Gamestop/EB Games to stop selling "used" games

[leaffan]

Everyone should care about Joe six pack. What gs is doing is intentionally misleading and a horrible retail policy. You being smart or patient enough doesn't mean anything. Its the moms dads girlfriends and younger kids who may not have some high gaming awareness getting taken advantage of you should be appalled by.
Why give business to a place intent on misleading??

First rule of retail is to exploit.

I'm not defending EB here but it's not their problem if the consumer is useless.

[ryne candy]

Can Canadians not read "New" or "Used" on white stickers....do they only understand if they are color coded?

edit: if parents can't read New or Used...those parents also cant tell that yellow is for Used and white is for New.

[Blade]

Leaf has an explanation for everything, so I am gonna quit and just accept the fact that he lives in the most remote part of the Toronto suburbs where UPS doesn't show up consistently.

OR....

UPS delivery guy finds him as annoying as the rest of us, and takes his time on purpose

[Twigg4075]

Can Canadians not read "New" or "Used" on white stickers....do they only understand if they are color coded?

edit: if parents can't read New or Used...those parents also cant tell that yellow is for Used and white is for New.

Yeah, but when they've been using the yellow=used, white =new policy since forever and then just change it suddenly, people aren't going to have a clue.

It's ultimately up to the consumer to know the deal but this is still a super shady practice in a long line of them from Gamestop.

[KINGOFOOTBALL]

Can't save everyone.

It's on the consumer to protect themselves at some point. Exploiting customers is pretty much standard operating procedure for most big businesses. Me not giving them business isn't going to make them stop.

This is that point.
You not giving them business DOES hurt. You telling other not to go there hurts.
They dont magically make money. No business does.

First rule of retail is to exploit.

I'm not defending EB here but it's not their problem if the consumer is useless.

The consumer is useless if he decides to just shrug his shoulder and think its the way of the world. How many people read our posts on here ? How many people IRL would listen to your advice ?

Telling people GS is a scumbag retailer and to avoid it and go somewhere else would help POS tactics like this.

[Virix]

I still prefer Gamestop. They try to maximize profit, and will screw over the ignorant customers, but thats the world we live in. They give gamestop rewards just for buying things there, which have gotten me two free controllers and a coupon for $50 off my next purchase. Ill keep going there regardless since i know what Im looking to purchase there.

Consumer beware I guess.

[Twigg4075]

They give gamestop rewards just for buying things there, which have gotten me two free controllers and a coupon for $50 off my next purchase.

Do those points expire? I keep forgetting about them and honestly I'm not even sure about how to go about redeeming them?

[Maynard]

they dont expire. you redeem them on their rewards site. just print out the coupon for the deal u want.

[leaffan]

The consumer is useless if he decides to just shrug his shoulder and think its the way of the world. How many people read our posts on here ? How many people IRL would listen to your advice ?

Telling people GS is a scumbag retailer and to avoid it and go somewhere else would help POS tactics like this.

Which I'm all for but we're talking about people in general here who for the most part buy things without thinking and generally get screwed.

Everywhere does it so I'm not blaming GS. From BB selling extended warranties on $15 Keyboards/Mouses to car salesmen selling you god knows what on your car If people don't want to inform themselves on things then they have to deal with it.

[leaffan]

Leaf has an explanation for everything, so I am gonna quit and just accept the fact that he lives in the most remote part of the Toronto suburbs where UPS doesn't show up consistently.

OR....

UPS delivery guy finds him as annoying as the rest of us, and takes his time on purpose

I deal with this shit every day so I tend to have explainations for everything.

I live 3 hours from Toronto and about 5mins from the border where one of the major UPS branches sits. It's just everything passes through there and doesn't stop which pisses me off.

[Guest]

Which I'm all for but we're talking about people in general here who for the most part buy things without thinking and generally get screwed.

Everywhere does it so I'm not blaming GS. From BB selling extended warranties on $15 Keyboards/Mouses to car salesmen selling you god knows what on your car If people don't want to inform themselves on things then they have to deal with it.

Or the game warranty. I remember they started doing those when the 360 came out, and it was a reaction to people who found that, if you moved your console while the disc was in (speaking of which, who would move their console with something in the drive anyway?) and it would make a perfect circle scratch around the disc. Never in my life would I get that, but more often than not, I've seen people in front of me get it.

Also, I don't blame Gamestop for this one either, but they stopped giving 360 warranties three years in because they were losing money on them. I definitely bought the warranty on that (because I knew of the issues going in) and bought it each time on those original systems. I went through three, and sold my fourth (the last GS one) and that went out three months after I sold it.

Every company does shady stuff. Bottom line, the consumer needs to educate themselves and be aware of things, whether it is a console or $60 game.