" Nate, you and the other minority in here claiming GameStop to be fine are missing a very important point: for every one of you that have a pleasant experience, there are twelve people that tell them to "fuck off"...and none of their reasons are unwarranted.
At my workplace, we go to GameStop to buy all our 360 games (even though I've told our boss time and time again to go to Game Crazy instead, as they know what they are talking about and give better trade-in credit). When Left 4 Dead came out, they sold us three display copies as they were the last three in the store. These were opened packages, and yet GameStop REFUSED to sell them as used games...even though they were used by the store!!! BULL SHIT!!! Sure, it's a $5.00 savings...but $5.00 x 3 = ? You telling me you wouldn't want to save $15 from the $180 you have to spend?
Personally, outside of work, I have had nothing but bad experiences there. The one time I've had a good experience was when I went to find a copy of Crackdown used, and they had it for $9.00. I bought it and got the Hell out of there.
Besides that time, though...the worst was when I took a stack of games, probably 20 or 30 games...at least 10 were brand spanking new, and 2 were still in the wrappers! By the way, this was when I was running BonusStage.com, so I was getting a LOT of free games from the companies and decided "why not trade in games that I don't need to hold onto anymore?" I went in with the games and SPECIFICALLY SAID "hey, I just wanna see how much credit I can get for all these." How much credit did I get? $110. $110 for all those games, and yet at least 10 of them were games that had just come out in the last week or two? So, I told them "well, that's not enough for what I'm wanting" (which was an Xbox 360 fully paid and pre-ordered) and told them I was going to try Game Crazy across the street. What do they tell me?
"I thought you were trading all those in, man. We already gave you the credit."
"Okay, then type into your computer that I don't want the credit and I want to take my games somewhere else."
"Sorry, I can't do that. It's in the system now."
...................................................................................................................................................for fuck's sake. -_-
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