Similar to Darkseid’s unending search for the anti-life equation, i have found the formula for true Hate. G = B + A/aS, where G = Gamestop (a videogame store obviously built on a pentagram or Indian burial ground), B = Bestiality, A = Anal, and aS = additional SHAME.
Gamestop is the biggest punch in the dick to a gamer for several reasons:
1) reserving titles leads to dealing with a douche clerk. Allow me to explain. I’m going to go out on a limb to assume that 90% of all gamestop customers on a day-to-day basis are well within the ‘male age 18-32 range’ that already know what titles are coming out and when. They also know when to reserve titles and when there is no need. It’s a simple economics lesson: If there’s a new Grand Theft Auto coming out….YOU DON’T NEED TO RESERVE IT, ASSHOLE. It will be everywhere. Supply/Demand, come on!
on a random Saturday, i walked into Gamestop to reserve a copy of Suikoden III for the PS2 (because Gamestop would only get 3 copies or so). As i was perusing the selection, some asshole manager came up to me and asked me if i wanted to pre-order Grand Theft Auto: Vice City. I told him that i’ve never played a GTA game, and that I had already reserved another game and just wanted to look around. Instead of saying “that’s cool, let me know if you have any questions,” He replied “I guarantee that you won’t find that game ANYWHERE when it comes out!” I told him that i didn’t care, because i never played GTA, and I said thanks for asking. He replied (obviously not getting the hint): “if you can find GTA: Vice City anywhere on day 1, i’ll give you any game in the store.” I said ok, whatever and walked out. I was angry because i kinda felt violated in my butt-hole. Why would you harass a gamer to that extent unless you had a quota of reserves to meet? Douche. Gamestop Corporation is run and owned by Satan. Satan cares not for gamer preferences, only making money.
Three months later, i was walking in Best Buy, and it happened to be the day that GTA: Vice City came out. They had 150 copies on the shelf, at least. They were organized into a fucking pyramid, that’s how many copies they had. I was immediately enraged, and remembered my moment of anal fingering by the store manager at Gamestop. I purchased a copy, had the cashier sign and note on the receipt that i did not pre-order the copy, and went back to Gamestop. I showed the manager the copy and reminded him of his ridiculous promise to give me any game in the store. The store clerks laughed at him as he wrote out a gift card to me for $25 (not what i expected, but hey it’s free) and immediately purchased Resident Evil for the Gamecube. Fuck him, and fuck pushy sales clerks that don’t know their demographics.
2) trading games in is a SHAM: If you buy a game there, beat it and trade it in….you get barebones bullshit for it. I remember trading in a $60 game and they wanted to give me $20 for it a week after it came out. No way. THEN, i noticed that the USED PRICE for the game was $54.99. That’s only five bucks cheaper than the new price. SHENANIGANS. The store makes, like, fifty cents or so on selling a new game, while making over $35 dollars on used games. And if a game is rare, they won’t tell you and jack the used price even more when they turn around and sell it.
My advice to you: sell your used games on eBay or some other website, you’ll get the money you should there. Know when to reserve titles, and don’t be afraid to lay into those asshole sales clerks for selling stupid shit to you. They should be ashamed of themselves for selling out as corporate slaves.
May 5th, 2009 at 9:17 am
One summer I walked into a Gamestop just wearing a t shirt, shorts and sandals, carrying nothing in my hands. The clerk asks me “What did you bring to trad in today?” I just looked at him and said “Do you see me carrying anything in my hands? No? then don’t ask me stupid questions.” I found out on Kotaku that this was a new policy. I then called the corporate headquarters and complained. That corporate policy didn’t last long. The rule is big games: don’t reserve unless you like the freebie toy that comes with it. Niche titles you must reserve because that’s small publishers like Atlus know how many to make.
May 7th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Any ass bag that just walks into gamestop and buys used games at the price listed deserves the ass raping they have coming. Buy your game new, sell it a month later on the internets for ten dollars less than purchase price and have a great gaming life. Corporations love uninformed clients, don’t be one.
May 9th, 2009 at 1:51 am
Yep i agree, i used to trade my games in and since i ran into a similar problem there and just about every other used game place, i traded the Final Fantasy 7 for he PS0ne and got $10, then saw a copy used for $65 at the same store 2 months later… And pre-ordering is bullshit unless you get some thing you want from doing it. And Best Buy is just about the same as far as the pushyness of the sales people, their trained to sell services and add on’s that you don’t really want or need. It’s all just a numbers game and NO they really don’t care about your best interests, just $$$$$$. it really seems like all they really do care about besides numbers is being as annoying as possible and to talk down to you. FUCK THEM! Good story man.
May 9th, 2009 at 5:14 pm
Hypocrisy: i went to Gamestop today and reserved games. In uniform fashion, the manager asswipe wanted me to reserve Tiger Woods ’10. I’ve never even f’in PLAYED Tiger Woods. Asshole.
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