Well ever since EB and Gamestop merged there is no price differences at all in our area. There are 2 Game Crazy stores and about 5 EB/Gamestop stores in a 5 mile radius. Then there is my store. I used to work at FuncoLand before Gamestop entered the scene. Then worked for the evil conglomerate.

Everyone I used to work with was really nice and we'd joke around every time I come in to see whats going on. There was one time where I found a mint copy of Dragon Warrior IV, and wanted to buy it. However the District Manager came out saw me there and in a pissed off Lex Luger Roid Rage he said I wasn;t allowed to purchase it.

I said I was a paying customer and I could sue him for refusing my business, he then proceeded to pull out the employee handbook and said that if such a case of profitability with another organization should arise that person, if known to be working for another company, may and can be refused purchases and trades. I was pissed.

After he left I said can I buy it now and my buddy said yea, sold me the game and then the douchebag fired him for insubordination. Feeling bad I hired him to work at our store, and since then we've been holding a yearly "Grant Anderson is an Idiot" Sales Event, and a "Were better than Gamestop" Sales event.

They actually, Gamestop, when they bought out EB kept all the same employees in our area they just switched the POS (Point of Sale) system. The reason behind Gamestops craptastic service is such...they use the G.A.M.E.S. process.

G- Greet the Customer
A - Advise on games that need to be sold or games that are harder to sell (it doesn't hurt to talk up a game) first then...
M- More information. Find out what systems the customer has and then...
E - Encourage the sale of games for each system as well as additional add-ons.
S - Say Goodbye

Notice how the two most important parts of the customers experience are the shortest.

Thats straight out of the handbook.

Lol maybe in time Char you will see our stores , we don't have magazines but we do have 10% discounts (either based on how much you trade or buy) and sales every month, we also have college and student ID discounts. Also every game we have that is 14.99 or higher is $5 cheaper than Gamestop. **Random Plug**

We own EB and Gamestop in this area. Lol even the guys that work there buy from us. lol. They really enjoy the Grant Anderson is an idiot sale. I'd explain it but it wouldn't make sense.

Lol i like your take on the G.A.M.E.S. Process, we made a very similar one at the Store.

Well like I said Grant Anderson was a district manager that came into Gamestop with no Video Game knowledge, just sales experience. When I used to be manager at FuncoLand, I would be doing things such as closeouts and training and he would take over the sales floor. He starts selling Saturn Games to parents of kids for Christmas saying they were playstation games.

He would also constantly sell Genesis games to people looking for Super Nintendo games. The man was an idiot. He would constantly intertuppt me when I was helping a customer and say hey don't forget to tell them how they can save 10%! I knew the customer and I knew they had a card already, and I was like all enthuisatically "Hey would you like to know how to save 10%?" The guy must have seen that I was messing around and he said "Sure!!!" just as corny as I had started the conversation.

I was like see this issue of Game Informer you already have? He was like yea, tell me more!? Then I said well with the subscription you already have you can save 10% more than I can! (Because we didn't get a discount, we did get a free magazine) Needless to say Grant was not very appreciative of the condesending view of the policies I had announced in front of the whole store.

So after a painful year I left and opened a store with my friend, who was a manager at the Babages a.k.a. software etc. The we commenced the first annual Grant Anderson is an Idiot sale.

During the sale we dress like him, Suit and bow tie with suspenders, Pink hanky in our front pocket, and we basically sell games calling them Super Nintendos and Saturns all day. For Example "Yea can I get Final Fantasy 7? " "Sure, you want the Super Nintendo or Saturn Version" Its basically a 25% off sale to all the Gamestop and EB guys we have been friends with, Plus all the new guys wether they work there still or not. We sell 10% discount cards for a dollar, but the catch is you have to use it that day (seeing how no one would rather save 10% then 25% its more of a gratuity thing).

Ill have to tape the next one and post it on YouTube.