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do you like giving your money to nintendo?

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COKTOE said:
PerturbedKitty said:

hey everybody 

let's just cut to the chase. i love giving my money to nintendo. every day or so i find myself trying to make excuses to go to best buy, target, gamestop, etc. so i can go buy something nintendo related and up their sales. i love buying their amiibos and i love buying all their games.  yesterday, i went to best buy and bought a blue yoshi amiibo, zelda: triforce heroes, and ducktales: remastered. a couple days before that, i bought a falco amiibo and mario tennis: ultra smash. those are all the nintendo products i bought this week, and honestly i havent even used any of them or took them out of the shrink wrap. i just threw them in my closet when i got home and went about my day. 

it just feels good knowing that my money is going to a good cause, ya know? when i buy a nintendo product, i know that it is making a positive impact on the gaming industry by supporting a company that is going to take care of it and not just exploit it. in fact, i am so dedicated to giving nintendo money, that i make sure other people do it too. when i worked at gamestop (october 2007-june 2009) i used to get the customers to give nintendo their money. i made sure to sell all the PS3 and 360 games used, and the only games i would sell new were the Nintendo games. it was easy.

Nintendo customer brings to the counter a used copy of Super Mario Galaxy: "I'm pretty sure we have a new copy of this in stock right now. it's only five dollars more, plus you get the comfort in knowing that it's new and has never been played before."

HD customer brings up a new copy of Resident Evil 5: "would you maybe want a used copy of this? it's basically the same thing as a new copy. it's only five dollars cheaper. plus, if you don't like the game, you have seven days to return it!"

i just wanted to share that with you guys. do you like giving your money to nintendo? its a very satisfying feeling for me.

 

I instantly don't like you. I think you might be fucked in the head.

 

lol. you cant please everyone i suppose



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Ruler said:
Why not giving your money to every Japanese Company? I dont understand whats so magical for people like OP about Nintendo which you cant get anywhere else from Japanese Devolopers? Resident Evil 5 was one of the best games from last gen imo, to treat like this is pretty disgusting OP.

resident evil 5? really? lol. 



DonFerrari said:
PerturbedKitty said:
DonFerrari said:
I like to give my money to sony when it does interest m

ng in Gamestop, to go into work actively trying to warp the customers of the shop to become pawns in the console war going on inside the OPs head, worries me if any of the employees of the shops I would go into are secretly having their own private power trip regarding the games they sell on a daily basis.

Worrying.

i wasnt damaging others, i was giving them the choice. more often than not, they would go along with what i was saying just because of the way i was spinning it. if they didnt go along with it, then oh well, id sell them their game that they brought up and thats the end of it. i just like making sure nintendo gets as much money and profit as possible. its fun.

That's the very definition of damaging others... you were going out of your way to try and push the customers to your decision. And even playing against the interests of the company you worked for.

im still not convinced that its actually damaging people. im giving them the option and theyre the ones making the decision on what they feel is right for them. lol. and it didnt play against the interest of the company i worked for. GS benefits from used sales and i pushed a ton of used sales. in fact, i was probably better at it because i had an actual reason to push used sales: to make sure nintendo gets more profit than the competition.





I haven't given nintendo money since game cube when I bought 1 game new. Since then, all have been used. I have a used Wii, mario galaxy, zelda TP though to be fair, I bought those very late in the gen because they were cheap.



PerturbedKitty said:
VitroBahllee said:
I feel sorry for everybody who is actually feeling bad about what this guy is claiming he 'did' at Gamestop. This is almost certainly a fabrication designed to make people feel as awkward as possible. It's sad that it seems to be working.

lol.. no, i actually did that. i tried convincing some of my coworkers to do it too. i was so proud when one of them swayed the customer into buying a new copy of punch out instead of a used one. using the simple technique of just asking them if they wanted a new one for "only" 5 dollars more. 

It was 7 to 9 years ago and you still are so proud about it working one time with this copy of a game? That really makes me think just how much success you had with pushing your plans to make people give more money to Nintendo, if you have 1 success that sticks in your mind almost a decade later. Probably ended up putting more people off Nintendo games trying to sway them to pay more for the games.

I mean think of what you would be doing in a bigger picture... now I'm not going to go into this in too much detail just the very light parts of

(this is all based on if what the OP was suggesting he was doing was actually happening, more than 1 time 9 years ago, I'm not crediting OP with having any success which would have caused this to happen!)

- you were lowering the number of games Nintendo players as a whole are buying, lowering the amount of games which they actually experience and the total number, while increasing the game numbers being sold on the rival systems, if you are just talking about 30 euro games for example for every 210 euro spent on gaming your Nintendo gamer gets just 6 games in the store, rather than the 8.4 ps/360 games which go out the door - unhappy customers with less games to play for the same money. (And this is the era of the Wii/360/PS3, the Wii gamer was already getting a lot less bang for their buck.)

- you are trying to lower the number of pre-owned Nintendo products which gamestop sells... I know you were 17-19 but seriously, you surely understood that GS makes 100%+ profit margin on Pre-owned titles right? where as on new sales they make as little as 5-10% in doing what you (imagined) were doing you would have been lowering gamestops profit coming in from Nintendo related product, when a store makes less profit from something you know what they do with it? I'll give you a hint, it isn't pump more money into it because Gamestop would like Nintendo to make more money, it is to lower its shelf space and give that space to the systems which make GS the most cash.

Just like... those points alone are as many keystrokes as I'd be willing to spend on this I think, if the fact that you are causing the gamers you would rather be happy and content with their choice of products are getting less games and the store which sells the games you love would have less interest in stocking/selling those products doesn't get through to you then nothing really will I fear.





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I love giving Nintendo my money too! I went so far as buying a White Wii U and buying 500gb of digital content despite not getting the deluxe digital promotion. Nintendo can keep the extra ten percent as a tip from me!



PerturbedKitty said:
Ruler said:
Why not giving your money to every Japanese Company? I dont understand whats so magical for people like OP about Nintendo which you cant get anywhere else from Japanese Devolopers? Resident Evil 5 was one of the best games from last gen imo, to treat like this is pretty disgusting OP.

resident evil 5? really? lol. 

 

lmao, what a savage.





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PerturbedKitty said:

resident evil 5? really? lol. 

 

Hell yeah Resident Evil 5!



I understand. I go to Wal-Marts and retail stores in my area and tell people to buy the Xbox One version of games instead of the PS4 version. They usually call me a ******, but that won't deter me from continuing my pursuit.



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PerturbedKitty said:
ganoncrotch said:

Even looking at the dates tho, perhaps OP thinks he was doing it, moreso than lying that he did it. It was in 2007, 9 years ago, he is 26 so that would have made him 17 years old. I'm just weighing up how likely it is that anyone would take a lick of notice of what a 17 year old gamestop employee has to say to influence peoples purchases or even moreso... what sort of sales spin and marketing techniques a 17 year old has, most people at that age are still fueled by just 2 things, Hormones and acne. Neither of which are massive selling tools :D



i was 18 when i first started working there, and i didnt start using this tactic until at least a year into working there.

graduated my highschool valadictorian by the way. with 11 AP classes. so yeah, i was hot shit back then.



Righto, I do think every teen thinks that they are hot shit tho, that is part of what the hormones will do for you. Like I said tho, high school grades aside, I'm still not sure how much weight the suggestions of a teen working at gamestop would have on customers.





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