Sony wooing Gamestop employees with rewards to sell PS3s

Woo this ,.!..

Not anything new, we have MS reps come to BestBuy and toss free games at us if know about MS products. Everyone does it, ever heard of RLS - Retail Loyalty Site?

20k points = $350 in games for every employee, or spread out between all employees in the store?

I worked for a week in telemarketing it was just like this promotion......Pathetic.

whenever there were promotions/competitions at work I always tried to win (if the reward was worth it).

It's simple:

Incentives = work.
No incentives, I'll show up up time (kinda) and not sneak off early (maybe).

So, what is the incentive for ripping noobs and soccer moms $80 for a $20 HDMI cable?

btw, the graphic comes from despair.com, which has lots of funny stuff. way to give credit.

ms reps do the same shit except they threaten you with zunes and copies of shadowrun for vista.

@6. they are bloggers they only have one field to give credit to stuff

Apparently Curtis Mayfield is heading up this event. He even wrote them a themesong to pump everyone up for the initiative. You know like Rocky's theme "Eye of the Tiger"!

The songs called Pusherman. Here are the lyrics:

i'm your mamma, i'm your daddy
i'm that nigga in the alley
i'm your doctor, when in need
want some coke, have some weed
you know me, i'm your friend
your main boy, thick and thin
i'm your pusherman
i'm your pusherman

haha

ain't i clean, bad machine
super cool, super mean
feelin' good, for the man
Superfly, here i stand
secret stash, heavy bread
baddest bitches, in the bed

i'm your pusherman
i'm your pusherman
i'm your pusherman

solid life, of crime
a man of odd circumstance
a victim of ghetto demands
feed me money for [style]
and i'll let you trip for a while
insecure from the past
how long can a good thing last?
woo-hoo, no
got to be mellow, y'all
gotta get mellow now
pusherman gettin' mellow y'all

heavy mind, have you signed?
makin' money all the time
my [LD] entrusts me
for all junkies to see
ghetto prince is my thing
makin' love's how i swing
i'm your pusherman
i'm your pusherman
huh

too bad, [Splee]
for a generous fee
make your world what you want it to be
got a woman i love desperately
wanna give her something better than me
been told i can't be nothin' else
just a hustler in spite of myself
i know i can rake it
this life just don't make it
lord, lord
got to get mellow now
gotta be mellow, y'all
got to get mellow now

i'm your mamma, i'm your daddy
i'm that nigga in the alley
i'm your doctor, when in need
want some coke, have some weed
you know me, i'm your friend
your man boy, thick and thin
i'm your pusherman
i'm your pusherman

PUSH THOSE PS3's LIKE GAME DISC INSURANCE

It looks more like GS is offering the points, not Sony... I'm assuming that since the rewards site is a GS site, then the points are GS points. I left GS LONG before they had this type of incentive program. But as far as I can tell, you can get these points for different stuff, depending on what kinds of promotions the company is running. Right now, it just happens to be PS3. Of course, you could say that Sony is indirectly providing these incentives, but it probably has more to do with the board of directors' desire to move an item that isn't moving that well. They want to maintain and strengthen their relationship with Sony (whatever that relationship is) and what better way than to figure out a way to move the PS3?

I'd just like to say, from my days of retail, Microsoft has the best of these style programs.

http://expertzone.microsoft.com/Rewards/RewardsCenter.aspx

Seriously, log in. "Take" training courses (can be skipped), and take quizzes to test what you've learned. All for points. Points that equate to paying only $9 for Gears Of War... I'm waiting for Shadowrun to hit their rewards store. And yes, this means when Mass Effect and Blue Dragon ship, I pay only $9 as well.

And Sony's definately beats Nintendos program. Log in, take quizzes, for an entry in a raffle.

yeaa the microsoft rewards has been going on for almost 3 years now...got plenty of xbox 360 games...and theres something for a xbox 360 console and a couple of games for 400 bucks...but they now have a strict verification for employment too the stores that work with it...

@12 ... but of course .. you know it doesnt look like a blog post worthy because it sweats desperation when sony (or gamestop or whoever) does it in regards to the ps3 .. a big blow me for this post to kevin kelly :O

What is more desperate?

GIVING AWAY a free console? OR

GIVING away Playstation points?


During my time with Funcoland, Babbages, EB Games, and GameStop these promotions went on constantly. There was a new contest/promotion every single month of every year during my employment with the company.

Cleaners, GI sub cards, Strategy Guide+game, Pokemon (u name the title) Madden, Windwaker, GameCube+madcatz controller, XBOX+DVD remote+Fever sports games (remember those pieces of crap?) GBA+cover/screen protector.

In the fall of 2002 Microsoft even went as far as to give away an XBOX to every single manager and district manager at GameStop. Nintendo that very same year gave away GBSP's to every single manager and district manager. No sales contest to get them....they just gave them to us. Sony, gave away 3 PS2's in a random drawing...they were limited edition colored ones.

Most everyone was pissed at Sony because all we got were free games/hats/t-shirts. Microsoft and Nintendo were WAY behind Sony back then so it was a no-brainer for them to give us a bunch of free stuff so that we would be more receptive to their products.

I do not blame Sony one bit for doing this. I would think if they were really desperate they would give away a PS3 and or a PSP to every manager and district manager. They are not at that point yet, so Sony is not in trouble (yet).

That is the single biggest thing I miss from my time there....all of the free stuff we would get...I still come across some free stuff that I forgot I had every now and then and I have not been a DM for GameStop since 2004.

Kill the Plumber....
The Wee is a ripoff, rehashed LameCube with a (I wanna look like I am having an epileptic seizure) controller.

Frack all of you Plumberbois.

fake...photoshop

It sounds like bribery, gotta consult a lawyer.

Is this legal?

Does anyone who post on these sites NOT work for a videogame store? I mean if I clean Portapotties all day i sure as hell would post comments on the Portapotty website all night.

You might not, horngreen, but no one cleans portapotties for a living because they loooove working around portapotties. Tends to be kind of different in the gaming retail business.

Isn't there a "Rumor:" missing here? Some consistency please. All it says is according to ONE insider at gamestop, they have a rewards system that isn't directly or reliably linked to Sony other than what they get rewarded in doing.

Man, now I'm totally going to go looking for Portapotty websites.

Kingmanor, I honestly thought everyone would know that as Despair.com right away. If you don't, go check it out. It's one of my favorites.

HAHAHAH as if this will do ANYTHING! No, I don't want to preorder anything, and no I don't want an effing PS3!!!!

I used to work at Circuit City back when it was commission. We'd get kickbacks from pretty much everyone for selling their products. You just have to know the right channels to go through as it was never advertised.. So every time a company rep would come in the store they'd be my new best friend for the day ;)