R.I.P. Game Informer
Another one of the last legitimately great outlets for game reviews is about to die.
Physical is still very much a thing. Gamestop just has a terrible way of doing business. There's a thriving used games market in Phoenix and Austin. Lots of Mom n' Pop stores do just fine selling and trading in used games.
| Ganoncrotch said: Look.... at a tiny personal level, if I go into my local gamestop the games in there which are preowned cost around 1.5 - 2x the cost of the same games in the 2 other pre owned game stores in town of CEX and a local owned store, if asked why gamestop sell pre owned games sometimes more expensive than the new copies of the games, the staff just shrug and say that's just the way they have to list the prices there, it is insane for anyone to work in a store where they look at the products they sell, know in their heart that the pricing model they employ for a ton of their produce makes no sense to make the store competitive... and then not question or have power to do anything about that. Of course those jobs are going to be lost some time soon, if I worked on the Titanic as the Iceberg spotter and I just shrugged when people asked why we just struck one I know my job is on the line and I know I'm on a sinking ship partially because I am a cog in a machine which is winding itself towards death. Think about it, have you found yourself in a gamestop where you've seen a pre owned game being more expensive than a new one, did you laugh at how stupid that is... did you leave the shop without buying it new or used? To have pre owned produce on the shelf costing more than a new version just completely fucks with the perception of value of the products they're selling, if you went to a car dealership and found that new version of a car cost half what a pre owned one does... your mind would think, "this isn't right" the same applies to gamestop and confused customers just walk out of the store because their model is broken, everyone knows it but does nothing about it. Doomed store. |
^THIS!
GameStop buys games for pennies, and then sells them at the highest price they can get away with. People flat out don't shop there, because the prices are insane. Take any Mom n' Pop video game store, and they will give you way better prices, as well as more trade in credit.
Gamestop could survive for another ten years if they simply...
1. Stop renting out ultra expensive retail space. Look for the cheaper strip mall areas.
2. Stop having three to four stores in the same city. The market isn't big enough to support all those stores anymore.
3. Give a fair amount of trade credit like 60%, and sell your games for the going rate on https://www.pricecharting.com/
But, no they won't do that because the company is run by a bunch of corporate idiots that are blind to reality.
