This makes me sad. o_o There's a GameStop near my house that I always buy my games from and they <3 me. It sucks when I hear stuff like this.
GameStop Subpoenaed Over Deceptive Ads
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You'd think that but seeing as how everybody gives employees shit for stuff the management does in any line of work...tetron said:
and considering that it's GameStop...
The fuck? What could any company hope to gain by this except be caught in a legal shitstorm? Did they think no one reads their credit card bills? That's incredibly short-sighted. How the hell could a company become that big without being able to avoid this sort of thing?
Wow...good thing my city has a Wal-Mart and Best Buy in the same shopping center as the Game Stop.
Mr Cuomo seems to be considering himself the savior of the universe. I just read yesterday how he's doing his own diligence on the Bank of America's own fraud crap.
Look at it this way, the AG of NY is doing something in the defense of gamers.The_root_of_all_evil said:
This is upsetting... Hopefully EB games doesn't do this. Although, I bought God Of War and Spiderman 2 second hand for PS2, among other games. But both of these can't even get to the start screen... They freeze up on the first copyright screen.
Good old EB / Gamestop. After working there for 5 years in an Australian store, little surprises me. I had already seen items like hintbooks and WoW Timecards sold over RRP. (The Final Fantasy hintbooks had an AU RRP price of 29.95 on the back of the book, while we sold them for $35, and 'stickered' over the price on the back with a new barcode). Wow Cards were $3 more than the RRP. Head office told us a 'price increase' came through from Vivendi, yet Vivendi sales reps officially denied this, and they were still $39 everywhere else besides EB.
I had seen 'sale items' being sold for more than what we had sold them 'before the sale', IE, Xbox games like Panzer Dragoon (yes this was a while ago now) were $30 before the sale, yet they were re-priced at $99 - and then stickered for 50% off. Sadly we sold MORE during the sale, as people are suckers for that 50% off.
More recently, PS3 games newly introduced to the platinum range, were sold for 'more' than their reduced RRP, again sold at their original $119 price point, yet stickered for 50% off. This made a game that should be sold for the newly reduced RRP $49, being sold by EB for $60 supposedly 'on sale'.
Glad I left.. working there made me feel dishonest.
I had seen 'sale items' being sold for more than what we had sold them 'before the sale', IE, Xbox games like Panzer Dragoon (yes this was a while ago now) were $30 before the sale, yet they were re-priced at $99 - and then stickered for 50% off. Sadly we sold MORE during the sale, as people are suckers for that 50% off.
More recently, PS3 games newly introduced to the platinum range, were sold for 'more' than their reduced RRP, again sold at their original $119 price point, yet stickered for 50% off. This made a game that should be sold for the newly reduced RRP $49, being sold by EB for $60 supposedly 'on sale'.
Glad I left.. working there made me feel dishonest.