Arkady_som

As a former employee at EB Games, I must say that between EB and Gamestop... I definately prefered EB. From what I've seen, at least EB made the effort to care about their employees. Once Gamestop took over, suddenly hours were being dropped off of "game advisors" and were magically given to the Manager. Why? Because he can work those hours and not get paid extra. It also make it so regular employee's cannot get any sort of medical/dental plans. But why worry about that when you have this revolving door of kids who wanna work in a game store because it's cool? That's the best part you know. They get these young kids in who know only what little they know about games and they pay them based on a grid. Cheap labor. Who cares if they screw up and they get fired? There's about 20 more little Johnny's just looking to work where games are involved.

There's so much more to it then that. Much more. That was only the tip of the iceburg. I didn't go into their "book cooking" practices to make it look like their numbers are high. I didn't go into their 360 reserves... to be put on hold for months because Gamestop wanted more reserves, regardless of whether they could fill them or not. I didn't go into how they sucker people into putting $5 on games, only to sell that reserved game right out from under them because the higher ups told them to. Hell, I didn't even go into their %125 profit they get from used games.

There is truth behind their underhanded ways. It was enough for us at PushB to make anti-Gamestop shirts. If anyone is interested, you're more then welcome to take a look. Go to our website at www.pushb.com and click on the bottom link where it says "Why Should the Gamestop when you can PushB?"

Don't buy from Gamestop... support your local mom and pop stores if at all possible.