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- Aug 7, 2018
Since people have threads praising and shit talking local comic shops, why not a thread praising and shit talking your local video game store?
Excluding the local Wal-Mart, I have two video game stores where I live. One's a mom and pop chain and the other is a Gamestop.
I've bought maybe ONE or TWO games minimum from my Gamestop. I mainly visit it for the action figure section, as they do a way better job getting in toys earlier than my local Walmart or comic shop. Sadly the staff are constantly shilling the magazine, causing me to eventually having to tell them that I refuse to have anything to do with anything that sends me Game Informer due to Game Informer blood libeling gamers through Gamergate (which they knew nothing about).
The local mom and pop store is somewhat decent and for ages, carried and bought used DVDs. They also carry older games/sytems though their selection of older games have gone downhill these days and most of the newer old games they get they gouge on (case in point, $300-$400 for Pokemon games).
They sadly discontinued buying/selling used DVDs earlier this year, which is a bad thing as I used to sell my old movies to them for money when I was unemployed or needing quick cash. And their trade ins for older games are a joke (case in point, I asked if I did a trade in for cash for one of the Pokemon games they were selling for $300, they said they'd give me a paltry $30 bucks for it); meaning if you wanted to make quick cash, it was more profitable to sell your old movies to them.
Since ditching DVDs, they now carry new vinyl and used cassettes and CDs. But no new CDs, just new vinyl releases. Also, they've started stepping on the local comic shop (who used to have a deal with the mom and pop store, where they wouldn't sell card games like Magic or Pokemon or graphic novels or action figures)'s toes breaking that deal to sell Magic and Pokemon cards. This move was made after a disastrous attempt to sell used Lego products; of which the only out of box/built already sets that they had that sold were Kre-O GI Joe sets.
Excluding the local Wal-Mart, I have two video game stores where I live. One's a mom and pop chain and the other is a Gamestop.
I've bought maybe ONE or TWO games minimum from my Gamestop. I mainly visit it for the action figure section, as they do a way better job getting in toys earlier than my local Walmart or comic shop. Sadly the staff are constantly shilling the magazine, causing me to eventually having to tell them that I refuse to have anything to do with anything that sends me Game Informer due to Game Informer blood libeling gamers through Gamergate (which they knew nothing about).
The local mom and pop store is somewhat decent and for ages, carried and bought used DVDs. They also carry older games/sytems though their selection of older games have gone downhill these days and most of the newer old games they get they gouge on (case in point, $300-$400 for Pokemon games).
They sadly discontinued buying/selling used DVDs earlier this year, which is a bad thing as I used to sell my old movies to them for money when I was unemployed or needing quick cash. And their trade ins for older games are a joke (case in point, I asked if I did a trade in for cash for one of the Pokemon games they were selling for $300, they said they'd give me a paltry $30 bucks for it); meaning if you wanted to make quick cash, it was more profitable to sell your old movies to them.
Since ditching DVDs, they now carry new vinyl and used cassettes and CDs. But no new CDs, just new vinyl releases. Also, they've started stepping on the local comic shop (who used to have a deal with the mom and pop store, where they wouldn't sell card games like Magic or Pokemon or graphic novels or action figures)'s toes breaking that deal to sell Magic and Pokemon cards. This move was made after a disastrous attempt to sell used Lego products; of which the only out of box/built already sets that they had that sold were Kre-O GI Joe sets.
