GameStop still evaluating customer 'loyalty opportunity' program

Same here. I almost always get my games from Amazon or Newegg.

I remember when Blockbuster started renting games. NES. $4 for half a day.

Err, meant for one message down.

And 1 game cost as much to rent as a month subscription to gamefly.

Not back then. I remember 3.99 for nine days. Now it's 9.00 for five days.

forgot to add "/sarcasm"

I still have my Killzone 2

:P

Sell your firstborn for 50% bonus trade credit!

Are you not in the US?

Because normally in the US it is 250 'points' for $5.

This doesn't count special offers like for GOW3.

Phil -

He is talking about the Gamerzone Club. You spend 150 bucks on game related items (games, accessories, etc... not consoles) and you get a 10 dollar certificate. This is in ADDITION to the 250 dollars you spend to get the 5 dollar certificate.

Plus, for a few games lately (FFXIII, GOWIII) you get an additional 500 points (10 dollar certificate) for just buying the game during the release week.

Essentially, for getting one game, you could earn (depending where you're at on the meter) up to 25 dollars for a $60.00 purchase.

Best Buy also has the Silver club, for those that spend $2500 a year at the store. And there is also a Black Reward Zone club, but those qualifications are not set to a dollar amount. Probably also depends on WHAT you buy in addition to the amount.

not to mention that Amazon gives more "trade-in credit."

Same here, we got some nice people at our EB games.

I'll go ditto on that too.

My local GameStop employees are knowledgeable and friendly. The Play n' Trade in my area is where the elitist douchebags work.

Same, the guy I deal with has been at 2 different stores, both closed, I've moved with him each time as well. This last gamestop so far is the best with quite a few good employees.

Somehow, that meme is still good.

Im pretty sure you go to the wrong store.....honestly a GameStop with good employees who are respectable and know what the hell they are talking about will give you a good shopping experience....its the poorly managed and uninformed ones that seems like EVERYONE goes to, then typecasts that the company as a whole is bad.

That is your "proof"? really?.......really?...
lol that's pretty great man. I can call a whole bunch of places and hand select a few poor responses from some misinformed employees with no basis for the reason behind their answer. Also, you'll find out that most of these have less to do with "avoiding" the answer, and more to do with getting stupid people off the phone line - happens all the time. Trust me, if you worked any kind of retail, you'd understand. Yes, there are about 10 different ways you can tell a console is modded, and no I wouldn't go explain it all to someone over the phone when most of the time I'm slammed with a couple other million things to do in store. Gamestop isn't a tech support line: google it...

Plus, this guy acts like an idiot an expects honest answers from the employees? Yet, many of them were still very patient and helpful through the obvious stupidity.
Should you expect some misinformation from time to time from ANY retailer? yes, that is why you do your research before hand instead of expecting everything from the employee.

Finally, what in the world is stopping you or anyone else from looking for yourself? Why can't you take a look at the console in the store before you buy it to make sure? Instead of going off on a nerdy rampage over the Internet, be a respectable customer for once! People always complain about the retailers outside the store, and don't realize the retailers complain about THEM inside the store. kinda ironic, huh? Don't be that customer everyone hates, because whether or not you shop there becomes irrelevant, they don't want you to shop there anyway. You aren't going to stop them from doing a couple billion in sales next quarter, so why rage?

...did you say six-foot Master Chief statue?

haha yea, they haven't told us what huge number of points you have to accrue to get the statue, but yea it is on the list. =)

If Gamefly shipped as fast as Netflix, I'd use it all the time. I canceled my subscription because it would take them 4 days just to send me another game on my queue (I had like 50 on there, most in the 'high probability' tier) and then it takes another 3 days for the game to arrive after shipping it. It doesn't take that long to ship something from Huntsville, AL to Tampa, FL for me...it really shouldn't for them...