Poll: Game stop, who hates it?
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I generally use either GameStop or Amazon.
I've had fairly good experience with GS, though. This one guy who works there knows what games I like and only asks me to preorder things that fall into that category. Nice fellow.
I've had fairly good experience with GS, though. This one guy who works there knows what games I like and only asks me to preorder things that fall into that category. Nice fellow.
I work at GameStop... but before I was hired, I never really bought from there. xD I typically got my games from Best Buy. I DID like trading in my games @ The Stop, though. I can't say I love our chain, or even our store, but I get an employee discount and we have a very nice selection. Our deals like Buy 2 Get 1 Free are pretty awesome.
k think about this. buy a preowned game, dont like it, take it back before seven days, get a full refund. i love gamestop, also they get payed by the hour so they dont just recommended the most expensive stuff, and they are all gamers.zestamaster said:
The GameStops around here have a rack set up for PC games...Even have PoP2008, Assassin's Credd, and Bothers in Arms: Hell's Highway for $8 each...
Anyway.. I've had good and bad experiences, but I would rather use my local store for buying, and Best Buy for trading in, when possible.
Anyway.. I've had good and bad experiences, but I would rather use my local store for buying, and Best Buy for trading in, when possible.
Yah i just don't like the prices they put on games and trade in games.
I'm starting to go to a new 'advanced games' by my corner store.
I'm starting to go to a new 'advanced games' by my corner store.
I learned my lesson about gamestop the hard way. Lose that black card they give you? You also lose all the store credit they owe you even if you still have a receipt with your account number on it.
I go to gamestop once in a while I find the staff seem to know about games (at the one I go to) I'm getting and that and we'll even strike up a conversation about games I talked to a guy who worked there about resident evil 5 and when I went there before that I talked to a girl who worked there about fallout
That's not a mark up. That's selling a product at retail price. Of course retailers get things at a lower price. Otherwise it'd be impossible to make money. I used to work in a comic shop too, and I've frequented my fair share of them as well. I've never seen books sold below cover price when they weren't on sale.Netrigan said:
Just to stay on topic. I have no real problem with Gamestop. I don't buy from them much because there's an independent game store closer to my house. But I have nothing bad to say about them.
GameStop is a monopoly. That's unfortunate for the industry but you can hardly blame them. Companies are supposed to work towards monopoly status by definition.
GameStop has never wronged me personally, I just wish they had some real competition.
GameStop has never wronged me personally, I just wish they had some real competition.
I've gotta go with Love'em! Why? Because I've tried other stores and wasn't happy with the service. Normally, not a big problem with bigger chains (polite) but not quite as knowledgeable and, whilelocal stores may be more more knowledgeable, I still wasn't satisified with the service because it took them forever to deal with the previous two customers before dealing with me...all while being continually distracted by their cellphones. Look, if you are at work and EVERYTHING is done, then you can play on your phone but I shouldn't have to wait forever because you want to stop every 15-30 seconds to text your friends/family. (That was ALL the employees). I'd rather deal with Gamestop.
How is it? If you walk into GS and they say I will give you 20 bucks you have a choice. You can say yes or no thank you. You can't blame GS for something GS isn't doing. We gamers are the ones keeping GS in business. You can't blame GS for taking our money when we are the ones giving it to them. You wanna start pointing fingers then gamers are the ones who are really to blame. Not the ones making money by making us happy. And sorry ignorance is not an excuse. The stupid should not be coddled.manaman said:
GameStop is all right. I like the promotions they put together with some games, like extra perks for pre-ordering it through them. The selection is pretty good, and the GameStops around me all sell PC games, which is pretty great.
On the downside, as someone who used to work for Game Crazy, the customer service is much lower than I was used to providing, and the sale prices and trade-in values of used games were much better at Game Crazy. Some employees in the stores near me don't know how to take a no for an answer, and I've walked out without buying anything because they would keep bugging me to buy additional products and pre-order games as well as asking if I "was absolutely sure" I didn't want to buy them.
Still, with Game Crazy gone, all I have left is GameStop, so I'm all right.
On the downside, as someone who used to work for Game Crazy, the customer service is much lower than I was used to providing, and the sale prices and trade-in values of used games were much better at Game Crazy. Some employees in the stores near me don't know how to take a no for an answer, and I've walked out without buying anything because they would keep bugging me to buy additional products and pre-order games as well as asking if I "was absolutely sure" I didn't want to buy them.
Still, with Game Crazy gone, all I have left is GameStop, so I'm all right.
The gamestop i go to is awsome just this week i got the complete battlefield set for 2 dollars i love my gamestop
The second part of that was an example. I can go the extreme version of an example as well:squid5580 said:
I bet you blame rape victims for dressing provocatively.
Just because someone had the opportunity to not get ripped off, doesn't make ripping someone off suddenly not ripping them off.