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Dno on 31 July 2009
gergroy said:
Onyxmeth said:
gergroy said:
Onyxmeth said:
gergroy said:
you guys do realize that most games you buy "new" from gamestope are actually new? They let their employee's check out the games, meaning they take these new games home and use them, and then bring them back.

Never buy new from gamestop.

You do realize it's fairly easy to tell which games that might have happened to and which ones haven't, right? If it's still shrink wrapped, like the majority of their new games are, I'm fairly certain it's never been played by anyone prior to purchaser.

This should go as a general rule. There's nothing wrong with buying a new game at Gamestop. Just make sure the new game you buy is a shrink wrapped copy, otherwise go somewhere else. Very simple.


it might have changed, but when I worked there we just re-shrink wrapped them.  So nobody could tell if it had been used or not.

I'll take the case of a 360 game since I'm most familiar with them. Each 360 game has three stickers along the three openings of the DVD case that are official Microsoft stickers. Secondly the original shrink wrapping is specially folded on all three openings, and most companies that re-shrink wrap things use the shoddy method of having some vacuum method and a pinched closing. So you're telling me Gamestop actually repackages 360 games to appear brand new? I call bullshit. It's fairly easy to tell when something has been re-shrink wrapped, because it's poorly redone.

well, I haven't worked for gamestop since 2002, so it has been a while.  Things may have changed.  Obviously the stickers on 360 games are different (although no such stickers exist for wii games or ps3 games).  And yes, we had a really nice shrink wrap machine that did the folded edges and everything.  You had to with that kind of repackaging going on. 

Either way, it doesn't change the fact that the employee's do check out the new games. 

this shrink rap Machine looks like complete crap and look absolutely Nothing like the wrap from the factories.

If they played the game you know it.

OT the only games that are not shrink wrapped are games they out out to display (which means its the last copy)



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toadslayer72 on 31 July 2009

Am I the only one who buys games online? Gamestop is bullshit. I don't understand this shit about their employees taking home games then resealing them or whatever. I can't imagine that they would do this with more than a couple of copies of any given title. It's not like they have 200 employees at each store. Even if you feel like they are getting over on you, why would you go back? I'm gonna have to say it's the fault of anyone who has a problem with them but keeps going back for more of the balls deep. Seriously shop somewhere else, you have options. Also there are products to take off the glue.



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darkhaven63 on 31 July 2009
toadslayer72 said:
Am I the only one who buys games online? Gamestop is bullshit. I don't understand this shit about their employees taking home games then resealing them or whatever. I can't imagine that they would do this with more than a couple of copies of any given title. It's not like they have 200 employees at each store. Even if you feel like they are getting over on you, why would you go back? I'm gonna have to say it's the fault of anyone who has a problem with them but keeps going back for more of the balls deep. Seriously shop somewhere else, you have options. Also there are products to take off the glue.

Well, I've thought of buying games online from amazon, but I remembered that I didn't have a Credit Card or an Amazon Gift Card so that's a problem, besides I go to Best Buy now so Amazon isn't really necessary. Might I ask though, where do you buy your games on line?



   

toadslayer72 on 31 July 2009

Usually Amazon. I also don't have a credit card but I have a specific bank account set up with a bank card that I use for online purchases.



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outlawauron on 31 July 2009

Eh, I only buy games from a buy 2, get 1 free deals from Gamestop and if there is something rare.



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greenmedic88 on 31 July 2009

The practice is to keep everything within the GameStop "cycle" in which you return your games to them for credit on future purchases.

It's actually a brilliant business model from the standpoint of profit margins.

It's not so brilliant for the savvy gamer.

My opinion on GS is that it's one option for dumping your unwanted games (a step up from the recycling bin or giving them away), not a bad place to pick up a game when it is deeply discounted (they do have regular sales, often on good games), and unfortunately, the only place you can score certain "exclusive" editions/giveaways (rarely a reason to buy new from them).

Every time I buy a new game that is essentially a "used" game (opened = used in my book), I cringe. But then I never buy a new game from GS unless it's already heavily discounted and I pay the "new" price on the understanding that it counts as a new sale for the publisher and that GS isn't blatantly breaking the law by selling traded in games as "new."

And yes, I don't care for the task of removing price tags from their games either.



Vetteman94 on 31 July 2009

I have only bought one game from Gamestop and I wont go back again. They claimed they had none in the shrinkwrap so I was stupid and bought the game anyway.



1337 Gamer on 31 July 2009

For reals the stickers are annoying as all getout but even worse is when they mark an obviously USED game as NEW! Greedy bastards



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Relias on 31 July 2009

Yeah, Gamestop and EB actually do that here to... I switched and buy my games on Amazon... though rarely will I go into Gamestop and buy New and even then I reserve a copy of the game because I want to play it the day it comes out... (On Amazon I usually end up waiting a few days.)



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greenmedic88 on 31 July 2009
1337 Gamer said:
For reals the stickers are annoying as all getout but even worse is when they mark an obviously USED game as NEW! Greedy bastards

scuffed up cases? fingerprints on a game manual or otherwise obvious signs that it's been taken out of the case and read? I'd say fingerprints on the game discs, but since every game they sell is "gutted" (opened and put in a sleeve under the counter), those may well be from the clerk who gutted the game. 

my main beef (other than the fact that I only buy used games when they are out of print or hard to find new and don't like owning stepped on games traded in by people who can't keep them in pristine condition) is if a traded in game is sold as "new" because it means the publisher and developer just had what should have been a legitimate sale to their total unit count STOLEN by the retailer.