ITT Your worst Gamestop experience stories

ITT Your worst Gamestop experience stories

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holy fuck.

>tell them not to call anybody
>they call the cops straight away

Who was in the wrong here?

The degenerate who belongs in an oven

to be fair this is the only time he did something resembling an manlyness

I worked for them.

>implying I would ever go to fucking gamestop

the time I traded in half my games and my cat, just to buy a switch

I just visited a GameStop recently and it's crazy how much they've sold out. An entire half of the store was dedicated to selling merch related to shit cartoons like rick and morty and bob's burgers. Then the other half was split between video games and small ornament things that had nothing to do with vidya and looked more like stuff you'd find in a dollar store. Truly disgusting

>go to gamestop
>Buy video game
>Clerk says "would you like to preorder any video games today?"
>No
>"Well we have new arrivals soon, do you want to look at our list?"
>No
>"Do you want a protection plan on your game?
>No
>Pay and leave
I know they have to sell stuff but goddamn is that truly the worst part if bear stop

It's slowly becoming Hot Topic with some games for sale

>people actually trade in games to gamestop
Why?

commission is the most evil horrendous system ever created by man

Every time I venture in there I am reminded of how awful the gaming community can be. The shame on the short walk back to the car is difficult to get through.

Should fat people be allowed on television?

I traded my DSi in and I got a 3DS from it back during launch day.

You mean you traded in your DSi and got 20% of the store credit needed to buy a 3DS.

Tried to preorder Battletoads. They had no idea what I was talking about.

There was a deal where you could trade in worthless games and make a good return a while back, wasn't there?

Surprisingly, they didn't ask for money. They were fine with just the DSi.

Go in to store to buy game - it's only behind the counter so you need to ask for the game by name.
GS - "nice man! You play it yet?"
Me - "no it came out today"
GS - "bro dawg your gonna love it"
Proceed to pay for game
GS - "you a rewards member?"
Me - "no"
GS- "you wanna sign up?"
Me - "no"
GS - "you sure? You got sick benefits"
Me- "no"
GS - "we have a used copy available you want that instead? Save 2 bucks"
Me - "no"
GS - "you wanna preorder anything? (Shows dumb notebook with upcoming releases)
Me - "no"
GS - "you sure man? Call of duty? AC? Battlefield?"
Me leaving store and giving up gaming for good.

I walked in to pick up my fucking games, and I couldn't stop calling people dicks!

We don't make commission on that shit, we just have the vultures at corporate monitoring our every breath and thought and if we don't offer that shit to every thing that walks through that door with a heartbeat you can kiss your job goodbye

Source: I've worked three different positions at my local GameStop. Basic bitch, basic bitch + manager duties, and basic phone bitch.

Never happened.

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Bought The Witcher in a country where the nudie cards were banned, they gave me the European DVD (region free) instead of the local version.

I was thoroughly upset

But those are good cartoons.

Where did this idea come from? Typically only high end retailers work on commission. Most retailers just use the threat of firing to get people to sell stuff.

The pestering at the counter is the sole reason I don't go to gamestop. No other store I have ever been to pushes it that hard. You say no and they drop it. GameStop keeps reeling at you until you've had enough and just say yes to shut them up

protection plan is a huge scam
only idiots and parents with idiot kids need insurance on video game discs
discs belong in to places game console or their cover, how hard is that to understand

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand Rick and Morty. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of theoretical physics most of the jokes will go over a typical viewers head. There's also Rick's nihilistic outlook, which is deftly woven into his characterisation- his personal philosophy draws heavily from Narodnaya Volya literature, for instance. The fans understand this stuff; they have the intellectual capacity to truly appreciate the depths of these jokes, to realise that they're not just funny- they say something deep about LIFE. As a consequence people who dislike Rick & Morty truly ARE idiots- of course they wouldn't appreciate, for instance, the humour in Rick's existential catchphrase "Wubba Lubba Dub Dub," which itself is a cryptic reference to Turgenev's Russian epic Fathers and Sons. I'm smirking right now just imagining one of those addlepated simpletons scratching their heads in confusion as Dan Harmon's genius wit unfolds itself on their television screens. What fools.. how I pity them.
And yes, by the way, i DO have a Rick & Morty tattoo. And no, you cannot see it. It's for the ladies' eyes only- and even then they have to demonstrate that they're within 5 IQ points of my own (preferably lower) beforehand.

I seriously don't see the appeal in Bob's Burgers

>bought a 2DS for my nieces
>ensured it for 2 years because they're both below 7 and damage is almost guaranteed
>one year later it's fucked up, bring system and receipt in for a replacement
>oh, we don't do that here, you'll have to send it to the warehouse
>a few days later I get notification that GS stopped a fraudulent transaction on my credit card and the one I sent for replacement never got replaced

Never buy hardware from those assholes.

Most awkward exprience i ever had in gamestop was Asking if they had the sims 2 in 20 fucking 16

>they point me to their PC section full of "indie" platformers

>just say yes to shut them up
They can smell your weakness.

Please delete this post before the thread turns into a massive fight over a cartoon

why were you upset that you got nudie cards?

>Move into college
>Need a second gamecube controller to play with roomate
>Go to gamestop that's literally 5 minutes away
>They don't sell gamecube controllers
>Find out there's a local place that has a ton of retro shit and newer games too
>Never go to gamestop again

>we don't like Rick and Morty anymore because it's popular now

its an old reddit pasta

They only gave me the first disc so I had to go back to get the 2nd disc, mid-install

Proalbably towards the purchase of a preorder. Their deals have always been notoriously shit.

>few days later I get notification that GS stopped a fraudulent transaction on my credit card

what

>gamestop thinks this country isn't even worth set up shop on

So I'm dodging tons of bullets here apparently?

Kek good one. No one here was around for that meme sadly

t. reddit

ME: I'd like to buy Satan's Revenge new, please.
FAGGOT EMPLOYEE: Sure, buddy.

He proceeds to open the drawer, grab a sleeve, and remove a disc. He then retrieves a case and puts the disc in, sealing it with a sticker.

ME: Hold up. I said new. You know, like sealed.

Faggot looks at me with an indignant stare.

FAGGOT EMPLOYEE: It's new. Totally new. Nobody's ever used it before. We need a case to display. That's all.
ME: Fuck off. You're not getting my cash. Can't wait till you fucks go outta business. [ actual dialogue ]

then include that in the story you fuckwit

With gamestop slowly dying does this mean that those smaller businesses will start to thrive again? Or are they doomed as well?

what happened to that thread. was the guy mocked and deleted it?

>shitting on an employee for something out of his control
Maybe you should fuck off

>insurance is a scam

Yup. Maybe if you have a mouth-breathing mongoloid child you need it, but if your IQ is at least in the double digits you don't

Hahahahhahhahahhahahhahahahhahah
Epic, simply epic my friend. I am cracking up right now. My sides are, how you say, out?!?!?!

>ITT Your worst Gamestop experience stories

>be me
>its birthday
>look up game for nostalgia
>nearest one has it 10miles away
>drive through traffic
>after 1hr get there
>buy game
>insert game
>doesn't work
>return to gamestop
>get money back

wasted a nice portion of my day driving to and from gamestop. Sucks that a local store went that had classics in nice condition went out of business the month prior.

I don't get it either, but the net result is I never got the replacement

It's watchable. Like if it's on Tv I'll watch it while playing a game. Wouldn't go out of my way to watch episodes back to back or anything

Top kek, my fellow oldfag. Top kek

*grabs you but the throat*
*eyes light up red as a dark, ominous force looms around me*
shut the FUCK up!?!!?

I wanted to play Miitopia, and i only buy my games physically so I decided to go to the store on release date to pick the game up. They did not have the game, so I left, a bit miffed that the dedicated game store did not have a game on release date.

That's about it. Never had a horrifying experience or anything.

The 360 I bought there had parental controls on. I had to bruteforce the password to play any of my games

Fucking gamestop

Gamestop always rustled my autistic collector jimmies, and I haven't been there in years, but usually it something like this would play out
>Buy new game
>Game has been taken out of shrink wrap and disc is stored separately from the case
>It's fine, bro, it's a new game!
I believe you it's new, but why the fuck did they do that?
>Find last-gen game I want to buy
>Call ahead, make sure it's not the greatest hits version
>"It's cool, dude, it's got the black label"
>Go pick up the game
>Case is the black label, disc is the greatest hits version
>"What do you mean you are not gonna buy it, it's the same game!"
or
>"Lol why do you care so much that it doesn't have the manual? New games don't even come with them anymore!"
and
>"Check out our DS selection in this display case. The cases? Nah, they take up too much space, we threw them all out!"
I know most of these probably wouldn't bother your average person, but these kind of things really ticked me off.

Nice pasta

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all of those things bug me.
I have a separate shelf for the platinum hits games

>Walk into Gamestop
>Grab a shit ton of PS4 games
>Walk up to register and ask if they have any PS4 Pros in stock
>Employee says they do
>Buy a PS4 Pro and about 10 games
>Employee asks if I want to buy something since I'm "getting back in the game"
>Instantly offended that he thought I had ever left
It really was a weird experience though, because it felt normal to me but this dude thought I was getting back into video games after a long break or something.

*pushes you*
*begins punching you*
*hovers foot just above your head*
Leave. Or else I'll fucking stomp your head in
*eyes light up blue to indicate that I am speaking truthfully*

The last time i went into a gamestop it was to buy MCLA. This was right after release but they still had a used copy somehow so i basically saved 50ยข on it.

*Grabs your dick*
How would you like it if I taught you a lesson?

Not my problem.

Manchild
inb4 where do you think you are

How about my best Gamestop/RB Games stories?

>walk into EB Games with old Xbox
>they offer me $10 for it
>walk right out and go to the Best Buy right next to it
>buy those old 500gb IDE drives on clearance
>hack and upgrade it using an old Pentium 4 I got on Kijiji for free
>install XBMC and enjoy my very first HTPC

>Launch day for Squidward Sword
>Volunteering at a walk in clinic at the mall
>enter through Best Buy and see the gold edition of the game on display
>buy 2 copies and get a free OoT t shirt
>Walk past the line of preorder chuckle fucks waiting at EB Games for the store to open so they can get their copies that they already paid for
>"How do you already have it?"
>shrug and keep walking

>Doing my undergrad now
>allergies are killing me
>go to the mall that's like 5 minutes walking distance from my apartment
>need my off brand meds from Shopper's Drug Mart
>huge line across the pharmacy at EB Games
>ask what it's about and they tell me it's for Pokemon X/Y
>damn line wraps halfway around the mall
>had no idea Pokemon was this bog
>go and get my meds
>guy at Shopper's tells me they have copes of Pokemon X if I'm interested
>why not
>buy a copy for $40 canuck bucks and walk out
>guy in line tells me he would have never pre-ordered if he knew that fucking Shopper's Drug Mart was going to get copies
>nobody can leave the line because they all pre-ordered
>mfw I didn't even own a 3DS

Bought one for like $90 soon after. Those Fire Emblem games were really fun

>[ actual dialogue ]

*unzips dick*

>that bucket of EDGE cards at the front counter
>divided by names, meaning they've each gotta push out that many as quota

Those poor mother fuckers.

I just asked the employee to get me sealed copies of the games I bought and he went and got them.

>had no idea Pokemon was this big
Have you been living under a rock for the past twenty years?

I figure it died down and was only relevant among dedicated fans

Don't reply to my threads

what was the game?

My local store actually has several copies of Battletoads. They're $20.

If people call or ask they're just like "yep we got".

nah

>literally one of the biggest vidya series in the world
>relevant only among autists
l-lol?

Went in probably a month or two ago. Mouth breathing man children came in after I did. I'm not a judgemental person but I was almost ashamed. I dunno, really made me think. Pretty much made me realize video games aren't that important to me anymore, except late night and weekend filler after the kids are in bed. I felt bad for the grown men in the store that it's all they really had, and I've never thought like that before.

Please do not give this man (You)s

>call to ask about battletoads
>"why don't you look for a 20 year old gf instead of a 20 year old game you fucking loser"
Haha, p-power to the players, right?

>preorder last guardian for ps3 when buying ico collection and have to pay 5 Euros as downpayment (only time I preordered, I did not know preordering meant you have to pay part of the game in advance)
>get a call around 2013 telling me the game has been cancelled and if I want to transfer my preorder to another game
>tell them no
>few weeks pass until I'm at a mall and decide to get into gamestop
>chubby but kinda cute female clerk at the counter
>I ask her if I can have my 5 Euros back since I was not interested in a new game
>she says that's not possible, but that I can transfer my preorder to a new game
>tell her I don't want to preorder shit and if I can buy something and deduct the 5 Euros from it
>she gets pissed, but says it's okay (I guess losing a preorder also affects their quota?)
>browse the used PS2 games and find a copy of San Andrea for 6 Euros
>take the copy get to the register
>notice I don't have cash on me
>try to pay with my VISA
>"sorry Sir, we only take credit cards if your total is over 20 Euros"
>"you could place some preorders or get a real game if you want to pay with credit card"
>first time I've heard of this retarded rule.Only other place I know that does this is 1 fucking gas station in my town
>tell her hell no
>I fuck off to an ATM and take out some cash
>can I know have my game for 1 Euro please.
>she looks visibly annoyed
>I'm just grinning at that bitch bc I'm not gonna buy trash I don't want
>still has the nerve to ask me again if I want to preorder something while looking for the San Andreas CD
>don't answer take my San Andreas and my change and fuck out of there

Honor the old guard!

There's hasn't been very many games worth holding on to for consoles in the last 7 years. Might as well use a prior disappointment to help soften the blow of another $60 disappointment.

>go to Gamestop
>buy cheap used game (1.99)
>cashier rings it up
>costs 3.99 or some shit
>Uh no, that costs 1.99
>Hmm... nah man, its 3.99.
>I look at his fucking screen
>he put on the fucking protection plan
>I don't want a protection plan mate
>oh whoops, I didn't notice haha!1 ;)
>uh yea... ok...
>but hey man, do you want a protection plan now that its here?
>NO
>looks at me with sadness in his eyes
>buy game i want with no protection plan
>fucking gamestop

If there is a sealed copy that's what you get by default, there's only one gutted copy for display (unless they need more display cases for some reason like a sale display) and they sell that last specifically so they don't have to gut another copy. I don't understand why people are too stupid to understand that.

So like, every parent.

>make a thread
>don't want people to post in it
???

Gamestop recently opened up a Gamestop Plus store in my town here in Sweden where Game used to be. Are they better or worse than Game?

Game?

My worst experience was working there for six and a half years, partly because the company is shit but mostly because the customers are shit. If you fuckers hate the company so much stop going there, the employees will be overjoyed, I promise you.

>too poor to pay 4 dollars
Sad, indeed

t. gamestop employee

>stupid enough to get scammed out of money
I can have lunch for $4 instead of giving it to one of the corporations actively making gaming worse both for players and developers, mouth-breather.

tbf I used it once or twice on some slightly scratched up old ps2 games, bc the ps2 tends to further scratch games just from spinning them.