GameStop Program Leads Employees To Lie To Customers/Where do you buy games?

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Goatseye said:

Neodegenerate said:

They lie about new games being out of stock so people are forced to buy pre-owned or not buy at all because they focus more on trade ins, pre-orders, and used sales.  Here is an excerpt:

 

The program, called “Circle of Life,” gives each GameStop store different percentage quotas for 1) pre-orders; 2) reward card subscriptions; 3) used game sales; and 4) game trade-ins. Each of these quotas is based on the store’s total transactions. Pre-orders and reward cards subscriptions are based on the number of transactions, while used game sales and trade-ins are based on the total dollar value of transactions. If a store’s quota for used game sales is 30%, and the store sells $1,000 worth of merchandise, GameStop expects at least $300 of that merchandise to be pre-owned.

Thank you very much.

I don't see anything wrong with that. If you want new games and Gamestop is not offering that, you can buy it a different place if you don't want pre-owned.

Amazon is your friend, BestBuy is your friend as well. Hell, even Walmart.

The issue though is that they have the new games, they just dont want to sell them to you if they are below their targets.  They would rather them stay in the drawer.