GameStop Just Gave Up on Trying to Sell Company

We were blessed with a Gamestop shop at our brand new shopping mall at the outskirts of Gothenburg, Sweden. I bought some generic USB controller with analog thumb sticks and shit that was a bit tricky to install, but worked and I can't complain, but I believe it was shut down after a couple of years...don't know don't care. What I do care about is the blatant fisting-your-customers-that-are-underage-for-a-couple-of-bucks.
 
Gamestop equivalent in France adapted and now sells "geek" merchandising instead of slowly decaying.
Since people think they are "geeks" as soon as they browse facebook and are able to keep two window displayed at the same time, or think they're the geekiest because they play fortnite, it works pretty well.

Cannot they adapt ?

All the local Gamestops are like that. Full on shelves of video game figures, plushes and other crap. I occasionally drop in for a used console game or something.
 
What im reading in this thread is that they have turned into the uk grangergames, which recently went out of business... They need to look to be more like cex(secondhand electronics and dvd/bluray)
 
I won't miss them. I have not bought anything from one of there stores in probably 20 years.

What I miss most from my childhood is the neighborhood arcade. Gen X was the only generation that got to experience what growing up with one was like.
 
Nothing wrong with scratched disks that still work with no instructions and a fake box with a printed cover.
I sold some games like a decade ago and the guy said I would never sell new condition games.
 
Ah, that means the end to Speedy Diver's you tube channel. That is the only entertainment I ever got out of Gamestop. He is entertaining, may be fake, but no worse than watching Big Brother, lol.
 
They need to reinvent themselves,

1- they always sold MTG cards so go all in, sell and do tournaments in a regional chain, if small business's can manage it definitely would pad the pockets a bit.

2- board games and tabletop, once again has a market but no massive chain really capitalizes.

3- Start selling PC hardware. Create a national wide PC brand label.

4- keep up with the novelty thinkgeek branding it was a great move buying them.

5- transform into more a modern arcade, think Japanese karoke parlor style rooms for gamers. Have hosted private rooms for d&d sessions as well as small MTG rooms for private play groups.

6- lan party - getting people to gather means them seeing product and buying.

7- go in on other area markets like self built arcade machines, knockout pre cut GameStop branding and sell jamma units as well as control button and joysticks.

There are plenty of ways to move forward and invest to essentially transform GameStop into a real GameStop.

No gamestop around me would have space for half the stuff you are saying there unless they bought multiple store fronts.
 
The stores around me in the US are half full of geek stuff now, it’s just geek stuff no one wants to go to GameStop for :p There are a few local music / game / geek stores in the area doing really well and even expanding to new locations.

Years of pissing people off have caught up with them. GameStop created a store where people hate going to it, now they are dealing with the fallout.
I see, here they renamed the store in the process, but it has the full legal company name still shown on the proof of purchase that almost no one reads, people just get fooled.
 
I don't know about GameStop, but EB Games here in Canada is actually pretty good. As they're owned by the same company, it shouldn't be that hard to share some knowledge.
 
Ah, that means the end to Speedy Diver's you tube channel. That is the only entertainment I ever got out of Gamestop. He is entertaining, may be fake, but no worse than watching Big Brother, lol.


That is some nice stuff right there....
 
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