I disagree with these guys. I NEVER have to go to gamestop. I either buy games online from Amazon, or I go to Best Buy/Target/Wal Mart/Toys R Us, whoever has it in stock.

So Gamestop is snitching? Snitches get stitches should be a national policy.

I love these guys! They speak the truth. Screw you Gamestop, I don’t have a mom and pop store near me but I will go anywhere else for you not to have the money from my purchase.

These guys are idiots… should gamestop “tell” on stores who sold early? meh who cares… the stores shouldn’t have sold the game early. Period.

8 minutes wasted cause they are mad at gamestop for respecting the release date of a game… sure, gamestop is evil… but you are stupid if you think its ok they are mad about stores releasing a product before they are supposed to… I hope all stores that did get blacklisted on top games.

Briliant show, thank you!

Despite the fact that what Gamestop did was promoting the law, the Mom and Pop store did something for the consumers and Gamestop stopped them from doing it. I’m not a communist, but Gamestop, as a business, still shouldn’t try and get all of the money for themselves.

I think that the point that they where getting at is that the manager of that Gamestop did what he did not because someone else was breaking street date for the game but simply as a way of hurting their competitors. The truth is that this manager probably isn’t even going to get a promotion for his or her efforts and it was completely unnecessary. This store wasn’t selling so many copies of that game that it would have hurt Gamestop in anyway. And no one working at Gamestop has any invested interesting in selling as many copies of a game as possible because Gamestop does not typically reward that beware with promotions. In fact Gamestop uses fear tactics to punish their employees if a minimum number of pre-orders isn’t made. Fact is, that a week later when it was legal to sale copies of the game, Gamestop would have still sold out of MW2 because of all the pre-orders made.

The mom and pop store does not having the marketing of Gamestop, so by them selling the game early they where making cash that would have typically went to Gamestop. You might say that, well they are getting Gamestop’s customers so that hurts them, but the truth is Gamestop is a corporate giant and any business that the mom and pop store would have done in that week would not have dented their overall sales or profit margins.

With that said, the mom and pop store was breaking street date and they had to know that when they do something like that they run the risk of being blacklisted. While it is unfortunate that they got blacklisted, the only people they have to blame for this is themselves. That sounds cold, but when you take risks like this you all know that their could be repercussions.

FLATBUSH!

wow – power to the players? screw gamestop…I order games online from Amazon. If I want to get used games, I use sites like SwitchGames or SwapTree…way more value for the dollar and not giving any money back to a greedy corporation.

-_- ughh, this article is so terrible, words cannot even express how let down I am.

I own and operate an independent game store. Been building it for the last 10 years. (I started with only 14 games) I work massive hours and strive to better serve the gamers and collectors in my community.
I’m glad to see you guys speaking up for me and all the others who are in the business.
Good lookin out!!

Gamer Muzz
Level One Games
Youtube.com/l1games

What people don’t realize is that if you don’t support local stores, they go away.

They may not have all those bells and whistles that the corporations have, but if you’re a gamer and build a relationship with them, it’s going to be more benefitial for both parties in the long run. I know it by experience.

Think of whatever you or your parents do for a living, and now think how would it be if people that use those services would go for big corporations or internet companies.

Gamestop, BestBuy or amazon will never put aside a game for you if you don’t pay. They won’t shave a couple of bucks off if you’re short. They won’t be tied to strict policies for sales/returns. At the end, they’re more prone to not give a crap about you than mom & pop’s stores.

so i dont understand why people hate gamestop so much, there is so much ignorance in the hate about them, i am a former employee there and personally i do prefer a mom and pop shop on my nostalgic gaming shopping and even to pick up my games early, this tattle tailing by gamestop is old news, they have done this for years and years, but gamestop does have good deals on alot of used games and terrific and VERY sympathetic return policy on used games, they give you a 7 day return policy on all used games with NO questions asked and a full refund no matter the problem even if you did not like the game, they also are no different than any company on new return policies basically if you open it, its yours. and maybe people should inform themselves before they go and buy a brand new “Jumper” for 60 bucks.
thanks for reading.

Game Stop did the right thing, those guys broke the rules and they got burned too bad. Yay for Capitalism.

Game Stop 86th and Lex here in Manhattan SUCKS! They put my favorite EB Games store out when they bought them out!! Game Stop are not gamers!! I only buy from Ebay for my games USED and if I need it new I go to Best Buy!

Also a hard to find game store is this:

Play N Trade‎ 137 E 13th St, New York, NY‎ – (212) 674-0200‎

Play N Trade is just as good or better then EB used to be! You can play the game there before you BUY IT!!

i absolutely hate gamestop and everything they own.
there a complete utter rip off.
where i live in AU its called EB who is owned by gamestop.
i took in my 360 and put it towards a psp, its 4 months old, i payed 500 bucks for it 4 months ago.
guess how much they gave me.
99 bucks.
yup thats right, my 360 depreciated 401 bucks in 4 months.
guess how much their charging for a preowned 360 just like mine.
400 bucks.
thats a profit for them of 300 bucks, that enough for ya you greedy money grubbing SOBs?
but thats not it.
i also traded in GTA liberty city stories, which i bought 3 days ago for 100 bucks.
guess how much they gave me for that.
20 bucks.
guess how much their charging for it.
90 bucks.
a profit for them of 70 bucks, that large enough for you, you greedy money grubbing SOBs?
oh but thats not enough either.
every single game they sell is minimum 20 bucks more expensive than JBHIFI every single one!
ps3 copies of released games like COD MW2, uncharted 2, R&C ACIT, assassins creed 2 are all 110 bucks at EB.
JBHIFI has them all for 90 bucks.
oh but thats still not enough.
sometimes when i get NEW games, there not new there old used ones they have used for themselves before release date.
like i got my copy of uncharted 2 and it was open, the manual slightly bent and the disk had scratches on it.
and they would not let me take it back for a new one.
thats why people hate gamestop, and thats why i will never, ever, ever be spending another cent there ever again and i will make sure everyone i know does the same.
to hell with these greedy money grubbing selfish SOBs.

If you break the street date DONT BLAME GAMESTOP, Gamestop gets cru-ci-fied if one of thousands of stores gets caught breaking a streetdate but it’s ok for a mom&pop? Because there not a major corporation, Really? Did gamestop do the right thing, no. But they wern’t the ones breaking the rules.
BTW, I just traded ODST in to get MW2 and got $37.45 off (using discount card combined with some sort of promotion), where do these guys get $10-15. If your smart about how and when you trade games you will never pay more than half of full price for a game again. What was the mom&pop offering for your old games?

Idk who that trendsetta iz but I post with a website link muhahahaha

no one is above the law/rules; the mom and pop store deserves whatever punishment that comes its way, probably more.

All you Gamestop banana riders know that they broke the street date to right?

No? Well now you do, STFU

So their complaint is that GameStop is too corporate with their approach to gaming and are only protecting their bottom line…

..and they go on to explain their beef is because they getter better trade in elsewhere? er.. isn’t that the same thing?

Heck if you get better trade in elsewhere, go with it. But don’t use that to defend mom and pop retailers who broke street date. If they get reported, then they shouldn’t have broken street date, it has nothing to do with trade in values.

This ‘gamers come together’ crap protecting these stores just because gamers want to get releases early is BS, “yo, yo”.

Спасибо за пост, а ведь это тема В мемориз однозначно, пригодится!