What I hate about Gamestop

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.