[quote name='oasisboy']1. Which is more than 50% of the games. (most) People do not take care of their stuff. If GameStop only took pristine stuff, they would hardly take any trade ins.[/quote]
Most people? I guess that's why I've found mint/complete games when I look at many GS stores. Unfortunately it's more than likely their targeted clientele(spoiled kids & their parents) that end up trading in the crap condition stuff.
2. I have traded tons of stuff and maybe 1 time I paid a "refurb fee". How do you know all employees "rape customers with fees"? Assumption out of your ass? or did you conduct a formal surveys with customers checking their receipts?
I said employees, not ALL employees. But certain stores around here(the DM's home office store especially) seem to charge fees on quite a bit of stuff. They tried that with me at my closest store when I was trading in a huge stack of PS3 games, which have that nice scratch resistant coating on them. They tried nailing me for fees on games that had a
in' speck of dust on them.
A speck of mother
ing DUST is enough to warrant a fee, but the scratched up, piss stained, shit stained and otherwise incomplete games across many platforms that are STILL scratched to shit are still on the shelf at some of these stores that assessed fees for their condition. Pure money grab, if you ask me. If the companies lil goons working at the stores are gonna charge fees for peoples' stuff being messed up, at least actually refurb it for that price.
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Again, not all stores and employees do that and take the fee while not shipping stuff out, but I proved it myself that a local store was gouging with fees and not sending stuff out by marking my disc in an inconspicuous manner as well as the coverart and manual. I called them out on it and they immediately refunded the fee they charged me and gave me the bonus credit I missed out on the prior day when they socked me with the fee.
3. It is not that easy to just take "perfect / complete items". Again, GameStop would hardly sell any used games if that was the case.
Again you're overstating the percentage of merchandise that's taken in in horrid condition. If a chain like Transworld Entertainment(FYE, SecondSpin) can have a viable used section by nitpicking what is taken in and what isn't, then so can Gamestop. It's just that their mantra is any product taken in is potential profit. Let our customers be our quality control department. Power to the players....to test out our garbage condition media and consoles we take in.
4. Wrong. Employees do not print the "disc only" covers. Those come from the Refurb center in Grapevine, TX with the cases and games. There is a special machine that does that. Keep assuming and pulling shit out of your ass.
REALLY? That is just.....completely asinine. I wonder how many millions of dollars in shipping fees are paid by GS per year to ship stuff out to their central processing center in TX, rather than just shipping each store the pre-printed anime kids covers(or just letting them print up their own) and getting one of the workers at each store to set up a basic PC and laser printer to print the name of the games on those pre printed covers.
You would think for a megacorporation like GS that's all about the profits that they would want to save those shipping fees and have their worker bees being kept busy. It's not rocket science to print up a generic cover for a game. But I keep forgetting that GS would rather ingrain their corporate mantra of 'sell sell sell' versus having them do busy work and save the company some money.
5. Employees do get benefits and they are better than your average retail store. I used to get CIGNA medical and dental for my family for $120 every paycheck. Try getting those benefits at Wal-Mart. I am impressed with your google search. Nice article about an employee bitching because he gets paid with a card that charges fees. Actually, the story fails to mention that you can transfer your card balance to any bank for free. Also, every employee can get paid through direct deposit at no cost. Nice try.
I'm impressed. I felt that GS would be more heartless than WM with the bennies. Shocking. I'll also admit that I realized after the fact that that article was way outdated.
6. At one point amazon had great trade in values... a long time ago. Right now they will give you $1 for Infamous 2 (if your game is in "good condition"). Have fun trading those games over there.
They still have decent values every so often. You just can't try trading in the newest and shiniest games and expect to make a decent amount from them now though.
7. Sure, everything you trade is flawless. Good for you. That's not how most people treat their stuff.
Again with the generalization that most people are dumb apes that can't handle a disc or game case without mucking it up severely. Like I said, I've seen a ton of complete and mint condition games in GS stores before.
8. How hard were they trying to sell you that used game? Just tell the clerk, shut the
up and give me the new copy. That will take care of the matter right away. Unless, you are sensitive and can't get those words out of your mouth. When it comes to preorders, man, I must be the luckiest guy in America because every time a clerk tries to push a preorder, they stop asking once I say no.
Believe me, I have ZERO problems telling people off.
I embarassed the one GS worker the one time who immediately went into the shtick asking if I had anything to trade in today. I replied with "Yeah. Hold on. Lemme get these games that I set down here in the Nth dimension. Hold on. I just have to open up a small wormhole to get them out." He shut right up after that and any time after that that I came in empty handed he didn't automatically do the company spiel about trades.
9. Apologies mean shit to me, I rather have a nice $50 gift card. I rather deal with jerks so I can get me a nice gift card so I can buy myself a nice game. An "apology" does not entertain me on my XBOX 360.
I have a backlog as long as both of my arms, so I'm set till the PS4 or maybe even the PS5 for stuff to play. To me I'd rather the manager or underling show some humility and have to swallow their pride in a very public manner versus just buying me off.
10. "Avoid them like the plague but run to the store when there is a deal." Doesn't that sound like hypocrisy? I avoid places I dislike no matter the price I can get. You remind me of the wal-mart haters who cannot stand the company because it kills "local stores", yet these same people go to wal-mart every week because it is the cheapest place to buy goods.
I never said I wasn't a hypocrite actually. I go where I feel there are good sales. For a while when GS was following the old Amazon model of doing a lightning deal type of sale on a select game or games I picked up a bunch of games including Red Dead Redemption when it was still $50-60 new in stores to name at least one I grabbed.
But that program died very quickly after the company apparently realized their servers couldn't handle the strain of everyone trying to grab the deal online and the site crashed, only to come back up for a minute or two and then crash again and stay down for a while.
The GameDays sale they do every year now is halfway decent sometimes. During the last GD sale I snagged
Catherine for $30 while everyone else still had it at $50-60. Sure. I could've bought it used from Gamefly. But I'd rather support the developers of such a unique game with a new game sale.
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