hundred times over, is the last "new" copy.
And at that point you can simply buy a new copy elsewhere, most likely cheaper.
I actually really like gamestop. they're an excellent cheap game resource when a system is being discontinued and you don't have to pay shipping on cheap titles and often have multiple copies to choose from and select the one in the best condition. they often sell games cheaper than the current amazon used price, too. Okami and Godhand are both cheaper at gamestop.
A decade from now when gamestop moves to bing just digital distro or is otherwise physically gone, all the same people bitching about them will be waxing nostalgic about how great they were.
This. I have never been to a Gamestop that didn't let me examine the disc before I paid for it.
While this is true, I've also never been to a GameStop where an employee(s) didn't give me or my wife a little attitude for rejecting 'new' merchandise that, upon inspection, wasn't up my standard.
Well in that case might as well apply the same principle when shopping for say a LCD TV. So if you went to a store (say Best Buy) and want to buy that 60" Samsung and it's the last one, the display model. They say I can sell you the display model, just wait here and let me get the box for you. You will still buy it at the same new price? If you don't want to buy it, why not since you are going to open it anyway when you get home. Same concept.
I've been given an attitude as well for turning down used games that were too scratched up but it's not like I care when it happens. I just laugh it off that the employee got their panties in a bunch that I didn't buy something. I'm not one for buying their gutted "new" copies though and usually turn those down unless it's something I can't get elsewhere for cheaper.
The electronic and furniture display models are usually discounted. I've gotten a few, and never paid anywhere close to retail.
I think that was their poorly worded point, though. And in response, I say that neatly putting a fifty buck disc away in a sleeve so the new copy can be displayed on a shelf without getting stolen is substantially different than a several hundred or even thousand dollar television that will endure months of wear and tear from customers fiddling with it, not to mention compromising the warranty for something substantially more complex than a replicated dvd-rom or bluray disc.
Last edited by tubeway; 03-04-2011 at 08:58 PM.
Exactly. Nobody's forcing anyone to buy the opened display copy, yet people go on these tirades as if it's some kind of secret they withhold from the customer and they also wipe the disc around their moist and unwiped anus before handing it to you. The average customer simply doesn't care, because they just want to play their copy and then go about the rest of the well-balanced life, not obsess over whether there's a single hairline scratch on th instruction booklet of a game that will be worth six dollars a decade from now.
Regardless, they could still offer a discount for an open copy. Of course they don't have to, but it's a pretty sleazy thing to do.
They don't let you return unsealed games though. If someone's non gamer savvy mother or girlfriend purchased a game for them and it wasn't something they wanted, you're pretty much assed out if it's opened, because they don't consider it "new". So then, why sell an open game as new?
That's odd cause I've returned opened games before if there was a problem. Now I've never had to return a new game so that could be why I was able to return the other stuff.
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