EA hurting gamestop?

[Doobie_wop]

BenVTrigger said:

Doobie_wop said:

BenVTrigger said:

Eh maybe it does on us a little bit but nothing too serious.  We do sell the online passes and some people do buy them.  The thing is the pre-owned games are only $5 cheaper for maybe the first 3 weeks or so then its usually about $10 - $15 dollars cheaper, plus with a power up rewards card you get and extra 10% off that.  I would say it might have affected us about 8 - 10 percent in terms of pre-owned EA titles but nothing too drastic.

Hey buddy, I got a pickle to pick with you! I went to EB the other day and asked them to price match a deal from GAME, they told me to piss off and chucked a random copy of Madden 07 at me. Whatchu guys doin? First you say that everything except for console deals can be price matched, but then you stop me from trading in my copy of Sega Super Star Tennis and Viva Pinata and get a $5 credit addition to my trade in. Now I'm stuck with a $30 voucher at GAME, but GAME has no games and everything else is overpriced. 

Also, I wanted a price match on Nier for $26 from another store, but EB wouldn't match it because they were charging $110 for it (don't know why) and they said they'd lose money or something by going along with my commands. Buddy, you guys been making promised you can't keep and I expect a $10 voucher sent to my house by next Thursday. We cool?

Hmm.  Sorry unfortunalty on this one I can't be too much help.  Even though we do own EB Games were run as two seperate stores and I work for the Gamestop branch.  I'm not entirely sure how exactly EB handles price matches and such but I know at Gamestop we don't price match at all anymore.  We used to but now days we just run our own deals.  So I know thats not quite the answer your looking for but I don't know too much about the EB side of the company.

As to your trade in problem, we are currently offering a trade in bonus of 50% until the first week of march.  So if you have anything lieing around now is the time to trade it in.  Basically if a game your trading in is worth normally $20 you'll get the extra 50% and it'll be worth $30 instead.  This applies to all games too.  Anyways sorry I couldn't be of much more help. But if EB is saying they'll do price matches and not honoring it, thats pretty lame.

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