petition to stop gamestop from selling retro games

[munchiaz]

A friend of mine started this up. I doubt it will have any real effect on anything, but im curious to see how many sigs it gets

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/stop-gamestop-from-selling-retro-games/

[Arjak]

Signed. Let's hope this doesn't happen.

[TheClash603]

Can't wait til Gamestop uses its buying power to get tons of old games at cheap prices or finally decides to unload its old warehouse stock that has been dormant for a decade.  The effect is games end up in stores at sub-ebay levels.

I don't think a petition is a good thing, because typically competition drives prices down, so I have my fingers crossed.  When they pull out their 3,000 unsold copies of Bonk 3 CD and sell for $50, we will all love Gamestop!

[RegalSin]

They do not have to. Their are tons of warehouse with piles of new and used NES ( and other stuff ) sitting around doing nothing. They are just going to make an offer. Most of these people are Vietnam veterans.

[munchiaz]

Can't wait til Gamestop uses its buying power to get tons of old games at cheap prices or finally decides to unload its old warehouse stock that has been dormant for a decade.  The effect is games end up in stores at sub-ebay levels.

I don't think a petition is a good thing, because typically competition drives prices down, so I have my fingers crossed.  When they pull out their 3,000 unsold copies of Bonk 3 CD and sell for $50, we will all love Gamestop!

I really hope this happens. Right now it just seems like wishful thinking. But if GS is able to drive the prices of retro games down then its def a win win. I'm not a huge fan of gamestop (i used to work there) But they can do good with this. But i just see it going poorly

[Emerald Rocker]

So here's the problem.  Number one, is that petitions almost never work.  Number two, is that if you DO happen to get a huge number of signatures, then Gamestop will interpret that as "overwhelming interest in retro" and be more determined than ever to get into the market.

I am so totally not signing this petition.

[SignOfZeta]

I hate Gamestop as much as anyone, but I don't see why people are so worried about this. Gamestop is totally doomed to fail at this...but more importantly, if they DO succeed, what's the worst that can happen? eBay loses its virtual monopoly on retro stuff and the prices go down? I see that as a good thing.

Not that its going to happen, of course. Even successful indie game shops have to resort to eBay quite often.

What could go horribly wrong though, I suppose, is if GS just uses it 1000 stores to collect as many retro games as possible and then sell them exclusively on eBay. I don't see this happening.

[jperryss]

So here's the problem.  Number one, is that petitions almost never work.  Number two, is that if you DO happen to get a huge number of signatures, then Gamestop will interpret that as "overwhelming interest in retro" and be more determined than ever to get into the market.

I am so totally not signing this petition.

On top of that, calling Gamestop "the worst video game store ever" in the petition certainly won't help.

[SignOfZeta]

So here's the problem.  Number one, is that petitions almost never work.  Number two, is that if you DO happen to get a huge number of signatures, then Gamestop will interpret that as "overwhelming interest in retro" and be more determined than ever to get into the market.

I am so totally not signing this petition.

On top of that, calling Gamestop "the worst video game store ever" in the petition certainly won't help.

Well, it might help. GS must realize by now they they are hated. Its possible that they think "They hate us because we are successful", in which case they are doomed, but hopefully they realize that we hate them because they suck. As customers we dread every conversation with a GS employee. If the employees don't torture us with constant verbal spam they get fired, but the spam is the worst part. As the employees are ordered to become more and more pushy the quality of the employees themselves will continue to drop since only total a$$holes will harass customers like that. Meanwhile the customers are more and more likely to just buy their games at Target.

I bought my 3DSXL last week from KMart. f*ck Gamestop.

[vestcoat]

I hate Gamestop as much as anyone, but I don't see why people are so worried about this. Gamestop is totally doomed to fail at this...but more importantly, if they DO succeed, what's the worst that can happen? eBay loses its virtual monopoly on retro stuff and the prices go down? I see that as a good thing.

A lot of indie game shops have sprung up to the meet the demand for retro games. In the short term, Gamestop could potentially put them out of business and that would suck. In the long term, Gamestop tops Best Buy and even Radio Shack on the list of idiotic, soon-to-be-extinct businesses. Let's just hope they don't do too much damage in their death throes.

[Tatsujin]

I lol'd

[Jibbajaba]

This seems pointless.

Chris

[BigusSchmuck]

Gamestop isn't the only one doing this, Hastings has done this for a long time and shit is still expensive on Ebay. http://www.gohastings.com/

[RegalSin]

I know everybody has the right to sell whatever. Maybe a thunder bolt will strike the person who made it gamestops job to make pre-orders.

Okay... signed

[munchiaz]

I remember when i used to for for EB games (then got changed to GS) I would also have a stack of hard to find ps1,ps2 GBA and DS games to buy down the road. I remember some of my supervisors saying that GS has ppl that look on ebay to see if employees are buying games from them, then selling them on Ebay. Just something interesting. most likely just a scare tactice