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The biggest problem I had with them is when I pre-ordered and already paid for the collectors edition for Demon's Souls. When I got there it turns out they sold the only copy (my copy) to someone else. They wouldnt have even gotten the game if I hadnt ordered it. None of the nearby Gamestops had it so they ended up having to ship a copy from 4 states away. I was not happy, but since then they havent messed up.



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Some Gamestop employees have the tendancy to treat you like your from another planet if you're in the Wii section and have a penis.



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After a few times of trying to sell me used games as new I stopped going there and stopped giving any business to their online store.

I buy all my videogames from Amazon now.



Draven26 said:
I hate gamestop with a passion, first off, I hate how they feel the need to plaster stickers all over games games and my local gamestop puts them right on the artwork instead of the plastic. second off they are overpriced and they rip off people trading in games. I actually had a gamestop employee tell me that they were working on a port of halo 3 to the PS3 lol. I buy new games now either from ebay or amazon and all used from ebay

OH GOD YES!!!! I can't tell you how many cases I screwed up from me trying to take the stickers off of them

 

Also (I forgot about this one), why do they think that it's a good idea to give little 10 year olds store credit when a trade is done?



 

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amp316 said:
Some Gamestop employees have the tendancy to treat you like your from another planet if you're in the Wii section and have a penis.

Just a few days ago I witnessed a GameStop employee telling a man the difference between the Wii library and the other game libraries.  He said the Wii has no fighting games at all.  He failed to mention the best-selling fighting game of all time, or Tatsunoko vs. Capcom.  He was all butthurt that the Wii didn't have Street Fighter 4 and was trying to change this guy's mind.  Then he told the guy it had no mature games on it, just "family games," but the guy was buying it for his family, and that actually sold him on the idea.  It was great watching that jerk's plan backfire.

And yeah, they get all weird when I go to the Wii section, and ask if I need help.  They don't ask if I need anything if I'm in the other sections.



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They always do that.. and really.. who needs Game Informer at all? Nobody, that's who.

 



I got the Game Informer thing once back in the day actually. I figured if it was $15 for 10% off used games for a whole year... then I needed to spend over $150 on used games in under a year to make it worth it. So I probably bought $300 worth of used NES, SNES, N64, and Game Boy games that year. Now that they don't carry older games, I'll never touch that shitty magazine ever again.



I see a lot people posting their hate towards the pricing stickers. I found a way to removed all of them without leaving smudges and tears and placed them in a little book (yeah im a pack rat).



If the sticker is new, it's easy to remove them by pealing them off. Older stickers require some kind of solvent like nail polish remover. You know what's fun? Pulling the sticker off of a used game (and sometimes, a new game) and seeing how (for example) it started off at $59.00. Then, it drops to $39.00. Then, it dips down to $17.99. And finally, the weekend of a big "Extra 20% off" sale or something, the price went back up to $19.99 or $21.99!!

But that's business. I worked in a shoe store that did the same thing.

Also, I went to Gamestop today and bought Assassin's Creed 2. The clerk was like "Did you find everything you're looking for?" Who the hell does he think he is, implying that I can't find everything I'm looking for!? Screw those guys!!