Comments on: GameStop may rip you a new one! http://www.siliconera.com/2007/02/07/gamestop-may-rip-you-a-new-one/ The secret level in the world of video game news. Tue, 06 Dec 2011 01:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jameshttp://www.siliconera.com/2007/02/07/gamestop-may-rip-you-a-new-one/comment-page-1/#comment-502250 James Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:04:53 +0000 http://www.siliconera.com/index.php/2007/02/07/gamestop-may-rip-you-a-new-one/#comment-502250 In April I bought a 80gb ps3 refurbished from gamestop and got a warranty for a year. But then the system broke so we called the online store and they said the warranty was over so they would not take it back so I go to the store and ask if I could trade it in for the metal gear bundle and they wont take the system. Not much was wrong with it the blue ray drive broke thats it but they said they could only give $150 back so there was no choice but to buy the metal gear bundle for $350 and use the system $150 to buy. So I bought it but dont go to gamestop anymore. In April I bought a 80gb ps3 refurbished from gamestop and got a warranty for a year. But then the system broke so we called the online store and they said the warranty was over so they would not take it back so I go to the store and ask if I could trade it in for the metal gear bundle and they wont take the system. Not much was wrong with it the blue ray drive broke thats it but they said they could only give $150 back so there was no choice but to buy the metal gear bundle for $350 and use the system $150 to buy. So I bought it but dont go to gamestop anymore.

]]> By: Jameshttp://www.siliconera.com/2007/02/07/gamestop-may-rip-you-a-new-one/comment-page-1/#comment-666263 James Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:04:00 +0000 http://www.siliconera.com/index.php/2007/02/07/gamestop-may-rip-you-a-new-one/#comment-666263 In April I bought a 80gb ps3 refurbished from gamestop and got a warranty for a year. But then the system broke so we called the online store and they said the warranty was over so they would not take it back so I go to the store and ask if I could trade it in for the metal gear bundle and they wont take the system. Not much was wrong with it the blue ray drive broke thats it but they said they could only give $150 back so there was no choice but to buy the metal gear bundle for $350 and use the system $150 to buy. So I bought it but dont go to gamestop anymore. In April I bought a 80gb ps3 refurbished from gamestop and got a warranty for a year. But then the system broke so we called the online store and they said the warranty was over so they would not take it back so I go to the store and ask if I could trade it in for the metal gear bundle and they wont take the system. Not much was wrong with it the blue ray drive broke thats it but they said they could only give $150 back so there was no choice but to buy the metal gear bundle for $350 and use the system $150 to buy. So I bought it but dont go to gamestop anymore.

]]> By: Jameshttp://www.siliconera.com/2007/02/07/gamestop-may-rip-you-a-new-one/comment-page-1/#comment-666264 James Sun, 13 Jul 2008 06:04:00 +0000 http://www.siliconera.com/index.php/2007/02/07/gamestop-may-rip-you-a-new-one/#comment-666264 In April I bought a 80gb ps3 refurbished from gamestop and got a warranty for a year. But then the system broke so we called the online store and they said the warranty was over so they would not take it back so I go to the store and ask if I could trade it in for the metal gear bundle and they wont take the system. Not much was wrong with it the blue ray drive broke thats it but they said they could only give $150 back so there was no choice but to buy the metal gear bundle for $350 and use the system $150 to buy. So I bought it but dont go to gamestop anymore. In April I bought a 80gb ps3 refurbished from gamestop and got a warranty for a year. But then the system broke so we called the online store and they said the warranty was over so they would not take it back so I go to the store and ask if I could trade it in for the metal gear bundle and they wont take the system. Not much was wrong with it the blue ray drive broke thats it but they said they could only give $150 back so there was no choice but to buy the metal gear bundle for $350 and use the system $150 to buy. So I bought it but dont go to gamestop anymore.

]]> By: Tomhttp://www.siliconera.com/2007/02/07/gamestop-may-rip-you-a-new-one/comment-page-1/#comment-52318 Tom Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:56:06 +0000 http://www.siliconera.com/index.php/2007/02/07/gamestop-may-rip-you-a-new-one/#comment-52318 I just ended a 4 (almost 5 year) stint with EB (now Gamestop). GameStop's policy makes a lot of sense. We put copies of games out on the wall. How do you think we're supposed to prevent them from being stolen? We ahve to advertise both new and used product. Therefore both new and used games get placed on the floor. Employees are supposed to put a sticker over the break in the case. It's either that or shrinkwrap the game. But those games are new. They get taken out of the case and put in a CD sleeve or bag. As for game collectors, you need to define what you mean. Do you mean collectors of video games, or people who are looking to make loads of cash for buying sealed rare games and selling them to real collectors? Real game collectors shouldn't care about a game being opened. The joy is in owning the game and, if they're a true collector, in playing the game. I just ended a 4 (almost 5 year) stint with EB (now Gamestop). GameStop’s policy makes a lot of sense. We put copies of games out on the wall. How do you think we’re supposed to prevent them from being stolen? We ahve to advertise both new and used product. Therefore both new and used games get placed on the floor. Employees are supposed to put a sticker over the break in the case. It’s either that or shrinkwrap the game. But those games are new. They get taken out of the case and put in a CD sleeve or bag. As for game collectors, you need to define what you mean. Do you mean collectors of video games, or people who are looking to make loads of cash for buying sealed rare games and selling them to real collectors? Real game collectors shouldn’t care about a game being opened. The joy is in owning the game and, if they’re a true collector, in playing the game.

]]> By: Tomhttp://www.siliconera.com/2007/02/07/gamestop-may-rip-you-a-new-one/comment-page-1/#comment-666261 Tom Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:56:00 +0000 http://www.siliconera.com/index.php/2007/02/07/gamestop-may-rip-you-a-new-one/#comment-666261 I just ended a 4 (almost 5 year) stint with EB (now Gamestop). GameStop's policy makes a lot of sense. We put copies of games out on the wall. How do you think we're supposed to prevent them from being stolen? We ahve to advertise both new and used product. Therefore both new and used games get placed on the floor. Employees are supposed to put a sticker over the break in the case. It's either that or shrinkwrap the game. But those games are new. They get taken out of the case and put in a CD sleeve or bag. As for game collectors, you need to define what you mean. Do you mean collectors of video games, or people who are looking to make loads of cash for buying sealed rare games and selling them to real collectors? Real game collectors shouldn't care about a game being opened. The joy is in owning the game and, if they're a true collector, in playing the game. I just ended a 4 (almost 5 year) stint with EB (now Gamestop). GameStop’s policy makes a lot of sense. We put copies of games out on the wall. How do you think we’re supposed to prevent them from being stolen? We ahve to advertise both new and used product. Therefore both new and used games get placed on the floor. Employees are supposed to put a sticker over the break in the case. It’s either that or shrinkwrap the game. But those games are new. They get taken out of the case and put in a CD sleeve or bag. As for game collectors, you need to define what you mean. Do you mean collectors of video games, or people who are looking to make loads of cash for buying sealed rare games and selling them to real collectors? Real game collectors shouldn’t care about a game being opened. The joy is in owning the game and, if they’re a true collector, in playing the game.

]]> By: Tomhttp://www.siliconera.com/2007/02/07/gamestop-may-rip-you-a-new-one/comment-page-1/#comment-666262 Tom Tue, 27 Feb 2007 16:56:00 +0000 http://www.siliconera.com/index.php/2007/02/07/gamestop-may-rip-you-a-new-one/#comment-666262 I just ended a 4 (almost 5 year) stint with EB (now Gamestop). GameStop's policy makes a lot of sense. We put copies of games out on the wall. How do you think we're supposed to prevent them from being stolen? We ahve to advertise both new and used product. Therefore both new and used games get placed on the floor. Employees are supposed to put a sticker over the break in the case. It's either that or shrinkwrap the game. But those games are new. They get taken out of the case and put in a CD sleeve or bag. As for game collectors, you need to define what you mean. Do you mean collectors of video games, or people who are looking to make loads of cash for buying sealed rare games and selling them to real collectors? Real game collectors shouldn't care about a game being opened. The joy is in owning the game and, if they're a true collector, in playing the game. I just ended a 4 (almost 5 year) stint with EB (now Gamestop). GameStop’s policy makes a lot of sense. We put copies of games out on the wall. How do you think we’re supposed to prevent them from being stolen? We ahve to advertise both new and used product. Therefore both new and used games get placed on the floor. Employees are supposed to put a sticker over the break in the case. It’s either that or shrinkwrap the game. But those games are new. They get taken out of the case and put in a CD sleeve or bag. As for game collectors, you need to define what you mean. Do you mean collectors of video games, or people who are looking to make loads of cash for buying sealed rare games and selling them to real collectors? Real game collectors shouldn’t care about a game being opened. The joy is in owning the game and, if they’re a true collector, in playing the game.

]]> By: Roli O.http://www.siliconera.com/2007/02/07/gamestop-may-rip-you-a-new-one/comment-page-1/#comment-46966 Roli O. Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:49:28 +0000 http://www.siliconera.com/index.php/2007/02/07/gamestop-may-rip-you-a-new-one/#comment-46966 The author's response (the one whose blog I linked to) was logical in itself. The copy of Pirate's he purchased was new; but as someone noted above, whenever a new copy turns out to be the last copy of the game they have, they end up just giving you the display case and put the contents in the case, in this case the UMD and instruction manual plus whatever other inserts the game includes.The question is simple. If he's being sold this new game as new, shouldn't he be able to return it as new? After all, it wasn't sealed when he purchased it; so that instantly, logically speaking anyway, negates that Gamestop policy where "new games can be returned within seven days only if left sealed". Whether or not he asked them to shrinkwrap the copy of Pirate's he purchased isn't the issue. The author’s response (the one whose blog I linked to) was logical in itself. The copy of Pirate’s he purchased was new; but as someone noted above, whenever a new copy turns out to be the last copy of the game they have, they end up just giving you the display case and put the contents in the case, in this case the UMD and instruction manual plus whatever other inserts the game includes.

The question is simple. If he’s being sold this new game as new, shouldn’t he be able to return it as new? After all, it wasn’t sealed when he purchased it; so that instantly, logically speaking anyway, negates that Gamestop policy where “new games can be returned within seven days only if left sealed”. Whether or not he asked them to shrinkwrap the copy of Pirate’s he purchased isn’t the issue.

]]> By: Roli O.http://www.siliconera.com/2007/02/07/gamestop-may-rip-you-a-new-one/comment-page-1/#comment-666260 Roli O. Fri, 09 Feb 2007 10:49:00 +0000 http://www.siliconera.com/index.php/2007/02/07/gamestop-may-rip-you-a-new-one/#comment-666260 The author's response (the one whose blog I linked to) was logical in itself. The copy of Pirate's he purchased was new; but as someone noted above, whenever a new copy turns out to be the last copy of the game they have, they end up just giving you the display case and put the contents in the case, in this case the UMD and instruction manual plus whatever other inserts the game includes.The question is simple. If he's being sold this new game as new, shouldn't he be able to return it as new? After all, it wasn't sealed when he purchased it; so that instantly, logically speaking anyway, negates that Gamestop policy where "new games can be returned within seven days only if left sealed". Whether or not he asked them to shrinkwrap the copy of Pirate's he purchased isn't the issue. The author’s response (the one whose blog I linked to) was logical in itself. The copy of Pirate’s he purchased was new; but as someone noted above, whenever a new copy turns out to be the last copy of the game they have, they end up just giving you the display case and put the contents in the case, in this case the UMD and instruction manual plus whatever other inserts the game includes.

The question is simple. If he’s being sold this new game as new, shouldn’t he be able to return it as new? After all, it wasn’t sealed when he purchased it; so that instantly, logically speaking anyway, negates that Gamestop policy where “new games can be returned within seven days only if left sealed”. Whether or not he asked them to shrinkwrap the copy of Pirate’s he purchased isn’t the issue.

]]> By: Disionhttp://www.siliconera.com/2007/02/07/gamestop-may-rip-you-a-new-one/comment-page-1/#comment-46867 Dision Fri, 09 Feb 2007 04:32:30 +0000 http://www.siliconera.com/index.php/2007/02/07/gamestop-may-rip-you-a-new-one/#comment-46867 "That’s because it is a new game. Just because the disc was removed doesn’t mean it isn’t.""you can return it a week later, AS LONG AS IT IS UNOPENED. then the game is used, and your sol, because it isn’t new anymore."So if the store opens the game, it's still new, but if the customer opens the game, it isn't new anymore? Where I come from, we call that a double standard. “That’s because it is a new game. Just because the disc was removed doesn’t mean it isn’t.”

“you can return it a week later, AS LONG AS IT IS UNOPENED. then the game is used, and your sol, because it isn’t new anymore.”

So if the store opens the game, it’s still new, but if the customer opens the game, it isn’t new anymore? Where I come from, we call that a double standard.

]]> By: Disionhttp://www.siliconera.com/2007/02/07/gamestop-may-rip-you-a-new-one/comment-page-1/#comment-666258 Dision Fri, 09 Feb 2007 04:32:00 +0000 http://www.siliconera.com/index.php/2007/02/07/gamestop-may-rip-you-a-new-one/#comment-666258 "That’s because it is a new game. Just because the disc was removed doesn’t mean it isn’t.""you can return it a week later, AS LONG AS IT IS UNOPENED. then the game is used, and your sol, because it isn’t new anymore."So if the store opens the game, it's still new, but if the customer opens the game, it isn't new anymore? Where I come from, we call that a double standard. “That’s because it is a new game. Just because the disc was removed doesn’t mean it isn’t.”

“you can return it a week later, AS LONG AS IT IS UNOPENED. then the game is used, and your sol, because it isn’t new anymore.”

So if the store opens the game, it’s still new, but if the customer opens the game, it isn’t new anymore? Where I come from, we call that a double standard.

]]> By: Disionhttp://www.siliconera.com/2007/02/07/gamestop-may-rip-you-a-new-one/comment-page-1/#comment-666259 Dision Fri, 09 Feb 2007 04:32:00 +0000 http://www.siliconera.com/index.php/2007/02/07/gamestop-may-rip-you-a-new-one/#comment-666259 "That’s because it is a new game. Just because the disc was removed doesn’t mean it isn’t.""you can return it a week later, AS LONG AS IT IS UNOPENED. then the game is used, and your sol, because it isn’t new anymore."So if the store opens the game, it's still new, but if the customer opens the game, it isn't new anymore? Where I come from, we call that a double standard. “That’s because it is a new game. Just because the disc was removed doesn’t mean it isn’t.”

“you can return it a week later, AS LONG AS IT IS UNOPENED. then the game is used, and your sol, because it isn’t new anymore.”

So if the store opens the game, it’s still new, but if the customer opens the game, it isn’t new anymore? Where I come from, we call that a double standard.

]]> By: Bryanhttp://www.siliconera.com/2007/02/07/gamestop-may-rip-you-a-new-one/comment-page-1/#comment-46696 Bryan Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:53:20 +0000 http://www.siliconera.com/index.php/2007/02/07/gamestop-may-rip-you-a-new-one/#comment-46696 Should add that they also put a plastic seal over a new game so that you can return it a week later, AS LONG AS IT IS UNOPENED. then the game is used, and your sol, because it isn't new anymore. If you buy new and they aren't putting the plastic seal on it, make sure they do. Should add that they also put a plastic seal over a new game so that you can return it a week later, AS LONG AS IT IS UNOPENED. then the game is used, and your sol, because it isn’t new anymore. If you buy new and they aren’t putting the plastic seal on it, make sure they do.

]]> By: Bryanhttp://www.siliconera.com/2007/02/07/gamestop-may-rip-you-a-new-one/comment-page-1/#comment-666257 Bryan Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:53:00 +0000 http://www.siliconera.com/index.php/2007/02/07/gamestop-may-rip-you-a-new-one/#comment-666257 Should add that they also put a plastic seal over a new game so that you can return it a week later, AS LONG AS IT IS UNOPENED. then the game is used, and your sol, because it isn't new anymore. If you buy new and they aren't putting the plastic seal on it, make sure they do. Should add that they also put a plastic seal over a new game so that you can return it a week later, AS LONG AS IT IS UNOPENED. then the game is used, and your sol, because it isn’t new anymore. If you buy new and they aren’t putting the plastic seal on it, make sure they do.

]]> By: Bryanhttp://www.siliconera.com/2007/02/07/gamestop-may-rip-you-a-new-one/comment-page-1/#comment-46694 Bryan Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:51:42 +0000 http://www.siliconera.com/index.php/2007/02/07/gamestop-may-rip-you-a-new-one/#comment-46694 That's because it is a new game. Just because the disc was removed doesn't mean it isn't. It's your decision if you don't want to purchase it just because it's the final gut copy, wait till they get more in if you have such a big issue with it. As was said, it can be reshrink wrapped as well too if you really want that. That’s because it is a new game. Just because the disc was removed doesn’t mean it isn’t. It’s your decision if you don’t want to purchase it just because it’s the final gut copy, wait till they get more in if you have such a big issue with it. As was said, it can be reshrink wrapped as well too if you really want that.

]]> By: Bryanhttp://www.siliconera.com/2007/02/07/gamestop-may-rip-you-a-new-one/comment-page-1/#comment-666255 Bryan Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:51:00 +0000 http://www.siliconera.com/index.php/2007/02/07/gamestop-may-rip-you-a-new-one/#comment-666255 That's because it is a new game. Just because the disc was removed doesn't mean it isn't. It's your decision if you don't want to purchase it just because it's the final gut copy, wait till they get more in if you have such a big issue with it. As was said, it can be reshrink wrapped as well too if you really want that. That’s because it is a new game. Just because the disc was removed doesn’t mean it isn’t. It’s your decision if you don’t want to purchase it just because it’s the final gut copy, wait till they get more in if you have such a big issue with it. As was said, it can be reshrink wrapped as well too if you really want that.

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