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Interesting! In the area where I lived for some time both were very competitive againts eachother. Wool over the customer's eyes?they are both owned by GAME Group plc.Pretty sure that Game and Game Station are two different chains. *ninja'd*
No wool pulling, Game bought out Gamestation when they went through an expansion phase, but, due to bad management they didn’t close stores that were near to each other and ended up competing with themselves. Where I live they have two Game stores and a Game Station within a few minutes’ walk of each other.
One of the shops is right next to a CEX (Second hand hardware, phones, games and films) and their second hand games are usually half the price of those in Game, and they both buy them for roughly the same from the customers. Game and Gamestation also usually sell games at the RRP, not many other shops do now.
To be honest they were really badly managed as a company, the quote in the news from one of the people in charge was they were victims of how bad the games industry was doing at the moment, that was right next to a news article on how the games industry is currently doing better than the film industry, sounds like someone who doesn’t even know their own business.
Very similar to aroundmy work, Well i work in a CEX and in theres a game round the corner from us and a gamestation not even 5 mins away :/ the gamestation is shutting down but tbh why would someone go to GAME and pay 43 quid odd for a game they can get in my store for 35? CEX and other pre owned stores really are amazing! Some great bargins if you shop around. As for trade ins we give a good 10-20% more than game/gamestation so there not even getting the stock :/