Driving to Gamestop and back isn't free. But I agree with you on ebay. A few years ago I bought Super Mario Galaxy on ebay and it ended up being a counterfeit copy. I got a full refund though, and I reported the seller to both ebay and to Nintendo.
My mistake was it was a new seller so I was taking a risk. You can avoid that by checking out the feedback before you buy. Quote from: TJ Amazon is not really great for older games, I actually pointed out on the last page that for the 2 GameCube games listed, Amazon is more expensive than GameStop.
Only if you get lucky and find a GameStop with them in stock. They aren't available online and very likely most stores won't have them. In those cases, GameStop doesn't represent the "market price," they represent whatever the price was before they went out of stock.
You know, I'm no fan of GameStop, but I can't help but wonder if you know how business works. A quick look on eBay has auctions for Madden 09 for the ending at 99 cents. Saw a few penny auctions that didn't even have bids. Meanwhile, GameStop gives 25 cents before bonus. I know better now, but I felt like an idiot and I am embarrassed to admit it. To make up for that I now try to talk people out of trading their games in to Gamestop whenever possible so they don't make the same mistakes I did.
But you are right about newer high demand games like ME3. I'm sure the trade in value for games like that is more reasonable. It just depends on the game.
Man, I can't wait until everyone's wish comes true and then there is no dedicated national chain of gaming stores. That'll be awesome! That'll be the best! If Gamestop for some reason went out of business another chain would emerge to fill their niche. Its just like how Mammals took over after the dinosaurs went extinct. As long as Dinosaurs were alive they kept the mammals down and prevented them from ever realizing their true potential and evolving to humans, so I know the dinosaurs going extinct might seem like a bad thing, but the fact is we wouldn't be here today if they hadn't.
And I think that's how it is with the Mom and Pop video game stores. As long as Gamestop exists they will struggle, but with Gamestop's extinction they would flourish and we would see a more competitive market place instead of the stagnant repressive monopoly we have now. The reason those mom and pop stores have to charge as much as they do is because they are struggling just to exist. They don't have the volume of customers that Gamestop does, so they have to charge more by necessity.
Its not because they are being greedy. They either do that or they go under. But if the Gamestop monopoly were gone they would see more business, and the competition between them should result in lower prices and it would be a better thing for consumers because we would have more choice. Would it really change anything, though? Something tells me that prices wouldn't go down just because GameStop went away. They'd still be competing with online stores. Just because GameStop goes away doesn't mean they still wouldn't struggle to exist.
The only one I've ever really liked is Digital Press, and that's primarily because Digital Press is the best video game store ever thank them for older system price guides, all the retro games at PAX, etc. We'd probably just see a mad scramble for the top if GameStop went away, and then another company would swoop in and buy all the smaller chains - just like what happened with GameStop.
I'd rather have the devil that I know. I have no major issues with GameStop, and the issues I do have opened new games, occasionally steep used prices are easy to work around don't buy opened new games, game their system by buying a used game and return it in a week.
I don't think there is another store where you can "rent" a used game for a week for free. If you hate them, do that. I know it really pisses off managers. That's possible, but I think there would a respite of at least a few years before that would happen again if it did.
Before Gamestop rose to the monopoly it is today I can remember going to the local mall and there would be a Babbages, a KB Toys, and an Electronics Boutique. Now all of those are gone and instead there is just a Gamestop and that's it.
Monopolies are always a bad thing no matter what industry you're talking about. Its not just about prices. There's also the matter of innovation and choice. Without competition there is little incentive for a company to innovate.
I don't think any of us would be happy if say Microsoft became a monopoly and pushed Nintendo and Sony out of business. But that's exactly what Gamestop has done with Babbages and EB Games, and who knows how many small mom and pop stores over the years. Now when we go to a mall the only video game retailer will probably be a Gamestop, but 10 years ago there might have been three or more.
Now its just one. You either put up with their business practices such as selling opened games as new or go without entirely. Yes, there is the online retailers like Amazon, but it would be nice to be able to go to a mall and compare prices between several retailers. Deal with the fact that online retailers have made the shopping mall less important.
I miss when I could go to a mall and look at other things than a cursory electronics store and clothes. Hell, I'm glad I can usually find a GameStop in a mall, because outside of clothes, there is nothing for me at most malls.
That's not GameStop's fault, that's the marketplace's fault. And their used market is competing with Amazon, Best Buy, eBay, etc. It might not be something that is exactly what they are, but you can still compare prices, just not between two nearly identical video game specialty stores. I'm very lucky in that there is a local chain in my area called Willow Video Games that just beats the pants off of Gamestop.
As a result I never go into Gamestop. And they carry used stuff for ALL videogame systems as far back as Atari. Most of my SNES collection was purchased from them. It would have no effect on me whatsoever if Gamestop went under but most places are not so lucky to have a local competitor like I do.
Instead of Gamestop going under I would prefer if they just had better competition. Though part of what makes Willow work is that it's locally owned and only has three locations. A large nationwide chain like Gamestop is just going to have a certain disconnected corporate approach.
Of course someday videogames are going fully digitally distributed. It might not be for 10 years or more but someday it will happen and then Gamestop is finished. Videogame stores will be like used record stores dealing with very vintage selection and targetting a more niche hobbyist market. Let me get this straight You don't know if they've still got your copy sitting in a warehouse somewhere. Meanwhile, they had to pay employees to process your game, reprice it everytime there was a price change, pack it and ship it to other stores - not to mention have the shelf space taken up by some 12 year old game from four generations ago that no one cares about I don't have any huge complaints with them; the people at the one I go to are usually at least somewhat knowledgeable, and I've never run into anyone particularly awful.
They have some business practices that bother me in principle, but don't usually affect me personally. If I didn't buy basically everything outside of food and drinks on Amazon I'd have no problem going to GameStop on a more regular basis. I'll say one thing; I've never gotten any StreetPasses while shopping on Amazon.
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