Gamestop Experience

[Alexie Di Onie]

Hawk said:

DMeisterJ said:
Gamestop/EB Games employees are not really fanboys (at least not around here) but they are very dumb. They never know when a release date is except if it's for Halo 3, and they want you to pre-order games that are coming out the next day, and they always never know how useless that stupid 10% off/more for trade ins/used games really sucks. Gamestop is a glorified pawn shop. They take your games for less than half of what you paid for it two weeks ago then sell it for five dollars under the MSRP. None of that money for reselling it goes to the company, it goes to GS. That's how they have record profits. By giving you an extra ten percent on trade ins and off of used games, they're enticing you to buy these games. Then you buy them and all the money goes to GS. That's why whenever I go to a GS, I always buy new... I support the developer, not a pawn shop trying to steal money.

I completely agree with you. I only buy new. Both because I want to support the developer and because I'm anal about my games 8). And at GameCrazy, they keep trying to sell me the used membership or whatever it is called. Every now and then I have them explain it to me again, thinking I must have missed something last time. But nope, the thing never sounds worth it, at all.

 You guys are unfortunatley quite mistaken in your assesments. GamStop selling used games is their ONLY source of income. They make a grand total of 1 dollar on every new game they sell. Some might argue that the value that they give you back is paltry, but 25 bucks for a game that you dont want/need anymore is better than nothing (plz rent before you buy). I happen to take offense when you call all Gamestop employees everywhere ignorant idiots..........