NWR Interactive => NWR Feedback => Topic started by: Dan_Flyhight on April 17, 2008, 08:51:18 AM
Title: Gamestop "bashing" on episode 90
Post by: Dan_Flyhight on April 17, 2008, 08:51:18 AM
Alright well my laptop's power cord broke 7 weeks ago and I'm catching up to the podcast by listening to them in chronological order and I just hit the part in episode 90 where he's in line and the guy at gamestop is asking for reservations and the comments of gamestop living and dying by reservations is TRUE! I work there and my manager quite literally forces me to ask for a reservation of a few suggested games on each system in EVERY transaction. Now of course I oblige because the more reservations I get = more hours I get = the more valuable I am to the company. Now of course, the other thing we offer is that damn subscription to Game Informer. That is why its always offered to you. Its all true. We try to get you to reserve things. Now of course there is a plus side to the consumer. This DOES in fact guarantee you a copy that day, regardless of whether or not your gamestop store will have extras. I mean arcana heart came out on the PS2 last week. We got 2 the day it came out. 5 people showed up to get it. That means we had to shoo them away because they didn't reserve it when we offered it to them. Now of course with big titles like Super Smash Bros. Brawl, there were extras. I bet anything there will be extra Mario Kart Wii copies as well, but whether or not you get the wheel without reserving is beyond me. I have no idea. And Grand Theft Auto !V. I bet anything there will be extra copies as well. Its the smaller titles you may want to reserve because those are the ones we get very few of. If you're a harvest moon fan, reserve it because its a smaller game and there may or may not be too few to get all the people who want it on the day it comes out. And just so we all know, I don't favor gamestop because I work there. I think I've been objective. I buy games at other places. I mean I got my 360 and wii at a k-mart. Explanation/Excuse? None.
Title: Re: Gamestop "bashing" on episode 90
Post by: Pale on April 17, 2008, 09:54:53 AM
Your comments will probably get more eyes if you use the episode 90 talkback thread. Feel free to copy and paste them there. I'm going to lock this.
