Exploiting Gamestop, Is it bad?

[Zerousen]

When I used to trade in games, they would test the games out before they took 'em.

 

[Foxi4]

P.S. Don't buy Saints Row 4 for the story, The ending is total poop

#No_Taste aside, you're asking people if exploiting a legitimate, legal business which does others no harm is a bad thing - yes, it's a bad thing. inb4PeopleClaimingIt'sARipOff, bills don't pay themselves plus there needs to be a profit margin - don't like their prices? Don't buy from them - good luck with buying each and every game on E-Bay instead of a legitimate game store that takes care of your discs and hardware and may even resurface the discs if they're not working right - something hardly any E-Bay user will do for you. What the OP essentially did is fraud and unlike what he thinks, he may be traced, banned from the store or persecuted because there's such a thing as CCTV - they know exactly who handed in that particular game.

 

[retKHAAAN]

...What the OP essentially did is fraud and unlike what he thinks, he may be traced, banned from the store or persecuted because there's such a thing as CCTV - they know exactly who handed in that particular game.

And OP could even be prosecuted, too!

 

[Thanatos Telos]

#No_Taste aside, you're asking people if exploiting a legitimate, legal business which does others no harm is a bad thing - yes, it's a bad thing. inb4PeopleClaimingIt'sARipOff, bills don't pay themselves plus there needs to be a profit margin - don't like their prices? Don't buy from them - good luck with buying each and every game on E-Bay instead of a legitimate game store that takes care of your discs and hardware and may even resurface the discs if they're not working right - something hardly any E-Bay user will do for you. What the OP essentially did is fraud and unlike what he thinks, he may be traced, banned from the store or persecuted because there's such a thing as CCTV - they know exactly who handed in that particular game.

He's already been traced. At the very least, they'll ban him from trade-in, then the store, then finally, prosecution.
Also, out of the 10 Gamestops that I've gone to (5 in a different state), none of them have resurfacing devices due to liability. It's a bit odd.

 

[Dr. Ivo Robotnik]

I've just been directed to this thread by Kouen.

My thoughts, quickly summed up:

What an utter, utter dick move. I mean, something like this really places you amongst the most pathetic sellers I can think of. Good to know that some form of justice has been met, such as it is. I hope the OP doesn't get prosecuted horrendously for it, but a store ban is definitely something I'd take into consideration for someone trying to pull these kinds of things. If nothing else, a trade ban would be no more than logical.

OP: You knew you were pulling a poor stunt when you did this. I won't tell you you're a horrible person and deserve to (insert lengthy rant on possible consequences - starting at torture and ending at burning in whatever hell you choose- here), but the backlash here was certainly deserved. You sought validation for something that deserves none.

 

[sandytf]

DHG Sage Gaara, please stop making people from Haverhill, Massachusetts look like criminals.

 

[Sterling]

I also think this joker should be blacklisted on our trading forums here. Seriously, fuck this guy. Let's not give him a chance to screw one of us over.

 

[Apache Thunder]

Hmm well ok. If the OP gets arrested or banned, that's his own fault. I read a story about some rapper in New York Insta-gram'ing photos and such of his illegal guns he was selling (spoiler alert, the cops raid his residence and seize his guns and arrested him).

This thread makes about as much sense as that. Why in the hell would you go to an online place like this and tell people about this?

You have some bright idea at the whim of the moment to defraud another company/individual. Then for some reason you're surprised that it worked, then wanted to find a place to gloat about that and then proceed to try to mask the fact that you are gloating about it by framing into a question on whether or not what you did was wrong.

But at the end of the day, you broadcasted to the world that you performed an illegal act and it will be as no suprise that cops will be at your door or the store you defrauded suddenly says for you to get off their property.

Ignoring the question about whether what you did was right or wrong, you definitely should have kept this to your self because that should be what everyone here could agree on.

 

[Hells Malice]

Blame the Victim........Typical Corporate BS

I'm never sure whether I want to bash my own head in with a brick, or yours, every time I have to read the retarded drivel you post on a daily basis.
Good god you live up to your moronic name.

Gamestop is a business and they require making money to survive. They're not there to serve your lazy whims. Want $20 for your $20 game? Sell it your fucking self, it takes time and effort, Whereas walking into gamestop and getting a $1 for it takes almost 0 effort.
People are so stupid, they trade games in and then cry about it instead of going "oh nevermind" and selling it themselves. It's really not THAT hard.

Gamestop receives so much pointless hate from uneducated bumpkins like you that it's almost sickening how dumb the general population really is.
"It's cool to hate gamestop so I hate them too"

 

[macmanhigh]

I'm never sure whether I want to bash my own head in with a brick, or yours, every time I have to read the retarded drivel you post on a daily basis.
Good god you live up to your moronic name.

Gamestop is a business and they require making money to survive. They're not there to serve your lazy whims. Want $20 for your $20 game? Sell it your fucking self, it takes time and effort, Whereas walking into gamestop and getting a $1 for it takes almost 0 effort.
People are so stupid, they trade games in and then cry about it instead of going "oh nevermind" and selling it themselves. It's really not THAT hard.

Gamestop receives so much pointless hate from uneducated bumpkins like you that it's almost sickening how dumb the general population really is.
"It's cool to hate gamestop so I hate them too"

Not this idiot again.....PLEASE bash ur head in it'll do the interweb a Service seems as if U work for Game$top or sumthing sweet Jebus

Seems the water is tainted up there huh???

 

[retKHAAAN]

I'm never sure whether I want to bash my own head in with a brick, or yours, every time I have to read the retarded drivel you post on a daily basis.
Good god you live up to your moronic name.

It's the weed, man.

 

[Sterling]

Not this idiot again.....PLEASE bash ur head in it'll do the interweb a Service seems as if U work for Game$top or sumthing sweet Jebus

Seems the water is tainted up there huh???

Speak for yourself dude. I bet you never empty yours out. Fuck. Perhaps you missed basic economics class in high school because you dropped out or some shit. At least be a responsible stoner who can actually make a good argument in a subject he/she is arguing against. Jesus Christ, there needs to be 100% less people like you browsing the internet.

 

[macmanhigh]

Speak for yourself dude. I bet you never empty yours out. Fuck. Perhaps you missed basic economics class in high school because you dropped out or some shit. At least be a responsible stoner who can actually make a good argument in a subject he/she is arguing against. Jesus Christ, there needs to be 100% less people like you browsing the internet.

Damn even my fellow Americans are idiots......oh wait ur From Texas figures as much.......

 

[ßleck]

Shit's about to go down.

 

[macmanhigh]

Cant understand why people enjoy sucking the Juice outta the A$$ of Corporations so much.....Boo Hoo for them they have to make money....Whaaa they have to survive

 

[Devin]

Damn even my fellow Americans are idiots......oh wait ur From Texas figures as much.......

Something wrong with people from Texas?

 

[macmanhigh]

Something wrong with people from Texas?

All i have to say is.......Rick Perry -_-

 

[retKHAAAN]

Cant understand why people enjoy sucking the Juice outta the A$$ of Corporations so much.....Boo Hoo for them they have to make money....Whaaa they have to survive

Can't believe people enjoy wasting their money on drugs to the extent that they project that idiocy onto every aspect of their online personality. You're one crunchy mensch, guy! Take it to the man!

 

[macmanhigh]

Can't believe people enjoy wasting their money on drugs to the extent that they project that idiocy onto every aspect of their online personality. You're one crunchy mensch, guy! Take it to the man!

Ahh ignorance....that smell is Familiar with idiots Labeling Marijuana as Drugs

Maybe u should read some actual facts about it before grouping urself with the Dumb Masses

 

[retKHAAAN]

Ahh ignorance....that smell is Familiar with idiots Labeling Marijuana as Drugs

Maybe u should read some actual facts about it before grouping urself with the Dumb Masses

K, guy. Marijuana isn't a drug. It doesn't alter your state of mind in any way. That's just what the MAN wants you to think, man! Evil Gamestop works for the Man in all the Man's wickedness, man! They're trying to take my weed, man, and video games and shit, man...