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I picked up a copy of the new Games Workshop Space Marine game - it was second-hand and priced at about £7.
The guy in the shop saw me looking, hurried over and said "I really wouldn't, mate. It's awful."
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Tue 27 Mar 2012, 11:44,
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The guy in the shop saw me looking, hurried over and said "I really wouldn't, mate. It's awful."

All they needed to dow as stop ripping their customers off and they'd still be fine.
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Tue 27 Mar 2012, 11:53,
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I work in a shopping centre in a CeX store. There are 3 Game stores and 1 Gamestation within 5 minutes walk of each other.
Absurd.
Some people I know are saying things like "well, it's good business for us". While possibly true, I still feel awful for the folks who are going to be out of work.
I reckon HMV will be the next big loser of the recession.
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Tue 27 Mar 2012, 22:44,
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Absurd.
Some people I know are saying things like "well, it's good business for us". While possibly true, I still feel awful for the folks who are going to be out of work.
I reckon HMV will be the next big loser of the recession.

Yeah I don't get why everyone is up in arms now. They used to fuck customers over a barrel. They'd fuck them with new game prices, they'd fuck them at trade-in, they'd fuck them with second hand prices. It was rare indeed I'd buy in GAME and it became rarer with the realisation that the same game could be purchased on line for substantially less.
I think if they'd cut their stores down, hedged their bets with a proper online web store (not offering the same shitty deals as their shops), and a proper digital download service they might have been in a better place.
As it is they're just one more failed business. I'm more sorry to see Woolworths go which seemed to try a lot harder on price but was screwed by their own supply chain (as was Zavvi).
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Tue 27 Mar 2012, 20:50,
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I think if they'd cut their stores down, hedged their bets with a proper online web store (not offering the same shitty deals as their shops), and a proper digital download service they might have been in a better place.
As it is they're just one more failed business. I'm more sorry to see Woolworths go which seemed to try a lot harder on price but was screwed by their own supply chain (as was Zavvi).

Only reason I ever went in was to laugh at the simulator games they picked up for PC.
How will I ever get Airport Fire-fighter Simulator now!?
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Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:10,
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How will I ever get Airport Fire-fighter Simulator now!?

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Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:19,
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Which he lost.
Anyone with any shred of self-respect would have topped themself by now.
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Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:18,
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Anyone with any shred of self-respect would have topped themself by now.

Thanks! Maybe I should stay de-lurked. :P
That'll never happen.
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Tue 27 Mar 2012, 12:12,
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That'll never happen.

Was speaking to the guys in our "local" Game yesterday; they survived the cut but Gamestation's gone and Game has been considerably downsized. There again, if you at one point have 5 stores in one city (Swansea had 4 Game stores running and a Gamestation) it's going to struggle a bit.
Plus I knew the manager of one of the Gamestation branches, a complete cunt. Might throw a bottle of piss on him while he waits at the job centre :D
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Tue 27 Mar 2012, 14:32,
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Plus I knew the manager of one of the Gamestation branches, a complete cunt. Might throw a bottle of piss on him while he waits at the job centre :D

Our high street choice now consists of HMV, CEX and Cash Converters :(
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Tue 27 Mar 2012, 14:43,
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Always preferred Gamestation as they seemed like they hire the sort of people that actually play the games they sell.
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Tue 27 Mar 2012, 15:35,
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Our high street consists of charity shops, pound shops and Greggs...lots of Greggs.
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Tue 27 Mar 2012, 16:13,
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