Video Games in Department Stores (Not Target, Walmart, KMart, etc)

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Has anyone ever had luck finding games in small chain department stores, or mom and pop stores? If anyone lives in West Virginia, Eastern Kentucky, Virginia, or North Carolina, there are a few department stores called Magic Mart. It's definitely worth a checkout.

http://www.magicmartstores.com/locator3.htm

The store is fairly neat. And surprisingly they still sell new and sealed last gen games such as GBA, Xbox, PS2, and DS games along with some current generation systems. You might have a different experience if you actually go to one. The store I went to had a pretty small collection of games, but most of them weren't shovelware and they were cheap ($9.99 for Wii, PS2, DS, GBC, and Xbox games, brand new and sealed)

Feel free to discuss and share stores that are similar!
 
[quote name='Squarehard']I don't even know what a small chain department store looks like.[/QUOTE]

They're usually locally owned or tri-state wide stores. Most of them I go to stock games, but in really small amounts. 99.9% of it is shovelware but you sometimes find good stuff.
 
[quote name='PKGarep']Has anyone ever had luck finding games in small chain department stores, or mom and pop stores? If anyone lives in West Virginia, Eastern Kentucky, Virginia, or North Carolina, there are a few department stores called Magic Mart. It's definitely worth a checkout.

http://www.magicmartstores.com/locator3.htm

The store is fairly neat. And surprisingly they still sell new and sealed last gen games such as GBA, Xbox, PS2, and DS games along with some current generation systems. You might have a different experience if you actually go to one. The store I went to had a pretty small collection of games, but most of them weren't shovelware and they were cheap ($9.99 for Wii, PS2, DS, GBC, and Xbox games, brand new and sealed)

Feel free to discuss and share stores that are similar![/QUOTE]

I think the only thing I've ever bought from Magic Mart was a copy of Space Channel 5 for the PS2 back in '08, haha.
 
[quote name='PKGarep']They're usually locally owned or tri-state wide stores. Most of them I go to stock games, but in really small amounts. 99.9% of it is shovelware but you sometimes find good stuff.[/QUOTE]

I don't really have any of those where I live in California, or in most places in the Bay Area. I used to find tons of clearance stuff at Sears though for games, until they stopped doing major clearance, and now I just don't go there, but I do go to thrift stores here and there since we have lots of those, but they're not mom and pop stores but Goodwill and Salvation Army, in fact literally right next to each other, lol. I always hate hearing stories of people finding things at mom and pops because I don't have any of those. :*(
 
I'm going out that way in a couple of weeks (Basye, VA). If there's a MAgic Mart nearby, can't hurt giving it a look. How are and are there any decent flea markets in the VA/WV border area?
 
I don't mean to sound asinine, but Magic Mart's selection of media is very awkward. They have been selling resealed, used items quite frequently for the past four or five years. They really screwed me over on a DVD years ago when I didn't know better. I should have known it was a reseal job.

Bought it, opened it, looked like total garbage because it was a former rental, tried to play it, and it was non-functional about twenty minutes in. I took it back, told them it wouldn't function, sleazeball manager takes it back to their office and comes out five minutes later, saying it worked just fine and my DVD player was broken. I had to go into the office with the jerk to chapter skip and it immediately halted dead where I stated, because he intentionally let it play uninterrupted so it wouldn't mess up at the mentioned problem.

Best part: He was still arguing that the chapter skip caused the issue and I wasn't entitled to a refund. I do not show emotions in public, but they started acting like I was causing a scene and refunded me after a fifteen minute debacle. Total scum.

This might just be my store's attitude, but he still worked there for a number of years, but I haven't seen him lately. Sorry for the wall of text, but scrutinize anything you're going to buy, because they are damn sure you're not gonna return it under any circumstance, come hell or high water.
 
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I have one local mom and pop store near me that I used to frequent a lot. They had a great selection of classic and current games at decent prices.....until they stopped having decent prices and starting pricing everything at ebay type prices.

They also used to do decent trade in values. But they started lying to uninformed customers about the value of the game they were trading in.

Sucks, they were one of the few places if not only places, that carries import games.
 
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