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*Rant* Hilarious GameStop Development while searching for Guitar Hero 3 for 360
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Hey all, first post, but I've been a fan for a long long time, Just wanted to share this with everyone as I found it funny:
So, I'm running around looking for a copy of GH3 for my 360, I was dumb enough to wait a week after its release to try to attain one.
I take about 20 minutes a day checking online stores for Best Buy, Walmart, ToysRus, CircuitCity, and....gamestop. All these places, none in stock, but I check each day so I can jump in on the next shipment.
Well, today when I happened into the Gamestop site, I noticed that they are no longer selling the Bundled (with guitar) 360 version of the game. A couple hours later, I see it back up, but now it is bundles with the music CD for an extra ten bucks. Not a bad deal.....unless...you don't like being forced to buy stuff you don't want when buying something.
I am completely amazed at their lack of business sense. I'm a normal gamer, probably spend about $2k a year on gaming stuff, and My personal policy is already set at "95% of the time buy from anywhere but gamestop" And this.... just wow....they want to elminate that 5% chance from me I guess. I know its not personal, but I can't see how other people fall for this either.
I could write forever, but sadly, with the pawnshop that Gamestop is, it will never go out of business. I'm not THAT old, but I remember a time where I could go into a game store and not feel dirty. Here's to hoping someone with more capitol and smarts than me starts up a real game store chain that is able to get a good mix of customer service and profit so it can become my new perferred place to shop.
So, I'm running around looking for a copy of GH3 for my 360, I was dumb enough to wait a week after its release to try to attain one.
I take about 20 minutes a day checking online stores for Best Buy, Walmart, ToysRus, CircuitCity, and....gamestop. All these places, none in stock, but I check each day so I can jump in on the next shipment.Well, today when I happened into the Gamestop site, I noticed that they are no longer selling the Bundled (with guitar) 360 version of the game. A couple hours later, I see it back up, but now it is bundles with the music CD for an extra ten bucks. Not a bad deal.....unless...you don't like being forced to buy stuff you don't want when buying something.
I am completely amazed at their lack of business sense. I'm a normal gamer, probably spend about $2k a year on gaming stuff, and My personal policy is already set at "95% of the time buy from anywhere but gamestop" And this.... just wow....they want to elminate that 5% chance from me I guess. I know its not personal, but I can't see how other people fall for this either.
I could write forever, but sadly, with the pawnshop that Gamestop is, it will never go out of business. I'm not THAT old, but I remember a time where I could go into a game store and not feel dirty. Here's to hoping someone with more capitol and smarts than me starts up a real game store chain that is able to get a good mix of customer service and profit so it can become my new perferred place to shop.
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I see what you did there.
There is nothing wrong with buying and selling used games, but when you sell the used game for only a 10% discount, when you bought it for a 95% discount..... something's wrong.
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Guitar Hero with Guitar is clearly a high-demand enough item that they can guarantee a higher profit if they charge more for it, especially if it's they're currently the only ones who have it in stock at the moment. Of course, they can't just add another 10 bucks on top without violating distribution agreements, so they add some merchandise that most people wouldn't want anyway. Thus, they make more money and shift the music cd as well.
I think the problem isn't their bad business sense, but yours. They're bastards and it's a totally crummy thing to do, but it's good business sense.
Well being that you can't find the game else where, it seems exactly like business.
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Who the fuck donates a brand new copy of Guitar Hero 3 to Goodwill?
Then buy it somewhere else
Go on eBay
Oh wait, you'll probably pay like $130 on there because EVERYONE IS A SELFISH BASTARD
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Well done sir.
I laughed at that.
Satans..... hints.....
I'm just checking... I mean, I know locally Guitar Hero 3 with guitar is available at Gamestop, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, and FYE. In fact, Best Buy had a stack of 12 right by their entrance, with more in the section itself...
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
The retailers hate that they're not allowed to make a profit on the consoles, to be fair..
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/
That's amazing.
The last game I found at a Goodwill was a copy of Warcraft II.
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Where I live there's no 360 Guitar Hero 3 bundles either
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This particular Goodwill always seems to have at least one awesome deal on a game every time I go in (which, granted, is only once every few months now that I'm in college). I got Command & Conquer 3 a week after release for $12. I think they still have like thirty fucking copies of the PC version of Splinter Cell Chaos Theory, but I think that's because of the [strike]AIDS[/strike] Starforce.
It seems like it almost should be unethical, or something, but for the life of me I can't figure out why or how.
Epic win right here. Nothing against the OP, just that this post is made of win.
While I agree that what GameStop did is crappy and dirty, I do think that the era of the good 'ole game store with good customer service is over. Margins are apparently so thin, and competition is so intense from so many places (Big Box stores, online, digital distribution, etc.), that it seems like the ONLY way for a standalone game store to make any decent money is to employ shady tactics.
The only way I can see a store like that succeed is by making money on other items, with higher margins. Things like anime and video game collectibles and other "geek" stuff. The idea would be to just get the gamer into the store to pick up games, but then make your money on all the other merchandise that's hanging around. It would be hard though, since you'd have to keep up with what's popular, and hope that there's enough of a local population for the stuff to keep the business afloat.
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GH3? Sure, but there are no controllers in China since all the copies here are illegal anyway. Want a legit game, $100+ for the Japanese/thailand/Random langauge version that might or might not work.
You also have to haggle for prices just to get them down to the reasonable level, can you imagine going into EB, getting a new game, then spending 15 minutes yelling at the clerk to get $10 off so it will only cost you $70 instead of the $80 they wanted, for a game that should cost $40... Don't forget there is a LINE, and you get to stand there waiting for this to go through its paces for each customer.
My store is selling Guitar Hero 3 for an extra ten bucks without even giving you a fancy smancy CD. Wanna know why? Our distributor raised the price by ten bucks. Its fucking Christmas and GH3 is hard to get, for Chrissakes. This shit happens all the time.
However if they are in fact the only online retailer with it then I would have been pretty happy just to find the game.
And as far as the gutting of the games go I can understand that. I disliked it a lot but with a lack of other security measures and the display system they use they kind of have to. I'd prefer that to having to ask a nerd behind the counter to see 8 games at a time. Now why they don't implement some sort of security device system into the stores is beyond me. Perhaps it wouldnt fit in with the already gutted used games? I don't know.
It's probally the Guitar Hero 3 soundtrack
Wow, that's fucked up.
um .... move?
...no, not even then I would be that shocked. If it weren't for the used games, I wouldn't even bother with those places at all. Lord knows I'll probably need to do that for KoF XI and Neo-Geo Coll. when it comes out.
In the chapter on antitrust policy and regulation it discusses the Clayton Act of 1914. Section 3 prohibited tying contracts, in which a producer requires that a buyer purchase another (or others) of its products as a condition for obtaining a desired product.
So there you have it, GameStop breaks antitrust regulations from the early 20th century, news at 11!
I'm thinking this is easily worked around though as we see bundles everywhere.
edit: And I just figured out why this doesn't apply to GameStop (or anybody else). GameStop is a retailer, not a producer, so this particular line doesn't apply to them. Now if Red Octane were forcing GameStop to buy a copy of the soundtrack with every copy of Guitar Hero then maybe...just maybe, we'd have something.
Oh, and I love gutted out games... why buy anything else... :roll:
EA used to do this a lot. You want to make sure you have plenty of copies of Madden? Guess what? You're getting 25 copies per store of the new UO expansion too. Want lots of Sim City 2000? Hey, you're going to suck up a shitload of copies of Earth & Beyond. (Yes, yes, E&B was a great game, but nobody bought it, and retailers got stuck with the stock)
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197970666737/