A funny Gamestop story...

Viktor said:
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.
Click to expand...

When I used to do that, 1/2 the time I had to wait while other were trying to trade in crap. The mom would be at the cashier and the kid would be looking at games and bringing it up. Price didn't work out and the kid would go back to find another.

Digital! or Amazon!
 
Grimmy said:
When I used to do that, 1/2 the time I had to wait while other were trying to trade in crap. The mom would be at the cashier and the kid would be looking at games and bringing it up. Price didn't work out and the kid would go back to find another.

Digital! or Amazon!
Click to expand...

This is exactly what was going on last night, I waiting in line for almost 30 minutes while there was 3 employees, 2 working and one just standing around talking.
 
C
This_Hard_Land said:
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.
Click to expand...
Werent you the one who parked himself outside of a GameStop for some hours just to observe the people coming in and out? Lol
 
I bought BF4 for Xbox One even though I already have it on PC and it is terrible, game struggles to maintain 60fps and is more around the 30-40 mark and the game is very low res/blurry at 1280x720, I am dreading taking the game back to Gamestop though. Ugh.
 
The Living Tribunal said:
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.
Click to expand...

I can't stand that. It's like going to a draft house and the employees don't know anything about what's on tap... mmmm, beer.... There is a Play and Trade here I make a point to stop in on because I can expect them to know what I'm talking about in detail.
 
eVo7 said:
I bought BF4 for Xbox One even though I already have it on PC and it is terrible, game struggles to maintain 60fps and is more around the 30-40 mark and the game is very low res/blurry at 1280x720, I am dreading taking the game back to Gamestop though. Ugh.
Click to expand...
Yeah, that game was junk.
 
Plainview said:
Never had a single issue at Gamestop nor Bestbuy. *shrugs*
Click to expand...

I feel like I live near one of the good gamestops, as the manager is really easy to work with and he is mostly the one working.

As for BB, have you ever done a trade in there?
 
Plainview said:
Yeah. Xbox 360. In and out in 10 minutes.
Click to expand...

Well, I don't know if mine is worse or if 10 minutes just seems like a long time. I'm used to going into GameStop and they just scan it and it's done. At Best Buy, they are typing on the computer for like 5 or 10 minutes for one game. Seems a little ridiculous, but maybe I'm a little impatient. :)
 
sharkboy1200 said:
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.
Click to expand...

It depends where you live. When I lived in Michigan before Vegas I never found a store with a single decent employee. In Vegas the local store went through at least 3 large crew changes and nearly all of them were very nice and helpful. They actually loved to play games so they knew their stuff. For a while one of the managers would put down his own cash to pre-order a game for me that he knew I'd want.

Then I came back to Michigan and again can't find one I actually want to shop at, let alone give them my money.

I've got $125 in GStop cards and when I decide to use them I'll just buy a PC code online, because I can't bring myself to drive the 12 miles or so in this weather to come away feeling dirty and annoyed.
 
IdleHands said:
It depends where you live. When I lived in Michigan before Vegas I never found a store with a single decent employee. In Vegas the local store went through at least 3 large crew changes and nearly all of them were very nice and helpful. They actually loved to play games so they knew their stuff. For a while one of the managers would put down his own cash to pre-order a game for me that he knew I'd want.

Then I came back to Michigan and again can't find one I actually want to shop at, let alone give them my money.

I've got $125 in GStop cards and when I decide to use them I'll just buy a PC code online, because I can't bring myself to drive the 12 miles or so in this weather to come away feeling dirty and annoyed.
Click to expand...
Wait, you have $25 in Gstop cards? Why aren't you using it on their online store then if going out is such a hassle?
 
No issues with Gamestop with me, but more like typical retail annoyances. Although, GS sales people are on par with the grubbies working at suit and tie stores where they make a bee-line to you the second you walk into the store. Some annoying GS/EB intercations I've seen or had... paraphrased:

- "PS3 is better than 306 because it is Blu-Ray"

- When a mom and teen were asking about good RPGs, they tried to sell him on Two Worlds. I stepped in and said it stinks and Oblivion is much better. The mom/teen walked out empty handed

- All the robotically trained upselling..... $3 disc guarantees, GI magazine, pre-orders, flashing the coupon page/booklet in my face

- Seeing a clerk trying to upsell a 10 year old on the $3 disc guarantee. One, the kid probably shouldn't even be buying games by himself. Two, the clerk should have been wary of it and ask for his parents. Third, upselling a kid a disc guarantee when the kid probably doesn't even know what it is. I didn't stick around to see if the kid actually bought the disc guarantee, but he was all ready to go with a game in hand and at the counter

- The price of used games have narrowed. I'm positive years back a game could be $10 less, then $5 less, now it can be 10% were a $30 game is $27.... so only $3 cheaper

- Pre-order deals which are stingy on deals. Sure, they may have an exclusive trinket or poster, but pricing is still $60. On the other hand, Amazon, Best Buy, Future Shop and even Dell can sell pre-orders with small collectibles or promo codes, but ALSO $10-20 off. Or buy 2 get one 1 free. GS/EB typically never has these dollar off deals, yet everyone still seems to buy off them

For those of you who didn't buy off them in the 90s, believe it or not they had game return policies. Here in Canada it was 10 day zero hassle return policy. I returned a PC game myself.... a PC game! They refunded you cash/credit card too. Back then they didn't do used games here.

They also had price matching too. They were pretty liberal. Sometimes if you just verbally told them, that was good enough. No more price matching for probably 10 years.

I'm not sure when they changed the policies but I'm thinking somewhere around early/mid 2000s.

The only redeeming factors of GS/EB is that they sell/trade in hardware and their brick and mortar game selection is the best out there. So it makes it easy if there's a store near you as opposed to trying to sell hardware online to people.
 
Last edited:
I've had problems at GameStop. I don't like how they sell open games as new. I used to not have issues with Best Buy, but both the local stores have moved games behind lock and key. I just want to get in and out.

Digital for the win.
 
Kerosene31 said:
I've had problems at GameStop. I don't like how they sell open games as new.
Click to expand...
Because the law allows it. It sucks but that's the way it works.

It's like buying a "new car". It's technically not new when you buy it because when you get the keys you'll see the odometer may have 10-20 kilometers on it due to a number of things:

- Factory employee driving it to truck or barge
- Dealership doing diagnostic check
- Dealership employee driving it from storage lot to dealer directly or onto a transport truck to the dealer for you to pick up

By the time you drive it home, there's probably been 3-4 people who have already sat in the seat and tested it out.
 
Kerosene31 said:
I've had problems at GameStop. I don't like how they sell open games as new. I used to not have issues with Best Buy, but both the local stores have moved games behind lock and key. I just want to get in and out.

Digital for the win.
Click to expand...

This, awhile back I bought DBZ Raging Blast 2 new and they got the game out of a disc sleeve and put in the open case and called it new, I asked to see the disc and there was smudges and everything on it and I refused it and said that I want a sealed copy. They said they didn't have a sealed copy and that the one they had was never played and I called bulls*** and left empty handed. If it isn't sealed you have no guarantees on whether it's used or not, just their "good word". In which I have heard numerous occasion of employees taking home games, playing them and then reselling them as "new".
 
Intellivision said:
Because the law allows it. It sucks but that's the way it works.

It's like buying a "new car". It's technically not new when you buy it because when you get the keys you'll see the odometer may have 10-20 kilometers on it due to a number of things:

- Factory employee driving it to truck or barge
- Dealership doing diagnostic check
- Dealership employee driving it from storage lot to dealer directly or onto a transport truck to the dealer for you to pick up

By the time you drive it home, there's probably been 3-4 people who have already sat in the seat and tested it out.
Click to expand...

The difference here is that is done at every dealership, that's apart of buying a new car. Gamestop is the only game store I visited that claim unsealed copies of games as new, that includes mom and pop game stores, play N trade, toys r us, walmart, kmart, best buy, target, etc.
 
sharkboy1200 said:
Wait, you have $25 in Gstop cards? Why aren't you using it on their online store then if going out is such a hassle?
Click to expand...

Honestly? Nothing I want ATM. I want to get the DAI Digital Deluxe but they don't sell it. Might hold on to them towards a PS4 in Feb when Bloodborne is released.
 
eVo7 said:
This, awhile back I bought DBZ Raging Blast 2 new and they got the game out of a disc sleeve and put in the open case and called it new, I asked to see the disc and there was smudges and everything on it and I refused it and said that I want a sealed copy. They said they didn't have a sealed copy and that the one they had was never played and I called bulls*** and left empty handed. If it isn't sealed you have no guarantees on whether it's used or not, just their "good word". In which I have heard numerous occasion of employees taking home games, playing them and then reselling them as "new".
Click to expand...

Yep, I've seen them put tape right over the game seal, right in plain sight. Why even bother? Once you break the seal, many stores won't let you return a game. Employees do "borrow" games. It isn't at every store, but I've heard far too many stories about it for it not to be true.

One horror story I forgot about was years ago. I bought one of the Battlefield PC games back in the day and didn't realize the seal was slit. Guess what? I get home and cd-key in use! WTF. I was so angry. This was many years ago when cd keys were used :)
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom
Back