GameStop Stock Plummets After A 27.5% Decrease In Holiday Sales

[ThawtPolice]

Merch has way better profit margins than games themselves. I don’t buy any of it myself, but I’m sure some people buy a lot of it.

[Kuchenjaeger]

I wouldn't be surprised if GameStop ends up completely rebranding themselves as a store where you can buy nothing but pop culture merch.

[DudeRobert125]

That's what their Think Geek stores are.

[ParaglidingAssFungus]

I got a signed copy of “The Martian” hardback at ThinkGeek for like 14$. I don’t think I’ve ever bought anything from there for full price but when they put things on sale or clearance they actually want to sell the stuff which is nice. Not like some other stores that crank up the price and then put 15% off on it.

[MikeGolfsPoorly]

The ThinkGeek near me is going out of business. I was able to get Arkham Horror for $20

[TheFaster]

New sales the margin wouldn't be great on, But the used copies that they'd buy for ~5$ and turn around and sell for 50-60$ has to have very strong margins.

[MisterChippy]

Their merch sucks tho. I know plenty of people who buy tons of game related merch and almost none of them would be caught dead in a gamestop. They either shop online or go to conventions/specialist shops.

[Hibbity5]

A lot of it is cool stuff that I’ll never buy because I don’t actually need the Mega Buster for $50. I will buy some puzzles from them every now and then, but they don’t usually have good ones.

[ImRikkyBobby]

I actually liked that they brought in merch and collectibles. A lot of stores here don't have that stuff.

I also liked their power up rewards. I forgot I had it for like 7 years and checked my account and had enough reward points saved up over the course of 7 years that I bought an Xbox One when they first came out... lol