Possible for PS3 to be 4th on GT5s launch week?

[DonFerrari]

BenVTrigger said:

Wagram said:

BenVTrigger said:

Wagram said:

I actually helped a woman buy a PS3 today at my local Gamestop. I pissed the sales clerk off bad. He was trying to sell her a used 60GB PS3 for like 350 bucks. She wanted backwards compatability but I talked her into a new PS3 for 299.99. I could never work at Gamestop, that business is horrible.

Really Gamestop is horrible?  I'm a district manager for Gamestop and I can tell you straight up we are far from horrible.

I have just had bad experience with that business for a very long time. Ranging from over pricing used games. Trying to sell used games as new ones. A new sticker with a scratched game IS NOT NEW. How can you sell a USED 60GB PS3 for 300-350 dollars? Hopefully you are an exception.

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.

I had to laugh... if you buy 2:1 to sell... maybe this is because of the abusive price?

I buy from Game.co.uk (I'm from Brazil) and the used games is usually 30% or less than new ones... Sports games

for 2 pounds (new iteration for 40), and other games (not seasonable) for 5 pounds and so on.

 

I don't think they overprice the games, and even less the freight, 5 pounds to send to brazil, while american stores put the cost up to 50 dollars.

 

Edit: Altought i believe a store have to charge as much as the customer is willing to pay, so if you can run your bussiness with this kind of price all the better for you, but I'll always search for the best condition to myself.