Normally I love Gamestop. Normally I'm not spiteful enough to leave a negative review, but in cases when the consumer is mistreated, lied to, and has more than one bad experience, it needs to be recorded to hopefully save others the trouble in the future.
I know from working retail that companies push certain products and services that have large profit margins. Gamestop pushes "game protection," strategy guides, and preorders. I was conned into getting a collector's addition strategy guide because they claimed there were DLC codes on the inside I could "redeem" they then said they didn't even know what it was but they heard it was pretty great. It was only a code for the digital version of the guide, something that is advertised by Prima themselves. So sure, shame on me for trusting a Gamestop employee when I've never had someone at GS use that shady of a sales tactic in the 15 years I've been shopping there.
The second incident was when I took advantage of a "buy 2 used, get 1 free*" *of equal or lesser value. I tried to return the free game within a couple of days and I was refused the return. I know for a fact that I've done this at other Gamestop stores, stipulation: it had to be of equal or lesser value, but once I was even able to pay the difference for a more expensive "free game." This employee was rude and then had the audacity to tell me I can trade it back to the store for $8 (It had a value of $45). I really don't like being given the "tough ****" attitude when it can be done. I don't know if it was laziness, that employee didn't know how to do it, or if the policy changed, but whatever happened to the "customer is always right?"
I reiterate, I like Gamestop as a whole, but you should seriously just pass up this Gamestop. read more