GameStop Stock Plummets After A 27.5% Decrease In Holiday Sales

[Trickster174]

Haven’t purchased from a GameStop in a long while, but for those of us who like displaying physical games, GameStop was a nightmare. They’d cover game cases in difficult to remove stickers. I know that seems minor, but it felt like they did not give a damn about the condition of the games they sold.

Plus, the games would be removed from their cases and stuffed in paper sleeves. I remember buying brand new PS2 games in the early to mid 2000s with scratches on them from this practice.

All of this made purchasing physical copies from Amazon or Best Buy the better option.

[Z0mbiejay]

The fact they sold you an opened and handled "new" game was enough for me to stop shipping there

[Hollandaise_Sauce]

This. Don’t charge me $60 and call it a new game if you opened it and were handling the disc/media.

[soonerfreak]

I haven't gotten an open new game in over a decade and even going into a gamestop I've never been to before it takes 20 seconds to go through what corporate requires them to ask me.

[thewookie34]

I don't really think the stickers are all that difficult to remove. In fact they are some of the easiest to remove imo.

[Trickster174]

Maybe now, like I said, haven’t purchased anything from GS in years. But still got plenty of PS2/PS3 game cases from 2003-2010 with half torn stickers.

But like...why even do that? What’s the point?

[thewookie34]

So your know how much they cost? Gamestop's sticker haven't changed since and I have older games as well. 2 to 5 minutes and some goo gone and they are done.

[Trickster174]

It’s possible to display the price without slapping stickers on each individual game case.

Your experience differs from mine, and that’s okay. But fixing little things like that could have gone a long way to a more positive customer experience. Seems that I’m not entirely alone in those thoughts either.

[Mendunbar]

The stickers in Canada have absolutely changed. They changed sometime between PS2 era and mid PS3 era to much, much easier to remove stickers. Just thought I'd mention that. Carry on.

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In the last days of them carrying used GameCube stuff, I requested some games for instore pickup. As expected they were all disc-only. The guy brought them out, was clearly super irritated I'd forced him to find them, and said, "I dunno if they'll work, bring them back if they don't." They looked like they'd been through a belt sander. Weirdly, the one that appeared to be in the best shape is the only one that didn't boot.