[ALL] Any reason to buy new games/systems from Gamestop anymore?

[Twigg4075]

Pre-order bonuses.

That is one thing that seriously pisses me of about GS. How many times have you not received the bonus? I know I've been screwed a few times. They just never receive them. It's bullshit because their main incentive to encourage pre-orders are the bonuses and incentives. But sometimes tehy never come through.

There was someone that wrote into one of the podcasts I listen to. He was a former manager at GS. He basically broke down the whole bonus and incentive process and the bottom line was that a good percentage of the time they either never receive the "promised" bonus from the manufacturer or they never receive anywhere near enough to cover all the pre-orders. It's bullshit.

 

[MmmmBeeeeer]

What part of VA do you live in? I'm in Southest VA and it seems every shopping center has a GS. I'd say we have too many.

There are 6 within 5 miles of my house

edit: 2 of them are within 400 yards of each other, one inside the mall, one outside the mall :rofl:

 

[Pills]

That is one thing that seriously pisses me of about GS. How many times have you not received the bonus? I know I've been screwed a few times. They just never receive them. It's bullshit because their main incentive to encourage pre-orders are the bonuses and incentives. But sometimes tehy never come through.

There was someone that wrote into one of the podcasts I listen to. He was a former manager at GS. He basically broke down the whole bonus and incentive process and the bottom line was that a good percentage of the time they either never receive the "promised" bonus from the manufacturer or they never receive anywhere near enough to cover all the pre-orders. It's bullshit.

Honestly, the only problem I've ever had is waiting to long to put the code in. I've never otherwise had a problem.

I've pre-ordered games (AC:R, for instance) BEFORE the bonuses are announced, and I still don't have problems.

 

[wingsfan77]

Best Buy is the best place I've been to for trading in games, get store credit to spend on anything, I've boosted by blu-ray collection a TON by trading in there.

 

[leaffan]

There are 6 within 5 miles of my house

edit: 2 of them are within 400 yards of each other, one inside the mall, one outside the mall :rofl:

I just google our two GS and they are almost exactly 335 yards apart lmao.

 

[Ravin]

The only game I buy (NHL series) is at GS and I get my bonus no problem. Don't know how others run, I assume the same. Got a code on some fancy print out and just typed it in.

 

[ThomasTomasz]

For the most part I totally agree. I've had to correct those idiots numerous times. Although there is one manager at my closest store, the one that gave me teh list of Vita pre0order games, that actually knows his shit. He's in his 40's and not some pimple faced clueless kid. When I went to pre-order the Vita, before I could even say anything, he said "Apparently information leaked that the release dat will be November 4th. But I should have more concrete info by next week." That "leak" came out two days ago so he is on his shit. Plus I know him from way back when he was the manager of the store in my patrol area and he obviously knows me. Now he works at the store closes to where I live and that store is always fucking busy. Plus, he's honest. If he doesn't know something about a game he'll flat out tell you he hasn't played it or doesn't know anything about it.

I knew a guy like that. He got pissed off with the company for plenty of reasons. Number one being the preorder issue. The second was that he was tired of all the crap they gave employees for not selling "add on" stuff and cutting his payroll. Third, he was tired of his bosses telling him how to market his store. They kept pushing games for PS3 and the 360, despite the fact that this store is in a mall with multiple beauty salons, a Whole Foods, sandwiched between Barnes and Noble and Hallmark and the store is basically frequented daily by mothers with children. A huge portion of his sales were Nintendo-based and they wouldn't give him the freedom to market it.

Interesting enough, a co-worker of mine was also an EB Games store manager at that same store, and quit soon after the Gamestop merger. He said that it was always a Nintendo store because of the mall, and he cited the same issues when leaving Gamestop as the other guy did.

 

[Twigg4075]

The only game I buy (NHL series) is at GS and I get my bonus no problem. Don't know how others run, I assume the same. Got a code on some fancy print out and just typed it in.

I'm not talking about codes. It's pretty much impossible to fuck that up. I'm talking about figurines, posters, etc. Physical bonuses that are promised for pre-orders.

 

[Swarley]

I just google our two GS and they are almost exactly 335 yards apart lmao.

Same here. Our two GS's are in the mall, and in a stand-alone building on the grounds of the mall. What genius thought up that one.

 

[killgod]

Same here. Our two GS's are in the mall, and in a stand-alone building on the grounds of the mall. What genius thought up that one.

The genius getting rich of owning Gamestops.

 

[Twigg4075]

Yeah, I never understood why there are multiple Gamestops in a single mall. It''s obviously because at one time before the merger, one was a GS and the other a EB. It's still dumb.

The fact that they can sustain multiple stores within feet of each other is baffling.

 

[Rivers17ncsu]

What part of VA do you live in? I'm in Southest VA and it seems every shopping center has a GS. I'd say we have too many.

I live in southeast VA, particularly Franklin. All the gamestops I know how to get to are at malls in Norfolk, Chesapeake. And some stores by themselves in Portsmouth/Chesapeake.

54 miles south of Petersburg and about 21 miles west of Suffolk. So I'm in the Tidewater region.

 

[MvP]

The mall near me had 3 Gamestops for a while, but they finally closed one of them last year. Before they closed one, two of them were directly in front of a set of escalators, one being downstairs and the other upstairs. Ridiculous.

Ten years ago, these stores were called Software Etc., Electronics Boutique, and EB Games..all of them ended up being bought out by Gamestop.

 

[1ke]

I get in my car, turn right, then left, then right and Im there. Total time spent in car is 1:23 seconds.

Other than that, no real reasons.

 

[Maynard]

like others, its convenience for me. its about 2 minutes from my house. although kmart is about 3 minutes away

the guys in the my GS are not bad at all. they ask about upcoming preorders, i say no and thats that. they are normal guys that u can BS with so i dont mind chatting with them

 

[JBregz]

Same thing, There's two in a mall like 5 minutes away from me.

 

[red33]

Best Buy is the best place I've been to for trading in games, get store credit to spend on anything, I've boosted by blu-ray collection a TON by trading in there.

bestbuy gives a lot of money when you sell games.

 

[red33]

Same thing, There's two in a mall like 5 minutes away from me.

yea they bought eb games and now we have 2 in the same shopping mall and its not even a big mall at that.

 

[ThomasTomasz]

Yeah, I never understood why there are multiple Gamestops in a single mall. It''s obviously because at one time before the merger, one was a GS and the other a EB. It's still dumb.

The fact that they can sustain multiple stores within feet of each other is baffling.

Yeah. The Arundel Mills shopping mall in Hanover MD has two Gamestops in the mall, in addition to a Best Buy and another electronics store that escapes my memory right now.

In Annapolis, there are three Gamestops within about a mile of each other. Its absolutely nuts how they can support themselves.

 

[Twigg4075]

I guess their strategy is to saturate high traffic areas with as many stores as possible so that way more people are just inclined to shop there because it's always the closest games store to them.