[quote name='confoosious']What about this do you not understand? Because WE are snapping up penny guides and the GS realize they lose money on it, managers and employees have been warned they'd be fired for selling penny guides. WHy have the been warned? Because it makes no sense to give or sell guides at 1 penny because it creates behavior where no one would buy guides at full price. see IATCG's post above.
I suspect Best Buy will start cracking down soon too.
Why sell for a penny or give for free if you can get $10 or whatever credit back from the publisher for destroying them?
I suspect that if you become friends with a GS manager they might give you "destroyed" guides (those with covers ripped off and sent back to the publisher) but no more buying of penny guides at GS.[/QUOTE]
With the internet, including YouTube and Gamefaqs, WHY would anyone pay MSRP for a guide? Some of the guides on those two sites alone are better than some of the printed ones, some of which have even had errors in them.
If the employees at GS 'zero out' the guides that may still be on their shelves before simply giving them to a customer who finds them, they don't end up in deep shit for selling them(unless their DM finds out). I've had employees do this for me numerous times in the past year or two.
But as someone else already said, there are enough people who DO buy the guides when some games launch, so these things DO have to be selling or else it'd make no sense at all to keep printing them.
[quote name='Chronis']Speaking of this, I got a Star Ocean 2 guide from GS today.

I was really hoping for it since I don't think BB has it, so no chance to get it there. But I just find it really weird that SO2 pennied and not the first.
But seriously, guys, just try and make friends with the Gamestop people. Despite the general CAG disdain of GS, the employees don't bite. It also helps if you try and act like your just a normal shopper. Look around, or maybe actually buy a cheap game you've been looking for. Don't just go to the desk saying "GIMME THE FIRE EMBLEM GUIDE! OH, I HEARD IT'S ON SALE! WINK WINK!!!"[/QUOTE]
Thing is, the manager at the one GS by me already knows me as 'the guide guy', so any chance of getting 'in' with him or his employees is nil.
Funny thing about that though, is that he was one of the managers around here letting me grab guides once they pennied. He would just 'zero them out' and hand me a bunch, assuming I found them before his employees had pulled them.
[quote name='neocisco']Plus BB has much bigger things to worry about in regards to inventory. The price and volume of guides puts it pretty much at the bottom of the priority list. Guides are much more noticeable on GS's radar due to them being directly tied to their primary revenue source.[/QUOTE]
Is it wrong for me to hope that all of us are able to buy enough pennied guides to try and put Gamestop in the same league as Circuit City?
