Game Crisis

[GNG Iniquity]

Seemed awesome from the customer side, but the other side......well..........fuck em.

Admittedly, I did find the notion of having to wear a button down shirt, and follow a dress code for minimum wage with limited hours pretty amusing! haha

I've actually fared better washing dishes at a restaurant. More hours, better pay, and free food/drinks(beer included). Strange.

 

[bigmiracle]

Whoops, I meant magazine subs in my earlier post, not game subscriptions.

I was a horrible salesperson actually. I can't sell anything well that I don't particularly believe in. Reservations are a lie 99 percent of the time: we get ten reservations, corporate sends us 20 copies. Two reservations? 8 copies. We were told to sell reservations as if we would run out of stock at any moment, which was total bullshit. The worst was when people that didn't reserve it would get the game and people in the back of the line, who did reserve it, were like "wtf? they didn't reserve it!" Sigh. The layaway mindset is much better, because it makes sense.

Magazine subs . . . I would only pitch them if it was going to be under five dollars after either the trade in discount or used game discount. If it was for a used game that cost less than the sub I wouldn't even bring it up because it just sounded stupid. I bought Virtua Fighter not too long ago for 4.99 from a Gamestop and the guy tried to pitch a reso AND a sub to me. On a 5 dollar game. Sigh.

 

[Noob Saibot]

I had actually tried re-applying there upon moving, and the store manager actually used the Carlos Mencia "dee dee dee" shit in the midst of an interview. I promptly decided that I did not want to work at that location! An overweight, 40 something man, who I would presume lives with his mother and enjoys Carlos Mencia is not someone I wanted to work under.

lol

Edit to contribute something besides "lol":

Yeah, Gamestop sucks. Obviously the Hansel and Gretel-esque luring people to buy games with dumbass preorder bonuses is bad enough, but I've been screwed really hard by them before. I preordered the special edition of MGS3: Subsistence (the one you could ONLY get by preordering) and when I came in to pick it up, naturally they only reserved the normal version for me. I about shit down both legs. They wouldn't offer any type of restitution or anything...no gift certificate, or store credit, or anything. Pretty big fuck up considering it was something you HAD to reserve.

 

[CptXecution]

Buy MK9 used from Gamestop. Return it almost immediately with the cracked disc. Now that you have an uncracked disc, you got your MK9 back. The next day, return it and tell them you dont like it, and apply all your credit to G3ARS.

Tim as much as I am thankful for your contribution in the MK community....as a gamestop employee....I disapprove this message lol

 

[Tim Static]

Tim as much as I am thankful for your contribution in the MK community....as a gamestop employee....I disapprove this message lol

Been there, done that. Get out while you can bro. Trust me, and everyone else posting in this thread lol.

 

[CptXecution]

Whoops, I meant magazine subs in my earlier post, not game subscriptions.

I was a horrible salesperson actually. I can't sell anything well that I don't particularly believe in. Reservations are a lie 99 percent of the time: we get ten reservations, corporate sends us 20 copies. Two reservations? 8 copies. We were told to sell reservations as if we would run out of stock at any moment, which was total bullshit. The worst was when people that didn't reserve it would get the game and people in the back of the line, who did reserve it, were like "wtf? they didn't reserve it!" Sigh. The layaway mindset is much better, because it makes sense.

Magazine subs . . . I would only pitch them if it was going to be under five dollars after either the trade in discount or used game discount. If it was for a used game that cost less than the sub I wouldn't even bring it up because it just sounded stupid. I bought Virtua Fighter not too long ago for 4.99 from a Gamestop and the guy tried to pitch a reso AND a sub to me. On a 5 dollar game. Sigh.

If you do it right you push the reserves to get the customer the reserve bonus or yes push the layaway pitch. The best reserve bonuses I think are Battlefield 3 and AC: Revelation (free upgrade to the signature editions). Although if you recall, a little game called Dead Island came out and we didn't get those extra copies? A lot customers I spoke to said they've been reserving games more often now because of that.

 

[CptXecution]

Been there, done that. Get out while you can bro. Trust me, and everyone else posting in this thread lol.

lol I love my job there and I'm only there a couple days a week if that, I'm there for the discount and the people I work with are amazing.

 

[GNG Iniquity]

Gamestop puts employees in fat suits, people rush to buy fitness games

http://www.destructoid.com/gamestop-puts-employees-in-fat-suits-people-rush-to-buy-fitness-games-119051.phtml


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[bigmiracle]

If you do it right you push the reserves to get the customer the reserve bonus or yes push the layaway pitch. The best reserve bonuses I think are Battlefield 3 and AC: Revelation (free upgrade to the signature editions). Although if you recall, a little game called Dead Island came out and we didn't get those extra copies? A lot customers I spoke to said they've been reserving games more often now because of that.

I can't remember what game it was, but I remember we had a group of people waiting to get it. Shipment came in, and everyone was in line with their reso tickets out. This one guy waltzes in, says he didn't reserve it, but he knows that we have extra copies anyways, so he'd like to buy it, and of course he was right. Since i was the manager on duty at the time, I just lied and said we didn't. Fuck him. Felt good to turn him away too, and vindicate all these customers that reserved the game and helped the store out.

Guy walks from the counter, turns around, and tells everyone, "well whatever, just going to go to Best Buy anyways. They even have the collector's edition available too. Ha!" I felt so fucking stupid lol

The reso bonuses are good, though, but you could reserve a game, get the bonus, then cancel your reservation AND it would mark -1 on your store's reso numbers. Not sure if cancelled resos still negate store numbers, but yeah that sucked too.

 

[bigmiracle]

lol I love my job there and I'm only there a couple days a week if that, I'm there for the discount and the people I work with are amazing.

Hey, that's why I stayed there for so long, but trust me it wasn't because of corporate ethics or anything. My job now is much better, but I miss the comraderie with the old GS crew, and the nerdy debates with customers. Those were fun.

 

[BookBurning]

The fat suit thing is nothing compared to how Gamestop ripped out prepackaged coupons that were sealed inside of unopened Dues Ex copies just because the coupons were for Onlive which Gamestop considered a competitor.

Then they tried to sell the opened copies to customers as new even though it was open. (The disc was as good as new.) Using that logic I should be able to refund any game I buy from there even if it's opened as long as the disc is as good as new. But nope, doesn't work that way.