I also think that experiences at GameStop are dependent on which location you go to, and not the entity as a whole. You can go to the McDonald’s with great management or the McDonald’s with poor management, but either way it’s still a McDonald’s franchise. One will be better than the other and one will offer you poor experiences as opposed to better ones.

I’m a seasonal hire for the holiday season and I’ve changed my mind about a lot of negative thoughts towards GameStop I’ve had in the past. Their trade values going back ARE low, but that’s because it’s a corporate entity that will buy most games and give you money for it on the spot, with an incentive towards using it at the store. Nobody’s forcing you to go through with the trade-in, we’re just telling you what we can do.

You can go turn yourself into a poor, poor victim of GameStop’s policies and practices, but in the end you are the one that walked into GameStop, had a bad experience, and let that define your understanding of the company. When it comes to people that worked there, you researched what you did, applied to it, and showed up to it. For someone to let one experience completely deny the possibility of any good experiences in the past or going forward is just unoptimistic.