A funny Gamestop story...

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I haven't been to a Lamestop in a really long time, at least a year and a half. I looked at my Lamestop rewards account and realized I had enough points to get 25 dollar coupon off of a used game, so I redeemed it and headed over to my local Lamestop.

I walk in and am browsing the Wii U games and then I walk over to the X1 games. From my left I hear a "Hey there dude!" I look to my left and it is a employee with some kind of obviously mental problem, he stands on my right and I say to him "I am just browsing" as usually this gets any store employee out of my hair. Nope, he stands there and this says this:

Him: I've got good news for you!!!
Me: What is that?
Him: You've got an Xbox One!!!
Me: ........
Him: Did you know that there are 5 new games releasing, GTA V, Far Cry 4, Blah blah, and Dragon Age Inquisition tonight at midnight!??!?!?!
Me: Sorry not interested.
Me: If I was I would get those on the PC anyway.
Him: Well I've played Dragon Age on the Xbox One and it looks 10 times better than the PC version, it's like movie graphics.

I then proceeded to give him this blank stare and walked right out of the store.

Jesus, Gamestop employees are awful liars. I did have the intention to buy Madden 15 as well, but once he said all that I couldn't do anything but leave. Mind you I was only there because I had a 25 dollar coupon off of any used game.
 
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It's like the McDonald's of electronics retail and probably a bit more embarrassing. My points are set to expire soon as well, but I don't have the care in me to do anything about it.
 
It might look 10x better than his PC. ;)

I truly loath going to Gamestop lately, always huge waits and incompetent employees.
 
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I find the horror stories amazing, because all of my experience with Gamestop employees are always so positive. I'd argue that lame part is having kids come in, especially when it's a mom with a huge litter of them on babysitting duty. Although that's a problem you can encounter anywhere.
 
This is why I do in-store pickup when possible. Just go in and grab your s*** and walk out, hopefully never having to talk with mouth breathers.
 
This is why I do in-store pickup when possible. Just go in and grab your s*** and walk out, hopefully never having to talk with mouth breathers.

Yea and then they ask you if you want to pre order 100 different games.
 
Yea and then they ask you if you want to pre order 100 different games.
lol my last trip to GameStop wasn't bad (first time in over a year as well). At Best Buy they just ask if I want the protection plan.
 
One time, I tried buying Dark Souls new at Gamestop, and they said, "yeah, we have one new copy still left!" He then proceeded to that massive array of empty display cases, took the empty case of Dark Souls, came back and grabbed a disc from a drawer from behind the checkout counter all in front of me, and put the disc in the case hoping to sell it to me as a new copy. I asked him where Best Buy was and left.
 
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I don't mind gamestop. I don't buy games there because of the silly prices. Very few of their staff seem to be actually gamers though. One of the best funniest lines I heard from a guy there was how Lost planet was basically gears of war in the snow. I really had no reply to that other than a laugh.
 
Just got back from picking up GTA V and WWE 2k15 for the One at GameStop. It was a smooth trip other than the usual trying to sell you a house and a boat nonsense. No, i don't want to scratch protect the games, i'm not a 3 year old and no, i don't want anything else. Ring it up and shut your mouth.

Your story reminds me of the time a guy at GameStop came up to me and my buddy(who are huge NBA 2k fans) and tried telling us NBA Live was much better. We both just laughed and walked out of the store.
 
One time, I tried buying Dark Souls new at Gamestop, and they said, "yeah, we have one new copy still left!" He then proceeded to that massive array of empty display cases, took the empty case of Dark Souls, came back and grabbed a disc from a drawer from behind the checkout counter all in front of me, and put the disc in the case hoping to sell it to me as a new copy. I asked him where Best Buy was and left.

Gotta love that.

It's 'like' new... we only opened it up, brought it home and played it... lost the manual. The scratches are superficial, still works. $60 plus tax plz! Want to buy a strategy guide and preorder the next four Call of Duty games?
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I don't have too many issues at GameStop, Best Buy on the other hand…

Especially if you have to do a trade-in. Watching them work at the computer you would think they were trying to hack into NASA.
 
Him: Well I've played Dragon Age on the Xbox One and it looks 10 times better than the PC version, it's like movie graphics.

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I don't mind gamestop. I don't buy games there because of the silly prices. Very few of their staff seem to be actually gamers though. One of the best funniest lines I heard from a guy there was how Lost planet was basically gears of war in the snow. I really had no reply to that other than a laugh.

My roomates ex-gf worked at Gamestop.
Verbatim she told us once that they don't hire gamers. They hire people who aren't gamers for whatever reason.

To this day I'm still stunned largely because my experiences at Gamestop confirmed what she said.
 
Gotta love that.

It's 'like' new... we only opened it up, brought it home and played it... lost the manual. The scratches are superficial, still works. $60 plus tax plz! Want to buy a strategy guide and preorder the next four Call of Duty games?
Ygrin:
Yeah, Gamestop is so terrible. Oh and I forgot the best part. The "new" Dark Souls copy had that awful price sticker on the case. I might as well have went up and wrote graffiti on the case and told them, "Don't Worry!! You Can Still Sell It As NEW!!"
 
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My roomates ex-gf worked at Gamestop.
Verbatim she told us once that they don't hire gamers. They hire people who aren't gamers for whatever reason.

To this day I'm still stunned largely because my experiences at Gamestop confirmed what she said.
That would have been useful information back in the day. Although I've had a buddy who got hired at one and he was a gamer. Jesus, are there bad Illinois stories or something? There's gotta be. Maybe I'm just in the wrong neighborhood but it's amazing so many Gamestops out there are so s***ty. Maybe I'm just fortunate to not have ever dealt with the bad apples.
 
My only issue with Gamestop is their constant attempts at upselling. I just know they're gonna remind me my pro membership has expired and turn it into a big deal when I pick up dragon age today.
 
I haven't gone into a Gamestop in a long time mostly because their prices are higher than everyone else. I usually go to Best Buy and man their employees are idiots. The always have trouble with trade ins or preorder. I was recently buying a headset for my X1 and asked a dude if the Astro A40's had mic monitoring on them. He took the box from me and started reading the back to see if he could find the answer. I took the box back from him, looked him in the face and said, "Thanks anyway man, I can read." and walked out the door.
 
OP looks bad in this thread. He let someone making minimum wage at a videogame store get under his skin.

Learn to ignore the insignificances that show up in your every day life.
 
My Gamestop is fine. I've never had anyone say anything stupid to me. Most of the employees seem friendly and reasonably knowledgeable. My only complaints are the long wait (at times) and the low trade-in prices.
 
OP looks bad in this thread. He let someone making minimum wage at a videogame store get under his skin.

Learn to ignore the insignificances that show up in your every day life.

But video games are serious business!!
 
Just an average Joe trying to make a living in this cold cruel world.
 
I always hear about Gamestop.EB stories like this (presumably in the States). But always had decent to good interactions here in NZ. AT worst, they'll push pre-rorders or the game scratch guarantee thing to me, but yeah, generally level headed people and not pushing any agenda (apart form sales of course).
 
I always hear about Gamestop.EB stories like this (presumably in the States). But always had decent to good interactions here in NZ. AT worst, they'll push pre-rorders or the game scratch guarantee thing to me, but yeah, generally level headed people and not pushing any agenda (apart form sales of course).
Yeah, I haven't gone to one in a while, but I've never actually had an issue. I just stopped going there because Amazon is a thing.
 
Well I went back to the same Gamestop and almost choked one of their employees out for trying to be sneaky, I picked up BF4 used for X1 and he asked me of I wanted the warranty on it and I said an emphatic "No" so I looked down at the credit card machine and it says the warranty is on there, so I ask him why is the warranty on there I just told you less than 10 seconds ago I didn't want it. Then he went on to say "Well sometimes it defaults to yes when you buy used games blah blah blah" so I said remove it, then he tried to get me to renew my pro membership, I said "No not interested 3 times and the last time I said you trying to be sneaky in charging me for a warranty I declined and you think I want to renew a pro membership, you're out of your mind" I swiped my debit card and said give me my game and I stormed out.

Never going back again.
 
OP looks bad in this thread. He let someone making minimum wage at a videogame store get under his skin.

Learn to ignore the insignificances that show up in your every day life.

He didn't get under my skin it was more of a LOLWUT moment. The small story I posted above this, definitely did get under my skin as they were trying to charge me for something I declined which is bad business/customer service. Messing with my money is like messing with my emotions. lol.
 
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