Witness to a PS3 non-purchase

[cdude1034]

twesterm said:

cdude1034 said:

ssj12 said:

twesterm said:

ssj12 said:

cdude1034 said:

Cursayer2 said:
I wish the people at EB/Gamestop would actually TRY to do their jobs...

It's not their job to try to move consoles.

actually EB/GameStop Managers do have a reason to try to sell the PS3. Sony is holding a reward contest. For each console sold they get like 10 points, the manager at the end of the contest with the highest points in the state gets rewarded like 500 more points, and the the manager who sells the most in the whole country gets like 5000 points and a new car. The points can be redeemed for prizes on a rewards site. I forget the link but I talked to the manager at my EB Games. He said the prizes range from CD Players to Car Audio to a PS3 to Extreme Gaming PCs ($5000+ computers).

Hence why your normal employee doesn't give a crap if they don't sell another PS3. The managers can't bribe them with anything to sell more and they more than likely don't care if the manager gets bonus points. Most people who work at Gamestop/EBGames are fairly miserable and just don't care (after the initial excitement of OMG I work in a game store!!!!!).

lol then they EB games and Gamestops by you are really really bad. The store by me is awesome. The manager lets his employees rent things from the store. So basically they get to play every game and never have to spend a dime.

Every EB/Gamestop lets their employees rent things. The policy is one used item at a time and for no more than 4-5 days.

Actually, I have the largest Gamestop in Texas (and I'm fairly sure one of the largest ones), it's just that it really is a crap job. You constantly have people asking about games, do you like x game or y game better, what system is better, is z game out yet, if not when will it be out, angry mothers, little snots that hang out there all day, little snots that try to talk to you because they for some reason look up to you, little snots that think they're better than you, ect.

Unless you're a 360 achievement score, shit pay + insane annoyances + free rental isn't worth it. I haven't worked there (though was depserate enough for a job at one point while waiting for people to get back to me I asked for an application) but know plenty of people that have and it just sucks. Actually, every retail job sucks.

 Wow, you're spot on. I've never heard a more accurate description of my job, right down to the annoying little snots who have nothing better to do than stay in the store all day and argue the pros and cons of FF-X versus the new 50 cent game.

A little something about working at Gamestop:

-You start off at minimum wage (5.15, currently). After working for 7 months, my pay has gone up to a whole 5.25.
-There really isn't much "fun" involved. It's mainly putting up marketing kits and stocking/organizing games.
-There are no incentives to sell anything except reservations and subscriptions, and even then, if you do well you get nothing more than a pat on the back.
-Every manager gets the power to run his/her store as they think, meaning that if they're cool, it's a better place to work, but if all they care about is store performance, then it's gonna suck.

I still work there because I think my manager is awesome, and as a second job, I must say it's more fun than most other jobs I've had, but only when the store is dead.