This sounds cool. I'm stopping by Gamestop soon then. I live in Ohio and was one of those lucky people to get MW2 early. That was the best multiplayer...
GameStop Test Drives PowerUp Rewards Program
- Thread starter Tom Goldman
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Did Gamestop say something? I was too busy over here checking out all the sales and discounts on Steam.
Nice try, guys, but you lost me when your employee wouldn't shut the fuck up about Halo 3 when I was buying Europa Universalis 3. Way to prove you're a mouth-breathing fuckwit, Mike from Gamestop.
Nice try, guys, but you lost me when your employee wouldn't shut the fuck up about Halo 3 when I was buying Europa Universalis 3. Way to prove you're a mouth-breathing fuckwit, Mike from Gamestop.
From Kotaku's post of the same press release:
According to the GameStop lackey who passed the information on the program along to us, "The rewards range from coupons for $5-$10 off purchases ranging from 4000 to 8000 points to even free Xbox 360 controllers or Turtle Beach X11 headsets for 40,000 points. Us employees get 4000 points to start off with, enough to purchase a $5 off a used game coupon or PS3 real triggers!"
40,000 points for a free Xbox 360 controller? Why, that's like spending $4000 on new games and getting an Xbox 360 controller for free!
/completely not excited
According to the GameStop lackey who passed the information on the program along to us, "The rewards range from coupons for $5-$10 off purchases ranging from 4000 to 8000 points to even free Xbox 360 controllers or Turtle Beach X11 headsets for 40,000 points. Us employees get 4000 points to start off with, enough to purchase a $5 off a used game coupon or PS3 real triggers!"
40,000 points for a free Xbox 360 controller? Why, that's like spending $4000 on new games and getting an Xbox 360 controller for free!
/completely not excited
So basically it seems to me like Best Buy's rewards program minus the paid levels of it that Best Buy has
...I'm ok with this.
...I'm ok with this.
Yeah, it's not like stores over here have had a much better system in operation for decades now.. All hail GameStop for their totally original idea that's not even as good as ideas that came long before it! Hail! (Also, on the subject of original ideas, can see where CAD is getting its storyline from...).Tom Goldman said:
So, everything except money off on actual games then? Completely pointless. Game GB & Ireland [http://www.game.co.uk/RewardProgram/] give you 2.5% cashback on everything, including new games.Tom Goldman said:
Well, good news for me. I don't know why it's 20 points per dollar and shit. What the fuck does a reward cost?!
Why not 1 points per dollar.
I guess:
Bigger Numbers = Better?
Why not 1 points per dollar.
I guess:
Bigger Numbers = Better?
For all asking/wondering, in my humble opinion, Lamestop is evil because they are greedy money mongers who take advantage of their loyal customers. They first time they take advantage of you is when you try to sell your used games. At which point they offer you next to nothing for the game, while explaining that it's old/undesirable/poorly rated. Then, the next time they take advantage, and when you really begin to feel victimized is when you visit the store again later in the week, to find your exact previously owned copy what Whatever III: The Whatevering, for sale in the used games section at a freaking 600% markup over what they paid you for it. You notice that this supposed loyalty program offers a bigger "discount" on used product than it does on new? Thats because the margins are so massive, due to the routine screwings they give their clientele when buying/selling used games. Then, the third way they take advantage is when a new game comes out and they charge $10 - $20 more the said game then Fry's, Best Buy or wherever. Lamestop blows.... And not the good kind of blowing, either!
I would normally thin the typical GS employee is rather standoffish, but when you get questions like "I purchased this PS2 game...why is it not working on my Xbox?" I have to cut them a little slack. No really, my friend got this question asked to him back when he worked there :0
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The challenge seems to be in having the employees get the customers excited about having a points card. The edge card itself is pure instant gratification, saving a dollar on the ten for used stuff. People still turn it down even when it means keeping a ten dollar bill in their wallets. The Edge insentive itself in my eyes is an awesome method for loyalty, should the benifits manage to communicate properly.
One could muse that they are attempting to add this new insentive as a way to 'dumb down' a loyalty program so that customers will see a program they already sorta understand, as they already DO have cards like this from every other retailer (big box, clothes etc).
Heres to trying
One could muse that they are attempting to add this new insentive as a way to 'dumb down' a loyalty program so that customers will see a program they already sorta understand, as they already DO have cards like this from every other retailer (big box, clothes etc).
Heres to trying