Comments on: Gamestop Carousel of Torture

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:22:43 +0000

It’s because we loves us some sammitches. And when we can’t be carving triangles into our own, we like to leave it to a pro.

By: Brent

Brent — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 21:46:37 +0000

And here’s a question for you. Why the hell does every town in America has seven Subway resturants for every square mile?

By: bc88

bc88 — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 18:55:08 +0000

I haven’t been into a Gamestop since my Fiancee pre-ordered Wario Ware Wii (she was suckered into it while on her break at work).

I realize that Amazon, Target, Best Buy, etc. are corporate blah blah. But something about Gamestop (and EB once they were bought out) just makes me cringe, probably asking if I have trades when I go in there empty handed. I can’t shop there anymore and I’m proud to say I haven’t.

But it seems like you have a pretty close relationship with the guys close to your house, so have at it.

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 14:00:00 +0000

I really don’t have much use for the boutique game stores anymore. I’m less likely to even look at them nowadays because it’s been a long time since I’ve seen an old game I wanted to try that is cheap enough for me to make an impulse buy.

I don’t see the point of preordering anything anymore. I won’t know if something’s a killer app I want to play online with friends, and if it’s an offline game the preorder price is almost never below retail, plus I can often wait for it to go on sale.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:24:28 +0000

My personal take is that if I go to a store and they don’t have any clue, I generally do not purchase anything there unless its a golden item at a golden price that has gone unnoticed.

Oh, and another tactic that I find usually works really well is : “I already have one.” Somehow that can answer any question asked and can kill bad conversations really quickly. If they ask again or similar to the first question, I just repeat the answer.

By: Hoosierdaddy812

Hoosierdaddy812 — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:02:19 +0000

I hear you and I’m the same way. I try to stick to my “fav” EBgames where the manager is very knowledgeable about games and so are most of the employees. I have seen a couple that don’t really know to much but I just try and avoid to much conversation with those people.

I don’t think the employees know me to much. I’m a pretty exclusive Xbox 360 gamer and will sometimes go to Best Buy if they have a better deal, or Wal-Mart (cringe) if I need a game now and its out everywhere else. I hate going there because Wal-Mart employees are the worst I’ve ever experienced.

I have to admit though that when people don’t anything about games it really irritates me. Who would hire those people for a game store when they think System Shock 2 was on the Xbox because they are simply trying to relate to you.

If I was in your shoes I wouldn’t mind if the lady said she didn’t know about SS2 but was helpful in trying to point out some good holiday releases. If you don’t know, don’t pretend like you do. I hate these “phonies” most of all.

On a side note, is that the actual store? My EBgames and GameStop are really small and I live in a college town.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 13:01:17 +0000

Wow, Joe. Now keep in mind you can cancel those pre-orders and get your money back at any time. Or, when the first of the games you pre-ordered comes out, you can go in there and roll in all your deposits into the one game. I’ve had to do that a couple of times when I figured out I wouldn’t have the money for all the games I preordered.

I would get my money back and order them all from Amazon, but that’s just me. The Gamestop near me has only recently started to improve. They have a new hire who’s very knowledgeable, something that I don’t find very often. The best of the retail workers take their company’s release list as gospel. I had one insisting to me that Corruption would come out in June last year, despite it already being March at that point. I told him no, his list was wrong, we wouldn’t see it much later than that. He was pretty convinced.