what the hell??? #$^* you Gamestop!!

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K so I traded in a few games cuz of this lovley 3 and get $10 extra stuff..and I had gotten a USED copy of Meteos (
 
I love GameStop. My local store only has great people working there and they never try to screw you over. I'm going to tell them how great they are the next time I'm there.
 
[quote name='Stoneage']Finally, an F.U. Gamestop thread.[/QUOTE]

Thread over. I declare Stoneage the winner already.
 
[quote name='GF_Eric']I love GameStop. My local store only has great people working there and they never try to screw you over. I'm going to tell them how great they are the next time I'm there.[/QUOTE]

Mine used to be like that but all those guys quit or something.
 
If it was already opened, and you were expecting a new one, you should've told an employee. We can't do anything about it here.
 
That just happened 3 times to my son over the past week he bought "New" copies of Tetris, Magnetica, and New Super Mario Bros and all 3 reg. codes were used already.
 
I feel sorry for GS employees. Illegal aliens at Wal-Mart mopping floors make more!!!!!! Store managers only make..........gasp...............on average 22K. Maybe 28k in a high income, wealthy area.
 
[quote name='rabbitt']If it was already opened, and you were expecting a new one, you should've told an employee. We can't do anything about it here.[/QUOTE]


Well everytime I've gone into a A gamestop and bought a new game.. it's always been that way. I never understood why they open new games up? I understand theft issues.. but alot of places keep them w/ security tags OR lock them up.

Also, that same Gamestop I went to.. they were doin "trade in 4 games, extra $10". Even though I went to another Gamestop 3 miles away the day before and traded in 6 games for an additional $20--and yet, this one was doin 4.

Meh, got rid of some games I got on clearance at Kmart and wound up gettin Meteos and M&L..so I made out well.

Just seems to shady!
 
This is the work of a customer who simply takes the code out, writes it down, and registers it for themselves. What strikes me as odd is why didn't they just steal the entire paper? Why take the time to copy it down? Weird.
 
[quote name='dberuvides']I feel sorry for GS employees. Illegal aliens at Wal-Mart mopping floors make more!!!!!! Store managers only make..........gasp...............on average 22K. Maybe 28k in a high income, wealthy area.[/QUOTE]

Uhh yea. Who's ass did you pull this from?

Do we REALLY fuckING HONESTLY need ANOTHER thread like this?
 
[quote name='GF_Eric']I love GameStop. My local store only has great people working there and they never try to screw you over. I'm going to tell them how great they are the next time I'm there.[/QUOTE]
That's my local EB, it's great. I've had one problem since the new group of four or five employees started there around a year ago (couldn't return a "new" game that wasn't sealed, blah blah blah, dealt with it easily enough). In return, I'm often told I'm one of their favorite customers and they no longer mind my asking for penny guides and other such things.
 
If you don't like threads like this, don't post in them. Easy fix. (This is mostly directed at the threadcrap post I just had to clean out.)
 
[quote name='Scahom1']
Do we REALLY fuckING HONESTLY need ANOTHER thread like this?[/quote]
WHAT?

Are you suggesting we DON'T? Good god, man!

I want to hear about ALL the times Gamestop is an asshole!

I want to hear about the time it got drunk and stole the Homecoming parade float and crashed it into Old Man Jones's carrot garden, and thus we couldn't have carrot cake at the dance!

I want to read about how it punted your dog like a football!

How it totally took the last cookie from the cookie jar, but told Mom that it was you that did it, and you got in trouble, and you had to vacuum the living room of all the cookie crumbs that Gamestop made in there, while Gamestop laughed at you and got a juice box for being so honest.

I want to aggregately compile every last instance of Gamestop pissing on someone's mailbox, prank calling an order for 50 pizzas, and putting tobasco in your toothpaste. I want them all cataloged and saved in a text file that accumulates such annoyances daily, so that when I damn well get on CAG, I'm the first to know that Gamestop once AGAIN was causing trouble in the world, only to get off scott free!

Praise threads like this, gentlemen! For now we know the true black heart that Gamestop has! How else could we be so convinced, unless there was a thread about it EVERY DAY?

Surely you do not suggest we slack in our holiest of quests to scrutinize Gamestop and its dirty deeds!
 
[quote name='Strell']WHAT?

Are you suggesting we DON'T? Good god, man!

I want to hear about ALL the times Gamestop is an asshole!

I want to hear about the time it got drunk and stole the Homecoming parade float and crashed it into Old Man Jones's carrot garden, and thus we couldn't have carrot cake at the dance!

I want to read about how it punted your dog like a football!

How it totally took the last cookie from the cookie jar, but told Mom that it was you that did it, and you got in trouble, and you had to vacuum the living room of all the cookie crumbs that Gamestop made in there, while Gamestop laughed at you and got a juice box for being so honest.

I want to aggregately compile every last instance of Gamestop pissing on someone's mailbox, prank calling an order for 50 pizzas, and putting tobasco in your toothpaste. I want them all cataloged and saved in a text file that accumulates such annoyances daily, so that when I damn well get on CAG, I'm the first to know that Gamestop once AGAIN was causing trouble in the world, only to get off scott free!

Praise threads like this, gentlemen! For now we know the true black heart that Gamestop has! How else could we be so convinced, unless there was a thread about it EVERY DAY?

Surely you do not suggest we slack in our holiest of quests to scrutinize Gamestop and its dirty deeds![/QUOTE]
You KNOW he's not going to read all of that. A simple "That's what you get for shopping at Gamestop" would've sufficed...
 
[quote name='WhipSmartBanky']You KNOW he's not going to read all of that. A simple "That's what you get for shopping at Gamestop" would've sufficed...[/QUOTE]


Its true, that's what I get.
Should of just went to the damn EBgames.. very rarely have a problem with them. Well this 1 particular store that is.
 
[quote name='gizmogc']This is the work of a customer who simply takes the code out, writes it down, and registers it for themselves. What strikes me as odd is why didn't they just steal the entire paper? Why take the time to copy it down? Weird.[/QUOTE]
Not necessarily an employee. It's more LIKELY, but I've caught customers doing that as well to gutted copies. Same when a game comes with a map or a trading card or something, a lot of people will open up the gutted case and yoink that out of there, if it wasn't secured with the gut disc (left in the box). :(
 
[quote name='gizmogc']This is the work of a customer who simply takes the code out, writes it down, and registers it for themselves. What strikes me as odd is why didn't they just steal the entire paper? Why take the time to copy it down? Weird.[/quote]

camera phone, yo.
 
[quote name='Zingela']Not necessarily an employee. It's more LIKELY, but I've caught customers doing that as well to gutted copies. Same when a game comes with a map or a trading card or something, a lot of people will open up the gutted case and yoink that out of there, if it wasn't secured with the gut disc (left in the box). :([/QUOTE]

Yeah, I remember when Nintendo was giving away Zelda CE if you registered 3 games on there site.
 
[quote name='Strell']WHAT?

Are you suggesting we DON'T? Good god, man!

I want to hear about ALL the times Gamestop is an asshole!

I want to hear about the time it got drunk and stole the Homecoming parade float and crashed it into Old Man Jones's carrot garden, and thus we couldn't have carrot cake at the dance!

I want to read about how it punted your dog like a football!

How it totally took the last cookie from the cookie jar, but told Mom that it was you that did it, and you got in trouble, and you had to vacuum the living room of all the cookie crumbs that Gamestop made in there, while Gamestop laughed at you and got a juice box for being so honest.

I want to aggregately compile every last instance of Gamestop pissing on someone's mailbox, prank calling an order for 50 pizzas, and putting tobasco in your toothpaste. I want them all cataloged and saved in a text file that accumulates such annoyances daily, so that when I damn well get on CAG, I'm the first to know that Gamestop once AGAIN was causing trouble in the world, only to get off scott free!

Praise threads like this, gentlemen! For now we know the true black heart that Gamestop has! How else could we be so convinced, unless there was a thread about it EVERY DAY?

Surely you do not suggest we slack in our holiest of quests to scrutinize Gamestop and its dirty deeds![/QUOTE]


:lol: So damn true.
 
[quote name='WhipSmartBanky']You KNOW he's not going to read all of that. A simple "That's what you get for shopping at Gamestop" would've sufficed...[/quote]

But I did. And I loved every word.

And... don't accept gutted copies! Exercise your right to say "No, I'll take a sealed copy please." And if they don't have it, there are plenty of stores that will have it sealed.
 
[quote name='dberuvides']I feel sorry for GS employees. Illegal aliens at Wal-Mart mopping floors make more!!!!!! Store managers only make..........gasp...............on average 22K. Maybe 28k in a high income, wealthy area.[/quote]

It's not about the money, it's about the love for games :)
 
[quote name='dberuvides']I feel sorry for GS employees. Illegal aliens at Wal-Mart mopping floors make more!!!!!! Store managers only make..........gasp...............on average 22K. Maybe 28k in a high income, wealthy area.[/QUOTE]

You do realize that's retail in a nutshell? When I worked for Hibbett Sports, the store I was going to run was going to pay me $25K to start. Pay was based on volume, so I couldn't increase my pay for quite a while. 50 hours a week was also required, and typically during a new store opening, 65-70 hours a week wasn't out of the question. And no extra pay. Sure there were bonuses and incentives, but do you think you are going to get any the first six months to a year? Hell no I say.

I doubt Walmart employees get paid more (except for maybe SMs) because Wally has the highest turnover rate in the entire country.

Let's see: work an average of 55-60 hours a week in a thankless job and pay nearly $200 a week on daycare for $25K

or

Stay at home with my kids and have the best three months of my life...tough choice, I'm glad it only took me two minutes to figure that one out.
 
[quote name='CocheseUGA']
Stay at home with my kids and have the best three months of my life...tough choice, I'm glad it only took me two minutes to figure that one out.[/quote]

Not everyone is in a position to be able to do that like you. No reason to rag on them for working at Walmart.
 
Partners in Time is pretty common -- I can't imagine that they didn't have several copies of it. Why didn't you asked for a sealed copy in the first place?
 
[quote name='schuerm26']Not everyone is in a position to be able to do that like you. No reason to rag on them for working at Walmart.[/QUOTE]

I think his/her point was, after taxes, paying $200/week to have someone else raise your kids while only making 25k is almost a wash. So why let someone else raise your kids when you're getting almost nothing in return?

(Factor in gas and other related expenses to working a 9-5 job that are not reimbursed)
 
[quote name='yukine']But I did. And I loved every word.

And... don't accept gutted copies! Exercise your right to say "No, I'll take a sealed copy please." And if they don't have it, there are plenty of stores that will have it sealed.[/quote]

Exactly. If a game is not sealed, then it's not new. Meteos and M&L are common games. Just get your credit and use it somewhere else.
 
[quote name='chosen1s']I think his/her point was, after taxes, paying $200/week to have someone else raise your kids while only making 25k is almost a wash. So why let someone else raise your kids when you're getting almost nothing in return?

(Factor in gas and other related expenses to working a 9-5 job that are not reimbursed)[/QUOTE]

Exactly. I only mentioned Walmart because I think anyone can beat their wages.

9-5? I wish. At least one 12 hour shift was required, and more often than not I saw SMs work multiple 12 hour shifts in a week. Working 3-4 times a week at 12 hours is one thing, having to work 6-7 days doing it is another.
 
Why is everyone ragging on the OP; the store committed fraud. First, they put a new sticker on a used game, then the store sold a used game (or incomplete) for full retail price as new. That is simply unacceptable. As for simply getting a sealed copy from another store, maybe the OP did not want to pay any money for the game, hence why they were trading in credit for the game.
 
Gamestop do not resale used games as new. They use the wrapper for things like magazines. Also heck yes I would use codes from a store simply since the code is on the outside of the boxes.

Speaking of pirating I have seen a kid/college student run around taking pictures of CD covers. He moved away like if nothing was going on sheilding his camera.

Persoanlly Gamestop is like working in McDonalds where everybody gets the shaft and they have like four managaers in one store doing a 13 year old kids job.

Is our society that bad we have to have convicts clerks behind the counters who are like 40 and balding cursing all the time.
 
Okay, I've never registered a game at Nintendo. Is this story the same as I've heard from here before where someone was buying a new unwrapped PC game and registering the user code on-line, later finding out it has been already activated by someone else, in a nutshell?

That's terrible to hear that story OP, I've found a third reason not to buy new at GS/EB, even if its not the store's fault that someone could have taken the code while no one was looking. I don't own a DS, but own GBA/GCN and didn't realize the codes were all specifically made per game.
 
[quote name='RegalSin2020']since the code is on the outside of the boxes.
.[/QUOTE]

They are not. It is on one of the inserts inside the case. Once again, if GS didn't use gutted display copies, we wouldn't have this problem.
 
where's Ledhead at? I'm suprised he hasn't jumped on this. Is he still a moderator? I made a similiar post to this back then.
 
[quote name='chosen1s']I think his/her point was, after taxes, paying $200/week to have someone else raise your kids while only making 25k is almost a wash. So why let someone else raise your kids when you're getting almost nothing in return?

(Factor in gas and other related expenses to working a 9-5 job that are not reimbursed)[/quote]

It's not even close to a wash. (Based on 40 hours per week and taking your kids every week to dayvare)

200 * 52 = 10400
25000 - 10400 = 14600

Taxes on 25000 isn't taking anything at all. Especially if you have 3 kids. You are getting tons knocked off for having kids. So if you consider an extra 13000 or so after daycare nothing, then i guess you are correct. Especially since most mom's working there would just be a supplement to the husband.
 
[quote name='schuerm26']It's not even close to a wash. (Based on 40 hours per week and taking your kids every week to dayvare)

200 * 52 = 10400
25000 - 10400 = 14600

Taxes on 25000 isn't taking anything at all. Especially if you have 3 kids. You are getting tons knocked off for having kids. So if you consider an extra 13000 or so after daycare nothing, then i guess you are correct. Especially since most mom's working there would just be a supplement to the husband.[/QUOTE]

Yeah, maybe on 40 hours a week. I would never be so lucky. Try 55-60 hours average. Then you factor gas (I filled up four times a month before, once (maybe) now) and a new vehicle (would have to with driving that much more) and it's a pure wash, if not detrimental. And that salary only works out to about $10/hour. Why put up with that much more stress?
 
This is why I ask that my games be sealed copies and not the "display" copy of the game just put back into the box when I get the last one.

You either sell me a "new" game or charge me for what they already define as a "used" game. Once the box has been opened it instantly depreciates from "New" to "Used" regardless of whether it's been under the counter or in a game system.
 
[quote name='CocheseUGA']Exactly. I only mentioned Walmart because I think anyone can beat their wages.

9-5? I wish. At least one 12 hour shift was required, and more often than not I saw SMs work multiple 12 hour shifts in a week. Working 3-4 times a week at 12 hours is one thing, having to work 6-7 days doing it is another.[/QUOTE]

Its not uncommon for a Wal-Mart Store Manager to make $200-250k a year. I shit you not.
 
[quote name='ejgarc']Why is everyone ragging on the OP; the store committed fraud. First, they put a new sticker on a used game, then the store sold a used game (or incomplete) for full retail price as new. That is simply unacceptable. As for simply getting a sealed copy from another store, maybe the OP did not want to pay any money for the game, hence why they were trading in credit for the game.[/QUOTE]

Here we go again.
 
[quote name='gizmogc']Its not uncommon for a Wal-Mart Store Manager to make $200-250k a year. I shit you not.[/QUOTE]

Not surprising, seeing all the crap they have to put up with. But average wages? Near the bottom, from what I heard on Clark Howard (he mentioned why Walmart stock sucks and Costco is doing so well)
 
[quote name='gizmogc']Its not uncommon for a Wal-Mart Store Manager to make $200-250k a year. I shit you not.[/QUOTE]

No, it's very true. Hell, I can't even imagine what managers of Best Buy or Circuit City make.
 
I bought Paper Mario for GC at EB and thought it was sealed, yet when I took the plastic off there was an EBGames sticker on the case... now why would they need to reseal this game? Dont give me the 'previous display copy' BS because there were already like 12 on the shelf opened and gutted. However the disc was mint and so was everything else so I really didnt care, but still, why do they need to pull shit like this? How many times do you have people complain about these shady practices when they buy from stores like Best Buy or Circuit City?

But if its opened and mint, its not a problem, but most of the time the display copies are crapped up.
 
[quote name='XboxHardcore.com']Can't they get in trouble for selling used items as new?[/QUOTE]

They can, but most stores do not play the gutted games. Even though we've had the age old argument of "Used vs. new but not sealed" 1,000 times, and we will have it 1,000 more times till the day we die, what EB/GS have been doing for years now has not gotten them in any trouble, aside from a few customers issues.

And to think, maybe if all the complainers who start these types of threads put their foot down and complain to higher ups at EB, rather then just post on a message board, maybe EB/GS will possibly get our point across. Instead, they keep giving EB/GS their hard earned dollars, when they should be shopping elsewhere. But hey, it's so much easier to type "Gamestop Sux! employees are gay!1!" then to pick up a phone and call coporate, right?
 
[quote name='dberuvides']I feel sorry for GS employees. Illegal aliens at Wal-Mart mopping floors make more!!!!!! Store managers only make..........gasp...............on average 22K. Maybe 28k in a high income, wealthy area.[/QUOTE]


What are you smoking? I'm an Assistant Manager and I make more than 22k.


Youre about 10k off.
 
[quote name='MrMaddness']What are you smoking? I'm an Assistant Manager and I make more than 22k.


Youre about 10k off.[/QUOTE]

Wow, you make 30k?!?! Damn, you rollin' on dubs?
 
[quote name='RedvsBlue']Wow, you make 30k?!?! Damn, you rollin' on dubs?[/QUOTE]


No, no.

I meant for managers.

Plus, I never liked the idea of a crappy car with dubs. How retarded is that?
 
I think the lesson we all have learned is thus: Don't buy new games from Gamestop / EB. I haven't bought 1 thing from either since the morning update died. Man....I need a new hobby at 6 am. A female of the species, perhaps.
 
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