OceanOfSound

I've signed up to comment i am so mad at Gamestop for this. I worked for Software Etc. for several years, which ended up getting bought out by, and consequently became rebranded as Gamestop. In all my time with the company, we were never privy to any such "company policy" so that guy was just being a dick. You should call another local Gamestop, or even that one, and request to contact the district manager. The punk should be fired for asking you to leave the store, especially since you were actually a paying customer. Now  i remember why i buy all my games digitally now on the PC, so i don't have to deal with Gamestop employees shoving pre-orders down my throat or whatever else they are peddling. In their defense though, i am good friends with an entire Gamestop store by my work, and they are the ONE decent store i have ever been to since i worked for the company. Hats off to the Christy st. Fremont store for being awesome! They aren't all bad, but a majority of them are.  
 
The employees are treated like crap by the company, are underpaid, and the company does employ many shady practices. For example? Did you just pre-order that new game? Isn't it guaranteed for you for up to 48/72 hours? No, it's not. If a walk in customer comes in, and wants a copy, they will sell your copy to keep him from going across the parking lot to a Best Buy or other store, so they don't lose all the sales they used to from all the folks who think pre-ordering is usually bullshit. I have had two different Gamestops do this recently, and it's apparently a company missive. In the past, someone would walk in, and ask for X game.
 
Their response? All the employees would look at one another with THAT look, and then ask you in a condescending tone, "Well, did you pre-order it?" Then you'd be told you're SOL and you'd end up getting the game somewhere else. Not anymore.
 
There is no such policy regarding "price shopping". It's a free land, and you're allowed to call different stores and ask their prices on games. GOD This makes my blood boil. BOIL, i tell you. You can probably get that guy fired for that.