So I just got screwed over by Gamestop

[jboking]

I've never experienced any trouble buying new games from them. I even got some beta keys out of it. I really don't trade games back in, I like to keep mine stockpiled so I can later make a little video game fortress out of them. The guys who work at my Gamestop are not total pricks. So I guess I got lucky.

 

[mike1921]

well you make a fair argument, I didn't expext to get an excessively large amount of money, just enough to be satisfied, I understand the concept of price depreciation, but take in to conderation that they took out about 20% percent from the already tiny amount of money I was supposed to get back felt like kind of a dick move, it's something that tends to put a bad taste in my mouth

the fact is if you say "i want cash" that means they won't see any money from you by buying another game and therefore not putting money into their system, so they are losing the money. that 20% is more or less so they are covered if they need to write off the game.

the whole less money for cash than trade in happens at ANY game store that, it's just that gamestop is a big target for anyone, i know for a fact that the local mom and pop game stores offer less if you want cash rather than a trade in

Gamestop is a glorified gaming pawn shop.

You can literally buy a brand new game from there for $65, go back the very same day to trade it in and they'll offer you $35.

Don't ever trade games at Gamestop. You'd probably get more money off of Ebay or something.

yeah cause the game is USED and not NEW, there is a difference between the two and that's why you get less money

it's a pretty easy concept to figure out why they'd offer you less money for a used game, even if you did buy it that day, it's no longer a used game and is therefore used and that means it's worth less money

You still only get 2-5$ more if you trade in a new game, I'm pretty sure.

 

[Captain_Caveman]

Gamestop is the devil. Just keep your old games or trade them with your friends.

 

[Therumancer]

Well I have mixed opinions about all of this. On some levels I can understand why they aren't going to give you any serious cash for a game that is a year or two old. It's a bit more of an issue when they are only giving you $20-$30 for a fairly new title only within a month or two of it's release.

But then again they also want to discourage people from more or less using them as gamefly.

Generally speaking I think that it would be reasonable for them to give you half of whatever they are going to mark the game for on the shelves. Excepting games fairly close to their release where if they are going to charge pretty much the same thing for a used copy as a new copy you should get a $5-$10 differance.

Such are my thoughts.

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Otherwise, I am going to call "BS" on some of the claims of back rooms full of used games they will never move. Unless of course Gamestop for some reason has franchises instead of all the stores being corperate or whatever.

The reason why I am saying this is because used games and electronics that can't be moved in the US are typically shipped outside of the country to be sold in the second or third world, which at the best is typically 2 to 5 years behind the US on most things. I for example know guys who make money by buying up old "outdated piece of crud" computers, fixing them up somewhat, and then selling them in Puerto Rico (US Territory), Mexico, or South/Central America where these systems are still fairly cutting edge for personal use.

The days of burying unsold Atari 2600 cartridges out in the desert are gone. Those Playstation games and such? What they can't resell here gets sent to other markets and sold apparently like everything else.

Europe kept the Commodore 64/128 alive (old computer system) long after it's US life had expired. The same thing applies to video games, and a video game that's a couple of years old and unmovable here, can find a ripe market elsewhere.

Thus, unless you have privatly owned Gamestops that for some reason can't do this (in which case I wonder why they are buying up used games in such quantities) I see no reason why they are sitting on this crud since I've already been told pretty reliably that what can't be moved here always gets tossed down the food chain. American castoffs being a big business.

>>>----Therumancer--->

 

[Stegofreak]

GameStop is one of the few game stores we have here. It's there or HMV really and their as bad as each other. Don't trade in very often though and usually shop around for the better price. This being Ireland though, were screwed over on principle.

Will Game not deliver down south?

Or do you not do online shopping?

I never consider game because the game stores we have down south are the biggest rip-offs of them all.

 

[thiosk]

Did they force u to do through with the trade? threaten you? or did they lie to you about a lot of stuff?
IF they just have bad priced and someone buys/trades their stuff then it's the buyer who's the stupid one, not them.

This.

Fool me once, shame on yo... them... Fool me tw... fool... you can't get fooled again.

 

[chimmers]

You still only get 2-5$ more if you trade in a new game, I'm pretty sure.

Why would you trade in a new game? You would return it with a reciept

 

[Mr.Pandah]

Wow, all the people that are complaining on here are funny, like, VERY funny.

I mean, others have said it already, but why would you complain about trading in a game...and accept the deal if you don't like it? I'll never understand it.

 

[Daveman]

Gamestation in the UK is alright in terms of what they have in stock and that they give you a fair price. But I've never sold any games I have. I tend to give them away to people. (Though I did give my xbox and all its games to my friend and in exchange he got me fallout 3 and l4d so there wasn't even any money exchange.)

For buying games though, more often than not the best deal is on the internet.

 

[cleverlymadeup]

Well I have mixed opinions about all of this. On some levels I can understand why they aren't going to give you any serious cash for a game that is a year or two old. It's a bit more of an issue when they are only giving you $20-$30 for a fairly new title only within a month or two of it's release.

But then again they also want to discourage people from more or less using them as gamefly.

Generally speaking I think that it would be reasonable for them to give you half of whatever they are going to mark the game for on the shelves. Excepting games fairly close to their release where if they are going to charge pretty much the same thing for a used copy as a new copy you should get a $5-$10 differance.

Such are my thoughts.

ok let's the math and your logic here for a second

$20-30 is unfair HOWEVER you said they should give you at least half of what they resell the game for. so if they resell it for $40-60 then giving you $20-30 is totally fair and acceptable

you should redo your math and what you consider fair and unfair

Otherwise, I am going to call "BS" on some of the claims of back rooms full of used games they will never move. Unless of course Gamestop for some reason has franchises instead of all the stores being corperate or whatever.

The reason why I am saying this is because used games and electronics that can't be moved in the US are typically shipped outside of the country to be sold in the second or third world, which at the best is typically 2 to 5 years behind the US on most things. I for example know guys who make money by buying up old "outdated piece of crud" computers, fixing them up somewhat, and then selling them in Puerto Rico (US Territory), Mexico, or South/Central America where these systems are still fairly cutting edge for personal use.

actually from a thread in here and from a couple friends who work at ebgames/gamestop. they will confirm they have a ton of used games in the back, hence why they have all those bargin bin games out front

this is also why they won't always give you a lot of money for certain newer games, it's cause they have a bunch in the back already. there was a thread on here where an eb/gamestop employee said they had a fort made out of used gta iv games

 

[mike1921]

You still only get 2-5$ more if you trade in a new game, I'm pretty sure.

Why would you trade in a new game? You would return it with a reciept

You already have the game, someone else bought a new copy for you and didn't bother keeping the reciept?

 

[I_LIKE_CAKE]

Yes, Gamestop rips you off, but it is a way to get rid of games that are just collecting dust. I just wish they would give better prices, since every used game they sell is pure profit.

 

[JWAN]

Use EBAY
just learn how to use it

 

[JWAN]

You should have watched Zero Originality - Gamestop is the worst place to buy or trade games around.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6wnow_zero-originality-episode-1_videogames

Im not going to listen to guy who sounds like homestarrunner

DONT GO TO GAMESTOP
EVER

 

[ultimatechance]

Sorry if im coming off rude, but you are not getting screwed over. This is how trading games work.

If you trade with a friend, he will most likely realize that he doesnt want to piss you off, so he wants to make a good deal with you, so that everyone wins. The focus is not on money, and is just to make a good compromise. Thats where you could probably get you $5 and $18 dollars back.

The problem is, stores take many of these things into consideration.
1. They dont know you, and could care less if you went bankrupt tomorrow. Its not cruel, its just that if you dont like their prices, dont get there.
2. The idea of selling a game is that you dont want it anymore, while someone else does. When I play a game to death and dont want to play it anymore, Ill take whatever money I can, and it is the same for many other people. So while you can sell that game for whatever you can get, the store can jack up the price in order to make profit. Thats not mean or selfish, thats how business works.
3.Imagine if every kid with a ps2 decided to sell all their games to buy ps3s, and got good money for all of them. Gamestop would go fucking bankrupt instantly. You also need to keep in mind that it takes time to sell, and if they are stocked full with the same copies of Madden 2003 and Max Payne, then they arent going to sell them at all. Just be glad that they didnt just tell you to piss off, and that they had too many copies of the games their buying in.
4. Gamespot is not your local blockbuster. You cant just buy a game and expect even close to half your money back. If every customer traded in their used games back in, then the gaming companies that provide the games you love will go out of business, as stores wont need to restock.

I work a mom and pop's type of game store, and if we didnt buy old used games for less than 20% of what we sold them for (new releases would be much more though), then we wouldnt trade at all. There would be absolutely no profit of having stocks full of repeated games, and just giving out free money to the kids who decided to give up gaming in exchange for shitloads of cash. World doesnt work like that. If you want good money for your stuff, either sell it to a friend, or go on ebay. That way, you dont go straight from seller to consumer, without any middle men.

 

[Therumancer]

CleverlyMadeup,

I believe I specified that when dealing with newer games they should probably wind up giving you $5-$10 less than what they are selling the game for because it's new.

It's like this. You bring in an older game they plan to sell for $20. Then they should give you $10. You bring in a newer game that they plan to sell used for $54, then they should give you $44-49.

Giving you $20-$30 for a game that is in salable condition and is going to be sold for only slightly less than a new copy is a bit much. They are basically devalueing the game by like 50%.

In general when games are new enough where they sell them used for $54 or whatever it's similar to them simply restocking the games. Them making $5-$10 on the transaction is not unreasonable but them making $20-$30 on it is.

 

[VicMcSeven]

I've never had a problem with GameStop. The store I go to has really nice employees that are way more helpful then they have to be. Selling games to them, yeah, I agree, they're kind of cheap, but no more so than FYE or any other place.

 

[Otaru Ikari]

You should have watched Zero Originality - Gamestop is the worst place to buy or trade games around.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6wnow_zero-originality-episode-1_videogames

OMG!! I thought those videos were gone forever!!!

 

[TheTygerfire]

when i got there they only told me that I was going to get $2.25 becuase their both "old games" then to add further to the insult they have to take out 15% from the money exchange.

Every used game store does that, it's so they can get a profit.

Go to another non-Gamestop store and try that, they usually have better offers.