Those are USED GAME prices, whereas Best Buy sells new games. If you were already getting used games to begin with, you could have bought those on ebay for cheaper. Hell, I got a brand new copy of Left 4 Dead on Amazon for $20 on black friday. There's absolutely no reason to shop at gamestop unless you just happen to want the little trinkets they give away with preorders. It's a crap store filled with annoying employees and annoying customers, opened games are sold as new, used games are often in scummy condition, and 99% of the time you could have bought the game somewhere cheaper online and without a bunch of stickers on it. The employees are particularly snotty about preorders...just try walking in and buying a game on release day. For some reason they seem to think you should actually give them a down-payment just for the "privilege" of shopping there, when in reality you can just go to best buy and grab one of their 50 copies of the game. Gamestop used to be decent (like 7-8 years ago) because if you were lucky enough to stumble across a rare game, like Suikoden 2, it would be a decent price. But then they started marking rare games up to reflect ebay prices, sometimes even charging more than the MSRP of the game, so that killed the only reason worth going there.
wtf...all of the PS2 games that are on DVDs have silver backs. Only the games on CDs were purple. If you put the game in your PS2 and it played, it was legit. CD-Rs won't play unless your system is modded. LOL, looks Walmart was right and you kind of selfpwn3d.
i meant ps1. it didnt play in the ps1. it was a CD-R, cuz it said it in the middle of the disc (in the clear area)......and all the ps1 games i had were black on the back. it was a blank CD-R trust me. some guy doing the packaging mustve stole the real game and put in blanks. it was hard to tell at first glance cuz the label on top was professionally made....walmart was wrong. nice. im not owned.
There's snotty employees at Frys, Best Buy, Blockbuster, Walmart, your mom's, etc... True Story and Fact of life. I haven't bought a game at Gamestop for a while, but they did have a 30 day opened game return policy when I did. So it was cool if you bought a game you didn't like, but I could see how someone wouldn't like the principle of getting that returned game and when they bought it as new.
Wow, that just sounds like a severe case of r****ded-employee-itis. Yikes! Yeah, they push you about the discount card literally every time if you don't have one. That was kind of annoying before I got one. That's awful... is that even legal? I always paid full-price on pre-orders myself, and nothing like this ever happened. If it happened even once to me I'd probably call it quits on them. Couldn't you technically take your $40 off it and then buy it immediately for $49.99? With used games, it tends to be better to go get it on Amazon if it's been out for a couple months. But if you wait on a coupon for Gamestop and keep checking their site for used stocks, you can often get games that have been out for 2-3 weeks for under $40 (and no shipping like there would be on Amazon). It just depends on what you're looking for, how new it is, and what kind of demand there is for it. With the online stuff... yes, I buy a fair number of my games off the Amazon marketplace... you can often get great prices on older games. A few problems though: 1. Usually tack on at least $4 shipping, probably more. 2. You have to wait often a week for the game. 3. If it's used, you have to just trust that the seller isn't lying about its condition. And as I've been saying, if you watch for those coupons, you can often get $25 off a virtually new game. Yeah, you got Left 4 Dead for $20 on Black Friday, but that's not really a good example. It's not like there's another Black Friday every month.
the store had the game marked up to 60 bucks in the store. I didn't bother to check to see if it was that way in other Gamestop stores, the only thing I knew is that it was pretty close to Christmas (Dec 20? 21st?) and I wasn't about to go brave the masses to get the game somewhere else after trying to fight to get a refund. If it were any other time of year, I would have done it. That was close to, if not the last time I shopped there, save for the PS3 I bought on launch day.
I usually get new games (like released within the last month) on ebay for around $35-$40 shipped each, and they're in mint condition almost every time. For the same game, Gamestop will typically charge $54.99 + tax for games with stickers on them. Even when Gamestop runs a Buy 2 Get 1 free sale, it's not that great...about $118 total for 3 games *IF* you are lucky and they have the exact ones you want used. Ebay games have been even cheaper lately with the 20-30% cashback microsoft was offering. I got Silent Hill Homecoming for $21 total. The gamestop price: $54.99 + tax. http://www.gamestop.com/Catalog/ProductDetails.aspx?product_id=71626 Also, I'll trust an ebay seller to deliver a product in good condition LONG before I'd trust gamestop. For their online sales, they don't even promise a case or a manual. Ebay sellers on the other hand are afraid to send out things in crummy condition now because Ebay is banning people for negs/low ratings left and right. Amazon marketplace is not as good as ebay. You're a lot less likely to get a bargain, and the condition of the items has been more mixed in my experience.
i try and buy all my games on ebay except when i get gift cards from gamespot. i have a $30 gift card right now that i have to use eventually. ebay has the best deals though; i bought my ps3 bundle on there brand new for $460 no shipping or tax and games like mlb 08 and gta iv for about $35 used but in near perfect condition.
Ive never had a bad experience with employees at Gamestop. If anything, they have always helped in telling me about games (they seem to have played everything there is)...and as far as pushing me to buy other stuff, when I buy a game, they just ask if I'd be interested in the guide. I say "no thanks"...end of story.
gamestop is a dump. There are deals to be had for sure, but it's still a dump. The employees for the most part are asshats, and the company as a whole is full of **** policies. For the most part, gamecrazies have better deals. Usually get more for trade-ins and the games usually cost less as well.
Huh. It's weird to me that so many people are talking about them pushing strategy guides. I've never once been asked if I wanted to buy a guide. Since I got the card, the only questions I ever get at the register are "anything you'd like to pre-order today?" (maybe 1/4 or 13 of the time), or just a very general "will that be all today?" Weird. Maybe I just give off a real "**** strategy guides" kinda vibe somehow?
There used to be two things that I use to go to Gamestop for religiously that I've stopped. First is DVDs, they usually have a good selection of used DVDs at prices that are usually better than Blockbuster and Movie Trading Co. However, recently they've gotten out of that, though they did have a buy TWO get FOUR free DVD AND Blu-Ray deal for the past two month. I think I've doubled my DVD and my small Blu-Ray collection overnight, though I had to hit up three different stores since used movies takes a lot effort to find the right selection. It was really cool of them. The second is Magic Cards. Even after I stopped playing that game I'd still end up buying some cards from Gamestop, because they would sell boosters of slightly older sets of the game for $1 (when it's like $3.69 MSRP). However, those cards are still legal in a some formats and usually I can make a profit by selling some of the better cards in the set at comic shops or Ebay (though I hate Ebay selling). They've also stopped doing that also. I still like the buy two get one free used games deal, there is also something relaxing about window shopping for games...... what can I say, I'm a geek.
The 'gutted games' thing never really bothered me. Most times if they have a sealed copy they give you that, if it's one of the display cases it was one of the last ones. It's just a disc. If it hasn't been touched other than to put it into a sleeve, I can handle that. A lot of the other stuff sucks, though, RE: pushing items for sale on you. Still, the whole experience changes when the employees in the store (if they aren't dip****s) get to recognize you/remember you on a regular basis. Much better.
I'd much rather have the damn employees know SOMETHING about videogames than for them remember my name. Half the time they don't know what game I am talking about. I remember when F.E.A.R came out for consoles, I went to buy it. I asked if they had it for 360. The guy spent about 5 minutes wandering around the store looking for it. They had a whole stack in the display case right him . He never saw it, he finally came back and said "I don't think they released it for the 360." I could have easily said, turn you idiot, theres a ****load behind you. But I figured, whats the point, I said thank you and left. I interviewed for a position at gamestop when I was like 18 and the manager told me straight up, i don't care if you know anything about games. I just want you to upsell as much as you can.
I agree, but that's something that's going to vary from place to place, as opposed to policy. Sometimes you get somebody that actually knows a lot, but it depends. As far as the 'employees that can upsell' part, that's the unfortunate byproduct of Gamestop policy. From what I understand, actual new games have a very low profit margin, so they push the hell out of everything else. Not too mention, there are some gamers you just don't want interacting with the public...
