Impotent Rage: Gamestop

[Tev]

This is nothing new, but I thought I'd share because it struck a chord with me from recently looking into trading some stuff in at my local Gamestop and leaving with a deep sense of absurdity.

So I was on tumblr today and came across this post about some Gamestop worker crowing on about how they liked crushing the drams of children and drinking their tears. All in all it was shaping up to be a mildly entertaining read until I hit this section:

The next day I’m working again, bored out of my goddamn mind. There’s only so many times you can alphabetize the store before going insane. As I’m looking out the window I see a car pull up and Mom hops out and then pulls out two huge duffel bags and walks in.

"Hey welcome back to Gamestop! What can I help you with!"

"Oh I’m so glad you’re here! So last night I went through my son’s game collection and most of them are rated M! So I decided to teach him a lesson about why you don’t lie to your mother. Seeing as I bought him these consoles and most of the games were bought with my money, his game consoles and games actually belong to me. Therefore, I would like to trade in all this." And proceeds to pull out his XBox 360, PS3, and every game he had for both consoles (over 50!) as well all the extra controllers and headsets he had.

"Are you sure?"

"Absolutely." I will never forget her smile when she said this nor the look in her eye. This is not a woman to be crossed.

So I traded everything in and she got back over $300 in store credit for everything. And with it she bought a Wii, a couple extra controllers, and a couple games rated E.

In what world does an XBox 360, a PS3, and over 50 M-ish rated titles equal out to $300 worth of Wii and some E rated fare? and then I remembered my own recent encounter with Gamestop.

I was just looking into trading out my DS for credit towards a new 3DS, and they offered me maybe 10-20% of its value in trade. I'm glad I was too disgusted to take their offer as I ended up getting a new one over Black Friday from another store for less than Gamestop would have charged me for a used one.

Anyway, nothing here but some impotent rage and fist waving at Gamestop. Outside of continuing to not buy or sell stuff there, all that one like me can really do is fall to my knees and scream at the stars while shaking my fists fanatically. All in all, that won't change anything and thing will continue on as they have. I'll feel better in a bit.

Gamestop!!!!!!!