[quote name='bantheradio']In order to give HPB a fair shake, I feel it is necessary to admit that the bulk of our sales are not from games but instead, as a previous poster has already stated, they come from books. And while we are located in the same general vicinity as two other major book stores and a number of other retail chains, it has never affected business in other locations. In fact, one of the Indy stores has a Disc Replay across the street and the owner of the place has mentioned publically that HPB has increased their business. It is simple economic competition in the end, really.
The other issue I have is we do not give any customer a price quote without seeing the merchandise. There is no ballpark figure or percentage that we give when we do our buys. Every employee is trained on running the buy counter and, because of that, every buy is handled differently.
Lastly, I want to reiterate that our sales are not really linked to games. I think people are hesitant to bring in their used CONSOLE games to us because they have so many other options. My belief is that many think "why should I sell my video games at a book store when I can sell them at a video game store?". Because of this and the sheer lack of console games we see come in on a daily basis, our game section is small and may have difficulty competing with some of the larger video game traders.
I do apologize your HPB experience left you with a sour taste in your mouth. This reply was only written to clear the air and encourage more people to try us out. If this is the wrong place to do it, please move it to the appropriate forum.[/QUOTE]
it really did not leave a sour taste in my mouth i was just hoping for something different....I do have a question though.. u say every buy is handled differently... Does that mean the quotes will be different or the same
That would be werid of someone offered 8 bucks for an item but then another worker says 5
i hope more people do go there and check it out at least once to see what its like but personally i think it was just too jammed tight... The store seemed like it was not big enough for what they wanted to do
do you work in the fort wayne one.,.. If so do you have to park behind the store and walk up all of those freaking steps...Saw around 30 cars parked behind the buliding and first thought that was people waiting in line...
ANd wonder who had to dressed up like that lizard thing today and hand out ballons : )