If there is anything I hate
about Gamestop Corporate, it would have to be their policy of knowingly throwing
out the game cases with factory material, and selling the game at near retail
costs.
Out of all the pre-owned/used
games I have purchased from Gamestop, a good majority of them were missing their
original factory case.
The excuse I get from the staff,
regardless of who was at the desk, was that "it was traded in without one."
When the truth of the matter is that they were instructed to throw out the
cases and pass it off as such.
How is that so?
According to former employees,
they have confirmed that to be the case, out of "necessity" from
Corporate to save space.
It's further evidenced by the
many people who have made whole YouTube Channels dedicated to dumpster diving
with figures such as "Speedy Diver," verifying the claims to be true
and strong. With the majority of the cases that were discarded to be of
Nintendo DS and 3DS titles, followed by every other system.
Why is everyone so "anal"
about whether the game comes with a case or not?
It all comes down to knowing
what people actually have on their shelves, and if you, the buyer, are paying
near retail price for the game, it is expected that it comes with the factory
material.
If it didn't, the cost should be
reduced accordingly, like all other pre-owned/used items when something goes
missing.
Also, since e-games have gone
mainstream, the discarding of the original case is considered disrespectful,
whether the person is an actual game collector or not.
Which brings us to the bigger
point of why Gamestop has become one of the most hated Companies in the world.
Gamestop used to be one of the
greatest companies when it came to gaming retail. But since their buyout of EB
Games, Gamestop went from the best gaming retail had to offer to something the
Rockefellers would do to maintain dominance over the market.
As a result of what has
happened, Gamestop is going the way of all once great major retailers when they
make bad decisions.
Bad decisions whether influenced
by shareholders, management or other shifting forces, always results in a ship
that is about to capsize.
If Gamestop does somehow
restructure and survive, their policy to throw out cases has to end.
The one
position I disagree with Peter Schiff on, is his advocacy to shutdown the USPS.
Schiff for a
long time has advocated shutting down the Post Office for as long as he has
kept a video blog.
His reasons range
from mass financial loses to how it's being managed.
Although
Schiff is good with numbers and how the U.S. Government ought to get their
balance sheets back in order, he apparently does not understand the Post Office
in all its incarnations is tied in with the U.S. Constitution, as specified in Article
I, Section 8: "Congress has the power...to establish Post Offices and Post
Roads."
Which in
short clarifies that the only business the U.S. Government is authorized to run
is the Post Office.
From its
inception, the Post Office was supposed to be another way of keeping the government
accountable. If the government couldn't deliver your mail on time unhampered, the
people had every right to redress government accordingly.
Even if the
Post Office somehow goes bankrupt, which it has, all the government can do is
restructure it and resume operations.
So in order
for Schiff to have his way with closing up the Post Office for good, he would
either have to shut down the government or amend the U.S. Constitution.
If the world
treated them right, they will return the favor in kind.
