Gamestop selling Xenoblade Chronicles, possibly others

[Blueprint]

I call gamestop today and ask about purchasing multiple copies of xenoblade and they told me people were buying 3 copies of xenoblade at a time(online) taking advantage of the buy 2 get 1 free but i guess as of yesterday they limited the practice to 1 per customer online. I ask if the got new copies and open them so sell as used and the gamestop employee told me thats illegal..lol.

I was also told that they are going to have metroid trilogy 'used' in stock really soon but they are also jacking the price to $89.99..


Almost every stores in las vegas has a copy on xenoblade now....

[wiggy]

At this point, I'd pay market used value for a new(ish) copy of Trilogy.  My copy is loose disc and it makes me nuts

[razielleonhart]

At this point, I'd pay market used value for a new(ish) copy of Trilogy.  My copy is loose disc and it makes me nuts

same thing drove me nuts till the other day when i bought the game and returned the game without the box

[Seraph Man]

On the one hand, I desperately want Xenoblade Chronicles and Prime Trilogy. I unfortunately missed out, and the used prices online are either really high or ridiculous.

On the other hand, that is a dirty, underhanded move on Gamestop's part. Yeah, used copies go for a lot, but only because the supply is short. This is a dangerous path, and Gamestop has no problems taking more than their fair share.

I want these games, but I don't want to support Gamestop. Fuck me.

[Blueprint]

At this point, I'd pay market used value for a new(ish) copy of Trilogy.  My copy is loose disc and it makes me nuts

I agree with you on this disc only games suck . They had a copy of trilogy at the same store but no case otherwise i would have pick it up... On a kind of related note, pandora's tower is priced $20 new and $19 used at gamestop.

[Seraph Man]

At this point, I'd pay market used value for a new(ish) copy of Trilogy.  My copy is loose disc and it makes me nuts

I agree with you on this disc only games suck . They had a copy of trilogy at the same store but no case otherwise i would have pick it up... On a kind of related note, pandora's tower is priced $20 new and $19 used at gamestop.

Go figure, the one I bought is dirt cheap now, and the one I missed out on is expensive.

[Blueprint]

At this point, I'd pay market used value for a new(ish) copy of Trilogy.  My copy is loose disc and it makes me nuts

I agree with you on this disc only games suck . They had a copy of trilogy at the same store but no case otherwise i would have pick it up... On a kind of related note, pandora's tower is priced $20 new and $19 used at gamestop.

Go figure, the one I bought is dirt cheap now, and the one I missed out on is expensive.

Same thing happen to The Last Story as well now $30 new and $28 used i bought when it was still expensive used i should have waited but its a great game either way.

[Retro Deckades]

Yeah, I might bite at the $90 Metroid Prime Trilogy, should any Gamestops in Canada get copies. If not, I might be SOL again.

If it's a game I really want, I don't mind paying market value. What I really have a problem with is that these games are being sold "used" even though they are technically new. I'll happily pay $90 for a brand new, SEALED copy of MPT, and even though the only difference is the lack of plastic wrap, it bugs the hell outta me.

[Retro Deckades]

Considered ordering a copy of MPT through GameStop's website, but they want $20 to ship the game to Canada. F*** that noise!

[kytim89]

For years I have always contended that Gamestop is actually a front for Satan and his Hellish empire. Any kind of dealing with that business boils down to a Faustian bargain. You have to sell your soul to get a good deal at that place. Of course Nintendo plays a hand in this due to them only releasing a limited number of the games into the US. If they were smart they would relase a second wave of the game at all retailers and then put the game on the eShop of the Wii U.

[AxelSteelBMX]

I've stopped giving GameStop my business since an incident over a decade ago.

For you fellow old farts out there, this was around the time the PlayStation 2 was nearing its North American debut. At the time, the Dreamcast was still alive and going strong, and I'd gotten one close to launch and had a good handful of games for it, too. But that PS2...man, I was drooling over that.

Those graphics! DVD playback! Backwards compatibility! Plus my PS1 was close to failing, and I had way more games for that than I did for my Dreamcast. So I made the hard decision to trade in my Dreamcast towards the pre-purchase of a PS2. I packed up the console, all the proper cords, both of my controllers, my VMU and all of my games (still complete and in good shape, even with their manuals intact). I put all that in a box and took it down to GameStop.

There was a couple hundred dollars' worth of stuff in that box, and although I wasn't expecting to get the full value for any of it, I sure wasn't expecting the value rattled off to me by the GameStop employees. The guy takes the box from me, goes through it, checks the console for external damage, checks the surfaces of the discs, nods satisfactorily, then sets the box aside and turns to face me again.

"Twenty bucks."

"Wait...excuse me?"

"I can give you twenty bucks for this."

(indignant) "Twenty dollars for all THIS??"

"Well, yeah, that's what we pay for stuff in this shape."

"Six high-quality games, no sports games or crappy movie license games, the console with everything it originally came with, PLUS a VMU and an extra controller, and you're offering me twenty dollars?"

"Well, yeah! The trade-in value's gone up since last month!"

"......Never mind. I'm taking this home."

I picked up the box and walk away from the counter, checking the prices on the used copies of the games and console I'd just tried to trade in. For the exact same combination of items I was offering them, they were more than willing to charge around $300 to consumers.

That's only one story in my arsenal, but it's still the most relevant to me. I don't do business at GameStop anymore.

[razielleonhart]

Just was down at my local game stop and found a used copy Xenoblade Chronicles i picked it up and it felt new and all the books inside had that new smell

[itsdavbaby]

Just was down at my local game stop and found a used copy Xenoblade Chronicles i picked it up and it felt new and all the books inside had that new smell

For how much?

[wiggy]

For years I have always contended that Gamestop is actually a front for Satan and his Hellish empire. Any kind of dealing with that business boils down to a Faustian bargain. You have to sell your soul to get a good deal at that place. Of course Nintendo plays a hand in this due to them only releasing a limited number of the games into the US. If they were smart they would relase a second wave of the game at all retailers and then put the game on the eShop of the Wii U.

I've never heard of anything like this. I can still find virtually any 1st party Wii game at retail still (with only a couple of exceptions). Seems like their supply is all but limited.

[razielleonhart]

Just was down at my local game stop and found a used copy Xenoblade Chronicles i picked it up and it felt new and all the books inside had that new smell

For how much?

$89.99 but i own a PAL copy so i did not need it