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Gamestop unsolicited voicemail messages asking for used Zelda: Twilight Princess for the Wii

February 19, 2007 on 12:17 pm | In gamestop, nintendo, wii, zelda |

Gamestop wants to buy your used games. They want them bad. Now they have started calling customers who have placed pre-orders asking to buy the game back. These messages are unsolicited, and should not be allowed. Isn’t it bad enough that every time you walk into their stores they bother you about pre-orders and buying your used games? Now they will call you at home too. In this voicemail they call us and ask to buy back our copy of Twilight Princess for the Nintendo Wii.

Here is the audio, click play to listen to the voicemail:

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$35 is pretty good for a used game.

Comment by max — February 19, 2007 #
Yes, but what they don’t make clear is that you get $35 for trade-in only, not cash. Also, the game is still kinda hard to find, so you can sell it for more.

Comment by Blogger — February 19, 2007 #
gamestop stinks, why does anyone even still go there? I stopped when they started annoying the shit out of me anytime i walked in by running a 3 minute monologue about pre-orders. bah, just use amazon or anyone else.

Comment by bobbs — February 19, 2007 #
I call shenanigans. I work at a Gamestop, and we can’t get your phone number and we never call you ever. Anyway, yeah, we have to push reserves otherwise we get fired. I don’t like doing it, but I have to. Besides, the same people who never reserve games are the ones who complain when where sold out on launch day.

Comment by WII4LIFE — February 20, 2007 #
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[…] Gamestop must really be hard up for some used games. They want your used games so bad, they’re willing to call you up a few months after you’ve bought a game from them in order to tell you about how they will pay you money for it. In this case, robot voice Aris(sp? and what kind of name is that for a robot?) called this guy up and left him a message saying that Gamestop noticed that he had pre-ordered Zelda and that they would pay him $35 for it, if he was done with it. I wonder if Gamestop only sends this bot out to call gamers who had pre-ordered popular titles who, one could assume, would potentially be more likely to trade in a game for a newer one. Still, unsolicited cold calling is never any nice. If I can’t get away with cold calling prospective customers of my magic hair tonic (it really does work, one day I woke up with no hair. I then drank some of my famous tonic and had my hair back by lunchtime), Gamestop shouldn’t get away with this. Source: [iBloggedThis via Kotaku] Feel free to spread the love…These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. […]

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Anyone else get a kick out of the commercial at the end when this is supposed to be anti solicitation? Funny. Glad a lot of my friends have been enlightened by the shitty tactics EB/Gamestop have been doing for years. From the early days of funcoland to the juggernaut they are now, I always thought they screwed customers and i so saw this coming from last year. They offer nothing insightful, nothing cool and only annoying messages. This is why I enjoy my local gamestore not gamestop bad all around..

Comment by Marcelo — February 20, 2007 #
ive worked for EB/Gamestop for over 3 years, and this is the first and only call offering a trade in value for a game. the reason they called for twilight princess for the wii, was becasue it was hard to find and wanted to get some more copies into stores to make more customers happy. also, many many people dont know they can sell their old games back to us to save money on new games. if you can get more money for selling something on ebay, good for you, but dont complain, there are many elements that can affect a games value, if someone has our edge/more card they get 10% bonus on trades, and if you reserve a game, you get an additional 10% on your trades, and sometimes there will be coupons in the game informer magazine that can give you an 10% bonus, so that could be a 30% increase making $35 more like $45.50, just a few dollars shy of its retail value.
also, i notice how the original poster doesnt complain about the phone call “Aeris” makes the day before a game comes out to remind him to pick it up

Comment by anon — February 20, 2007 #
Here in Toronto, EB Games does call people who pre-order their products. Usually, it’s to let them know that said product is in.

Unfortunately, EB and GameStop, I’m sure you’re all already aware of the merger way back when, live off of used games. It’s their main source of income. However, they should not be making phone calls, especially automated ones, to customers that are not expecting to hear from them.

In some cases, at least here in Toronto, customers are friendly with their local EB guys. Some people even know them by name and hang out at the store to talk. I’ve seen it many times and done it once or twice myself. But they don’t even call when a customer isn’t expecting.

Shame on EB/GameStop.

Comment by Eli Green — February 21, 2007 #
> the same people who never reserve games are the ones
> who complain when where sold out on launch day.

That’s funny, I remember reading about a guy who reserved the special edition of Mortal Kombat Armageddon, and when he went into GameStop to pick it up he was told they had sold all of their copies… Leading him to wonder what he paid his reserve money for and, contrary to the above statement, LEFT HIM COMPLAINING EVEN THOUGH HE DID RESERVE!!!

Not only that but when he asked for his money back they actually had the nerve to ask him if he would like to reserve another game…

Comment by Bobby T. — May 8, 2007 #
gamestop is SOOOOOOOO WACK…. everyone that works there is a faggot still living in their moms basement…. kill yourself

Comment by colin — June 5, 2007 #
Idk this seems kind of fishy I mean it was just to make customers happy i dont see a real problem with it. Its basically somthing like ” hey u may not of liked the new zelda game but we will give u an extended price on it if you trade it in before a certain price period because it is in high want “

Comment by Josh — July 6, 2007 #
Im not sure which is more hillarious, the Dodo (ie. 3 year employee) that thinks eb/gamestop is trying to “make more customers happy” or the guy deluded enough to preorder a game from a store that employs said dodo. Customer happiness is only an afterthought in the world of The Retail Chain Store. As long as the company can get their dodos to take a customers money, it doesn’t matter to them, how annoying they make you become or how retarded you make yourself look. If places like Eb/gamestop were really concerned with customer happiness they would carry hard to find older games in every store. ie. They would go the extra mile in every aspect of their business. And NO automated calls to remind you that they took your money for a preorder (and are earning interest on it) so you can pick up the game tommorrow doesnt count as the extra mile. That is called barely covering their asses…oops i mean bases.
:P

Comment by bennybebop — August 4, 2007 #

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