GameStop giving $20 credit for your crummy presents

No, THEY didn't. Gamestop did.

Joystiq just provided the title.

it is ironic though, as almost everything in that picture is way un-crummy.

heh i thought the same thing by the title and the picture.
"crummy?! were?"

Or you could look at the picture and see possible purchases with your trade in money.
You Goofball

Duh it's called advertising, they say "look at all this awesomeness you can have, just give us those shitty games so we can make a tonne of profit selling them on"

Why downvote greatsam91? Give the guy a little credit, he's obviously an expert when it comes to being an idiot.

I'd like to ask you: Who do you know that gives a receipt with their present?

well of course you don't give the receipt WITH the gift, but if you're smart you hold onto it, just in case. the only thing more awkward than asking for a receipt is being told that the receipt was thrown away, meaning you have to act like you're ok being stuck with the crappy gift.

Mostly in my family we just tape gift receipts to the gift and then wrap.

same here Ghen

we just give cash. problem solved.

LOL

Welcome to the wonderful world of Gamestop, where you sell your game for 20 bucks, and a minute later it's on the store shelve for the wonderful price of 45.99.

Video game pricing is fucked up anyways. Great games like say... Bioshock are cheap just because they are "old" yet games like Tony Hawk: Ride are expensive.

Thats why 90% of the time I just buy my games new because the price varience between new and used with gamestop tends to be about $3-$5 and they give nothing for their trade ins so generally I buy.

Not that I can really think of any gamestop games as being NEW about 60% of the time they only seem to have the "store copy" and that has already been opened and used by the employees ........ so how they can legally call the game NEW is beyond me .....

Scuffles, yeah. Once they tried to sell me a "New" copy of COD4 that they pulled out of a drawer behind the counter, in one of those disk sleeves.

Trade-ins seem to be much better here in the UK. Gamestation will beat trade-in offers from other stores, last month I got £33 for Dragon Age on Xbox, even though they were only selling it for £32.99. Had I gone in without a receipt from another store, they'd have offered me £16!

At Gamestop, they don't open up every last case for every new game and put the disk in the sleeve.. They only do it for a few copies so they can put a display case on the wall..

Protip: Eternal Sonata for 360 is only like 10 bucks at Gamestop. Buy it then trade it in for a free $10 extra. Too bad they only let you trade in 1 from the list. With the buy 2 get 1 free deal people could have raped them.

wow, i guess my EB Games here is better than GameStop because here they give me like $30-$40 back for trade-ins, and they dont use the disk sleeves, if i go to buy a New Game, I get a New Game, with the disk in the un-opened case, also the employee's know what their talking about when they talk about games, its fun talking to people who know about Games/Have Conversations, Never force you to Pre-Order, or buy what you dont need...


... and EB Games is owned by GameStop how does that work

Hmm not sure why an accurate comment got a downvote, Seeing as the last six times I have been into gamestop my "New" game has been an open display/employee copy.

Or why I shouldn't hold GS to the same standards they hold their customers. I'm sure that if I purchased a game and opened it in the GS then changed my mind and requested to exchange it for another game they would tell me I could only exchange it for a copy of the same game because it had been opened (tho I have not ventured to try this myself). So why then should I consider a game that they themselves have opened as new ?

Because they say so ?
Because at worst its been gently used by their employees ?
Because if I brought an open game in to them and said I played it once for 5min and decided I didn't care for it but its "NEW" they would look at me and laugh because in fact the game was USED.....

That's exactly why I get most of my NEW games from places like best buy and walmart these days. Its also exactly why I don't frequent GS save when they are having a buy 2 get 1 free sale or the likes. Because when I pick up that game in its factory sealed packaging I know its new and no walmart employee has taken it home or been playing it in the back room during their breaks.

They don't. They just know that there are enough people who are either down on their luck or down on their brains to make them a considerable profit.

Selling Uncharted 1 for $20? Maybe down on their luck..

Selling Uncharted 2 for $20? Definitely down on their brains...

Either way, profit!

Why do people complain? Just don't sell them to Gamestop. You have a few options with your old stuff: Keep it, sell it quickly for cheap, or sell it yourself by other means for more. It's just a guaranteed quick cash setup, kind of like pawn shops, except the pawn shops would give you less.

This is why I prefer cash or maybe a gift card.

@Ben.. Why are you complaining about our complaints? Just don't respond

Why did I just complain about your complaining about our complaints? I shouldn't have said anything...

Wait, What?

Hi Ben, I'm Ben. Nice to meet you! :D
Hollywood Video funneled their debt into Game Crazy, that place closing so much up was terrible mismanagement.
My point is that selling back to Gamestop is just an alternative to selling it yourself, and the price of that convenience is the lower value you get back. A lot of people seem to go for it, so good for them. Plenty of people resell on eBay (which is where my Dragon Age will arrive from shortly, woohoo!) and good for them too. Business is business, and used game stores are run as pawn shops, except nobody complains about pawn shops.

Just sell your game on Ebay. I don't know why so many people sell games to Gamestop. Perhaps the very young don't know how to use Ebay.

You realize you always have the choice of NOT SELLING THE GAME AT ALL AND KEEPING IT.
Right?
Or are you too arrogant to realize that?

@ Varius

Yes, because that slightly-old single-player game is certainly making you money sitting up on your shelf, collecting dust. You don't seem to have a very sharp mind for business.

I was there at the midnight release. First one to buy it, so awesome.

I bet you were the only one there.

I want an Urkel Snuggie.

Yeah, but they'd have to call it an "Urkel Snurkle".

That does surprise me. What ever happened to predictability?

You make a comment about how people are stupid for bitching about Gamestop then you make a complaint about what everyone is complaing about anyway. I love when people try to defend something just to go against the grain.

No I said I agreed, with that one point, this is the first time I've seen Gamestop do that, they usually differentiate between older and newer titles so this is strange. That's all I was saying, but my first comment was about how people think it's such a huge ripoff when in reality all gamestop is doing is protecting their profit margin. My two comments might have sounded contradictory but they weren't related at all.

Ok. Got ya. Maybe I was a little dickish with my comment, I apologize. I'm not against Gamestop, I'll buy stuff from there , I just refuse to trade in anything to that scam. Profit margin or not.

I just traded in Assassins creed 2 for 30 bucks (PS3). I got the extra 20 dollars so my total trade in credit was 50 bucks. I got Halo 3 ODST beause it was on sale for 49 bucks. I walked out with paying 2 dollars for it (Taxes).

See people made a big deal over nothing, and I admit I read it wrong too, that's actually a really good deal.

so you get $20 store credit along with the normal trade in value of the game? that would actually be a good deal..

it still isn't a ripoff though in general. Anyone watch Pawn Stars? On that show, it's clear that they give quite a bit less than what an item is worth. Why? Because they need to make money. Why would I give you $40 for a game that I sell for $45? Especially when I have to pay rent, employees, taxes, etc. etc. etc. You know how many games I'd have to sell to be able to JUST break even like that? So by giving much less they ensure not only that if the game never sells at that price, they can lower it to as much as $0.01 over the price they paid (to make SOME profit at least) and be able to get rid of it but also so they don't LOSE as much money if they have to clear out inventory by marking it LOWER than they paid for it. Gamestop is a VERY smart business and for people who don't want to or don't know how to deal with ebay/craigslist/yardsales/private sales/etc. it's a good alternative.

The simple solution if you feel ripped off: Don't trade your games to them. Simple as that.