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| Brandon:
--- Quote from: Moviefan2k4 on September 25, 2012, 03:46:09 PM --- --- Quote from: Brandon on September 25, 2012, 12:21:42 PM ---I am a Sales Associate in the Electronics department at my local *cough couch cough*- Mart. --- End quote --- You have my sympathy. With few exceptions, the people who work in that section are not too helpful. I don't know how many times I've asked them to go check for something in the back, and they won't because the computer says its out of stock. --- End quote --- Oh, the computer is almost Always right when it says an item is out of stock. What it is usually wrong about is when it says we have an item In Stock. I always have to check to make sure on that. |
| shenske:
I'm an Assistant Manager Store Manager at GameStore*** I LOVE MY JOB ;D |
| madrocsz:
I suppose there are two types of resellers, one that many are ok with and those that deserve to die in a fire. Good Reseller - Goes out looking for deals, mostly older stuff to buy cheap and flip for money, most times to fund their own collection or help pay bills, it's not their fault they know what to look for and take advantage of this. They went out of their way to do it, their reward Bad Reseller - Those that find loopholes in pricing systems, find something on sale, or even the new popular thing to buy up preorders and sell them for 3x as much. Those that go to a store and buy up every copy of something they have and resell for more. This happens more with new products than used. The loophole is fine, but leave nothing for those who want in on the deal, maybe for their collection etc. See "El Hoardo" on cheapassgamer for example Not everyone has expendable income like that to even compete. Now sure, you could argue they are both the same thing but in reality its two different types of product they look for. Good reseller may find something for cheap but sells it for going price, bad reseller gets something so no one else can and inflates the price. However at the end of it all, its the way the world works |
| Moviefan2k4:
--- Quote from: Brandon on September 25, 2012, 11:20:21 PM ---Oh, the computer is almost Always right when it says an item is out of stock. What it is usually wrong about is when it says we have an item In Stock. I always have to check to make sure on that. --- End quote --- Well, there's been several times when customer service reps have actually checked the back for me, and found what I wanted, even though the computer says otherwise. The problem I've most had is getting them to see for themselves in the first place. |
| tbonesteak4dinner:
--- Quote from: madrocsz on September 25, 2012, 11:59:51 PM ---I suppose there are two types of resellers, one that many are ok with and those that deserve to die in a fire. Good Reseller - Goes out looking for deals, mostly older stuff to buy cheap and flip for money, most times to fund their own collection or help pay bills, it's not their fault they know what to look for and take advantage of this. They went out of their way to do it, their reward Bad Reseller - Those that find loopholes in pricing systems, find something on sale, or even the new popular thing to buy up preorders and sell them for 3x as much. Those that go to a store and buy up every copy of something they have and resell for more. This happens more with new products than used. The loophole is fine, but leave nothing for those who want in on the deal, maybe for their collection etc. See "El Hoardo" on cheapassgamer for example Not everyone has expendable income like that to even compete. Now sure, you could argue they are both the same thing but in reality its two different types of product they look for. Good reseller may find something for cheap but sells it for going price, bad reseller gets something so no one else can and inflates the price. However at the end of it all, its the way the world works --- End quote --- Your bad reseller sounds like a smart cookie to me. We're not talking about food and necessities here, we're talking about games and entertainment. Now, if this "bad reseller" went to all the regional super markets and bought out all of the food for weeks and sold it in a small stand in the parking lot at 3x the price then I'd say he was an asshole and depriving people of a necessity. But since we're talking about a guy who's buying a reselling video games, I really have to blame the people who are actually supporting him and buying the stuff. They're the ones to blame. If there wasn't demand for this sort of thing, then no one would even be interested in buying all those systems and games to sell like that. I don't have the money to do this, and nor do I look at collecting that way. Personally, I hand pick everything I buy and only resell the extras I get from large lots, but I really can't blame that guy for being able to make some money in an environment where absolutely nobody gets hurt by it. The people who buy from him obviously have the serious money needed to do so, and everyone else just has to wait a little longer, or just pre-order the game from a more fair source like Amazon or Gamestop. I really don't see a problem here... |
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