Does anyone else LOL at "power to the players"

Only now that you mention it!! You're absolutely right, though.

Usually advertisments try to address their audiences' largest fears of the advertiser's products. It's like the Chevron, Clean Coal, ExxonMobil, National Corn Growers Association, Natural Gas, etc. commercials, but hey they are working!

Yeah, it's a laughable motto.

The last time I walked into my local EB was over a year ago, and it looked like the cantina scene from Star Wars.

Never again, I said. Release day delivery+no tax+Amazon Prime= WIN.

The last time I walked into my local EB was over a year ago, and it looked like the cantina scene from Star Wars.

Never again, I said. Release day delivery+no tax+Amazon Prime= WIN.

Shame-usBlackley

[QUOTE="Shame-usBlackley"]

The last time I walked into my local EB was over a year ago, and it looked like the cantina scene from Star Wars.

Never again, I said. Release day delivery+no tax+Amazon Prime= WIN.

GalvatronType_R

Yep.

Plus, when I buy a NEW game from Amazon, it's a NEW game, not some previously opened copy that some pizza eating slob slapped his big old meatslab hands on the disc before putting it in a cardboard sleeve in a drawer before defacing the box with a half dozen impossible-to-remove stickers.

Plus you have to sit in line because someone is constantly trading in a pile of games, which effectively cuts the register staff in half.

Yeah, retail just kind of sucks all around, but Gamestop is especially bad these days.

[QUOTE="Shame-usBlackley"]

The last time I walked into my local EB was over a year ago, and it looked like the cantina scene from Star Wars.

Never again, I said. Release day delivery+no tax+Amazon Prime= WIN.

GalvatronType_R

:lol:

I can't think of a less accurate and more BS way to describe how Gamestop treats its customers.GalvatronType_R

I would rather have a used game market than no used game market. That said, yeah it's ironic. Especially when they offer me 50 cents for a used game. I never sell my games at Gamestop anymore.

I have never understood the Gamestop hate, being a powerup rewards member I have actually got some decent stuff with the points I earn by shopping there. If it's something I have to play right this second, Gamestop is the best option to buy game by far.

I have never understood the Gamestop hate, being a powerup rewards member I have actually got some decent stuff with the points I earn by shopping there. If it's something I have to play right this second, Gamestop is the best option to buy game by far.

Yusuke420

Since I don't have all night, a few bullet points:

• Being HARASSED (caps intended) about preordering games; their associates generally ask more than once even if a customer gives a definitive "no"
• Being HARASSED (caps intended) about joining Powerup Rewards; like preorders,their associates generally ask more than once even if a customer gives a definitive "no"
• Average price cut of a used game is $5 less than new, what a deal
• Using scare tactics to get people to buy used; I heard a manager once tell a clueless mom that a new game can have just as many scratches as a used game (:lol:)
• The general lack of upkeep and disorganization in most of their stores
• The lack of knowledge from their employees; GS is a speciality retailer and since they specialize in one kind of product, there's no excuse for having clueless people behind the desk
• Selling opened games as new, aka, guts; they say guts have never been played and are as just as good as factory sealed but I know for a fact some stores pass around the disks so employees can take them home and play them; also, if I went to a GS, bought a factory sealed game, opened it in front of them, closed the shell back up, and asked for a refund, all the while never leaving the store, there is NO WAY they would give me my money back
• Their ordering process; I like used games as much as the next guy but the fact that they only order X amount of new games and not replenishments because they want to buy back games to sell used is unconscionable

I am a Powerup rewards member because of the benefits and Game Informer, not because I was bullied into it. Pushing these things is apart of their jobs it's not like they are doing it for your personal torment. That used for new thing also can benefit you, once I returned a game I just brought for the full new price just because I was upgrading it to the special addition.

[QUOTE="Yusuke420"]

I have never understood the Gamestop hate, being a powerup rewards member I have actually got some decent stuff with the points I earn by shopping there. If it's something I have to play right this second, Gamestop is the best option to buy game by far.

GalvatronType_R

Since I don't have all night, a few bullet points:

• Being HARASSED (caps intended) about preordering games; their associates generally ask more than once even if a customer gives a definitive "no"
• Being HARASSED (caps intended) about joining Powerup Rewards; like preorders,their associates generally ask more than once even if a customer gives a definitive "no"
• Average price cut of a used game is $5 less than new, what a deal
• Using scare tactics to get people to buy used; I heard a manager once tell a clueless mom that a new game can have just as many scratches as a used game (:lol:)
• The general lack of upkeep and disorganization in most of their stores
• The lack of knowledge from their employees; GS is a speciality retailer and since they specialize in one kind of product, there's no excuse for having clueless people behind the desk
• Selling opened games as new, aka, guts; they say guts have never been played and are as just as good as factory sealed but I know for a fact some stores pass around the disks so employees can take them home and play them; also, if I went to a GS, bought a factory sealed game, opened it in front of them, closed the shell back up, and asked for a refund, all the while never leaving the store, there is NO WAY they would give me my money back
• Their ordering process; I like used games as much as the next guy but the fact that they only order X amount of new games and not replenishments because they want to buy back games to sell used is unconscionable

I laugh at the Vita ads that say "Gamechanger" in the ad - something seems really raging about that statement. And all the guys in it look like huge tools walking about in that ad. Who plays a game while walking down a sidewalk looking like a jerk off.

i normally never noticed that but looking back and thinking that motto for gamestop it is actuall really funny

The only problem that I have with Gamestop is I always get hassled when I insist on an unopened product. Not sure why that is. I always buy new and I do not trust that the preopened game has never been used. I understand why they do it (so they can display the case without worrying about the game being stolen) but if the last copy you have is the preopened copy I do not understand why it is such a problem for you to call another location to see if they have an unopened copy.

The consumer always has the power in retail. You can decide whether you want to give the company your money or not.

Gamestop employees remind me of Green Peace members.

I avoid Gamestop like the plague.Allicrombie

[QUOTE="Allicrombie"]I avoid Gamestop like the plague.juradai

[QUOTE="juradai"][QUOTE="Allicrombie"]I avoid Gamestop like the plague.Allicrombie

Is that so? Well, that just saved me a trip. Thank you for pointing that out. you dont have too, the nintendo store has it for sale.