You are very fortunate. At the four Gamestops in my area none of the new 360 games are sealed.
I don't think I've ever bought a 360 game that wasn't sealed, minus the two I got used.
Honestly, I've never had a problem with any EB/GS store before. Sure I do have a few annoyances about the system, but it's nothing to throw a fit over.
-I hate how when you do buy a used game, they put that little clear circle along the top of it. I've asked the clerk before "Hey, can you not put that on there, I hate the damn things" and they didn't put it on there. The fault is with me because 90% of the time I forget to ask for them not to put it on, and right as I walk out of the store I realize it.
-How sometimes they say "Were getting X game on X day so you can pick it up then" and then when X day comes around, they don't have it. Fuckass annoying, but that's the shippers fault most of the time. Unless it's a CE of a big game that I've been waiting for a long time for, I really don't have much of an issue with this.
And I think the only 'weird' experience I with an EB was when me and a friend of mine went to the one close to my house to buy WoW time cards. We walked in and asked the guy working in there for them - he just grunted at us (I shit you not), went into the back, got two, rang them up went back to sitting around. We ended up calling him the EB Ogre but didn't see him around much after that (I wonder why).
To be fair, the only time I really go into Gamestop is for games, or systems, that I want to pre-order, just to be on the safe side.
this.
I don't really have the time or patience (or gas money) anymore to drive all over town looking in retail stores for new games.
It helps that my Gamestop is staffed by respectable cool people, instead of the typical fat, neckbearded guys who tell me what to buy. I never feel pressured about buying anything, and if I did, I'd simply stop going there instead of whining about it on the Internet.
Also, thanks to their weekly newsletters that often contain "25% off" coupons for used games, I've been saving a ton of money on older releases that I've been meaning to pick up. (This week's is for 25% off any used Wii, DS, Gamecube or GBA games. Limit 3.)
How do these coupons work? You just print them out and run to the store with them? Would they accept grayscale as I have no colored ink?
The only problem I had with a Gamestop was a manager trying to force me to sing a song he made up before handing me Animal Crossing: Wild World. Needless to say I rarely ever go there anymore.
Also, thanks to their weekly newsletters that often contain "25% off" coupons for used games, I've been saving a ton of money on older releases that I've been meaning to pick up. (This week's is for 25% off any used Wii, DS, Gamecube or GBA games. Limit 3.)
How do these coupons work? You just print them out and run to the store with them? Would they accept grayscale as I have no colored ink?
The only problem I had with a Gamestop was a manager trying to force me to sing a song he made up before handing me Animal Crossing: Wild World. Needless to say I rarely ever go there anymore.
I would of kicked him in the fucking nuts and then burnt the place down. Seriously, what the fuck?
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KageraImitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered Userregular
I cannot tolerate them selling gutted games as new. I specifically request unopened new games, and 9 times of 10, I walk out of their stores empty handed. They punish their customers under the proclamation that its to combat theft, rather then tweak their shelves and displays.
It's true. At the local EB store here when the new smaller PC boxes came out shrink increased something like 200% because of it, leading to the cheapest solution possible, gutting the games.
I cannot tolerate them selling gutted games as new. I specifically request unopened new games, and 9 times of 10, I walk out of their stores empty handed. They punish their customers under the proclamation that its to combat theft, rather then tweak their shelves and displays.
It's true. At the local EB store here when the new smaller PC boxes came out shrink increased something like 200% because of it, leading to the cheapest solution possible, gutting the games.
This is trivial to fix. You keep the damn boxes behind the counter and put out ONE box. Marked and EMPTY. When a customer comes up, you give him a copy and put the demo box back on the shelf.
Hell, if its a popular game you could do front/back printouts of the box on a detachable tag with a "take to cashier" label.
-I hate how when you do buy a used game, they put that little clear circle along the top of it. I've asked the clerk before "Hey, can you not put that on there, I hate the damn things" and they didn't put it on there. The fault is with me because 90% of the time I forget to ask for them not to put it on, and right as I walk out of the store I realize it.
Yea man stickers galore, they kill me. But the one told me they weren't allowed to not put the stickers on because then I couldn't return it. However one store (it's not there anymore) use to have all the used games in plastic sleeves and they'd put the stickers on the sleeves. I loved that store.
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KageraImitating the worst people. Since 2004Registered Userregular
I cannot tolerate them selling gutted games as new. I specifically request unopened new games, and 9 times of 10, I walk out of their stores empty handed. They punish their customers under the proclamation that its to combat theft, rather then tweak their shelves and displays.
It's true. At the local EB store here when the new smaller PC boxes came out shrink increased something like 200% because of it, leading to the cheapest solution possible, gutting the games.
This is trivial to fix. You keep the damn boxes behind the counter and put out ONE box. Marked and EMPTY. When a customer comes up, you give him a copy and put the demo box back on the shelf.
Hell, if its a popular game you could do front/back printouts of the box on a detachable tag with a "take to cashier" label.
I said cheapest.
And they usually do only one box here, the rest are up on a shelf you need a ladder to get to.
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TavIrish Minister for DefenceRegistered Userregular
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Those are some pretty funky old game boxes. The last time I remember guying a PC game in a large cardboard box was about 7 years ago or so.
Also, thanks to their weekly newsletters that often contain "25% off" coupons for used games, I've been saving a ton of money on older releases that I've been meaning to pick up. (This week's is for 25% off any used Wii, DS, Gamecube or GBA games. Limit 3.)
How do these coupons work? You just print them out and run to the store with them? Would they accept grayscale as I have no colored ink?
The only problem I had with a Gamestop was a manager trying to force me to sing a song he made up before handing me Animal Crossing: Wild World. Needless to say I rarely ever go there anymore.
I would of kicked him in the fucking nuts and then burnt the place down. Seriously, what the fuck?
I assume it was a joke, isn't there a thing in Animal Crossing DS where you have to sing in the mic to get a shopkeeper to sell you something?
I get new games and used games at Gamestop. I've never really had any problems with them and I've never felt so strong about them that I started snapping pictures of the store and trying to convince people that my opinions are definitive.
All this seems pretty moot to me. There are plenty of places to buy games in the real world and through the interweb informational superhighway. If your boat isn't floating, go find another body of water.
Here's the thing about gutting games: It sucks and no one really likes it at all.
The way it supposed to work is ONE copy is gutted for floor display, though for a big name title they might gut a handful for a display wall or something. This one gutted copy should be sold last, and serves as a mechanism to let everyone know it's out of stock.
If they used 1 display box instead and had them all sealed behind the counter you'd all just be bitching that the dumbass employees forgot to remove the box from the shelves when they sold out three days ago.
the only time gutting really bothers me at all is when it happens to a obscure atlus like title, since the store will only get a handful and it's much more likely you'll get a gutted one. Of course, with those titles there also a good chance they'll only get preorders + 2 anyways, so most likely they'll be sold out after the first week.
One the subject of employee's renting games, there is definatly a breaking of rules (at least that i remember while working there). The managers shouldn't have let anyone take out something that used a cd key, and a lot of places wont let you borrow the new games (even though stupid GS policy is that that is fine).
Just my two cents on past experiences working there
-I hate how when you do buy a used game, they put that little clear circle along the top of it. I've asked the clerk before "Hey, can you not put that on there, I hate the damn things" and they didn't put it on there. The fault is with me because 90% of the time I forget to ask for them not to put it on, and right as I walk out of the store I realize it.
Yea man stickers galore, they kill me. But the one told me they weren't allowed to not put the stickers on because then I couldn't return it. However one store (it's not there anymore) use to have all the used games in plastic sleeves and they'd put the stickers on the sleeves. I loved that store.
They're not suppose to put the sealing stickers on used games, because you return them for any reason within 7 days anyway. Sounds like they don't know how to do their job.
The Gamestops that I've been to are pretty good. The employees who work there seem to know what they're doing and seem to care about the customers since they helped me out when I asked if they had certain games. They also seem to know plenty about gaming since when I asked them if they had a copy of Ico, they said no and told me it's very hard to find. I go there sometimes to buy either older games that probably can only be found used (like how I found a few original Xbox games just a few weeks ago) or a newly released game that I can't find at another store.
When I snagged Shiren the Wanderer at the new EB that opened up around here, the guys suggested I come back in a few weeks for FFT A2, and pulled out a used copy of Baroque (Wii) for 29 bucks without prompting.
When I asked if they happened to have a copy of Eternal Darkness laying around, one actually swore at the computer when the name didn't register. "What? it's a fucking classic!"
I mean, they didn't tell me anything I didn't already know, but they've had my respect since then.
Also, thanks to their weekly newsletters that often contain "25% off" coupons for used games, I've been saving a ton of money on older releases that I've been meaning to pick up. (This week's is for 25% off any used Wii, DS, Gamecube or GBA games. Limit 3.)
How do these coupons work? You just print them out and run to the store with them? Would they accept grayscale as I have no colored ink?
The only problem I had with a Gamestop was a manager trying to force me to sing a song he made up before handing me Animal Crossing: Wild World. Needless to say I rarely ever go there anymore.
I would of kicked him in the fucking nuts and then burnt the place down. Seriously, what the fuck?
I assume it was a joke, isn't there a thing in Animal Crossing DS where you have to sing in the mic to get a shopkeeper to sell you something?
It wasn't a joke. I bought the game and the guy wouldn't hand me the bag unless I sang along with him.
Luckily they opened another (cleaner) Gamestop up the road from my house. So I can completely avoid that fucker like the plague.
In Kingston, the city I live in now the EB I usually go to is actually pretty good. Me and a friend went there because I wanted to pick up a few DS games, and he got Supreme Commander and Sins of a Solar Empire after I got him hooked on it.
Ended up spending probably a good half hour in the store talking to the guy working there because he was a Sins fan and pretty much liked the same type of games I did. Good selection of games and the people that work there are pretty cool and helpful, plus they know what the hell they're talking about.
And even if that EB doesn't have something I want, right across the parking lot is a Best Buy, and on the other side of the parking lot is a Future Shop. And then down the road is another mall with another EB in it.
I don't know about the US stores, but haven't had much bad luck in the Canadian ones - minus the EB Ogre guy.
Actually speaking of Best Buy, we just returned a small little 15 inch LCD tv which we were planning to use in the kitchen. It was acting like a laptop screen - if you moved to the left/right or too far down, the screen would just go all weird and black. Took it to the return department in Best Buy and the girl working there told us:
"Yea, it does that because it's a LCD. All LCD screens do that."
Every time one of these threads comes up it's really apparent that Gamestop is a hit or miss experience. That is what I don't understand. Why are Gamestops so incredibly varied when applying their own policies? I mean, it's a chain store - and similar chain stores have no problems enforcing consistent guidelines.
I guess I just don't walk into any number of chain restaurants or boutiques and then get a totally different experience. Whereas some Gamestops let me browse to my leisure and don't harang me about asking to see a disc prior to purchase and then others won't stop trying to get me to pre-order Madden #210.
Actually speaking of Best Buy, we just returned a small little 15 inch LCD tv which we were planning to use in the kitchen. It was acting like a laptop screen - if you moved to the left/right or too far down, the screen would just go all weird and black. Took it to the return department in Best Buy and the girl working there told us:
"Yea, it does that because it's a LCD. All LCD screens do that."
What the shit. How do people like this get hired?
tangent, but if you're talking about viewing angles, then yes, the clerk was right. The smaller and shittier the LCD, the worse it is
I despise most of the GSEBs in my area, but there's one store in particular that's awesome. The staff there is truly knowledgeable, even about obscure shit - it's staffed by a well-rounded group of gamers, including one of the best Guilty Gear players I know. They only try to sell you a preorder if it's relevant, and I actually preorder there - they're definitely worth it.
They don't bullshit me about games, either - I can actually get pretty accurate info there. Really, really awesome store. If I just wanna go in and out and snag a game, I can do it, and if I wanna hang out and shoot the breeze I can do it too.
Also, they're against gutting games - the manager thinks it's a really stupid idea, so the only new games that I get that aren't shrink-wrapped are the display copies if they have nothing else left.
Actually speaking of Best Buy, we just returned a small little 15 inch LCD tv which we were planning to use in the kitchen. It was acting like a laptop screen - if you moved to the left/right or too far down, the screen would just go all weird and black. Took it to the return department in Best Buy and the girl working there told us:
"Yea, it does that because it's a LCD. All LCD screens do that."
What the shit. How do people like this get hired?
tangent, but if you're talking about viewing angles, then yes, the clerk was right. The smaller and shittier the LCD, the worse it is
Depends on the quality of the model. There's of the same size out there that don't have the problem, only deal is that they are more expensive. She just said that all LCD's in general do this.
Also, thanks to their weekly newsletters that often contain "25% off" coupons for used games, I've been saving a ton of money on older releases that I've been meaning to pick up. (This week's is for 25% off any used Wii, DS, Gamecube or GBA games. Limit 3.)
How do these coupons work? You just print them out and run to the store with them? Would they accept grayscale as I have no colored ink?
Pretty much. Just in case someone gets the idea that I'm trying to use a fake/photoshopped coupon (which some stores have accused me of when I bring in web coupons), I always make sure to print it directly from the internet so it has the gamestop URL at the top of the page.
I'm not sure about grayscale, but I don't think it would matter. Especially if the store you're using it at is familiar with the newsletter coupons.
Actually speaking of Best Buy, we just returned a small little 15 inch LCD tv which we were planning to use in the kitchen. It was acting like a laptop screen - if you moved to the left/right or too far down, the screen would just go all weird and black. Took it to the return department in Best Buy and the girl working there told us:
"Yea, it does that because it's a LCD. All LCD screens do that."
What the shit. How do people like this get hired?
tangent, but if you're talking about viewing angles, then yes, the clerk was right. The smaller and shittier the LCD, the worse it is
Depends on the quality of the model. There's of the same size out there that don't have the problem, only deal is that they are more expensive. She just said that all LCD's in general do this.
To an extent, they all do. The best view angle i've ever seen on a lcd tv is 178 degree, which still leaves a tiny bit on each side where it will go negative
hardly something to say "this employee didn't go into exact detail of the problem, how did she ever manage to get a job" about
Also, thanks to their weekly newsletters that often contain "25% off" coupons for used games, I've been saving a ton of money on older releases that I've been meaning to pick up. (This week's is for 25% off any used Wii, DS, Gamecube or GBA games. Limit 3.)
How do these coupons work? You just print them out and run to the store with them? Would they accept grayscale as I have no colored ink?
The only problem I had with a Gamestop was a manager trying to force me to sing a song he made up before handing me Animal Crossing: Wild World. Needless to say I rarely ever go there anymore.
I would of kicked him in the fucking nuts and then burnt the place down. Seriously, what the fuck?
I assume it was a joke, isn't there a thing in Animal Crossing DS where you have to sing in the mic to get a shopkeeper to sell you something?
It wasn't a joke. I bought the game and the guy wouldn't hand me the bag unless I sang along with him.
Also, thanks to their weekly newsletters that often contain "25% off" coupons for used games, I've been saving a ton of money on older releases that I've been meaning to pick up. (This week's is for 25% off any used Wii, DS, Gamecube or GBA games. Limit 3.)
How do these coupons work? You just print them out and run to the store with them? Would they accept grayscale as I have no colored ink?
Pretty much. Just in case someone gets the idea that I'm trying to use a fake/photoshopped coupon (which some stores have accused me of when I bring in web coupons), I always make sure to print it directly from the internet so it has the gamestop URL at the top of the page.
I'm not sure about grayscale, but I don't think it would matter. Especially if the store you're using it at is familiar with the newsletter coupons.
I print the coupons out in black and white and they take them just fine.
Also, thanks to their weekly newsletters that often contain "25% off" coupons for used games, I've been saving a ton of money on older releases that I've been meaning to pick up. (This week's is for 25% off any used Wii, DS, Gamecube or GBA games. Limit 3.)
How do these coupons work? You just print them out and run to the store with them? Would they accept grayscale as I have no colored ink?
Pretty much. Just in case someone gets the idea that I'm trying to use a fake/photoshopped coupon (which some stores have accused me of when I bring in web coupons), I always make sure to print it directly from the internet so it has the gamestop URL at the top of the page.
I'm not sure about grayscale, but I don't think it would matter. Especially if the store you're using it at is familiar with the newsletter coupons.
I print the coupons out in black and white and they take them just fine.
all that they really need to be able to read is the EBC code on it (as well as the terms and all, obviously.)
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You are very fortunate. At the four Gamestops in my area none of the new 360 games are sealed.
(Also, the internet)
I don't think I've ever bought a 360 game that wasn't sealed, minus the two I got used.
Honestly, I've never had a problem with any EB/GS store before. Sure I do have a few annoyances about the system, but it's nothing to throw a fit over.
-I hate how when you do buy a used game, they put that little clear circle along the top of it. I've asked the clerk before "Hey, can you not put that on there, I hate the damn things" and they didn't put it on there. The fault is with me because 90% of the time I forget to ask for them not to put it on, and right as I walk out of the store I realize it.
-How sometimes they say "Were getting X game on X day so you can pick it up then" and then when X day comes around, they don't have it. Fuckass annoying, but that's the shippers fault most of the time. Unless it's a CE of a big game that I've been waiting for a long time for, I really don't have much of an issue with this.
And I think the only 'weird' experience I with an EB was when me and a friend of mine went to the one close to my house to buy WoW time cards. We walked in and asked the guy working in there for them - he just grunted at us (I shit you not), went into the back, got two, rang them up went back to sitting around. We ended up calling him the EB Ogre but didn't see him around much after that (I wonder why).
this.
I don't really have the time or patience (or gas money) anymore to drive all over town looking in retail stores for new games.
It helps that my Gamestop is staffed by respectable cool people, instead of the typical fat, neckbearded guys who tell me what to buy. I never feel pressured about buying anything, and if I did, I'd simply stop going there instead of whining about it on the Internet.
How do these coupons work? You just print them out and run to the store with them? Would they accept grayscale as I have no colored ink?
The only problem I had with a Gamestop was a manager trying to force me to sing a song he made up before handing me Animal Crossing: Wild World. Needless to say I rarely ever go there anymore.
I would of kicked him in the fucking nuts and then burnt the place down. Seriously, what the fuck?
It's true. At the local EB store here when the new smaller PC boxes came out shrink increased something like 200% because of it, leading to the cheapest solution possible, gutting the games.
This is trivial to fix. You keep the damn boxes behind the counter and put out ONE box. Marked and EMPTY. When a customer comes up, you give him a copy and put the demo box back on the shelf.
Hell, if its a popular game you could do front/back printouts of the box on a detachable tag with a "take to cashier" label.
I said cheapest.
And they usually do only one box here, the rest are up on a shelf you need a ladder to get to.
Hellgate London came in a ginormous box.
I assume it was a joke, isn't there a thing in Animal Crossing DS where you have to sing in the mic to get a shopkeeper to sell you something?
When I bought it, it was in a regular DVD box and it has been like that everywhere I've seen it.
All this seems pretty moot to me. There are plenty of places to buy games in the real world and through the interweb informational superhighway. If your boat isn't floating, go find another body of water.
The way it supposed to work is ONE copy is gutted for floor display, though for a big name title they might gut a handful for a display wall or something. This one gutted copy should be sold last, and serves as a mechanism to let everyone know it's out of stock.
If they used 1 display box instead and had them all sealed behind the counter you'd all just be bitching that the dumbass employees forgot to remove the box from the shelves when they sold out three days ago.
the only time gutting really bothers me at all is when it happens to a obscure atlus like title, since the store will only get a handful and it's much more likely you'll get a gutted one. Of course, with those titles there also a good chance they'll only get preorders + 2 anyways, so most likely they'll be sold out after the first week.
One the subject of employee's renting games, there is definatly a breaking of rules (at least that i remember while working there). The managers shouldn't have let anyone take out something that used a cd key, and a lot of places wont let you borrow the new games (even though stupid GS policy is that that is fine).
Just my two cents on past experiences working there
They sell 360 and PC games for 5-10$ MORE than what they are supposed to be. Future Shop is always a better decision.
They're not suppose to put the sealing stickers on used games, because you return them for any reason within 7 days anyway. Sounds like they don't know how to do their job.
When I asked if they happened to have a copy of Eternal Darkness laying around, one actually swore at the computer when the name didn't register. "What? it's a fucking classic!"
I mean, they didn't tell me anything I didn't already know, but they've had my respect since then.
It wasn't a joke. I bought the game and the guy wouldn't hand me the bag unless I sang along with him.
Luckily they opened another (cleaner) Gamestop up the road from my house. So I can completely avoid that fucker like the plague.
Ended up spending probably a good half hour in the store talking to the guy working there because he was a Sins fan and pretty much liked the same type of games I did. Good selection of games and the people that work there are pretty cool and helpful, plus they know what the hell they're talking about.
And even if that EB doesn't have something I want, right across the parking lot is a Best Buy, and on the other side of the parking lot is a Future Shop. And then down the road is another mall with another EB in it.
I don't know about the US stores, but haven't had much bad luck in the Canadian ones - minus the EB Ogre guy.
Actually speaking of Best Buy, we just returned a small little 15 inch LCD tv which we were planning to use in the kitchen. It was acting like a laptop screen - if you moved to the left/right or too far down, the screen would just go all weird and black. Took it to the return department in Best Buy and the girl working there told us:
"Yea, it does that because it's a LCD. All LCD screens do that."
What the shit. How do people like this get hired?
I guess I just don't walk into any number of chain restaurants or boutiques and then get a totally different experience. Whereas some Gamestops let me browse to my leisure and don't harang me about asking to see a disc prior to purchase and then others won't stop trying to get me to pre-order Madden #210.
tangent, but if you're talking about viewing angles, then yes, the clerk was right. The smaller and shittier the LCD, the worse it is
The collectors edition came in a box about 20% larger than the old pc game boxes, it was like a jumbo cereal box.
They don't bullshit me about games, either - I can actually get pretty accurate info there. Really, really awesome store. If I just wanna go in and out and snag a game, I can do it, and if I wanna hang out and shoot the breeze I can do it too.
Also, they're against gutting games - the manager thinks it's a really stupid idea, so the only new games that I get that aren't shrink-wrapped are the display copies if they have nothing else left.
Depends on the quality of the model. There's of the same size out there that don't have the problem, only deal is that they are more expensive. She just said that all LCD's in general do this.
Pretty much. Just in case someone gets the idea that I'm trying to use a fake/photoshopped coupon (which some stores have accused me of when I bring in web coupons), I always make sure to print it directly from the internet so it has the gamestop URL at the top of the page.
I'm not sure about grayscale, but I don't think it would matter. Especially if the store you're using it at is familiar with the newsletter coupons.
To an extent, they all do. The best view angle i've ever seen on a lcd tv is 178 degree, which still leaves a tiny bit on each side where it will go negative
hardly something to say "this employee didn't go into exact detail of the problem, how did she ever manage to get a job" about
Bloody hell, what is wrong with people?
Thank god for that.
I print the coupons out in black and white and they take them just fine.
all that they really need to be able to read is the EBC code on it (as well as the terms and all, obviously.)
I bought an xbox game on the road and it turns out it's not backwards compatible and I'm not in the town I bought it in anymore
s long as i fits the return policy, then yeah
I'm not sure if that applies between canadian and US stores, but I know that at least within a country it works.
's fine, I'm in the US right now
Any xbox game that is backwards compatable is going to have (BC) next to the name of the game on the little yellow sticker, by the way.
It's still a good idea to do the research before buying. Obviously the sticker can be incorrect or incomplete as to it's playability.