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Thursday, Jul 24, 2008
you know, now that I look back at it gamestop, the biggest chain of video game distributers, have a very shady business plan. Many times I have shopped there and many times i have some problems. Here are some examples of some problems I had with gamestop. I remember when I was just geting into PC gameing and I was going to buy Unreal tournement 04 from them. I bought a used copy ( this was before I knew about the CD keys and stuff. ) And after I bought it I noticed that and installation disk was missing. I was distrought, especially after the guy put those disks into the box, later I returned it and bought a new copy elsewhere. Another example is when my friend wanted to buy "Need for Speed underground 2" for his nephew. He eventually found a copy but there was a big sticker on the top right of it blocking the end of the logo. He asked the guy at the counter if the game was NFSU2 and the guy said yeah, at the time I was loking at other games. Later still unsure he asked be if it was the game and one look at the cover and I knew it wasn't (I have Underground 2). So I told him that he in fact bought the first. Other crap tactics that gamestop uses are hiring collage students who always give attitude and dont care, and selling games that clearly state NEW but when you bring the case to the counter they whip out a disk and put it into the display case to brought up, and overprice the games defult price buy up to $10. Clearly from what I've seen gamestop needs to get its act together. Unfortunately they are one of the only stores around here that sells used games and they have some pretty rare games. But I will now only shop their as a last resort.
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Posted by FrozenDragon123, 1:02pm
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My local Gamestop is pretty bad too. In the past there were a bunch a jerks working there who ignored customers and would stand behind the counter talking really loud about how cool they were (the manager in particular was always spouting off about something) or how much they drank the night before. I heard them give so much wrong information to people and they'd get offended if I jumped in to correct them.

Thankfully they are gone now, there is a new manager and he hired new people and they are all much better than the old staff. It's still kind of a crappy store though... I've had daydreams of taking it over as my own game store (not as a Gamestop) and turning it into a cool place.
Posted Jul 24, 2008 2:25 pm PT
Brian: Don't you have blockbuster? I buy my games almost exclusively there now. If they don't have it, they will order it, They give more than gamestop/EBgames and they always have tons of used stuff. I hate EB games. Seriously
Posted Jul 24, 2008 2:28 pm PT
The UK doesn't have gamespot. instead we have Game and Gamestation and some other low quality shops like playtime which are usually better. its different over here, at my local game branch the staff are pretty helpful and they know their stuff. if i dont order a game online its no problem going in to buy it at a store, although the trade in prices are sometimes awful
Posted Jul 24, 2008 3:52 pm PT
I meant gamestop* btw haha ^^^
Posted Jul 24, 2008 3:53 pm PT
I keep hearing a lot of complains about EB games...
Posted Jul 24, 2008 4:08 pm PT
My local Gamestop seems fine. But all stores are different so who knows. Rule number one....never buy a used PC game, lol. I did that once and it said the CD key was already in use.
Posted Jul 24, 2008 4:47 pm PT
lol yh i thought you meant gamespot
Posted Jul 24, 2008 8:13 pm PT
I believe in England there is no such thing as a gamestop.
Posted Jul 25, 2008 5:10 am PT
Gamestop is sometimes a real placed to buy games, but at the same time its the only place they sell used games. I never had problems like you or your friends but i still have problems.
Posted Jul 25, 2008 7:20 am PT
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