I am a store manager w/ GameStop and I can tell you I do not work 60+ hrs a week (its 44-48), except christmas (and even then it was only 10 more). If you can't get your job done in 40 it doesn't matter how much you work you will always be behind. And sometimes you wonder why people complain because there is no where good to shop locally sometimes (this statement depends on where you live), and that is because of overhead. all these companies (or individually) owned stores that have been bought out or shut down is because it costs alot to keep it afloat. If every one would start only buying online to companies you do not know (or have never heard of, and I am not saying that they are all bad), you would have no where to shop locally. its the price of admission. I have shopped at software ect/babbages/gamestop/eb since probally 1993/1994 and i know that there have been better deals out there for trading/buying games at times, but i would rather go in and talk to a person than buy something off the internet (and I am not saying i do not buy online, i only buy online if i can't get it locally). And no i am not rich, i live paycheck to paycheck like most do, if i have a problem with a store/company i express my feelings towards that and if they do not improve i go somewhere else. I have stopped shopping at walmart (not because i am afraid of the prices falling on me j/k), but because they have turned a good company into a retail cattle barn. no one knows what they are talking about (if you can find them), at first i liked the automated check out (i admit, i thought it was sweet), then i thought about how many people they cut out inorder to stream line. even mcdonalds has automatic drink dispensers (give me a break every kid in america knows how to operate a soda fountain) because it saves man hours. so what do you think will happen when the internet gets over the 50-60% market share hump for retail sales (and i am not talking just video games), business will cut back more, more people will loose jobs, and someone you never meet or may even never talks too gets the money. of course you get it for 25% off everytime, thats because they do not employ upwards of 20000-60000 employees like most do (they may only have a few hundred if that). and enjoy the no tax as well, because that will change soon too. well i am sorry if i went on a rampage, i had this debate w/ one of my regulars who like to debate, i am just saying that when i grew up wanted to be a toys r us kid, there is no way that my son/daughter will grow up to be an amazon.com one.