Comments on: Game Stores

By: Mike Collins

Mike Collins — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:42:26 +0000

I was talking to an employee at whichever one of The Two Stores it was, and he was explaining that with the merger, they were pretty much planning to stop stocking anything except A-list titles without pre-orders.

That pretty much ends me going to a game store. I actually go to a store for serendipity; but if I can’t acquire it anymore, I’ll just do everything online.

By: Grant

Grant — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 15:29:07 +0000

When do you guys open? I’ve been calling for hours!

By: James

James — Tue, 13 Dec 2005 18:42:43 +0000

Maybe it’s just me, but I’ve never had much problem with EBgames. Granted, I’ve only gone there once or twice, but their selection seemed to be pretty good and the staff was ok.

Last time I was over there, one of the employees came in with some obscure rpg I’d never heard of and was talking excitedly in low tones to the guy behind the counter about how he managed to find it. Presumably, there would be riots in the store, or something to that effect if the general public knew he’d managed to get a copy.
So, yeah, the employees at the Discover Mills EBgames seem to actually be at least somewhat in to gaming.

By: ballscrew Bob

ballscrew Bob — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 21:48:08 +0000

You people should consider yourself lucky E.B. games now only offers 14 day warranty on new goods yet a 30 day warranty on secondhand games.

Here is one guy who will never shop there again.

But I have to remember that it is not the store employees who make this policy but E.B. Games manglerment

By: anon

anon — Sat, 01 Oct 2005 12:53:24 +0000

whem does eb games open

By: Jonquito

Jonquito — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 03:43:53 +0000

Not surprised. I worked for Borders in the 90s and in that era before widescale expansion, their stock was widely varied and up until 1998, included software products. They allow employees to check out books, but talking about them is discouraged and no one cares if employees READ or have any kind of interest or background. There are no more specialists.

Basically EB and Borders and B&N all just want to pay the lowest amount period and only feature big sales items… Independents find no exposure here and employees are viewed as mindless drones to be controlled. We’re all asked to use subterfuge to upsell or sign up customers for email lists.

I miss some of the people.. as it was like the other college for me, but I don’t miss the corporate encroachment and backdor fascist communism practiced in todays stores. I don’t miss retail… only the girls I met who worked there

By: Chris Colohan

Chris Colohan — Tue, 21 Dec 2004 21:08:41 +0000

A few weeks ago I went into the EB Games in Squirrel Hill. As my fiancee bought a GameCube, I asked the salesperson why he decided to work in a game store — as far as I could tell, he was doing it simply ’cause they hired him. Upon further probing, I learned that “you know, they never really asked me if I knew anything about games during my interview.”

I asked if the store let employees ever play games on company time, or take games home overnight to try them out and learn about them. “I never thought of asking. I think that would get me fired.”

I was seriously impressed.