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Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 3:14 pm
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Kuzodav Allegro Kuzodav Allegro Sean, the issue is that it's being sold for a different price. A used game, even a gently used one, that Gamestop gets from a consumer, is priced down and thrown in the used pile. When a Gamestop employee uses a game gently, it gets sold for a higher price, despite the fact that it's been used as much as the other game. That's called fraud.O= Don't take the game if it's not in a plastic-cover thing that all new games come in?! They can replace that. Shocking, I know. I'm sure gamestop has direct control over how the games are sealed, totally, and each shop has their own re-sealer machine for all the games that the employees borrow. Not specifically for that purpose, no, but shops do have to have those in case the plastic gets damaged during shipping.
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Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 3:15 pm
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Allegro Meta_Fish I know it's wrong, and I'm not saying it's not, I'm just saying that I don't see the big difference in buying a game used and not buying it used. Unless there was a huge difference, I'd go with the used game every time. That's all I'm saying. True, but the issue is that you don't know what's used and what isn't now. If I'm buying an older game, like, say, Wind Waker, I'm going to try and buy new, because older copies will probably be heavily used by this point. But what if it's a pre-played game being marketed as used? Well, we're talking about different levels of used, now. And finding a new copy of Windwaker at any EBGames/top would be a near-impossible task anyway. It's a rip-off yes, but I wasn't talking about that. I was talking about how I would buy a game that's a few bucks cheaper if it was used, because there's not a huge difference, unless, like you said, it's five years old.
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Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 3:16 pm
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Kuzodav Allegro Kuzodav Allegro Sean, the issue is that it's being sold for a different price. A used game, even a gently used one, that Gamestop gets from a consumer, is priced down and thrown in the used pile. When a Gamestop employee uses a game gently, it gets sold for a higher price, despite the fact that it's been used as much as the other game. That's called fraud.O= Don't take the game if it's not in a plastic-cover thing that all new games come in?! They can replace that. Shocking, I know. I'm sure gamestop has direct control over how the games are sealed, totally, and each shop has their own re-sealer machine for all the games that the employees borrow. That's the thing. We buy from gamestop, because we don't have another place to go. They take the games out of the cases to put cases on display and put them in sleeves. Did you read the article or are you trolling now? Because this is serious for me. If I've been paying extra money for used games, I'm going to be pretty pissed.
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Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 3:17 pm
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Meta_Fish Allegro Meta_Fish I know it's wrong, and I'm not saying it's not, I'm just saying that I don't see the big difference in buying a game used and not buying it used. Unless there was a huge difference, I'd go with the used game every time. That's all I'm saying. True, but the issue is that you don't know what's used and what isn't now. If I'm buying an older game, like, say, Wind Waker, I'm going to try and buy new, because older copies will probably be heavily used by this point. But what if it's a pre-played game being marketed as used? Well, we're talking about different levels of used, now. And finding a new copy of Windwaker at any EBGames/top would be a near-impossible task anyway. It's a rip-off yes, but I wasn't talking about that. I was talking about how I would buy a game that's a few bucks cheaper if it was used, because there's not a huge difference, unless, like you said, it's five years old. I know, bad example. razz And I find that a lot of the games the EB/GS stocks used are in pretty poor condition. Always keep a receipt from them before you boot the game up.
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Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 3:23 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 3:26 pm
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Allegro Kuzodav Allegro Kuzodav Allegro Sean, the issue is that it's being sold for a different price. A used game, even a gently used one, that Gamestop gets from a consumer, is priced down and thrown in the used pile. When a Gamestop employee uses a game gently, it gets sold for a higher price, despite the fact that it's been used as much as the other game. That's called fraud.O= Don't take the game if it's not in a plastic-cover thing that all new games come in?! They can replace that. Shocking, I know. I'm sure gamestop has direct control over how the games are sealed, totally, and each shop has their own re-sealer machine for all the games that the employees borrow. Not specifically for that purpose, no, but shops do have to have those in case the plastic gets damaged during shipping. Oh, yes, totally. Because if it's damaged, they're just going to sell it, get a replacement ******** that, they're gamestop, they're evil. I mean, This one time, I bought a game 'new' rom there, and there was a p***s shaped scratch on the disc. I mean really, what's up with that?
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Eloquent Conversationalist
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Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 3:31 pm
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Kuzodav Oh, yes, totally. Because if it's damaged, they're just going to sell it, get a replacement ******** that, they're gamestop, they're evil. I mean, This one time, I bought a game 'new' rom there, and there was a p***s shaped scratch on the disc. I mean really, what's up with that? The disc just got cool
I don't even understand what your argument is here, Sean. Are you denying that it's happening, or its impact?
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Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 3:58 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 6:33 pm
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Kuzodav YOU JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND, FISH. YOUR SYSTEM NEEDS TO BE THE ONLY SYSTEM THE GAME HAS EVER BEEN IN OR IT RUINS THE SANCTITY! God, you're such a dummy. Any 'disc' is not just a 'disc'. Somebody else has TOUCHED it! Why would you even want it then?!
Rofl, best comment in this thread.
Yeah, my boss was talking about this today, I haven't checked out any new games myself but my co-workers do. I never really had a problem with it because I know they're all responsible and take care of the games they play. But now that I think about it I understand why people would be uber pissed about this, I'm sure there are a lot of assholes at other stores that would check it out, scratch it somehow and still try to sell it as new.
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Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 6:36 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 6:39 pm
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Posted: Fri Apr 10, 2009 6:42 pm
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 4:51 pm
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 5:00 pm
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 5:36 pm
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