[Davem]

$2000 stimulus checks

sadly, most of the 600/2000 will probably just end up as bezos's untaxed profits 

 

Placed an order December 12... for the last few months I’ve been paying the extra $3 for premium shipping

I never paid for premium shipping, and can't imagine it actually makes a difference at the ground level. I usually only drop by GS at odd times when it isn't busy and 90% of the time the lone employee is packing something, so I asked if premium shipping does anything - he said he couldn't tell and usually packs them in order of size.  

 

All of my USPS packages are "n Transit, Arriving Late".. for the last week so slightly better than awaiting pickup! 

[ayuchan]

I got Immortals Fenyx for $37.99 with tax and $5 voucher used shipped last week, now I tried to return it to the store and they said they can only refund me around $31, cos of the $4.99 handling charge, is there any way I can get them to price match it with their current $29.99 offer?

[Kpjcelj]

I’m not sure why so many people are defending gamestop employees.
McDonald’s employees also make minimum wage, but that still doesn’t give them the right to spit in your food.
Gamestop employees shouldn’t get entitled to purposely send out broken disc, empty packages or wrong items just because they don’t get paid enough.

I’m sure there are 10000s of people who will gladly take their jobs and do it right.

[JJSP]

I’m not sure why so many people are defending gamestop employees.
McDonald’s employees also make minimum wage, but that still doesn’t give them the right to spit in your food.
Gamestop employees shouldn’t get entitled to purposely send out broken disc, empty packages or wrong items just because they don’t get paid enough.

I’m sure there are 10000s of people who will gladly take their jobs and do it right.

This assumes they’re doing it on purpose.

[Xenogears]

This assumes they’re doing it on purpose.

It also assumes McDonald’s employees don’t spit in our food.  Spit is probably better for you than the rest of the product anyway.  GameStop employees aren’t purposely damaging product, they are just sending out what they have.

[Smithers123]

USPS and UPS both are fucked right now.  Games I ordered on Black Friday did not come in till last week for me.  Games I ordered around the 10th didn't show up till the 26th.  All of these games either showed "awaiting for carrier pick up" on the gamestop site tracking, or dead stopped tracking 1 hour from me for a week or longer, during a change over from UPS to USPS (which I still don't understand why they do this).  I did the same thing you did, and contacted usps, which I got a call from my local post office, with a guy basically giving the canned reply of "sorry, we have so many people out for COVID right now, our distribution center is backed up for over a week."     Sucks for them, but bring in temps or something.  My company had 80% out the last 2 weeks, and we are struggling, but we are managing it and still keeping production up.  

 

I have a similar situation but it's with bestbuy via USPS, the shipment was even shipped via priority since the 16th of this month. I filled out the form on USPS website for a lost package but got this email back:

 

The Postal Service is experiencing unprecedented volume increases and limited employee availability due to the impacts of COVID-19. However, according to our tracking records a shipping label was created by the shipper but the Postal Service has not yet received your package. After the package has entered the postal mailstream, further information can be provided

 

 

Tracking shows...

 

 

• Sat, Dec 26, 8:48 PM
  Arrived at USPS Regional Origin Facility
  Elk Grove Village Il Distribution Center
• Sat, Dec 26, 7:33 PM
  Accepted at USPS Regional Origin Facility
  Elk Grove Village Il Distribution Center
• Thu, Dec 17, 12:00 PM
  Pre-Shipment Info Sent to USPS, USPS Awaiting Item
   

[fantomgamer]

USPS and UPS both are fucked right now. Games I ordered on Black Friday did not come in till last week for me. Games I ordered around the 10th didn't show up till the 26th. All of these games either showed "awaiting for carrier pick up" on the gamestop site tracking, or dead stopped tracking 1 hour from me for a week or longer, during a change over from UPS to USPS (which I still don't understand why they do this). I did the same thing you did, and contacted usps, which I got a call from my local post office, with a guy basically giving the canned reply of "sorry, we have so many people out for COVID right now, our distribution center is backed up for over a week." Sucks for them, but bring in temps or something. My company had 80% out the last 2 weeks, and we are struggling, but we are managing it and still keeping production up.

Same thing happened to me. Games shipped from Ohio to PA took nearly 20 days. At one point it did not update for 7 days any activity. Opened a case with usps, suddenly the package showed activity the next day and then arrived 3 days later. Got the canned call the day it would be delivered.

[JohnnySucco]

It really was a bold business decision of Gamestop to remove sorters and cut staffing from most major USPS distribution centers in the United States during the summer in the run up to the November election to try to sabotage mail in voting.   I get it, there are delays.  Around 90% of my inbound mail with tracking numbers shows delays.  The delays have NOTHING to do with Gamestop.  

[nietzsche74]

After nearly a month of being told a refund would be received for a lost same-day delivery order in "3-5 business days", today I'm being told something like I have to physically visit the store where my item was originally located in order to get a refund. I can't even get through to that store on the phone. Is this shit for real???

[shadowysea07]

Gamestop treats their employees horribly. Anyone that breaks their back for them is a fool.

Granted that's true of most companies anymore.  It's all about making the most money while paying the least amount to the workers and or offering them the fewest benefits. 

 

3 more of my games from the 50% off sale arrived. Katamari Demacacy reroll for the switch from the previous one back in november. And puyo puyo tetris switch and fantasy life 3ds from the one earlier this month on the 9th I believe. switch games came complete but fantasy life was card only in generic case.  Still waiting on the other 5 from my order on the 9th and then 6 iirc from my order on the 12th. I'm expecting a large box for the latter since all but 1 title (black sad which was cart filler to get free shipping) was shipped together.  Or it could come in one large bubble mailer which seems probable given its gamestop but you never know. 

[FinderKeeper]

I’m not sure why so many people are defending gamestop employees.
McDonald’s employees also make minimum wage, but that still doesn’t give them the right to spit in your food.
Gamestop employees shouldn’t get entitled to purposely send out broken disc, empty packages or wrong items just because they don’t get paid enough.

I’m sure there are 10000s of people who will gladly take their jobs and do it right.

Most GameStop employees are doing the best they can. There might be a few that (a) intentionally mess up orders or (b) go all 'junior detective' because they feel like making a customer's day worse, but the vast majority of employees (and all that I've dealt with in store) do a good job. I leave them positive reviews every time I can, because they deserve it. It's the same with low-paying jobs everywhere--someone is making out like a bandit in the situation, but it isn't the store employee.

 

Try the boardroom. Companies usually fail because of mis-management.

 

A lot of the problems we customers are experiencing are due to GameStop's cut-throat and/or inept corporate policies, not employee maliciousness.

 

Same with the post office: a lot of the problems with postal service right now are due to mis-management (possibly deliberate). Before the new "management" came in, it was policy for the carriers to deliver all that day's mail, even if it meant overtime. The new management forbade that, and lo and behold, the mail began backing up--even during the 'regular' part of the year: Trump-appointed USPS Postmaster General plans to slow mail delivery | Fortune

 

I'm not saying don't get angry. I'm saying direct your anger at those actually causing the problems.

[PS5XBOXSERIESX]

(Bunch of facts)

Brave of you to assume anyone that doesn't understand this already has reading comprehension.

[soonerdoc]

I’m not very educated on this stuff, and anything anyone writes will be a gross oversimplification, but just off the top of my head, I think a bigger “cause” of the problem is that it’s hard to take pride in getting paid minimum wage for a low skill yet honest and essential, still difficult entry level position when you see actors, sports stars, influencers, executives, financiers, drug / substance barons, smut peddlers, manipulative or deceptive sales people and marketers slinging shit, earning millions for doing effectively nothing or having a negative contribution in society, pulling further ahead financially everyday.  Playing the financial markets just exponentially increases that pace.  I think us collectively allowing, and in some ways encouraging that divide is more to blame than the worker being lazy.  I don’t mean to put down everyone in those positions, but the financial incentives are out of whack.

 

Very good post which actually helps to make my point. Putting aside the illegal jobs you described, everything else is providing a legal service for which people are willing to pay.  Are actors deserving of $20 million a film salaries?  Of course not. Should Patrick Mahomes be paid a half a billion dollars for playing a game? Hell no. Should influencers be paid hundreds of thousands of dollars and get free trips to the Bahamas?  I think you know the answer. no. 

 

BUT....they have a skill or have developed a product, likability, popularity or whatever it is that someone is willing to pay them the money they make. Of course it’s absurd. But they are paid what they are paid because some guy making a minimum wage job is willing to pay to go to the movies or save up to go to the NBA game or watch NFL on Sunday. Or watch these fucktards dancing on TIkTok so ad revenue can be gained. 
 

If anyone doesn’t like it, vote with your dollars and time. If nobody is paying or watching they won’t be paid these ridiculous sums of money. But that’s not gonna happen because of weak minded people who would rather bitch and complain and do their job poorly, because it’s not fair PewDiPie makes a million dollars a year while I’m stuck in this shithole job.  That’s insanity. 

[ckc4043]

I have redeemed 2 certiciates for online and both codes are not working at all....I call them to refund those points and it takes 3 business days. They said online code are not working until next year...I can only redeem instore certiciate.

[soonerdoc]

Didn't you just answer your own question immediately after asking it? If there's "no incentive" to do better, how is that on the employee? You make it sound like getting a raise or advancing in position is something available for these guys. It's not.

My gamestop employees are so overworked they've had to shut the store down just to have a 30 minute lunch break. Other stores demand work and yet yell at employees for working overtime and don't allow anyone hours.

Corporate gamestop is the perfect example of mismanagement and absolutely you for implying that its the employees fault. Apologists for scumbag CEOs is what's wrong with this country, not employees ground to death by work policies that were outdated by 1950.

 

Never once did I say anything about anything being the employees fault about their corporate practices. What and the literal are you talking about??

 

I think 90% of GS policies are abhorrent. I don’t work there and never have, but I would guess their policies towards employees are subpar or worse. That doesn’t mean somebody shouldn’t still try and do the best job they can. Are people saying there is no ability for a regular staff to move up to managerial positions?  I know that multiple managerial positions are filled from within.  If you think your employer is a douche and you don’t want to work there, then go find another entry level minimum wage job. I’m sure someone is willing to take the GS job and be happy to have it. Being shitty to customers isn’t the solution. And when you do your job poorly, that’s the result. The customer usually ends up on the short end. 

[stringycupps1]

It really was a bold business decision of Gamestop to remove sorters and cut staffing from most major USPS distribution centers in the United States during the summer in the run up to the November election to try to sabotage mail in voting.   I get it, there are delays.  Around 90% of my inbound mail with tracking numbers shows delays.  The delays have NOTHING to do with Gamestop.  

They do when the package hasn't been taken to the post office after 2 weeks

[Kpjcelj]

Never once did I say anything about anything being the employees fault about their corporate practices. What and the literal are you talking about??

I think 90% of GS policies are abhorrent. I don’t work there and never have, but I would guess their policies towards employees are subpar or worse. That doesn’t mean somebody shouldn’t still try and do the best job they can. Are people saying there is no ability for a regular staff to move up to managerial positions? I know that multiple managerial positions are filled from within. If you think your employer is a douche and you don’t want to work there, then go find another entry level minimum wage job. I’m sure someone is willing to take the GS job and be happy to have it. Being shitty to customers isn’t the solution. And when you do your job poorly, that’s the result. The customer usually ends up on the short end.

Exactly. I’m not saying it’s right to treat gamestop employees like trash and yell in their faces, however most of them go out of their way to be rude or make a transaction difficult for the customer. Just the other day I had to argue with the girl to get her to use my certificate on a game. She literally didn’t wanna use a normal $30 certificate on a game and after she finally did, she made me go to my car and get my state ID to show her my account isn’t “fraudulent”.

[falsedichotomies]

Guys I'm sad. It's Gamestop's traditional post-Christmas B2G1 sale and if it were any other year I'd have driven to like 20 Gamestops last weekend, stacking similarly priced games with my Elite Pro for maximum deals. Probably finding tons of used gems as well in the process.

Now Gamestop barely has stock. And the stock they do have isn't even out on the walls to look for cool stuff. And Pro discounts don't even exist.

I know people have been talking for years that the Gamestop jig is up, but it truly does now feel like the end of an era to me.

I placed a couple large orders with Gamefly recently instead since they have the best used deals currently with ensuring CIB condition but it doesn't feel the same.

[Vinny]

Guys I'm sad. It's Gamestop's traditional post-Christmas B2G1 sale and if it were any other year I'd have driven to like 20 Gamestops last weekend, stacking similarly priced games with my Elite Pro for maximum deals. Probably finding tons of used gems as well in the process.

Now Gamestop barely has stock. And the stock they do have isn't even out on the walls to look for cool stuff. And Pro discounts don't even exist.

I know people have been talking for years that the Gamestop jig is up, but it truly does now feel like the end of an era to me.

I placed a couple large orders with Gamefly recently instead since they have the best used deals currently with ensuring CIB condition but it doesn't feel the same.

This is my issue with GS now, I can't find anything outside of major release titles... and for those titles, other retailers often have them for new at a price that's barely any diff than GS's sale prices. They still had some good sales during BF/CM but for the rest of the year, I rarely even bother with GS. 

[WeaponX2099]

One closing GameStop in my area is trying to bundle games together to get rid of everything. 

[jupiterjones]

One closing GameStop in my area is trying to bundle games together to get rid of everything. 

What are the current discounts looking like, percent-wise?

[topchief1]

Gamestop got into this mess because they treated their customers like they were mouth breathing morons that they could screw over and line thier pockets with thier money. Now, in order to get out of this mess, they've tripled down on treating customers like idiots who should just be happy with what they're given.

It's a bold strategy, Cotton. Let's see if it pays off for them.

[stringycupps1]

Just got an email that says if I renew my Pro account I get 10,000 points.  Anyone else get that email? 

[JaTaN]

My Pro membership expired last year -- if I renew instore using 15k reward pts will I still get 10k promo pts or do I need to pay out of pocket?

 

it should come with $5 Welcome Cert and $5 Monthly Cert -- do those come instantly? Can I use them on 2x $5 Xbox GCs?

[gospelman]

Just got an email that says if I renew my Pro account I get 10,000 points.  Anyone else get that email? 

I also have that in my inbox.  Nothing new though.  They've had that promo all month for membership signups.

[ajh2298]

My Pro membership expired last year -- if I renew instore using 15k reward pts will I still get 10k promo pts or do I need to pay out of pocket?

it should come with $5 Welcome Cert and $5 Monthly Cert -- do those come instantly? Can I use them on 2x $5 Xbox GCs?

The email I got makes me believe if I spend 15,000 points to renew I’ll get 10,000 right back. It also does mention the $5 welcome coupon and the $5 monthly coupon also. I’m not sure if I would get either of those because I’m already a current member and I used my December coupon last week.

[phoenixlau]

My Pro membership expired last year -- if I renew instore using 15k reward pts will I still get 10k promo pts or do I need to pay out of pocket?

 

it should come with $5 Welcome Cert and $5 Monthly Cert -- do those come instantly? Can I use them on 2x $5 Xbox GCs?

I used the 15k point renewal coupon in store last week to renew a Pro account that had lapsed earlier in December.  I got the 10k promo posted the same day.

 

You get the $5 welcome coupon instantly as a code on your receipt.  The $5 monthly coupon has not posted in my active offers, so I'm assuming my first monthly coupon isn't supposed to be until January.

 

I have used both the welcome and the monthly coupon successfully on PHYSICAL PSN gift cards (digital code version printed on receipt does not work however).  Don't have any experience using them on Xbox.

[JakeM17]

Damn, so the $10 coupon from the $60 promotion doesn't work online even though the email says it does? That's wack.

[Jodou]

Thanks, I've tried twice with no luck, they just keep copying and pasting the same things. I think what they are trying to say is they won't price match because it's on sale on best buy's website? But they keep saying competitor's website so it's very confusing. I'll try again tonight but one yesterday and one today have said the same thing so probably not going to work for me, but I'll try what you suggested. Thanks for the tip

Next time maybe try buying at Target unless you're missing out on rewards. They've been incredible all through Christmas with price matches. I was even denied at my (shitty) Target store on a PM when the B2G$50 Ubisoft promo was going on, but after a 2 minute call they just issued a $25 GC for the PM no questions asked.

[FamedGuardian]

Miles Morales PS5 is actually a base of $17 now. I just went to trade and it was $28 and change after the $10 bonus and 10% Pro bump.