veritaz on 14 January 2014
| domflo said: GameStop is full of fanboys anyway. Most of it's employees tend to judge you for what you buy, and some go as far as trying to talk you out of buying said product. That's what I experience, anyway. I was at a local GameStop on PS4's launch day (to buy Super Mario 3D World, of course), and overheard several conversations between the employees and people that were there to pick up their PS4's. They actually had PS4's available even without preorder. Well, anyway, in one case, the employees told a woman that asked for a PS4 that she should expect it to freeze and that she would have to return it to Sony (remeber that blue pulsing light thing?), stating that "Sony fucked up again" and that it shows that Sony "are incompetent idiots", advising the woman to buy an Xbox One as that "is much better and has better games anyway". I'm not particularly Sony-sided or Anti-Xbox or anything (I root for Nintendo, you see), but stuff like that just pisses me off. It's completely unprofessional, and sadly, this tends to be what happens at GameStop. I actually got laughed at for buying Super Mario 3D World, with the employees telling me that it's stupid to buy a game for a dead console. Well, just let that be my decision, all right? Anyway, I've been to at least 40 different GameStops in Germany and around 6 GS/EBGames in North America, and I only really encountered about 10 competent, non-judging employees there. It's sad. That said, signs like that are completely okay in my book (it's not the most professional stuff to do but hey, we are talking about GameStop here), but trashing other products should never be resorted to. Generally, I'd expect people working in retail to be more or less objective when I ask them about a product. |
Never heard someone like that in GameStop. I would think they would get fired if someone reported them for making stuff up especially if you tell them you will never come back.
