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Where do you buy most of your games?

Amazon 53 45.69%
 
Bestbuy 20 17.24%
 
Walmart 5 4.31%
 
Gamestop/EB Games 18 15.52%
 
Others (please mention) 20 17.24%
 
Total:116
Insidb on 01 February 2017
Goatseye said:
Neodegenerate said:

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.

I never buy used games for more than a certain price. I ain't scared to walk out of the store if a price doesn't suit my liking.

That's them playing with the porduct pricing to maximize their profit. Nothing wrong with that.

There's actually a lot wrong with that: such practices are typically regarded as "false advertising, misrepresentation, fraud," etc.

They're against the law, and the US government is not shy about prosecuting the aforementioned charges.



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Neodegenerate on 01 February 2017
Goatseye said:
V-r0cK said:

Actually when you lie to a customer to benefit your company's profit is actually wrong.  

They're not selling you fake products or recalling it after sale. 

They are still being deceptive.  If I have a new copy and a used copy of something and you request the new copy and I lie to you and say I only have the used copy because my corporate headquarters expects me to push that instead, that is shitty business practice.



monocle_layton on 01 February 2017

Am I the only one who really likes the game stops near me?



Goatseye on 01 February 2017
Insidb said:
Goatseye said:

I never buy used games for more than a certain price. I ain't scared to walk out of the store if a price doesn't suit my liking.

That's them playing with the porduct pricing to maximize their profit. Nothing wrong with that.

There's actually a lot wrong with that: such practices are typically regarded as "false advertising, misrepresentation, fraud," etc.

They're against the law, and the US government is not shy about prosecuting the aforementioned charges.

If it says "used" on the products sold, I ain't got no beef with it and the feds.

They can just put the new products off the sales floor and rock on. If you don't want used products, go to Best Buy or Amazon. It's better there anyway.



Green098 on 01 February 2017

Amazon, they are usually the cheapest.



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Barozi on 01 February 2017
Goatseye said:
Neodegenerate said:

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.

I never buy used games for more than a certain price. I ain't scared to walk out of the store if a price doesn't suit my liking.

That's them playing with the porduct pricing to maximize their profit. Nothing wrong with that.

another quote from the article:

"We also tell customers we don’t have copies of new games in stock when they are on sale—for example, Watch Dogs 2 is currently $29.99 new and $54.99 pre-owned. We just tell them we don’t have the new one in stock and shuffle them out the door.”"

That's actually illegal. Can't advertise something you don't intend to sell.



Goatseye on 01 February 2017

Shuffle what out the door?



VGPolyglot on 01 February 2017

I live in Canada, so it's called EB Games instead, but I went there recently and wow, half of the store was replaced with Funko Pops. Are Gamestops in the US like that too?



Acevil on 01 February 2017
VGPolyglot said:
I live in Canada, so it's called EB Games instead, but I went there recently and wow, half of the store was replaced with Funko Pops. Are Gamestops in the US like that too?

The one I saw in states went beyond just funko pops. Thinkgeek is everywhere in that store. 



 

Cobretti2 on 01 February 2017
FloatingWaffles said:
I bought Resident Evil 7 at launch last week from Gamestop.

Guy asked me when I was at the counter if I would like to sign up for their Rewards program. I said "Nah maybe another time".

"I'll set you up with our basic one then" was his response.

Doesn't hurt.

I've won stuff from Nintend for Preordering Nintendo stuff in the store.