Closing Game Crazy stores begin clearance sales this weekend [update]

Bring on the game deals! Never been to a "Gamecrazy" before though.

Can a list of closing stores be found anywhere?

[Banned!]

Game Crazy is a great store, and the only brick and mortar I buy my games from on a regular basis. I hope this doesn't affect our three GC stores, but I wouldn't mind getting in on these deals (I was in heaven when Media Play was bought out by Best Buy).

All GameStops are bad though. It's written somewhere important that the employee break-room in each store is a portal to hell.

I don't visit many brick stores anymore, but it's a damn shame options are fading.

I can foresee Activition buying GameStop to further take the "fun" out of the whole cycle. Who needs fun? This is a business.

I remember when woolies closed got Fallout 3 for a Tenner

I would say most game stores suck except independently owned ones, they usually tend to get and carry the harder to find stuff. This one up Northern New Jersey usually gives my friend his preordered game the day before it's due to be released!

I hate Gamestop and all their companies. Game Crazy wasn't that great either.

Memory?? people still buy PS2 Memory Cards??

I guess I'm off to Lockport, NY

So, you're telling me I can go to Game Crazy this weekend and get Peter Jackson's King Kong for 2 bux?! WHO WANTS TO GO WITH ME?! We'll load up my truck and resell them.

This is a better opportunity than the time I got an email from a real Nigerian Prince.

You're complaining that people still buy Sony's PS2, but people are still buying new games made for the Atari 2600 that came out much longer before that! Now that system has one impressive library.

Speaking as a former Game Crazy Employee myself, who went through a less-than-scrupulous store closure, here's a few tips for those of you clamoring for some deals:

1) Use any and all credit on your account, INCLUDING PRE-ORDERS. "Policy" is to send you a gift card for any credit left on the account after store closure, except 90% of these were lost in the mail and customers never received them. Use every last cent on your accounts.
2) DO NOT PRE-ORDER. When my store closed, we were under strict instructions to lie through our teeth, and keep selling MvP Cards and Pre-Orders under the guise they'd transfer to a "nearby" Game Crazy or Hollywood Video. They don't, and Movie Gallery wound up just keeping the cash. This is the reason I got fired (I told customers to cash out their balances and refused pre-orders, which got me shit-canned; DM trumped it up as opening material to get me out of there).
3) Don't count on systems being available. The employees usually put the sweet stuff in the back first for themselves, then wait until the last few days to buy it for dirt-cheap. This includes systems, Collectors Items, and Accessories (Especially Rock Band/Guitar Hero).
4) If you buy something used, ask the employee nicely for a disc cleaning (exception being BD/HD Movies and PS3 Games; the cleaner WILL ruin them). While we hate using that goopy, nasty disc cleaner, most of us will give you one on the house as the store closes since we know you can't return it. We're not all assholes.
5) If you happen to be in a position of power at another store/business, for the love of christ, OFFER US JOBS. Even giving us your business card helps. We work our asses off for $8.25/hr with no benefits, usually full-time with a healthy dose of overtime, especially with commission gone. Be a pal, and help point us to other jobs or careers, preferably with medical and dental.
6) Don't expect super service. We're pissed that we were stabbed in the back on short notice, so don't expect us to always go the extra mile. More than likely, we're spending our remaining hours ripping the rental library to a modded Xbox or laptop, or erasing Security Tapes. Not saying -I- did those things (Fired for honesty, remember?), but I know some coworkers at other stores who did.
7) The demo stations are not for sale, so don't ask. Seriously, I know the Xbox 360 TV looks sweet and all, but it's not for sale. We have to give it back to Samsung/Microsoft.

That's really about it. More than anything, be nice; we busted our ass for very little pay, enjoyed what we did for the most part, and more than likely didn't find out about our store closing until Joystiq broke the news to us (DM's aren't known for being open with information, or honest for that matter). We're cynical, bitter, and probably hung over in the morning from a pity drinking party, so please be nice to us. If you are, we may even help cut you some deals or put things aside until the final few days of discounts.

And again, offering us real work is always a plus.

It's an ill wind that blows no one any good, after all, though once again, i'm said to see the institution that sold me my little white box go through this

Too bad i have no idea of any in my area (Northwest border of Philly, Merion Township, if anyone does know). Not having a car here at school doesn't help.

I guess this is the age of digital marketing now. But it's still nice to see some actual physical stores popping up and competing with each other. Too bad, I guess the crisis just got to them. Oh well, good luck to all those people especially those who'll get laid off.

These places are still open? Mine went out of business about a year ago, with Hollywood video right behind it. Honestly, and I don't know if all their stores were run as poorly, but the Game Crazy I went to SUUUUUUCKED.

Well actually, it used to be run really well for years, and then they fired all the decent employees and replaced them with gamestop-level preorder-hawking robots, stopped ordering enough copies of new games, and eventually stopped even getting all but the biggest titles on release day. After several disappointments, I just quit going altogether. Damn shame too, since it all but killed Gamestop's local competition around here.