i just got a job at gamestop

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i think i'm going to regret this:-/

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 24 October 2005 20:05 (twenty years ago)

hook a brother up

― c7n (Cozen), Monday, 24 October 2005 20:09 (twenty years ago)

haha kidding dude congratulations!!

what are you doing exactly?

― c7n (Cozen), Monday, 24 October 2005 20:10 (twenty years ago)

just a seasonal associate thing. extremely shitty pay. i'm just desperate for extra cash. shoo's taking up the rest of my time.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 24 October 2005 20:22 (twenty years ago)

*school* that is, not shoo. i do shoo on the weekends.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 24 October 2005 20:23 (twenty years ago)

load up on the used games

(at least, the few that aren't scratched all to hell)

― kingfish neopolitan sundae (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 24 October 2005 21:27 (twenty years ago)

Don't forget to upsell the scratch remover!

― disco violence (disco violence), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

Dude, I'd totally love a strategy guide. And let me pre-order Maddens 2007 through 2015 while I'm at it.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 01:28 (twenty years ago)

I look forward to many stupid customer stories.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 02:04 (twenty years ago)

I look forward to starring in the stupid customer stories.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 03:48 (twenty years ago)

This is kind of exciting.

I think you will have reciprocal discounts at Barnes and Noble also.

― Laura H. (laurah), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 03:59 (twenty years ago)

hey, can you get us a line on some of those pre-order promo items?

― kingfish neopolitan sundae (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 06:06 (twenty years ago)

i'll see what i can do! i won't start 'til next week.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 07:29 (twenty years ago)

Orientation

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 25 October 2005 14:41 (twenty years ago)

i'm actually deepy considering not going. it pays shit, and there's no hours, unless i'm willing to be "competitive". i can be competitive, but not in a fucking retail store while i'm behind in school. gawd i'm so stressed out:-/ and on top of this...i'm too tired to play videogames.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:14 (twenty years ago)

And you'd get there just in time for Xbox 360 madness! Think of the fun!

...I start my job at Borders today. Retail = awful.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

retail is awful : /

― c7n (Cozen), Tuesday, 25 October 2005 18:28 (twenty years ago)

whoa

― c7n (Cozen), Sunday, 30 October 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

Are they from the future?

― melton mowbray (adr), Sunday, 30 October 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

Does anyone else get a bad feeling in their stomachs when thinking about videogame stores? There are only one or two chains, they don't pay you any money for your used games which they then sell at like a 400% mark-up, and they are always trying to rip little kids off. I'm not trying to be down on you latebloomer, I kind of want to work at a gamestop too. But I just wish there was more locally-owned, honest videogame retailers.

― whatever, Sunday, 6 November 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

I prefer those "CD Universe"-type places, where you can trade in media for other types of used media. My best friend once exchanged 13 Troma DVDs for an N64, two controllers, a memory pack, and a copy of Goldeneye.

― kingfish orange creamsicle (kingfish 2.0), Sunday, 6 November 2005 07:49 (twenty years ago)

its ok, i turned down the job! i hated the vibe i got from the manager who interviewed me. plus, no hours and horrible pay.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Sunday, 6 November 2005 07:49 (twenty years ago)

There's a local chain in New Orleans that gives INSANE amounts of credit for trade-ins but are by and large way overpriced (ie trying to sell Ocarina of Time for $17.99) (wtf?). I usually go to EB as it is closer and they often have good trade-in deals for new titles (trade in any five games for Madden 06 or whatever, which means like Culdcept and GT 3 and all my 3.99 bargain bin stuff converts to 50 bucks).

― adam (adam), Sunday, 6 November 2005 19:45 (twenty years ago)

Haha, I was at a Gamestop looking for old games, and I am not exaggerating when I say that every single SNES game there was either a Star Trek or bass fishing game.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 6 November 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

How could you get rid of Culdcept?

― The Yellow Kid, Monday, 7 November 2005 01:25 (twenty years ago)

EB was recently 'acquired' by gamestop.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 7 November 2005 05:08 (twenty years ago)

Would this job be awful? I've worked with kids that age before and they are mostly bearable.

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We need a full-time member of staff to join our young innovative company.
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― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Monday, 7 November 2005 06:32 (twenty years ago)

do it, GP. Tell 'em yer a "team player and all that shite".

― kingfish orange creamsicle (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 7 November 2005 06:37 (twenty years ago)

Ocarina of Time for $17.99) (wtf?)

Hah, round here Gamestation and the local indy games shop both seem to sell that for £25, it's nuts. Or is that $18 for the cartridge alone?

― melton mowbray (adr), Monday, 7 November 2005 08:34 (twenty years ago)

Cartridge alone. And in my experience it's available at just about any used-CD-store-that-sells-games for like 5 bucks.

― adam (adam), Monday, 7 November 2005 12:07 (twenty years ago)

yeah I picked up the ltd edn. GC ocarina/majora's/zeldas I & II disc for £20... which I thought was steep but then I think most games are overpriced... like most things

― carrey degeneres seinfeld (Cozen), Monday, 7 November 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

If you buy a used game at Gamestop, you have a week to (beat it and) return it for a refund.

― calstars, Monday, 16 March 2009 15:51 (seventeen years ago)

guy with a market stall of like 50 square foot i bought a ps2 from the other day is opening a video game store, apparently. wants to run tournaments and stuff and make it a place for the kids in the town to hang out. is this laudable? i can't decide.

― thomp, Monday, 16 March 2009 17:39 (seventeen years ago)

it will be laudable for the 2-3 months that it manages to stay afloat

― a thread for clams that you are free to disregard (jjjusten), Monday, 16 March 2009 17:55 (seventeen years ago)

tell him to make sure his spot's close to a school. the only independent game store left in my neighborhood is like three blocks away from a middle school; I would rather mainline polonium than serve their customer base but I guess it makes money. otoh the slickest, most archly contemporary video game store I can ever remember finding in LA (seriously, this place was like an Undefeated store w/ 360s and flatscreens all over the place, and this was a few years ago before flatscreens were everywhere) went out of business within nine months despite being maybe 10 blocks away from that same middle school. (well, their store getting completely wrecked by a car probably didn't help either. I actually passed by the store while walking somewhere else, then came back the same way about ten minutes later to see a car at least halfway through the big window in front and ambulances everywhere; I guess I just missed it.)

― jamescobo, Monday, 16 March 2009 19:10 (seventeen years ago)

If he's going to sink his money into an impenetrable fan-driven market, he might as well try to diversify and sell comics and DVDs as well.

― Nhex, Monday, 16 March 2009 19:31 (seventeen years ago)

dime bag with every purchase will seal the deal

― WOOKIE JOHNSON (forksclovetofu), Monday, 16 March 2009 20:16 (seventeen years ago)

Having tournaments and stuff and making your shop a place for kids to hang out is a sure fire way of keeping the mothers of those kids away. And it's the mothers who have money to spend (on awful wii titles), not the kids.

Also, remind him that it's going to be about 3-5 years before everything goes digital distribution, and game shops stop needing to exist.

― JimD, Tuesday, 17 March 2009 10:42 (seventeen years ago)

dime bag with every purchase will seal the deal

Truth bong.

― Barackin' In the Free World (B.L.A.M.), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 19:47 (seventeen years ago)

sell Magic/Yugioh/pokemon cards and he'll be fine

― kingfish, Tuesday, 17 March 2009 23:16 (seventeen years ago)

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