GameStop: New game sales up 15 percent in Nov. 2009

I wonder, how does Gamestop make all that money?

*Examines huge price disparity to what was paid for new video games and what they were sold to for Gamestop in trade in...

Oh, was Gamestop selling Modern Warfare 2?

@ copa
Couldn't have said it better myself...

Surprising. I haven't bought anything at Gamestop for about 7 Months now. Kind of weird to see their sales rise this much, considering they've been kind of dissatisfactory for a while

so that bastard scrooge mcduck owns gamestop eh??? :)

GameStop makes Scrooge McDuck look HUMBLE.

it's almost as if a big game came out last month

Well, It's little things, The employees at my local Gamestop, have substandard service. I remember, On my first visit, I wanted to purchase a used copy of Call of Duty W@W on Xbox, But instead within the case, I received Call Of Duty 2. It was a pretty bad first impression they left me with. And their prices are Ok. But Amazon does so much better, And you don't have to buy from Teenage employees who spend their time playing around in the store. I'm not really against Gamestop itself, I suppose. It's more like My local Gamestop.

I didn't know Gamestop sold new games

I swear, the improper perspective of the GameStop logo bugs the shit out of me every time I see this image...

I used to love Duck Tales

God, the new ebGames near me (owned by GameStop/same dealio) has the worst fucking guy running it in the mornings.

Some stupid pale ass scrawny kid with the worst attitude. He will FIGHT you verbablly if you try to buy a game which he doesn't approve of. He was actually telling people NOT to buy Halo 3: ODST when it first came out because it wasn't worth $60. Now, I have no problems with a guy giving me his opinion on it and saying why not etc. etc. and then letting me choose. He was being extremely AGGRESSIVE in NOT selling it. If he was running a sale through at the counter and overheard some mom talking about ODST and if she should get it for her son or whatever he would stop the sale, look past the dude he was helping and tell her not to.

Then, when I finally got to the counter to buy my shit the kid spots this other guy about to pick up a copy of ODST and he basically LEAVES ME AT THE COUNTER AND WALKS OVER TO HIM to tell HIM TO NOT BUY IT.

WHAT?!

Yes, I AM bitter becaues they hired that dumbass over me only because he managed to get his resume in before I did. What an idiot.

Anyway, what were we talking about? Oh, right. I prefer yellow grapefruit to pink grapefruit.

That's actually a picture of the Gamestop in my neighborhood.

It's a 38 story walk-up. No elevators. They would have had to pay someone more than $7.00 an hour to build a shaft, so they went with ladders.

To get to the complaint department, you have to walk on a plank onto the ledge of the 38th floor, and jump down to the "Complaint Trampoline" marked with a bulls-eye in the parking lot.

Also employees have to park on the roof.

they're only getting an increase with some of the ridiculous pre-order bonuses.

but at least we know we can most likely boycott them and just wait. Cole's gigawatt blades for inFAMOUS just got released as DLC after all..!

I personally stopped purchasing from gamestop when they tried passing off games out of the plastic as "new".

Why buy used when you pay a nickel more for new?

I have two Gamestops, within about a mile of each other. The little one near Wal-Mart has really cool boy employees who are really respectful and know their games and seem to own every system and know more than you. I like that. The other one was super busy, but the employees were rude and arrogant and would try to talk you out of a game or assume that their opinion was of any "significance... at... all. What's there?" I went there recently and a really nerdy but sorta cute woman (with rather hairy forearms) helped me get exactly what I needed quickly and didn't give me any B.S. And then when I was in line, they worked the line like Starbucks USED TO, directing traffic to get people in and out. Now I'm torn. I like my hairy girl at the 2nd Gamestop. But I like my "Jeeves-like" gentlemen (even the youngest, who is about... 12) at the first Gamestop. They have definitely improved.

I don't remember the last time I bought something from Gamestop. Best Buy's Gamer Zone program is much better

All the gamestops in my area are really nice, I guess other areas aren't so lucky.