HOLY FUCK TURN ON CNBC

JUST

this is hilarious, what happened?

>>388216879
HL3 cancelled
no one wants to buy games anymore

Put the JUST hair on him.

>>388216879
Amazon and online downloads, it's easier to just order your game online or download than to drive to the store and look for it

LOOK AT THE TOP OF HIS HEAD

>>388216879
More people buying downloadable games and more competition in the used game market.

maybe they'll stop opening cases and selling them as new now?

>>388214864
Damn, and I thought the employees had given up on life. It goes all the way to the top.

>>388217123
Is it hard to understand what used means or are you actually this stupid?

>>388214864
>gamestop goes full blockbuster
>Can't fucking sell my old consloles and finished games anymore
>have to fucking start a collection now

fuck this gay earth

>>388216879
Failed attempts to diversify, a dying used game market, and shitty sales compared to larger stores like Amazon and Best Buy.

gamestop's gonna be alive long enough for me to pick up a preorder by early next year right
my local one has treated me good for years

>>388216879
The market is realizing that Gamestop's business model sucks, and is extremely anti-consumer in such a way that is actually obvious to consumers and it's largely the reason their profits are in the shitter.

The market is stupid though. It's been that way for years, and it took those years of telegraphing that failure for the shareholders to finally realize:
>Oh, this is a dying market

>>388216879
shit practices and expensive used games for whatever reason.

>>388217207
>Can't fucking sell my old consloles and finished games anymore
Are you fucking retarded? Gamestop gives you absolute shit for trade-in. Sell it yourself on eBay or Craigslist and make 3 times the money

>>388217205
if I'm paying new price for a disk one of their employees played overnight that shit's fucked up

>>388217346
>buy xenoblade chronicles x new
>trade it back 1 or 2 months later
>get 40$ back

it's only if you sell 3+ year old games that you get nothing

I can't see "Gamestop" without thinking of the anon that used it as an atm through preorders.

>>388217387
They don't play them over night. They put them in the drawer with the rest of the guts so there can be a display copy. Just ask for a shrink wrapped one you fucking austist.

>>388217428
>lost 20 bucks for 1-2 months of ownership
Your loss. You would have made back more selling on ebay and spent less using a service like gamefly.

>>388217205
>This is what gamestop actually believes.

>>388217387
what, did you take the display box to the counter like a fucking moron? it's still new.

>>388217428
shut up retard. My copy of madden 09 is definitely worth more than a dollar!

>>388217108
Digital downloads are still uncommon anon, what you mean is that people are using online retailers like Amazon.

I wonder if they are going to do closing sales :)

>>388216879
Those kikes at gamestop go on about used games and then price them higher than new games. I legitimately saw a used copy of FE Birthright there a few months ago right next to a new one and the used was $5 more.

>>388217025
>>388217108
>>388217216
>>388217254
>>388217328
I thought everyone already knew this was the case, I thought some specific event lead to the sudden drop.

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>>388217453
That was a 100% marketing ploy. How in the hell would driving all the way to a GameStop benefit anyone?

The only people it would benefit is GameStop for having millions of dollars in temporary money. Of course it would cost thousands of employees their jobs, but employees were never a concern of the company.

That CEO knows what is weighing on his soul.

>>388217648
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>digital downloads are still uncommon

yeah like all of that money steam and the fucking app store totally aren't making

>>388216879
Digital download services are dominating, For you things you cant download you buy off Amazon.

>>388216879
>Diversity hires
>hire more women
Last thing neckbeards want to see is a pretty girl when they are buying CoD, they will spaghetti everywhere and go buy it on amazon instead.

>>388214864
>/biz/

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Shit, I hope they don't go out of bussiness before I scam more money out of them. Made 2k in store credit (which I turned into amazon credit) back during the June fiasco.

so what IS happening? I kinda don't wanna give news channels money by viewing and I'm also guessing I've missed the gist of it

>>388217894
how

>>388217894
>Made 2k in store credit (which I turned into amazon credit) back during the June fiasco.

How? Explain

>>388214864
>>>/biz/

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>>388217720
no you didn't
unless it was on a publisher sale in which case GameStop doesn't adjust their prices to compete because if the new ones all get moved out there's only used left to sell.

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Just a few days ago, GameStop was selling SNES Minis combined with random Think Geek items like a Tetris Lamp for hundreds of dollars, and actually sold out of their supplies.

If only the news was addressing that kind of mark-up

>>388217216
Good. The gamestop in my area is shady as shit.

>Some of the employees, the manager included, stack 2-3 magazine subscriptions on people to look good on them, and fuck other people over when they come back in and have to get them removed
>The manager would open brand new game boxes so they could sell them as Used on release day
>getting angry and arguing with customers over minor shit, like the customer asking why they're paying full price for something that's on sale

The only consolation is that the employees were just as shady to the company and I'd frequently overhear how they just walk out with games after closing up. Thank fuck for the internet making me never have to interact with that fucking place again.

Well that and the store shutting down after the manager ran off with about 20 PS4s that kinda fucked them, but mostly the online.

>>388217934
In a nutshell, Gamestop is about to share the same fate as Blockbuster

>>388218046
they put new ones on sale without adjusting the used price sometimes

>>388217968
>>388217991
he didn't. He's one of the shitters who though they pulled a fast one only to realize trade credit is only good for merchandise and collectibles and can't be used on POSA cards.

>>388214864
>that hair
J U S T
U S
S. U
T S U J

>>388217648
You can't even buy new physical pc games these days because all they are are cardboard boxes with steam codes. Hell on consoles digital game cards are outselling their case counterparts and if console network infrastructure wasn't so fucking shit pure digital would be king on there also

>>388218165
fuck I actually managed to preorder a super nintendo classic out of them and I have two more preorders on the way
shit
what's gonna happen to my game preorders if they go under this year?

>>388218230
wait i fucked that up
J U S T
U____S
S____U
T S U J

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post yfw you lived long enough to see fucking gamestop die

>>388217428
They give you more money depending on how rare the trade in is. Giving back Watch Dogs would get me probably 5 dollars, for example.

>>388218305
orders will be fulfilled before that happens
or
you will be reimbursed

>>388217720
They've been doing that since their inception. It's called inventory devaluation. They need to offload the new game they bought from the manufacturer at $45 before the price drops. They don't care if the used game sits there for years since they paid $15 for it.

>>388217968
>>388217991
They had two overlapping promotions: trade in six or more games for an extra 60% credit, and buy 2 preowned games, get one free. With the trade in bonus (extra 70% if you're a PUR member), some games were worth more credit than you bought them more. Buying a bunch of games like that (almost exclusively Nintendo games) with B2G1 free promotion allowed you to sell them back to GS for a nice profit. There are trade in limits to keep in mind though.

>>388218164
I believe 0% of what you said.

>>388217934
>dont wanna give news channels money by viewing
Weapons grade autism

>>388218305
Well if it's anything like what happened to GAME, they'll just keep your money and say fuck you.

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>>388218329

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This is fantastic. I honestly can't wait to see all the gamestops in my area look like pic related. They brought this upon themselves.

>40 dollars for a used PS3 controller
Good fucking riddance. The going out of business sales are going to be great.

>>388218432
>t. gamestop employee

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>>388218329
Makes me wonder just how low the next company will sink.

There are already stories of kids having to get fingerprints and pictures taken, just to trade in a game.

>>388218194
You can't buy giftcards with trade credit, but you can buy Amazon cash, which directly deposits credit in your Amazon account.

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>>388218518
>being so desperate for (You)s that you lie about your local gamestop

Nigga I bet you don't even shop at gamestop nigga

p-please tell me it'll be around at least until next year
I really wanna play starfox 2 without breacing 80$ price

Shit, I still have this $60 Fucking Gamestop gift card I got a year ago, what should I buy before they go under? No Pop Funkos

>>388218432
I work at gamestop, and i believe it.
We have numbers and percentages to keep up with, new release days fucks with a preowned quota % we need. Its retarded because those new releases count against us. Moving a new game to preowned would solve that. Not that id ever do something so retarded.

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>>388218329

The #1 reason I dont use Gamestop isnt Amazon or Digital Downloads or any of that shit

Its that they take the plastic off the case and put the sticker directly on the cover. Fuck them.

>>388218645
No u dont

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>>388218329
>only place to buy physical games left will be Walmart

>>388217025
Never had gamestop call me up on release day to tell me my preorder is cancelled and I can suck a dick. Have had Amazon do that, though.

>>388218421
I remember that bullshit. People on Cheap Ass Gamer were bragging about all the credit they had.

>>388217720
Sometimes they weren't even used. They would take new games out of their plastic to sell them at ebay prices. This happened very noticeably with zenoblade, $80 "used" copies would have zero damage and unused club Nintendo cards

>>388218754
This is a good doujin

>>388218754
Best Buy and Target are going under too?

>>388218589
Seeing this image hurts me. The last game I bought from Funcoland was Earthbound after my friends and I played Smash Bros. 64 and unlocked Ness.

>>388218814
Those kikes locked off any more potential scams like that to long time members only.

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>>388218329

>>388218754
Amazon, Best Buy, and Toys R' Us. Local Walmart stores still charge $49.99 for four year old games.

>>388218754
you can still order physical copies off amazon or still go to best buy or target

>>388218897
Target doesn't exist here and Best Buy is basically just a wall of BamHam copies.

>>388218279
>Hell on consoles digital game cards are outselling their case counterparts
This has never happened.

>>388216879

Nintendo Switch happened.

>tfw got a job with my friend working at gamestop my first year of college
>friend pretended it was the first time we met so as not to raise suspicion
>stole shit almost every week, friend did the same
>would always back each other's stories up so the corporate side of things never caught on
>got every new game I wanted within a few days of release
>worked there for 4 years all through college
>got a great reference and now I work at a comfy office job.
Thanks Gamestop, for being so fucking retarded.

>>388219031
Literally happens with every caw o dooty fifa or madden

>>388218726
K

>>388219031
Walmart stores. They have a small section with dozens of digital card codes, that need to be activated at the register.

>>388218589
>There are already stories of kids having to get fingerprints and pictures taken, just to trade in a game.
what the fuck

>P-Power to the players
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5PbQkbYLyo

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>>388219118
Don't reply to me

>>388219095
>got a great reference and now I work at a comfy office job.
Based. I dream of this. What do you do at your office job if you don't mind me asking anon?

>>388219095
Your store manager knew, he just didn't care. He has enough footage of you two to put you in prison.

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How does /v/ feel knowing that Amazon is monopolizing markets and becoming a megacorporation?

>>388219180
u got it

>>388218594
they only give amazon cash equal to your cash trade value though so....why are you lying to strangers on the internet

>>388217842

Are you kidding me? I don't want to see no average tier pudgey scene girls or whatever the fuck they hire now when I go there. If they had hiring practices of something like Hooters with the same kind of uniform policies, I'd actually go there to buy games.

>>388219138
Of course they do, but they don't outsell physical by any means.

>>388219303
I'll make u stop

>>388219297
Gamestop deserved it though.

>>388219297
feels good, just how lord gaben will swallow all

>>388219297
THe MegaCorp title is between Amazon and Google Right now.

>>388217236
This, I have like $30 in coupons from them. I want my Spider-Man for half off

>>388217894
I bought myself a PS4 and like 8 games. Ended up with like $50 in coupons.

I still haven't gotten that fucking Game Informer magazine yet though. Gonna call them soon about that

>>388219297
A true american clap to megacorps buttfucking you.

>>388219297
number one: ____'_ ______

>>388219310
You don't get the amazon cash in the same transaction dummy. You come back with your trade credit on a card and get the full value.

>>388219430
At the moment, it's Amazon, Google and Apple.

>>388218858
Gunna need some source on that one famalam

>>388217025
But gamestop keeps all of their games behind the counter. Whenever I go there I walk up and ask if they have whatever I'm looking for.

a decade of bad "product" will make "product distribution" have negative growth. gamestop should sue EA for hurting their business with trash products

>>388219297
We already allow numerous other corporations to become that. Blame conservatives, I guess?

>>388219276
No he doesn't. Half of the cameras in a gamestop are either decorative or broken, and people don't care to fix them.
But our manager also didn't care, so you're right in that respect. He stole too, just far less than anyone else.

>>388219250
I mostly file patient reports and send them to the right people. I work in an office for a medical center. Sometimes I need to call other buildings to get the files i need, but it's really only like 2 hours of work stretched across 8 hours, since you never know when a request will come in. It's a lot of mindless data entry, but that's what I want in my job. I don't want to think about it at all, especially when I'm not at my job.

>>388217842
>diversity boogiemen

>>388219859
Blame conservatives?

Corporations have gotten stronger due to free trade and globalism.

And politicians on both sides of the Atlantic, regardless of stripes, allowed this to happen.

>>388219164
>>388218589
>Stories of kids getting fingerprinted and pictured
That's by law. Gamestop is effectively a pawn shop with how it handled trade ins of various products, meaning they have to take prints and signatures in case it turns out something was stolen, then traded in. Its not some fucked up scheme, it's just following the law

>>388219824
[BeNantoka] Junban wa Mamorou | Let's Take Turns

>>388220042
Pro-corporation laws are all conservative, m8. As was the SCOTUS ruling to give corporations the power to infinitely fund elections and be considered "individual". Accept wrong doing once in a while, brah. It's a show of maturity.

>>388217842
Oh shut the hell up.

>>388217516
>He doesn't know
It's been an open secret for nearly a decade that gamestop employees take home new games and play them you dumb fuck. They let them do it because it lets the employee gain "knowledge" about the game so they can sell it.

>>388214864
I don't care.

t. Steam user

>>388219276
I've heard horror stories of other Gamestop managers, but when I worked there my manager was always on my side. He'd always let me carry out shit we were supposed to destroy. I got a PS2, a Xbox 360, and a handful of games all within a few months. He ended up moving on to some other job and I quickly got out of there after him, haven't even been to that Gamestop since.

>>388220265
>t. Steam user
KEK, what a label

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>>388219328
lmao imagine if your mother read this post you goofy turbovirgin

>>388220168
Are you retarded boyo? Leaning either way is bad for everyone. Consumers need protection and so do corporations. Leaning too much either way fucks everyone.

>>388220394
You prefer PC Master Race?

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>>388214864
>CNBC
FAKE

>>388220265
>t. Steam user
more like t. Special needs

>>388220524
I don't know, both sound pretty pathetic

>>388220519
Corporations are a cancer on society
The workers must seize the means of production from their feudal overlords and organize in a democratic fashion for a society to truly be a democracy.

>>388217842
SO MUCH THIS

>>388217894
Reminds me of one anon that used GameStop as a bank.

>>388217760
I renew my MS office subscription at gamestop does that count?

>>388217025
antitrust crackdown on bezos' egglike skull when? i want to make a friggin omelette lads

>>388216879
Since Trump was elected, unemployment has dropped and with 1.2 million new jobs created and stock market at consistently all-time highs, less people are finding leisure time to play videos games because they've gotten off their lazy asses and are working jobs now.

>>388220468

She'd find it funny I have to convince a bunch of turboautists that is healthy for a man to want to look at tits every now and then rather than fantasize about relationships with homely girls working at gamestop.

>>388218616
>defending gamestop

>>388220741
>seize means of production
>hire workers to start production
>i'm now cancer on society
Really fire those synapses.

>>388220741
The worker is far too stupid for that.

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>>388218329

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>>388217894
I've got a surprise for you anon.
That deal is back.

>>388214864

GOYIM NO!

>>388217516
LOL

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>>388217025
That's pleb tier.
Nothing better than ordering a game branded as NEW on the gamestop website and receiving a chewed loose cartridge.
The gamestop experience without leaving home!

>>388214864
I miss Gamecrazy.

>>388221515
Meh, the big thing was that you could buy games for cheap at other places and sell them for way higher at Gamestop.

You can still kinda do it now but you'd invest more money into it

>>388221127
"unemployment" is a fake statistic.
It is entirely up to the pollster whether to mark someone down as "unemployed" or to write them off as dregs of society and quietly omit them from the poll entirely, whichever would result in a number that best fits their agenda.

>>388221361
You are stealing their labor and garnishing from their wages to make your profits. They're not employees, they're wage slaves.
In a democratic system they would manage themselves or vote to hire a manager.

>>388220824
wait when was this?

>>388217894
How the fuck do you turn store credit at GS into amazon credit?

>>388221685
That's untrue. There is a specific, economic definition of what unemployment is.

>>388221878
Tell that to the pollsters.

That's what they get for hiring stupid chads and ironic gamers

>>388216879
people finally admit that not owning things you pay for is better because companies know best. entitlement is just not rightin 2017

>>388221685
>conglomerate of wage slaves with no one to coordinate their job
>hire a manager
>manager is now a wage slave
>conglomerate is now cancer on society
Truly miraculous.

>>388221947
You're right in regards to reporting the unemployment rate, but the rate itself is falling during the first 8 months of a Trump presidency because economic and consumer confidence is skyrocketing now that there is at least talks of not purposefully punishing small businesses and success like there was under Clinton, Bush, and Obama. I'm not a huge Trump fan, but by God, is he getting us out of an economic and social shithole. Geopolitical, different story.

>>388222249
I'm hoping now that the hobo is gone and someone mature and with a ballsack is in charge of staff (Kelly) we'll see things more organized. My issue has always been how Trump has strengths and weaknesses and the administration needs to organize around that.

>>388220168
>being this underage

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>>388218329

>>388214864
>>388216879
>dairy products positioned to open laser fire on entering customers
Yeah, that can put a stopper to the sale number...

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>>388219328
>I don't want to see no average tier pudgey scene girls
I do.

>>388222249
>I'm not a huge Trump fan, but by God, is he getting us out of an economic and social shithole.

Trump hasn't even been in office for a year, and you honestly believe he's having that much effect on the economy and employment?

>>388219297
Amazon dropped their 20% off discount for two weeks after a game is released, and has been EXTREMELY shady on pre-order discounts for certain games. Which in response caused several games to sell out at Best Buy, because they openly showed a discount.

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>>388221687
Here ya go.

>>388214864
Why does he look like he barely got out of Shang Tsung 's grasp to escape?

>>388219297
They got that big on their own merit, they didn't buy their competitors out

>>388221685
>t. retard

There's no way to organize large amounts of people towards progress instead of mere survival on such small scales.

We are able to easily access the internet because large corporations handle ton of complicated processes making it seemless for the general population.

We are able to ship things to and from anywhere in the world with almost no issues because large corporations have global networks that handle all the logistics and all we have to do is say where we want to send it.

Your shit idea works back in the prehistoric era because everything was slow and on a tiny scale. We do more than just survive now. we thrive and progress.

Go live in the woods like the autistic faggot you are. You can live off your own hard work there without bothering anyone else.

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>>388219297
GOOD! I always get used Gamecube games for dirt cheap.

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>>388217842

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>Maybe this wouldn't be an issue if they sold more old games and consoles instead of all that cringy "GAMER XD" merchandise and T-shirts.

Like come on, nobody other than the most unaware autists actually buy that shit.

>Hey do you have the new Crash Bandicoot?
>Did you preorder it?
>No but day one was five days ago
>Then no luck, come back in two days
And i fucking went home, bought it digital and had in half a hour later :^)

>>388221738
1. Log in to your amazon account and open this link https://www.amazon.com/gc/bnm/view-barcode/.
2. Bring in a card with trade in credit and say you want to get amazon cash.
3. Have them scan your barcode at that link
4. ?????
5. Profit

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>>388223265
god fucking damn it.
(you)

>>388224031
Who are you quoting, faggot?

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>>388223265
I remember.

>>388224031
>doesn't understand profit margins
That stuff makes them most of their money alongside used games sales because that's where the biggest profit margins are.

>>388217516
>>388217205
>>388217123
>>388217205
>>388217387
>Buying a PS4 at EB Games owned by FUCKIGN GAMESTOP
>It's a bundle that includes a copy of Destiny
>Asshole tries to stick me with a USED copy of Destiny. Not pre-opened, pre-owned and covered in pre-owned stickers
>Scream at him for 5 minutes before he capitulates and gets me a sealed copy

Still mad they tried to fuck me. At least Destiny was a shitty game.

>>388224031
this is always the warning sign of impending death for game and movie stores, when half the store becomes a spencers

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Fuck Gamestop. I took a picture last year of a Used copy of New Super Mario Bros U for $75 next to a new copy for $60. I asked the manager what's up with this? And he said, "We can do whatever we want."

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>>388226045
>mfw we sell Hello Kitty Kruisers for $100 preowned

If you shop at GameStop you're a fucking retard

GAMEFLOP

>>388226810

I haven't bought anything at Gamestop in over 10 years buddy. But yes, I agree if you shop at gamestop you're a retard.

GAMEDROP

GAMEROB

>>388217205
fuck you, you're the idiot. i'm glad you don't have a job now.

>>388227175
Think I got a wired Xbox controller there in 2009 for 27$. Last time I got any thing there

>>388216879

Game industry in the west going down the Hollyjew route.

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>>388221685
benis

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>>388222249

Get off /v/, Donald.

Gamestop has been total trash for over as decade, I'm surprised it's taken people this long to realize.

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>>388214864
>Gamestop might die within your lifetime
Please let it be so