9th June 2007, 9:20 PM
Quote:Really though, they don't have to screw us over some OTHER way. They COULD just sit all the games wrapped up and complete right out there. Honestly, my concerns are limited to the specific transaction taking place and beyond that I don't care, in the same way they don't care that I might be on welfare or something if I decide to "haggle" the price with them for a retarded reason like that. They have reported MASSIVE profits for the past few years. You telling me they couldn't set up a beeping security system at the door with some of that extra scratch? Sure they lose some money, but they keep their ETHICS. Or, maybe they never took business ethics. Seriously, you are just making them look WORSE with your defense ABF. You are basically saying that to save money on their end on a security system, they are instead opening up their games and still selling them as new.
Now this I REALLY don't understand. I mean, you actually prefer the games to be in plastic boxes Best Buy style to being "the box is empty" Gamestop-style... I completely disagree! Those "in a clear plastic case" things are so annoying... they waste a lot of space on the shelf and keep you from actually holding the box! Gamestop's system is far better. Because you can't just add security to the box, you need to completely keep people from getting at the box, and that means games behind glass, empty boxes, or large white plastic security devices.
Quote:ABF, do you not see the hypocracy of on the one hand not taking off a few dollars because they opened that game, saying it's "new", but then if you turn right around IN FRONT OF THEM and sell them that same game, you can't yourself sell it to THEM as new?
I don't understand your point... the game they are selling you IS new, open or not. As for their used tradein policy, it's definitely a total ripoff, but I never sell things back to the store so I don't care that much...
Quote:Look ABF, GR, that's what it all boils down to. Ask yourself one very important question. Why won't they buy your unwrapped games as New? When you get the answer to that question, you will understand why I'm upset they SELL their unwrapped games as new.
Simple answer, actually:
PROFITS!
Money rules all... and used stuff makes Gamestop a lot of money.
This has nothing to do with what you're saying there, I think, but it explains their entire used game sale system. (and no, new games that they have removed the contents of are NOT used!)
Or rather, they won't buy your unused game as new because it makes no financial sense for them to do that (unless it is defective and you want an exchange, of course). They remove the contents of new game boxes for security reasons, so that they can put the cases on the shelves without huge clunky security devices that would annoy the customers and reduce shelf space (hugely important in small stores like Gamestops are) and not get games stolen. Both policies have solid financial explanations, but have nothing in common. You're connecting two unrelated things.