petition to stop gamestop from selling retro games

[munchiaz]

A friend of mine started this up. I doubt it will have any real effect on anything, but im curious to see how many sigs it gets

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stop-gamestop-from-selling-retro-games/

[Arjak]

Signed. Let's hope this doesn't happen.

[TheClash603]

Can't wait til Gamestop uses its buying power to get tons of old games at cheap prices or finally decides to unload its old warehouse stock that has been dormant for a decade.  The effect is games end up in stores at sub-ebay levels.

I don't think a petition is a good thing, because typically competition drives prices down, so I have my fingers crossed.  When they pull out their 3,000 unsold copies of Bonk 3 CD and sell for $50, we will all love Gamestop!

[RegalSin]

They do not have to. Their are tons of warehouse with piles of new and used NES ( and other stuff ) sitting around doing nothing. They are just going to make an offer. Most of these people are Vietnam veterans.

[munchiaz]

Can't wait til Gamestop uses its buying power to get tons of old games at cheap prices or finally decides to unload its old warehouse stock that has been dormant for a decade.  The effect is games end up in stores at sub-ebay levels.

I don't think a petition is a good thing, because typically competition drives prices down, so I have my fingers crossed.  When they pull out their 3,000 unsold copies of Bonk 3 CD and sell for $50, we will all love Gamestop!

I really hope this happens. Right now it just seems like wishful thinking. But if GS is able to drive the prices of retro games down then its def a win win. I'm not a huge fan of gamestop (i used to work there) But they can do good with this. But i just see it going poorly

[Emerald Rocker]

So here's the problem.  Number one, is that petitions almost never work.  Number two, is that if you DO happen to get a huge number of signatures, then Gamestop will interpret that as "overwhelming interest in retro" and be more determined than ever to get into the market.

I am so totally not signing this petition.

[SignOfZeta]

I hate Gamestop as much as anyone, but I don't see why people are so worried about this. Gamestop is totally doomed to fail at this...but more importantly, if they DO succeed, what's the worst that can happen? eBay loses its virtual monopoly on retro stuff and the prices go down? I see that as a good thing.

Not that its going to happen, of course. Even successful indie game shops have to resort to eBay quite often.

What could go horribly wrong though, I suppose, is if GS just uses it 1000 stores to collect as many retro games as possible and then sell them exclusively on eBay. I don't see this happening.

[jperryss]

So here's the problem.  Number one, is that petitions almost never work.  Number two, is that if you DO happen to get a huge number of signatures, then Gamestop will interpret that as "overwhelming interest in retro" and be more determined than ever to get into the market.

I am so totally not signing this petition.

On top of that, calling Gamestop "the worst video game store ever" in the petition certainly won't help.

[SignOfZeta]

So here's the problem.  Number one, is that petitions almost never work.  Number two, is that if you DO happen to get a huge number of signatures, then Gamestop will interpret that as "overwhelming interest in retro" and be more determined than ever to get into the market.

I am so totally not signing this petition.

On top of that, calling Gamestop "the worst video game store ever" in the petition certainly won't help.

Well, it might help. GS must realize by now they they are hated. Its possible that they think "They hate us because we are successful", in which case they are doomed, but hopefully they realize that we hate them because they suck. As customers we dread every conversation with a GS employee. If the employees don't torture us with constant verbal spam they get fired, but the spam is the worst part. As the employees are ordered to become more and more pushy the quality of the employees themselves will continue to drop since only total assholes will harass customers like that. Meanwhile the customers are more and more likely to just buy their games at Target.

I bought my 3DSXL last week from KMart. Fuck Gamestop.

[VestCunt]

I hate Gamestop as much as anyone, but I don't see why people are so worried about this. Gamestop is totally doomed to fail at this...but more importantly, if they DO succeed, what's the worst that can happen? eBay loses its virtual monopoly on retro stuff and the prices go down? I see that as a good thing.

A lot of indie game shops have sprung up to the meet the demand for retro games. In the short term, Gamestop could potentially put them out of business and that would suck. In the long term, Gamestop tops Best Buy and even Radio Shack on the list of idiotic, soon-to-be-extinct businesses. Let's just hope they don't do too much damage in their death throes.

[Tatsujin]

I lol'd

[CGQuarterly]

This seems pointless.

Chris

[BigusSchmuck]

Gamestop isn't the only one doing this, Hastings has done this for a long time and shit is still expensive on Ebay. http://www.gohastings.com/

[RegalSin]

I know everybody has the right to sell whatever. Maybe a thunder bolt will strike the person who made it gamestops job to make pre-orders.

Okay... signed

[munchiaz]

I remember when i used to for for EB games (then got changed to GS) I would also have a stack of hard to find ps1,ps2 GBA and DS games to buy down the road. I remember some of my supervisors saying that GS has ppl that look on ebay to see if employees are buying games from them, then selling them on Ebay. Just something interesting. most likely just a scare tactice

[SignOfZeta]

I hate Gamestop as much as anyone, but I don't see why people are so worried about this. Gamestop is totally doomed to fail at this...but more importantly, if they DO succeed, what's the worst that can happen? eBay loses its virtual monopoly on retro stuff and the prices go down? I see that as a good thing.

A lot of indie game shops have sprung up to the meet the demand for retro games. In the short term, Gamestop could potentially put them out of business and that would suck. In the long term, Gamestop tops Best Buy and even Radio Shack on the list of idiotic, soon-to-be-extinct businesses. Let's just hope they don't do too much damage in their death throes.

In order to put the indie shops down they'd have to buy games at half the price they sell them for. I don't think GS could bring themselves to do that, profitable or not. They are so pissed off about making almost nothing off current gen new releases they feel that they HAVE to rape people on used stuff.

I admit, its hard to understand where the profit is supposed to come from when you have to fork over the cash to stock 300 game systems at launch and sell them for $2 profit each, especially now that the hint book industry is dead. They make more money off a 3rd party HDMI cable than they do off a PS3. The entire industry is totally fucking backwards right now. While there is a ton stuff out there, games, technology, etc, there is almost no profit in anything anymore. Nintendo isn't bringing home bacon like they were 20 years ago, and Sony and MS probably never will. I don't know why anyone is even in the biz right now.

[HercTNT]

Brick and mortar stores are dying anyways. Digital downloads of cheap mobile apps are slowly killing gamestop's overpriced games. I also hate gamestop but agree there is most likely not much to worry about.

[TheClash603]

I bought my 3DSXL last week from KMart. Fuck Gamestop.

I bought my launch 3DS at K-Mart.  Maybe it is nostalgia, but I try to support K-Mart when I can.

...but damn that place is a shit hole.

[SignOfZeta]

I bought my 3DSXL last week from KMart. Fuck Gamestop.

I bought my launch 3DS at K-Mart.  Maybe it is nostalgia, but I try to support K-Mart when I can.

...but damn that place is a shit hole.

The KMart in my home town has a particular smell, a good smell. I'm not sure what it is. Maybe there is cedar in the ceiling beams or something? When I was a kid KMart was the only department store in town that carried toys year round, and it was quite close to my house. The same smell was there when I was a kid, when Optimus Prime, the *real* Optimus Prime was on the shelf, when Coke with cane sugar was sold in glass bottles, when there was a diner in the store that sold breakfast all day.

When I go in there now, all of that stuff is gone...but it still smells the same. No other KMart has this smell, so its always nice to go there once in a while. Its also nice to go there because it isn't "way the fuck out by the mall" like nearly every other store in Midland.

....even if I do have to wait in line a half hour to buy a Snicker bar...

[esteban]

I bought my 3DSXL last week from KMart. Fuck Gamestop.

I bought my launch 3DS at K-Mart.  Maybe it is nostalgia, but I try to support K-Mart when I can.

...but damn that place is a shit hole.

The KMart in my home town has a particular smell, a good smell. I'm not sure what it is. Maybe there is cedar in the ceiling beams or something? When I was a kid KMart was the only department store in town that carried toys year round, and it was quite close to my house. The same smell was there when I was a kid, when Optimus Prime, the *real* Optimus Prime was on the shelf, when Coke with cane sugar was sold in glass bottles, when there was a diner in the store that sold breakfast all day.

When I go in there now, all of that stuff is gone...but it still smells the same. No other KMart has this smell, so its always nice to go there once in a while. Its also nice to go there because it isn't "way the fuck out by the mall" like nearly every other store in Midland.

....even if I do have to wait in line a half hour to buy a Snicker bar...

That smell is from an overheating SoundDesign clock-radio in the manager's office

[SignOfZeta]

Oooh, I'll make sure to steal it before they bulldoze the place then.

[8bitForLife]

Well since I am on an island and the only game store is Kmart wallyworld and the one gamestop maybe Costco during holidays i kind of welcome them selling retro games as its ether eBay or amazon or trading websites which can be hairy sometimes. I would think it would drop the price the on retro games.

[Ji-L87]

I was going to sign at first but then I actually became kinda curious on how this all will play out for GameStop. I don't know if this is will be an US only thing or if I'll get to see retro games being sold in stores over here as well but, they probably already have the games and petition or not, if they do have them they must really, really want to sell them. If not for profit then warehouse space, probably. Which can be a costly thing in itself.

If at least this will bring online prices down, that'd be bees knees, and if they stay true to their normal business practices, other retro stores shouldn't need be too worried about loosing customers.

[SignOfZeta]

When I worked at EB (now part of GS) I opened a new store with 2600 games in it's initial inventory. From time to time we took in NES, SNES, b/w GB. In theory they could be sitting on a few hundred copies of Earthbound, Paper Mario, etc. if that's the case I'd rather they put the stuff in a store so people could trade for them rather than the stuff just sitting around or going to eBay.

What they probably have is a shit ton of Madden 93s and Mario/Duck Hunt.

[FiftyQuid]

But if GS is able to drive the prices of retro games down then its def a win win.

GS has never driven the price of anything down.

Flooding the market would be great.  If anything it'll put some of the eBay idiots out of business.  I do hope GS finds a warehouse full of Soldier Blade sealed or one of the other 'rare' titles for TG-16.  I have doubts though.  I won't sign the petition.

[esteban]

I know this is off-topic, and I'm sure the INTERWEBZ has documented this already, but...

GameStop and smashburger use nearly identical fonts and colors for their logo/signage.




A smashburger opened up recently in my town--I immediately wondered why it seemed so (oddly) familiar.

[Ji-L87]

Maybe you can now go in and not only order a burger but also pick up an Xbox Live subscription & a copy of CoD used, at the same time?
Oh, and maybe putting down a pre-order on their next experimental bonus menu.

Edit:
I can't get over how awesome that name is

[Tatsujin]

Stop the Game

[SignOfZeta]

As if "Smashburger" wasn't a ghetto enough sounding place, they pirated their logo.

[TheClash603]

I wonder if they hound me to get a one year membership to shitty beef at smashburger or to preorder fries.

[bartre]

I ate at smashburger once.
it was an accident, it was right next to a gamestop, and i felt bad just walking out.
it was, in a word, meh.

a local place opened up about 100 yards away, and they just crushed the smash burger.
there's a burger there that is 2 patties, cheese, mozzarella sticks, and bacon.
and then instead of buns, grilled cheese sandwiches.

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