Topic: So nobody likes GameStop?

[vudu]

Reserve the game, collect your demo and then immediately cancel your preorder.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Where in that do I get to speed dial Reggie so I can see him kick some ass?

[Sundoulos]

And if they require me to pre-order the game, should I call Reggie on Speed dial and have him come kick some ass?

I'm pretty sure Nintendo said you will not be required to pre-order the game to get the demo.

Capcom has said as much, anyway.

The problem with the cancellation of a preorder is that, normally, Gamestop still keeps that money as store credit, right? Normally, they just ask you to place the money elsewhere.  I've never actually tried to get them to give the credit back, but I don't think I've preordered a game from them in a long, long time.   

Still, it doesn't top the time that a Best Buy employee tried to charge me $40 for the Gamecube demo that had Wind Waker and Viewtiful Joe on it.When I asked her why they were charging for the disk, her reply was that it had four games on one disk.      

[vudu]

It's all bullshit.  That's why I just ordered my demo disc from the Monster Hunter website.  This way I don't need to deal with GameStop's ****.

[Chozo Ghost]

We all know Gamestop sucks. Why would you ever consider pre-ordering from them? They want to be jerks, fine, but let's not give them any of our business then.

[GearBoxClock]

I dunno, the EB games near my place is pretty cool.

[Kairon]

We all know Gamestop sucks. Why would you ever consider pre-ordering from them? They want to be jerks, fine, but let's not give them any of our business then.

But I want to increase the amount of orders that GameStop puts in for obscure third party games like, oh... Secret Files: Tunguska!

[Stratos]

I'd take it up with the manager. You could also bring in a copy of the official press release stating it would be at Gamestop free without a pre-order and call the Better Business Bureau.

[BlackNMild2k1]

So I went to Gamestop today and got my demo copy of MH3.

Of course they tried to tell me that I had to pre-order the game if I wanted the Demo and pointed to the demo as proof, to which I pointed out that it doesn't say that on the demo and that it was announced to be released for free no pre-order necessary.
His co-worker/manager spoke up and was trying to say something, when I whipped out my phone and put Reggie on speaker phone....
long story short, I got my free demo of MH3 today. No pre-order placed.

[KDR_11k]

Marketting--

Sometimes publishers give Gamestop bonus for selling X amount of units.  My local GS rearranges the floor plan every other month.  This month is a BIG push for PSP GO and GTA Chinatown Wars.  The sad thing is while the bundle price sounds nice (both of them for $222) but they are giving you the UMD version of GTA which doesn't work on the GO. 

 

LOL, talk about a failure in advertising. And a failure for GO.

You can't be serious. FAILure at retail for sure. I would be pissed if I bought that and probably try file some sort of false advertising on GameStop (ok, not really, but I would return it and then complain a lot on the internet)

I recall seeing a DSi + GH On Tour bundle being posted on the net...

[EasyCure]

so...

That last time I was at gamestop and picked up the Miles Edgeworth game, i ran in to an old 'friend' that works there. He was just going in to work, and i asked him about the Monster Hunter Tri demo; i forgot to pick it up when i preordered Fragile Dreams and asked if they had any and if i can pick one up in a few days (i had to rush off before my meter expired). He said he had them and to come in Sunday when he's back at work.

I go there today, we make some small talk, then goes "oh yeah, so you wanted to preorder Monster Hunter right?" No, thats not what i wanted to do. I wanted to pick up the demo so i could gauge my interest in the game (and even if i liked it i wouldn't preorder it). He said the saaame BS that was potsed above; You have to preorder the game to get the demo. WTF?

I told him straight up "no dude, thats Bull fed to you by GS because the official press release from capcom/nintendo states otherwise so.. just hand over the demo" He wouldn't unless i preordered, even though he was the only person working in the store and has known me since 2nd grade..

Really Gamestop? Really!?

[Stratos]

GameStop: Making childhood friends bitter enemies since it changed it's name from Funcoland.

[Morari]

Typical of GameStop. It's really poor form of Capcom to have chosen them as an outlet instead of simply doing it all mail-order.

Maybe you should print out the information from Capcom and take it in with you?

[Stratos]

Typical of GameStop. It's really poor form of Capcom to have chosen them as an outlet instead of simply doing it all mail-order.

Maybe you should print out the information from Capcom and take it in with you? :

Some people have reported that doing this helps them get a free copy. And from reading posts on Capcom-unity blog shows that the higher-ups are aware of the issue and looking into it.

[EasyCure]

I shouldn't HAVE to go through that trouble though. Due to GS doing this, Capcom could potentially lose a sale from me. Hopefully the Capcom higher ups read this by some miracle of a chance and fix the problem.

[BlackNMild2k1]

You should have threatened to call Reggie, then hold up your phone with your finger on the dial button.

Worked for me.

[Shaymin]

Anyone know if the free demo is running in Canada? I really don't want to add a fake phone # with a 360 area code to my phonebook to get it next week, but if I have to...

[EasyCure]

You should have threatened to call Reggie, then hold up your phone with your finger on the dial button.

Worked for me.

He was the only one in the store, and he's scrawny. I coulda taken his name (and the demo) myself

[iDraTion]

So I was coming into this thread after getting my Monster Hunter Tri demo to say how desperately GS needs some form of quality control, and was pleased to see you all already talking about this.  There's two GS's in my area, one is gay, and one is apparently not gay.  And guess which one has a female employee?  The gay one.  I was hoping she wouldn't be working when I went there.  She insisted that you had to pre-order to get the demo, and she's the same one who said she didn't have enough Ghostbuster shirts for my pre-order after I watched her open up and check a large box full of them.  I just don't understand how they can just refuse to give out pre-order items and how they can just claim their own policies that are completely against the game publisher's.  And I don't mean to bust on her too much because I know she's just trying to do her job with what she's been told to do, but why is she being told to do these ridiculous things?


So I went to the other GS in my area that I didn't know existed until today.  Sure enough they had a whole stack of them in a Monster Hunter Tri display box on the front counter, free to take.  Winded up chewin' the gaming fat with the guy for a while.  Definitely where I will be buying my games from now on.  Like night and day though.  They really need a QA department or something to enforce consistency; but hopefully the good kind of consistency, not the customers-can-lick-my-balls consistency. 

[Kairon]

Good GameStops exist. Despite the odds.

[BranDonk Kong]

I'm pretty sure I have like $60 or $70 store credit at GameStop...just no will to go there.

[Chozo Ghost]

I'm pretty sure I have like $60 or $70 store credit at GameStop...just no will to go there.

Better use it before it expires/Gamestop goes out of business. You might not think that could happen, but there used to be a place called Babbages where that ALMOST happened to me.

[BranDonk Kong]

Don't know what I should get...maybe they have a JTAG-able Xbox 360, that would rule.

[Stratos]

I'm pretty sure I have like $60 or $70 store credit at GameStop...just no will to go there.

Better use it before it expires/Gamestop goes out of business. You might not think that could happen, but there used to be a place called Babbages where that ALMOST happened to me.

Didn't Babbages get eaten by Gamestop?

[Mop it up]

Babbages, FuncoLand, EB Games, and Software Etc. were all bought out by GameStop.

EB Games was the best one of them all. Their games weren't overpriced, actually in good condition, and they ddn't have lame store policies.