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| burningdoom:
--- Quote from: aliensstudios on October 26, 2016, 09:07:38 pm --- --- Quote from: kamikazekeeg on October 25, 2016, 10:46:50 pm --- --- Quote from: aliensstudios on October 25, 2016, 08:58:26 pm ---That's terrible to say but it's true. I know many of us will relish the day GameStop goes the way of Blockbuster --- End quote --- Can we trade Blockbuster for Gamestop? I want video stores to return lol --- End quote --- Same. I loved Blockbuster and just wish there was something still like it for nostalgia's sake. Game Stop can stay or go, I could care less. --- End quote --- Agreed. But I miss the mom & pop video stores even more. You could find all kinds of treasures in those places. Blockbusters were all mostly the same. |
| kamikazekeeg:
--- Quote from: burningdoom on October 26, 2016, 09:23:08 pm --- --- Quote from: aliensstudios on October 26, 2016, 09:07:38 pm --- --- Quote from: kamikazekeeg on October 25, 2016, 10:46:50 pm --- --- Quote from: aliensstudios on October 25, 2016, 08:58:26 pm ---That's terrible to say but it's true. I know many of us will relish the day GameStop goes the way of Blockbuster --- End quote --- Can we trade Blockbuster for Gamestop? I want video stores to return lol --- End quote --- Same. I loved Blockbuster and just wish there was something still like it for nostalgia's sake. Game Stop can stay or go, I could care less. --- End quote --- Agreed. But I miss the mom & pop video stores even more. You could find all kinds of treasures in those places. Blockbusters were all mostly the same. --- End quote --- I lived in a town with only one, so it might as well have been mom & pop practically, though we had a few local videostores, though only one proper lasted for a good while into the mid 2000's. I worked in the small Blockbuster back in early 2000 during high school. Good time working there. I just miss browsing through because most were all there, none of the exclusivity deals and timed deals that streaming sites have. You wonder if Netflix has that movie you want to watch on a spur of the moment? Probably not, they've been dropping the amount of movies they keep around. |
| Warmsignal:
Ahh, the inevitable GS hate. I always look at like this, if you don't like their trade in values, don't sell to them. Just a novel idea, really. But GS is the first place I go to pick up a new release, or to buy modern games pre-owned. I would hate to ever have that luxury taken away. I despise buying something that I want right away on the Internet, and invariably waiting 5 to 7 business days to get it at a fair shipping rate. Usually loose all enthusiasm by then. Would love it if they expanded store inventory to include classic games, but that would require a highly competent staff on hand at each store, and many expensive new store fixtures. I doubt it'll happen. |
| sworddude:
I really don't get why there are any people at all who see this as a positive thing because it basicly means that even less deals can be found since people will be selling their stuff at gamestop. Potentially anyways but seeing as how they are a pretty big brand name you can be pretty sure that there will be even less deals than in the past. |
| Warmsignal:
--- Quote from: sworddude on October 28, 2016, 08:20:30 am ---I really don't get why there are any people at all who see this as a positive thing because it basicly means that even less deals can be found since people will be selling their stuff at gamestop. Potentially anyways but seeing as how they are a pretty big brand name you can be pretty sure that there will be even less deals than in the past. --- End quote --- From what I've seen, it's a relatively small number of people who actually bring old games into their stores as far as people who "don't know what they have", often times those people assume old games aren't relevant anymore. The rest (meaning most who will bring in games), are aware of the value of their stuff. Nobody who is really aware of this is going to turn loose of gems for a small amount of store credit there unless they're trade happy and just don't care, which granted some people are. But, it's a good thing only in the sense that eBay shouldn't be the only force in the market that dictates value, particularly because a lot of shady crap goes on there and values become inflated due to sellers simply deciding to see if they can charge more, and desperate gamers end up paying it. GameStop already acts as a container of outrageous value on some modern games that start taking off. In some cases they keep the price down from eBay sellers going wild with something like Devil's Third, Xenoblade, Calling, just to name a few. Small print releases would be absolutely gouged on eBay, if it weren't for a store like GS. Because we've seen time and time again, scalpers buy and stick them up 3x the price on day one. |
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