How Can Gamestop Employees Look Anyone In The Eye?

Or any other used game store for that matter? Because every time i've ever traded a game in I'll see the same used game being sold for lets say $15 and I'll trade it in for $2-$7 or I'll trade in a brand new game a week after its release that i bought for 49.99 or 59.99 and they'll give me $20.00 or $30.00 for the latter but they'll put it up for $45.00 or $55.00 i think its obvious that thats way above any normal profit margin especially for a buisseness that does nothing except put stickers on the used stuff people bring in.

P.S. Everyone else hates this right? although being left with no other options i've found myself trading things in there many times so i guess I'm feeding the beast but that doesn't change how wrong it is.

Or any other used game store for that matter? Because every time i've ever traded a game in I'll see the same used game being sold for lets say $15 and I'll trade it in for $2-$7 or I'll trade in a brand new game a week after its release that i bought for 49.99 or 59.99 and they'll give me $20.00 or $30.00 for the latter but they'll put it up for $45.00 or $55.00 i think its obvious that thats way above any normal profit margin especially for a buisseness that does nothing except put stickers on the used stuff people bring in.

P.S. Everyone else hates this right? although being left with no other options i've found myself trading things in there many times so i guess I'm feeding the beast but that doesn't change how wrong it is.

julianwelton

It's called business. killercuts3

No business is one thing robbery is another.

[QUOTE="killercuts3"]It's called business. julianwelton

No business is one thing robbery is another.

It's not robbery once you finalize the trade by signing the slip.

One word: "ebay". If you don't like what they offer, don't trade there. Its really that simple.Santas_Hitman

we 'feed the beast' as you put it. if no one played along they'd be out of business. obviously things are going well

[QUOTE="killercuts3"]It's called business. julianwelton

No business is one thing robbery is another.

When you sell a game for x amount of money and the retailer takes the game and, say, doubles the cost of the game but at the same time making sure that the cost is substantially lower than a new copy, then there is incentive for the comsumer to buy the game.

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[QUOTE="killercuts3"]It's called business. killercuts3

No business is one thing robbery is another.

When you sell a game for x amount of money and the retailer takes the game and, say, doubles the cost of the game but at the same time making sure that the cost is substantially lower than a new copy, then there is incentive for the comsumer to buy the game.

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Doesn't bother me at all as I understand that I don't have trade things in if I don't want to. If I buy a chair, I can't take it back to the store I bought it at and trade it in. If I buy a microwave at Best Buy I can't take that back and trade it either. Bottom line beyond cars there's not much else I can think of like games as far as trading. In comparison to when I buy a car for 28 thousand they will let me trade it in for like 8 thousand. Yeah I guess it really is kind of the same.

I'm not defending them because I care one way or another. But I will defend gamestop and EB games because it's a choice you make. They have a choice of what to offer you for the used games and you have a choice to accept or not. There's no robbery or deception in that. Now if you had no choice and they forced you to buy games there for top dollar and made you bring them back and trade them in for next to nothing it would be different. They however do no such thing.

They do however offer a service where you can get rid of games that 99.9% of the world wouldn't. They will pretty much take all your used games for a crappy price. But hey, they are doing you a favor. Go to Best Buy and demand they buy your games because you shop there. They will laugh at you.

Bottom line, it sucks how little you get from the games when you trade them in, but... you really should thank GS and EB for even offering the service.

One last thing, go there sometime and look how many used games they have bought that just sit there forever and don't get sold. I know the stores in my area (like 7 of them) have a ton of crap games because no one wants them. But the store did buy them back at least and is now stuck with them.

My two cents.

In most cases it seems trading in games is a huge rip-off at gamestop/eb games. In most cases by the time I have played a game enough to want to trade it in its usually a year or 2 after its released. This usually means the prices has dropped since I bought it or gamestop/eb games have a bunch of used copies already. That translates into around 5 dollars trade in credit. Honestly, if I pick up the game and play it one more time its worth the 5 dollars they would have given me for it. Thats why I just don't trade in games. I'd rather keep the game in the hopes I may pick it up and play it months from now then to bend down that low and only get 1/10 of what I paid for it newTheRaiderNation

I agree but i also don't buy used games because they don't support the industry only the store that sells them if i have to pay $10 more i will

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[QUOTE="killercuts3"]It's called business. BioShockOwnz

No business is one thing robbery is another.

It's not robbery once you finalize the trade by signing the slip.

I was going to say something to that effect ;) It's a mutual agreement... they aren't forcing you to trade your games in. The trick is to only trade in games when extra incentives are offered. A few months ago I got 27 bucks for NBA2k7 and 45 for Gears, thanks to a 50% trade in bonus. Just wait until the time is right and you really can cash in.

If you think that is bad, just wait until you start trying to sell back college textbooks to the college. I paid 120 bucks for a chemistry textbook, took it back in great shape (with the cd still unopened) at the end of the year, and I got $17 for it! Then they turn around and sell it for 90! beutlich99

I know that feeling all too well... could sell them on the interweb, but that takes a smallamount of effort ;)

yeah its pretty bad.

hopefully ebay market will make them take more money for games.

When I got Fusion Frenzy 2 in the mail free for doing the Old Spice Challenge it had never been opened so I took it to gamestop and asked if I would get more than the normal rate since it was never technically used and they said no. So I then took it back home got the achievements then traded it the next day. I think that was kind kind of jerkish(word?) of them not to give me extra credit,but I guess policy is policy.

if u'd see how much they pay for rent you would understand...merchandise is the least of the expenses of a business.Believe me...i own 2 small business at the malllonghair72

Exactly, I bet you would be shocked at what their NET bottm line is.

It's not the employee who's boosting the price. It's the corporation. I know my friend Ryan, guy who's trying to pull ropes for me to get there... if it were up to him he'd give people 45-50 bucks back for a brand new game but since it's not company policy he can't, because he'd be on his ass lookin' for a new job.

I just don't trade games there anymore unless I'm doing it for Store Credit and trading them in mass with a few games tht have high prices. See when you get their Gamers card you get an extra ten percent of credit... and when you trade in up to four games you get like 30-40 percent price hike. So with that combined with the Extra games you get 40-50% more money.

If I'm not trading them I'm selling them on Amazon for 46 bucks. Problem with that though is they take 6 bucks commission.

Its a RipOff - I do Ebay now. But in their defense sometimes they buy stuff and then it doesn't sell at all of below what they paid. What I dislike is the way they give you crap for very new titles. If its going back on the Shelf for $50 and they offer $25 thatsa ripoff cause they know they are going to sell it. New AAA titles shoulf garner a better rate.

Ebay is your friend.

Or any other used game store for that matter? Because every time i've ever traded a game in I'll see the same used game being sold for lets say $15 and I'll trade it in for $2-$7 or I'll trade in a brand new game a week after its release that i bought for 49.99 or 59.99 and they'll give me $20.00 or $30.00 for the latter but they'll put it up for $45.00 or $55.00 i think its obvious that thats way above any normal profit margin especially for a buisseness that does nothing except put stickers on the used stuff people bring in.

P.S. Everyone else hates this right? although being left with no other options i've found myself trading things in there many times so i guess I'm feeding the beast but that doesn't change how wrong it is.

julianwelton

One word... EBAY

It's not the employee who's boosting the price. It's the corporation. I know my friend Ryan, guy who's trying to pull ropes for me to get there... if it were up to him he'd give people 45-50 bucks back for a brand new game but since it's not company policy he can't, because he'd be on his ass lookin' for a new job.

I just don't trade games there anymore unless I'm doing it for Store Credit and trading them in mass with a few games tht have high prices. See when you get their Gamers card you get an extra ten percent of credit... and when you trade in up to four games you get like 30-40 percent price hike. So with that combined with the Extra games you get 40-50% more money.

If I'm not trading them I'm selling them on Amazon for 46 bucks. Problem with that though is they take 6 bucks commission.

Bruce_McGivern

I just meant their employees should be kind of embarrassed or at least feel kind of bad that they have a hand in pretty much ripping people off and i hate when people are like just dont go there and you'll put them out of business yeah well as a gamer you know that not trading in games once in a while is pretty much not an option and i know they're providing a service but that doesn't change the fact that they are ripping people off and they should up the trade in value a little just to make it more fair to their customers i know its a busines but as a business its supposed to take care of its customers.

Gamestop was offering $27 for Crackdown recently, which they were selling at $55 used. Shortly after release, they were selling Final Fantasy X-2 (PS2) for $55 used, but only offering $5. Their outrageous markups on used games, manufactured rarity to get people to pre-order, selling new games in open display boxes... there are so many reasons to not shop at this store. And that's why I don't.

You can pre-order games at just about any store now... you can even pre-order at most online retailers. However, there are only a few games per console cycle that you will actually NEED to pre-order. Halo 3 will probably be out of stock for a while, as will GTA IV. But when I went to pick up Super Paper Mario -- without preordering? I walked into Gamestop and they made me wait while they "checked to see if any were available for people who didn't preorder". I stood in there for 20 minutes while one employee talked on the phone and the other stood around and talked to his friend, who was shopping there. I, audibly, said "[expletive deleted] this," and walked to Wal Mart, where they had about a dozen copies of this game on the shelf and walked out with it 5 minutes later... most of that time spent traversing the store.

I urge anyone with common sense -- and I understand that it isn't as common as people would have you believe -- to not use Gamestop as their source for video games and accessories. They take advantage of their customers, many of which are too young to know that they're being swindled. It's bad business, we have alternatives and I think we should use them. This is how bad businesses learn.

Or any other used game store for that matter? Because every time i've ever traded a game in I'll see the same used game being sold for lets say $15 and I'll trade it in for $2-$7 or I'll trade in a brand new game a week after its release that i bought for 49.99 or 59.99 and they'll give me $20.00 or $30.00 for the latter but they'll put it up for $45.00 or $55.00 i think its obvious that thats way above any normal profit margin especially for a buisseness that does nothing except put stickers on the used stuff people bring in.

P.S. Everyone else hates this right? although being left with no other options i've found myself trading things in there many times so i guess I'm feeding the beast but that doesn't change how wrong it is.

julianwelton

I agree, it is a rip off. They try to con you even more buy putting out a flyer that tells you how to trade in games. They like to feel like they are trying to get away with something and to do you a favor. They should be arrested for stealing.

I traded like 15 to 20 games and they only gave me 13 bucks i was really pissed about that but i still did trade them in lol

I traded like 15 to 20 games and they only gave me 13 bucks i was really pissed about that but i still did trade them in lol

7h3us3d

One thing you people need to realize is... you're selling your product to a middleman that sells your product again a second time. How much profit do you really expect to make?

If you want to make any money sell it directly to the end consumer to make the most money, in other words use ebay, etc.... don't whine about not making any money selling to Gamestop, a middleman. Of course you're not going to get crap for your games. They have to sell the game, then pay taxes on it, pay hourly employees, pay building leases, etc. That's how they stay in business. It's not a scam people.

It's the same reason why you pay $4 for a popcorn or drink at the movie theater. Theres no profit in movie tickets due to how much they have to pay to rent the movie reels, they make all of their money in concessions.

It's quite simple.

Making Money > Customers

I find it's not even worth trading my games in to EB games, might as well keep them if I am only going to get $5 for them.

It's called business. killercuts3

True that.

Yep, it's soooooo bad. NOT. It's like when I bought my new car. $30,000 right? Well when I drove off the lot, it was worth pretty much 20% less then that and if I wanted to trade it in? Probably get like $22,000 for it.

It happens everywhere, suck it up, move on. You have a choice you know to like....keep your games.

Business baby, everyone does it, even most EBAYERS who buy cheap and sell big.

on used games that is...