EB Gamestop Prices
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Did you talk to the employees about it? Pricing mistakes do happen, someone might have simply entered the wrong sku and printed the used price for the collector's edition for all their copies. We used to have a system that automatically would print all the changed prices for our stock, sometimes it would print things out that you didn't need or were incorrect. It happens it's part of being in retail. A good retail outlet honors its pricing mistakes, in reason, until a change can be made and offers to reimburse anyone they accidentally overcharge. At the end of the day tally, being over your total amount was just as bad as being under.Altorin said:
Actually when I worked in retail, being over was worse than being under. Being over means you could have lost a customer because you took too much of their money.Slycne said:
Gamestop/EB games has ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS been like that, since the beginning of time (or at least the store)!
Their used games are always EXACTLY five dollars less than they sell the game for new. Why? Because they can (I guess)?
It doesn't matter what quality the used game is, whether it has the original case or manual, its always exactly five dollars less. Its a really shitty system, but I guess the moral of the story is don't buy used games from them (or futureshop for that matter) unless that's the only place you can find the game, and you can't spend the extra five bucks to get it new.
Its possible the pricing could be different outside of NA but I doubt it.
Their used games are always EXACTLY five dollars less than they sell the game for new. Why? Because they can (I guess)?
It doesn't matter what quality the used game is, whether it has the original case or manual, its always exactly five dollars less. Its a really shitty system, but I guess the moral of the story is don't buy used games from them (or futureshop for that matter) unless that's the only place you can find the game, and you can't spend the extra five bucks to get it new.
Its possible the pricing could be different outside of NA but I doubt it.
All the threads on GameStop just make me think that I am in one of the Holy Lands for GameStop. Both the GameStops within fifteen miles of me sell for decent prices and the employees know what they're talking about.
OT: Yeah, I'd have to go with pricing error.
OT: Yeah, I'd have to go with pricing error.
EB games and Wal-Mart are the worst for gaming prices. Cheap games come from places like Blockbuster, Game-Stop, Roger's, and other movie rental locations as well as pawn shops. I never spend more than $20 on a game and I had a pretty good collection (until I 'lost' them in a move *cough*stolen*cough*).
he's Canadian, so add some money for the cost of the gamesEclectic Dreck said:
as for the original topic, that's normal price for EB/Gamestop. most new games are that much
as for used games being a lot, it cause they sell them for that, it's business 101. maybe you should learn something about business before making topics about them
Everyone loves to hate on Gamestop it seems, but I've never had a bad experience with the Gamestop in my town. I buy the majority of my games there, the people are always friendly, and I'm fairly certain they've never intentionally ripped me off. I don't know if you just have some real jackasses running the Gamestop in your town or what.
You know, I thought about suggesting the creation of a Gamer Union, where we created a website and a group and began publically outting price gauging game stores and calling for boycotts.
A place where people could take pictures of the games and sticker prices at their game store and post them on the web so people can see the tactics.. like those Trouble Shooter groups network news channels have. Expose the racket these places have going. Run sting operations where we sell a copy of a game, record the price paid on the trade in, and then wait until we see it on the floor for sale and note the ridiculous mark up in price.
You know, real revolutionary stuff, expose them, shame them, make them explain themselves, give them bad publicity, and basically force them to start being more fair in their business practices.
But then I realized how utterly lazy most people are and how the gaming community enjoys bitching about things all day long, but would NEVER be able to mobilize into anything resembling a movement. People would ignore it, and still shop at gamestop. Gamestop would continue to make money hand over fist selling second hand products at brand new prices.
So ultimately, I just decided to stop shopping there myself. Usually I can find the games for a more fair price at a pawn shop or on craigslist (although there are some scoundrels and gougers there as well). But I'd rather pay some dude 35 bucks for his used copy than $55 to gamestop to aid them in continuing their rape of consumers.
Thats about all any of us can do at this point.
A place where people could take pictures of the games and sticker prices at their game store and post them on the web so people can see the tactics.. like those Trouble Shooter groups network news channels have. Expose the racket these places have going. Run sting operations where we sell a copy of a game, record the price paid on the trade in, and then wait until we see it on the floor for sale and note the ridiculous mark up in price.
You know, real revolutionary stuff, expose them, shame them, make them explain themselves, give them bad publicity, and basically force them to start being more fair in their business practices.
But then I realized how utterly lazy most people are and how the gaming community enjoys bitching about things all day long, but would NEVER be able to mobilize into anything resembling a movement. People would ignore it, and still shop at gamestop. Gamestop would continue to make money hand over fist selling second hand products at brand new prices.
So ultimately, I just decided to stop shopping there myself. Usually I can find the games for a more fair price at a pawn shop or on craigslist (although there are some scoundrels and gougers there as well). But I'd rather pay some dude 35 bucks for his used copy than $55 to gamestop to aid them in continuing their rape of consumers.
Thats about all any of us can do at this point.
Lemme put my Gamestop story out there...
Back when Resident Evil 5 came out, I received an email from Gamestop about some "deal", like I do every week. This week it was "trade 3 games from this list and get Resident Evil 5 for 20 DOLLARS!!!!" Of course if you would look at the list it was games like COD:WAW, Smackdown vs Raw 2009, Left 4 Dead, pretty much all games released in the past few months that they would then sell for 55 dollars. Now it's funny, because if this deal wasn't going on, I could trade those games in, get Resident Evil for free, and still have some credit left over.
So yeah, there ya go, I'm gonna go make toast.
Back when Resident Evil 5 came out, I received an email from Gamestop about some "deal", like I do every week. This week it was "trade 3 games from this list and get Resident Evil 5 for 20 DOLLARS!!!!" Of course if you would look at the list it was games like COD:WAW, Smackdown vs Raw 2009, Left 4 Dead, pretty much all games released in the past few months that they would then sell for 55 dollars. Now it's funny, because if this deal wasn't going on, I could trade those games in, get Resident Evil for free, and still have some credit left over.
So yeah, there ya go, I'm gonna go make toast.
£55 in HMV last time I looked. I actually stopped some kid blowing all his birthday money in excitement by telling him it was cheaper pretty much everywhere else. Ever.tomfrumtarn said:
that is not entirely true, sometimes the price difference is much smaller. (RE4 for ps2 used $8.99 new $9.99)Taerdin said:
Other times it can be up to $10 difference, still not much but on very rare occasions it happens. but yea 5 is the standard. However the price isnt the real advantage to used. the reason I buy used is because you can return the game in 7 days for any reason and get all your money back. Its cool until you work there and have to deal with people abusing the policy
simple, go to the indipendant/family run gamestores (you know, the ones that are either JUST ONE outlet, or maybe two or three branches) which is why i will travel twice as far to go to PnP games (one of the aforementioned game stores) than EB games (which may sound retardedly far, but I live maybe 5 minutes away from my closest EB games, so only about a ten minute rollerblade to PnP) to get games for cheaper and friendlier without the hassle.
I'm in.HyenaThePirate said:
That seems really weird. I could've sworn locations around me in the US are selling it for about $30, of course online they're still going full-price so that's just all kinds of odd.
and again it seems I'm the last person on Earth yet to be screwed over by Gamestop.
and again it seems I'm the last person on Earth yet to be screwed over by Gamestop.