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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
darkenergy on 01 February 2017

The last game I purchased at Gamestop was Quantum Break but I might purchase my games digitally on the Xbox Store.



Proud to be a Californian.

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Arminillo on 01 February 2017
V-r0cK 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.

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

Actually, it still hurts the companies profit. The people lying are the employees, who are hurting the company and the consumer in order to maintain job stability.



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Arminillo on 01 February 2017
Arminillo said:
V-r0cK said:

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

Actually, it still hurts the companies profit. The people lying are the employees, who are hurting the company and the consumer in order to maintain job stability.

To further elaborate, the question here is not is the idea of product quotas ethical, but is the system in place indirectly forcing employees to engage inethical practices, lest termination or punishment.



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Bman54 on 01 February 2017

I always pre-order new games and systems at EB, because it's the most convenient place. Can't really lie to me about anything if I'm just pre-ordering, and none of their upsell tactics will ever work on me. For everything else, I just go to the place that has it for cheapest, whether that's EB, Microplay, Best Buy or Amazon.



VGPolyglot on 01 February 2017
SvennoJ said:
Mar1217 said:

Same here at our EB Games in Levis(Quebec).

It's horrendous.

But I still buy there cuz they're fine people working there :)

I get all my hardware and games from Microplay in Brantford(Ontario). It's an awesome little store with very friendly people. There are mutiple EB games locations around here too yet the people aren't very competent and the deals aren't as good.

You still have Microplay? Here in London they've been gone for like 10 years!



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Cobretti2 on 01 February 2017
FloatingWaffles said:
Cobretti2 said:

Doesn't hurt.

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

I know, I just thought it was funny how he bothered to ask when even if I said no he was just going to do it anyway. I'm guessing by policy for working there it's in his job to have to ask people and he's probably told to try to push memberships on people or something i'm guessing.

It just made me think of something like "Wanna sign up for this?" "No thanks maybe ne-" "Great! I'll get you started".

I used to have a Pro Membership Gamestop thing years ago as well where you could redeem stuff with points and get the magazines and such, but like I said that was years ago.  

Gamestop does seem to have some shitty policies though. Just like how they try to sell already opened copies of  games as 'new' even though they're not new at that point. That happened when I bought Borderlands: The Handsome Collection on PS4. 

Shitty policies for sure. I know when I preordered two sets of amiibos (as I keep one boxed), the manager was liek who let you preoder two I am goign to have to fire them. I'm like yer don't remember (lol was the guy standing next to him). 



 

 

VAMatt on 01 February 2017
Insidb said:
Goatseye said:

Wells Fargo was charging people without their consent. It's not the same thing.

What does "shuffle them out the door" means anyway?

Wells Fargo incentivized cross-selling and penalized those who missed quotas, just like this GameStop quota.

They got and are continuing to get their asses handed to them, because programs that encourage illegal activity are illegal.

"Shuffle them out the door" simply means to usher them out of the shop.

Telling lies about inventory is not illegal, in and of itself.  



Insidb on 01 February 2017
VAMatt said:
Insidb said:

Wells Fargo incentivized cross-selling and penalized those who missed quotas, just like this GameStop quota.

They got and are continuing to get their asses handed to them, because programs that encourage illegal activity are illegal.

"Shuffle them out the door" simply means to usher them out of the shop.

Telling lies about inventory is not illegal, in and of itself.  

It actually is illegal: http://www.laptopmag.com/articles/ftc-lying-about-notebook-inventory-violates-federal-law



Ljink96 on 01 February 2017

Amazon. The prime discounts are amazing. I used to go to Gamestop...like 6 years ago. I think the last gamestop game I bought was Super Mario 3D Land. Now I get all my PS4/Xbox One (And soon Switch) games from Amazon.



arcaneguyver on 01 February 2017

Gamestop is less than worthless, nothing new. Their competitors should have ground them into the dirt years ago, yet they linger like that one skeezy uncle at family gatherings.