I don’t go in GameStop all that often but they’ll occasionally have a game i want that no other stores in my area have. The list of things people dislike about GameStop would I’m sure go for quite a while, but my beef with them today is selling a game that’s “new” even though the case has been unwrapped & the disc/cartridge removed and put in a drawer behind the counter. What’s new about that? I understand about freeing up shelf space, but i really don’t like that at all. Then again, it might not be space at all. I’m sure they’d rather you buy a used copy instead since I’m sure they’d make more off the used one. You wouldn’t expect to pay new price for a floor model washing machine even though it’s technically never been used.
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They don't do that to free up floor space, they do it to prevent theft.
I understand what you're saying though. It probably would be better if the case on the floor was an empty display case, and you'd go up front and say "I want X game" they'd just pull out a wrapped copy from those drawers. But then they'd have to walk the empty case back, and it'd be less intuitive for customers, blah blah blah.... -
Yeah that’s bullhonky
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If the game you’re looking for is the last remaining copy or the only copy that ever arrived at the store this will always happen. They can’t put $60 games on the shelf and if it’s not on the shelf nobody will know they have it. I don’t see a way around it while still having a normal store experience.
This was a (rare) complaint when I quit Electronics Boutique 20 some years ago and a complaint a decade before then (when they had $250 Neo carts in stock and the employees wore ties). They’ve always done it. They always will.Comment
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I definitely wouldn’t expect them to have the actual game on the shelf. Of course that would encourage theft. If it was the last copy of that particular game then they could discount it a couple of bucks or something. I don’t know what the solution is. I suppose it’s not really a problem since i might buy 3 or 4 games a year there & they’re pretty much always pre-owned. Maybe Toys R Us had it right back in the 80’s.Comment
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I have the perfect set up. Your buddy goes in and steals the case to the game you want. Then they will have no choice but to sell you the new game at a used price. Then get the case from your friend. 😂
Disclaimer:
This was a joke, and I am in no way promoting theft.
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They don't do it to prevent theft, they originally started it to rob cases of Xbox passes and the such and sell them seperately. And to allow employees to demo games. The official eb term for those games was newsed. Gamestop took it to a new level when they bought out all the smaller companies.Comment
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You don’t know what you’re talking about.
As I explained this has been going on since long before there was ever an XBox. It went on before there was a Windows 95.
I worked at EB for years and never once heard the term “newsed” so while it is clever I doubt it was ever “official” as you say.
Robbing games of any freebies that came in them would be illegal and not something publishers would be happy with so while I’m sure this has happened I’m also sure it’s not a policy. There is a free crate of shitty swag every day when you’re an EB employee to be honest. Free crap in every direction. I still have my Wavebird and the OST to the Starsky and Hutch PS2 game on a red LP.
When I worked there the open games bothered almost nobody. It bothered me more than anyone. Collecting video games is a relatively new phenomenon. Throughout most of EB’s existence their typical EB customer was some fool looking for the latest NFL game and didn’t care if it was totally worthless two months later (which it always was). The people complaining about the last copy not being sealed simply didn’t rank. When we had the only copy of some JRPG there was *always* someone who would buy it.
Gamestop is such a nasty place with horribly policies. It blows my mind that this of all things is what we’re complaining about…Comment
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I was a regional manager of electronics boutique in the 2000s. I know exactly what I'm talking about but here you go again claiming to know more than you do. A common trend with you.
While the practice may have morphed into a theft issue (which it isn't but ok) it started off by gutting the games for valuables inside. Most notably Xbox live two day passes. Was it done before Xbox? Yes but only on a scale. Games were opened so employees could take them home and a few were opened for store demos but only a couple. You only got those if they had no new ones left unopened and you wanted that opened copy. And it was sold at a discount. Then when Xbox live started up employees were ordered to open new games and grab the free pass so it could be sold by corporate. The corporate name for these are newsed copies. And an inventory of them was kept until it became standard practice for all games.
As a reminder be used to keep one copy upfront and you would bring it to them and they would go out back and get you a new copy. Simple. What isn't simple is opening every single box so you have a display box and a loose disk in a drawer that takes time to find and assemble. And then you have to go out back and find another empty case to replace it with. Again, time. No company is going to do that unless it's profiting on the opening of items. No other game retailer does that but then again no other retailer sells opened games as new.
I'm still waiting to hear about your UK diesel scandal you alone are clued into yet I'm English and I have no idea what your talking about.Comment
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Cause and effect, do you speak it?
You said the practice originated during the XBox era for a specific X Box related reason. You said this. In fact they did this with 8 bit Nintendo games when they were new releases. You’re simply wrong about what you are saying because a policy invented (“originated”) after the XBox came out cannot affect what happened with NES games 20 years before. They didn’t have NES games on shelves for the exact same reason that NOBODY sold NES games on any shelves at any major retailer in the US and that reason most definitely IS theft. It’s the same reason everything is still this way.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causality
You’ll have to remind me what you’re referring to regarding diesel thing. I was banned for no stated reason a while back and hundreds of my posts went missing. I can see quotes of my posts in threads but not the actual post. It’s all very strange.Comment
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