The Real GameStop - LOL (Explicit Language)

[mrjasontodd]

i hate getting asked for my ID every time i buy a rated M game. I am 27, paying with plastic, and am always there during my noon lunch hour. you'd think they would learn who I am by now.

 

[lerath666]

This video is hilarious, but the truth is that Gamestop is a very shady business. Most, if not all of their stores, remove new games from shrink-wraps, allow the employees to take home the games on loan, and then display the cases on shelf where people touch them with their grimey hands. They'll then sell back the same "new" games to unsuspecting customers, at full price. It's a disgusting practice, and they're the only corporation that does this. Gamestop has even been known to open up PC games and remove multiplayer voucher codes, if the codes were provided by competitors.

Since 2007, I've never bought anything from Gamestop. I do my business with Best Buy and Amazon.

Protip: best Buy lets their employees borrow games as well.

 

[darthviper107]

I always buy online, but that's usually because I go for the PC games and usually places are bad at stocking PC

 

[Uncanny Web-Slinger]

I interviewed at a game store and alot of the interview questions were centered around this crap to hook people

 

[LipSmack]

this video is 100% truth, I hate the gamesptops in calgary! THATS WHY I JUST GO TO WALMART! its the same game, and if I scratch it i just RETURN it walmarts return policy trumps getting fisted for disc insurance

 

[Mr. EcKo]

Well , I will be going to GameSh%T tomorrow to trade in a few games and pick up Assassins Creed Revelations , we'll see how it goes

 

[EVILFACE]

Shop somewhere else then.

 

[hehateme23]

My experiences with GameStop have all been great. I would like to just go in, get the game, and leave but I also like to interact with the clerk just to create conversation. Makes the trip a bit more interesting, rather than just walking in and out like a zombie. It does get a bit repetitive when they want you to pre-order other stuff but it is their job to do so. I understand it and don't have a problem with it at all. Besides, all you have to say is "no, thanks" and you'll save yourself the aggravation.

Oh yeah, they are still shady with the opening up new games and selling them as new. Not going to ignore that part! I usually only purchase pre-ordered games from them because they come sealed.

 

[ali032373]

I stopped going to GS when they offered me a total of $1.25 for 5 relatively modern games. I told the guy I would rather give them away to the 9 year old behind me in line. Then, they operate in a seller's vacuum- as if they are the only seller with the game. Ebay, walmart, gohastings, even craigslist do not exist in their minds. I don't know how they continue to operate brick and mortar stores.

 

[Droog Alex]

I miss Funcoland...

 

[BadMoon]

I rarely shop there. I go if I have to. Having worked for them in my younger years I can say I hate their business practices. A very shady company. This company forces their employees to act like asshats. For example, they will get literally hundreds of copies of big titles in. My local store refuses to sell them unless you pre-ordered. They lie and say they are sold out unless you pre-ordered. They do this because the stores get rated on how many pre-orders they get and how many magazines they sell.

I quit when they wanted me (an assistant manager at the time) to call local hospitals and homeless shelters and solicit them for pre-owned games. I packed up my shat and walked out. I had enough at that point.

 

[angelo07stang]

I miss Funcoland...

Funcoland was sweet but then funcoland turned into gamestop was same company just changed the name. lol but the practices werent as bad at funcoland.

 

[user 1190]

Protip: best Buy lets their employees borrow games as well.

I have never had Best Buy give me a game that didnt have original seals. I have never got a "brand new game" from game stop in a original sealed package.

 

[BadMoon]

I have never had Best Buy give me a game that didnt have original seals. I have never got a "brand new game" from game stop in a original sealed package.

I worked for Best Buy for a couple years and also never hear of the practice of "borrowing" games. I think that's BS.

 

[The Josh]

I have never had Best Buy give me a game that didnt have original seals. I have never got a "brand new game" from game stop in a original sealed package.

Do you not PO games from them Mark? I've never not gotten a game from them that wasn't still brand new. Heck last night I picked up AC Rev, Halo CE, and they even had a Hardened Edition of MW3 (which I bought) and all of them were in the original packaging.

 

[BadMoon]

Do you not PO games from them Mark? I've never not gotten a game from them that wasn't still brand new. Heck last night I picked up AC Rev, Halo CE, and they even had a Hardened Edition of MW3 (which I bought) and all of them were in the original packaging.

I can vouch that when I worked at EB Games we had a shrink wrap machine. We would take the displayed copies of the games (gutted cases) re-fill them back up, shrink wrap them, and sell them as new. These were the games as employees we were allowed to take home to borrow.

 

[user 1190]

Do you not PO games from them Mark? I've never not gotten a game from them that wasn't still brand new. Heck last night I picked up AC Rev, Halo CE, and they even had a Hardened Edition of MW3 (which I bought) and all of them were in the original packaging.

I rarely PO games. I did PO 5 from Best Buy but only because they were giving me $100 credit if I did so.

At gamestop every game regardless of it being "new" or used they pulled a disk from locked cabinet. When I asked why they said is was for security reasons but they game was new they just open case and out disk in sleeve and put it in cabinet.

 

[MachineGunMan]

I can vouch that when I worked at EB Games we had a shrink wrap machine. We would take the displayed copies of the games (gutted cases) re-fill them back up, shrink wrap them, and sell them as new. These were the games as employees we were allowed to take home to borrow.

Im sorry that is absolute horse crap if i buy a game i better be the first to play it period.

 

[BadMoon]

The bottom line is they don't understand their customers. They never had. In just this instance they don't understand their demographic and understand that a lot of people in said demographic are fickle. Just check out the various Star Wars threads. We don't want opened up displayed cases that have been finger ____ed by everyone in the mall. That is unless you are going to offer it at a nice discount.

 

[BadMoon]

Im sorry that is absolute horse crap if i buy a game i better be the first to play it period.

I agree. Nor do I want to have to pull price tags off of the inner plastic leaving a sticky residue on my new case.