Current Events > If all Gamestops closed down, would you be happy, mad or sad?

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There's a former employee who made a YouTube channel exposing them and it's gotten the attention of the ceo and is causing a panic internally.

In short, you should never give them your money, they are beyond scummy.

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Sad. Kinda like when Toys R Us went bottoms up. One, for my own selfish nolstagia and Two, because that's a lot of lost jobs.
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pres_madagascar posted...

There's a former employee who made a YouTube channel exposing them and it's gotten the attention of the ceo and is causing a panic internally.

Link?
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DeadBankerDream posted...

Link?

https://youtu.be/2AkekOnVoMo
https://youtu.be/uoIQOvBs5_w

He's got a ton of videos about it, but that's the condensed version. They're even sueing him lol.

His channel is blowing up with people sending him stories from working at Amazon, fast food places, Walmart, etc.. He's kind of blowing up into this whistle blowing channel, it's neat.

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Sad for the moment I realized it was gone. Then immediately move on. Last time I went there they under ordered the game I wanted, so Im kind of "eh" atm lol. How dare they make me go back across the street to Walmart

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Indifferent.

I get all my new stuff digitally now and all physical stuff on retro consoles from local shops.
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I wouldn't care
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I'd be kinda sad. I like the idea of having a store here dedicated to video games, but gamestop did this to themselves for the most part. The few alternatives here are a retro store that is honestly better in some ways than gamestop, though they wouldn't be my first choice for new releases. Walmart and Amazon have their issues as well. I also don't like the idea of having to return a game through an online retailer.
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We'd get something to fill the vacuum, and it would be difficult for whatever comes to be worse than Gamestop. I'd hope for mom n' pops.

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The fact you didn't go for glad instead of happy sickens me.
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This guy is going to end gamestop's career
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Mad because where will I get my absurdly cheap 7th gen games now?

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I'd be indifferent.
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I would feel indifferent. I mainly shop for my games on amazon, best buy, target, or the ps4 store.
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My GameStop is awesome never had any problems at all. Been going for 15+ years since I was in middle school. Known the current manager when he barely began working at the store
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I just got my level 4 card so i'd be pissed off i wasted all that time and money for nothing.

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I wouldn't be mad. The days of Funcoland are long gone.
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I'd be sad at first, but I have other stores near me that still sell physical video games so it wouldn't be a huge deal.

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Sad, but they will leave a hole in the market for someone else, probably local, to fill.

They've done a bad job being a business
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Sad. Because they failed to adapt and fix what was wrong. They still sell opened games as new. But if they are gone there is no real game market for older or smaller games. Walmart isnt going to keep games from years ago that done sell.

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They'll be out of business eventually. The digital market is going to kill them.
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Indiffrent

I don't care

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dummy420 posted...

They still sell opened games as new.

They tried that with me.

Told them I forgot my wallet and left and went to Walmart to buy the game

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1NfamousACE_2 posted...

They tried that with me.

Told them I forgot my wallet and left and went to Walmart to buy the game

Why lie? Just tell them to fuck off

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Bad_Mojo posted...

Why lie? Just tell them to fuck off

It was years ago before I knew it was standard practice

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Indifferent.
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More or less indifferent. Haven't shopped at a GS in years.

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Bad_Mojo posted...

Why lie? Just tell them to fuck off

Yeah last game I bought "new" like that had a coffee stain in the manual. The fact that there was a manual should date it for you.

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I'd be sad, but then, I've been lucky enough to live near some of the good ones. I understand that not everybody has had the same good experiences.

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pres_madagascar posted...

There's a former employee who made a YouTube channel exposing them and it's gotten the attention of the ceo and is causing a panic internally.

In short, you should never give them your money, they are beyond scummy.

I legit thought this was about GameFAQs kol

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DuranOfForcena posted...

indifferent

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Sada_Pop posted...

Sad. Kinda like when Toys R Us went bottoms up. One, for my own selfish nolstagia and Two, because that's a lot of lost jobs.

Yeah, TRU was especially a bummer because while I had long since aged out of it and hadn't frequented the place in ages, it shut down like a couple months after my daughter was born, I did take her just to say I took her, lol, but we won't have those fun experiences that I got to have as a young kid going there and being amazed and looking all over.

I do go to Gamestop more than I went to TRU, but not super often. When they are actually having a good trade in promo I'll offload some stuff, sometimes buy something there but more often just get the store credit and order something online later or just get a bunch of currency for XBox/PSN/Nintendo eShop.

So yeah I wouldn't super miss it for how I use it, but I do like the idea of having dedicated game stores (even though now there is a lot of other weird stuff there).

And yeah, lots of people getting laid off sucks.

If I had made a career of it I probably wouldn't look back so fondly, but I was a seasonal worker there ages ago for holiday season 2005 and it was a super fun job. We kept the used consoles in the employee bathroom. >_>
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I would be hopeful that the Gamestop by me would get turned into a Panda Express. Its the only fast food place that hasnt popped up and the closest one is about 30 minutes away.

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Jiggy101011 posted...

I would be hopeful that the Gamestop by me would get turned into a Panda Express. Its the only fast food place that hasnt popped up and the closest one is about 30 minutes away.

Well that's an interesting perspective lol

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