Wagram said:
BenVTrigger said:
Really over pricing pre-owned games? This is the most hilarious argument we here all the time. The problem is that gamers apparently don't know anything about how you run a business. You do realize we have to make a profit correct? You also do realize that we buy more games from customers than we sell back to customers at over a 2:1 ratio correct? That means that for every one game we sell back to another customer there's another one we bought off someone that is just sitting back in the stock room or warehouses that is just lost money. On top of that you have to factor in not every dollar of a resale goes to straight OMGZ GUYZ GAMESTOP PROFIT! LETS SCREW GAMERS! We also have to pay the expenses of our over 5,000 stores and thousand upon thousands of employees. Not to mention money that we pay to Nintendo, Sony, EA, Activision, etc for other promotional deals.
Are there going to be some problems? Of course any time you factor in the human element there will stuff that slips through the cracks but the hate we get at Gamestop is straight up laughable. I personally manage and know several hundred employee's and I can tell you right now nearly every one of them loves games and gaming in general just as much as anyone else on these forums and quite frankly its not cool the way they get disrespected.
Anyways I won't take up anymore of this space going off topic.
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1.) I know Gamestop is a business, but it still doesn't change the fact that you guys screw people over when buying games. You buy a game for 59.99 on launch and the next day they'll give you 25 bucks? WTF is that shit? Also you see used games in Gamestop going for higher than it would cost you to buy it for new at places like Walmart, Amazon, and eBay. (NEW, not USED)
2.) Your store isn't Gamestop as a whole. Half the people I have seen who work there don't give a rats ass about gaming or know anything about it. Like the person I went I talked to about Final Fantasy XIV. She told me it didn't exist and that I should get WoW instead because other people buy it. WTF is that?
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I don't manage a store. I manage 23 stores. Gamers should be thankful they are even offered an opportunity to trade in their games for store credit. You don't like our prices sell em to your friends. That easy. I have no problem with that at all. The fact is however we take significant risk in what we do and try to help gamers experience. You say how its ridiculous that we take a new game back for 25 bucks but you wouldn't think that at all if you went into one of the backrooms of my stores and saw the pile of 50 God of War 3 games all bought back from customers for 25 dollars a piece and aren't going anywhere. We aren't a Mom and Pop shop, we are the single largest retailer specialized in gaming on the planet and when we are talking price points we aren't discussing the difference between 25 dollars and 60 dollars. We are discussing the difference between 25 million and 75 million dollars.
