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Killiana1a on 05 December 2010
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binary solo said:
Killiana1a said:

Sorry, I had to put down the popcorn because this whole show is ridiculous. Here is how it has played out:

1. OP who works as an assistant manager for a GameStop store does inventory and notices a huge discrepancy in overshipments of Sony PS3, PS3 Move bundles, and Move to his store.

2. He snaps some pictures and sometime after work he logs on here and creates an honest post accusing Sony of overstuffing the channel for whatever reason be it to hit the 15 million mark or whatnot.

3. Another poster comes on and denies to the point of trolling calling the OP a liar and continuing to post regardless of knowing whether he is flaming or not.

4. Possible ulterior motives underlying the OP and the other poster's posts. I don't know but judging from their sigs, one is a heavy Sony user thusforth they may have so much emotion invested in the success of Sony that they post to the point of ban.

5. Obscene language and caps lock are observed on the other poster's part.

Now I could write all this up as a report, but I will not because I prefer my analysis to be a part of public record.

I have no problem denying the OP, but when it comes to the point where one calls him a liar, uses obscene language, and resort to caps locks, then one is past the point of a rational discussion where both can agree to disagree. At this point, one needs to be checked and dragged from the podium.

Back to the popcorn and purple font watching.

The point that is really at issue is 2. As the OP doesn't constitute evidence of any credibility that Sony is channel stuffing. When a manufacturer channel stuffs it means they have warehouses bursting full of product (which may or may not be the case here). It does not mean retailers are running out of space at their stores with a mountain of product piling up.

The ediventiary pics in the OP are evidence of mis-management of PS3 ordering practices by Gamestop. Or Evidence of Gamestop loading up on PS3s so that they don't need to bring in new shipments over the holiday season. Perhaps Sony made a deal with Gamestop that if it got its holiday shipments delivered before December they would get a bit of a wholesaler discount.

The point is that the OP was a bit of a troll OP because it's drawing a conclusion that is simply not supported by the evidence. Gamestop business decisions about ordering PS3's cannot be extrapolated to Sony worldwide business decisions on PS3 production and shipping.

Well stated and great post. Regardless of whether this whole thread is a troll post, it brings light to the management or lack thereof at the upper tiers of GameStop.

This much a lot of us agree on regardless of the PSN or Xbox Live tags in our signatures.