Game Stop

Staff is terribly rude and under trained. I went in to buy my fiancée an Xbox 360 for Christmas. I had seen prices advertised for the Xbox 360 in store (the black one) for $ 129.99. I thought I’d be getting that one, but the girl behind had no clue what she was doing. She deferred me to another guy, I updated him on the situation. He told me prices that were $ 200-​$ 300 more than what was advertised. He told me he couldn’t honor the $ 129.99(even though it was advertised). He told me «sorry, and goodnight.» I was planning on looking at other games for different systems, but the guy made me feel so uncomfortable I just left. I felt as though because I am a girl I was being judged by this sales associate. In the future I will boycott this GameStop. I am going to Oxford Valley from now on. I am completely disappointed.

Would you like to reserve (insert upcoming game) for $ 5?
No, I wouldn’t.
There aren’t many alternatives if you buy your games in brick-​and-​mortar stores as Gamestop bought EB, Babbages and Funcoland. At a Walmart or Target you’ll find a few hits surrounded by hundreds of copies of horrendous kids titles based on this weeks Schrek.
When they stopped carrying NES games, I came that much less. Stopped SNES and Genesis. Less. Stopped PSX. A little less.
As such, I go maybe twice a year at-​most on the occasion that a desire overcomes me to buy a certain game that I don’t want to wait to be shipped to me. It’ll probably be even less frequently since I own neither PS3 nor 360 and good games for PSP are very few and far between.
The staff tends to overturn year-​by-​year but fairly consistently they’re elitist mainstream nerds who are obsessed with bad animé and crappy Jap games for the sake of their being Japanese. They’re other recommendations off the beaten path have never been good («Have you played Enter the Matrix? I like it a lot!»), and I never heed them.