[quote name='Afrodiziak']Here's how pre-orders work for them and makes them a TON of money. Trust me, it's really shady. What they do is take that money you put down on a pre-order ($5, $10, or even the whole thing) and put it in a huge interest gaining bank account. That money sits in there and gains interest for the retailer months and sometimes years (Duke Nukem Forever anyone?) until the game is released.
So basically EB is making money off of everyone putting money down from not only selling the game when it's released but by the interest made off of it. That's why employees are pretty much forced to push preorders. I'm not sure how it is for employees at EB but I'm sure if they don't have a good number of pre-orders they start getting shifts cuts for people that do.[/QUOTE]
That's not how it works at all, where's this magical bank that gives giant interest? Because I'll put down a few hundred bucks down every week. Or course on a HUGE scale (such as Gamestop's like 5000 stores) you can make some decent scratch on it but there's a bigger picture.
Also games that will never be released (DN:F) wouldn't be on the list, company doesn't put vaporware on the list, just stuff that's coming out within the next 6-8 months (furthest I've seen is FFXIII or GoW3 around March 2010).
What preorders help more is with this:
It keeps the company from overspending and over-ordering games, so if we know approximately how many games we're looking at selling it gets easier to actually order X amount so we don't fall short or have WAY too much overstock.
That's why they push preorders, there's nothing shady about it (it's business after all), would you want to be stuck with 20 copies of Crimson Gem Saga that won't ever sell (my store's sold less than 4 exactly). Or remind (or bug people, depending on your prespective) to preorder certain things so that you (the store owner let's say, 'cause EB is corporate not franchised) can actually NOT be stuck with a bunch of useless extra copies (which you'd have to sell at a discount later and lose money because of the very reason that they're NOT selling)?
The math usually goes like this for most games:
P/2+P=X
P being the number of preorders and X the number of games we order. So if we got 10 Halo preorders we'll get 5 extras to sell to the public, that way we have a good idea of what the certain store will be able to sell before a price drop (thus losing money).
EX: 2 Wolfenstein preorders, so we got 3. One extra.
[quote name='lustyhitter']I have a question.
Has anyone ever bought a game that was listed as a Gaming Guarantee game, then took it back after a week and put it on another GGG? Is it possible to bounce one GGG onto another so you can play all these games for $80? All those games are coming weekly.[/QUOTE]
Yes you can my friend, yes you can.
[quote name='Gamin_Guru']Fairview Mall one.
The workers there are really cool and all, but usually they are strict in following their rules.[/QUOTE]
We all have to, it's not like we don't have a choice, we do sort of want to keep our jobs.
[quote name='game_fanatic']Yeah apparently the EBs located in the malls are more strict and 'by the book'[/QUOTE]
In my particular district the mall ones are pretty chill and the outside ones get super butthurt when they get a whiff of t3.
[quote name='Ulchie']Really? Here in Calgary, the EBGames at ******* Mall is by the book strict, but the one at ******* mall is awesome. I got my pre-orders for ME2 and Modern Warfare 2 using T3G1F through them. Love that store.
*Rescinded store name. Don't want some dumb manager to read this thread and screw up my relaxed, anything goes store.[/QUOTE]
Yes, thank you Ulchie. Please do not mention your local store by name unless they did something super stupid (like be rude to you or something) because forums do get watched. Probly the EB employees on CAG haven't been posting with as much frequency.
and than buy it for collector's sake in the later years....
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