Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
Really?
That's less than they pay for it and is less than half the price on their website? You could have immediately given it back to them and got some sweets with your profit!
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GAME staff told to expect redundancies, as most workers move to zero hours contracts
That's less than they pay for it and is less than half the price on their website? You could have immediately given it back to them and got some sweets with your profit!
Lambogenie
Member
Game have always been shit and I wished they closed decades ago.
Don't sell me new games, unsealed. "But it hasn't been used". I don't care, I'm paying for a new game that I open myself and touch first. Not you.
Their 2 for £25 were decent though. Some real gems then.
Don't sell me new games, unsealed. "But it hasn't been used". I don't care, I'm paying for a new game that I open myself and touch first. Not you.
Their 2 for £25 were decent though. Some real gems then.
nush
Member
No, that's just Wales.
MonkeyClaw36
Member
Same with Game Mania in the Netherlands. Ridiculous prices new and used. Trade in is a joke and yet they are opening new shops continuously..
FunkMiller
Member
Anyone feeling bad about this should note how fucking terrible Game has been for many, many years.
gaming_again
Member
The guys doing the pricing were probably high as fuck. This is British seaside town after all.
Team Andromeda
Member
No, sadly it's the same up Liverpool and in Edinburgh and the less said about the shithole that is London the better
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
Cyberpunkd
Member
Yes, but this potentially prevents you from taking up other jobs if the hours (that you don't know in advance) will clash. How is this shit legal? Wait a minute...
Carry on then.
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CuteFaceJay
Member
Shift work but you have no job safety. You could do a few hours work for them and get no work for days.
It's a bad system used to try and drive up job numbers while not really giving jobs if that makes sense?
TheHighFlyingBirds
Member
You missed pound shops, charity shops, vape shops, nail bars, Turkish barbers (with nail bars and Turkish barbers acting as fronts for money laundering) and the multiple empty/ boarded up shops.
cash_longfellow
Gold Member
Sounds like a nice way of saying “you’re fired”.
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
I was slightly obsessed with Vape shops for a while - they are always empty whenever I see one. Cannot be anything but money laundering fronts.
See also: American Sweet shops and the Souvenir shops on Oxford St. The UK's most expensive retail space. Somehow we're supposed to believe the rent is being paid by selling one £5 tea towel with Princess Diana's face on it every tuesday.
gaming_again
Member
They're all scams and it's mad that they continue to get away with it.
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Go_Ly_Dow
Member
Yeah for the most part zero hour contracts are awful. Except if you're looking for casual ad-hoc working around some other endeavour and you need more flexibility around choosing your days/hours worked.
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onnextflix5
Member
Soon will become online only no doubt, I’m glad, they have been ripping off gamers for a long time now.
Team Andromeda
Member
It is not always terrible and I'll tell you now the NHS wouldn't be able to function if not for the use of the staff bank (zero hours contract)
FF:Enhanced_Reality
Member
Exactly the same as how CEX operate.
Shut0wen
Member
Believe it or not 0 hour cobtracts are great if your on benefits and have kids and a girlfriend, if your lonely sad cunt then yeah you use a foodbankYes, but this potentially prevents you from taking up other jobs if the hours (that you don't know in advance) will clash. How is this shit legal? Wait a minute...
Carry on then.
TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
Nothing to do with Physical Media dying, not Game Physical Media anyway, but Music & Film and the decline in Retail Clothing Stores.
Since the likes of HMV & Virgin Mega Stores disappeared from the high street everything has been on a decline.
Music, Games, Films, Clothes, Electronics have all been replaced by coffee shops and fast food.
if you can't get those things from your local then you buy online which gives you little reason to go to those shopping centres.
Which decreases sales for others stores.
The fact that GAME still remains is shocking in itself.
You'd have to be literally traveling to a shopping centre just to visit GAME.
where as before you'd be doing a bigger shop.
TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
You can thank Labour for that.Yes, but this potentially prevents you from taking up other jobs if the hours (that you don't know in advance) will clash. How is this shit legal? Wait a minute...
Carry on then.
Kataploom
Gold Member
Oh, that's cool, so they have time to go and find another job
Nitty_Grimes
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
However, GAME got all shitty when they started opening, ahem, games and selling them as new. I know this doesn't bother some people but its open so technically second hand now.
TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
Yes and I fully support them, they've been doing good lately but was none existed during the 10's.
But honestly think this had a big impact on the high street retail market and had a knock on effect on other retailers.
You can blame digital for that, mainly Apple
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IDKFA
I am Become Bilbo Baggins
HMV is still around. I went into my local a few days ago and picked up the Last Samurai on Blu Ray.
I'm not sure where you are in the UK, but clothes stores are fine where I live.
In terms of physical media with music CD, vinyl and now even cassette tapes are selling well. Not as much as in their prime, but still well considering we live in a world of Spotify. Same with films. People are still buying films on disc and studios are still releasing them.
Games are a little different. A lot of games releasing on disc now don't actually have the game on the disc. Instead, it's a code a few MB in size that just downloads a digital copy. You then have a lot of publishers just completely ignoring physical media and releasing their games digital only, such as Alan Wake 2 or the console version of Planet Zoo. There is a high chance the next generation of consoles don't have a disc drive, so no physical releases at all.
With more people moving to digital and publishers not releasing physical discs, what hope is there for a physical Game store?
Shut0wen
Member
No ones forcing them and 0 hour contracts pretty much benefit parents
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Zero Hours contract sounds awful.
TGO
Hype Train conductor. Works harder than it steams.
I know HMV is still around thanks to it's new owner who believes in Physical Media.
And yes Clothes shops are still kicking but they doing good.
Games have lasted this long in the high street because the market is still there but its Online Shopping that's killing it not Digital Stores
Randall365
Member
HMV have completely pulled out of video games too. They have a vision it seems - nice to see them surviving.
King Dazzar
Member
Sorry to hear about this. But unfortunately not surprised. The guys in the Basingstoke branch have always been pretty sound on the odd occasion I've ventured in. Wishing them all well and something better than an abusive zero hour contract.
Years ago when they were Electronic Boutique, I remember buying Super Mario for the N64 at launch. Then taking it back for a refund (not my bag). And having the store manager going mental at me, when I stated my reason that I was returning it, was due to it just not being my thing. And he went into a massive rant about how I was taking the piss out of their returns policy lol and how I and everyone else was to stop using their shop as a rental. Right nutty bastard. You could tell that all the kids were pushing him over the edge and he was finally braking. He didnt last long.
Their HQ was and probably still is based in Hampshire and has a massive GAME sign on top of the building. And whenever I've seen it, it always looks like it needs a thorough clean. I always thought it was very telling.
Years ago when they were Electronic Boutique, I remember buying Super Mario for the N64 at launch. Then taking it back for a refund (not my bag). And having the store manager going mental at me, when I stated my reason that I was returning it, was due to it just not being my thing. And he went into a massive rant about how I was taking the piss out of their returns policy lol and how I and everyone else was to stop using their shop as a rental. Right nutty bastard. You could tell that all the kids were pushing him over the edge and he was finally braking. He didnt last long.
Their HQ was and probably still is based in Hampshire and has a massive GAME sign on top of the building. And whenever I've seen it, it always looks like it needs a thorough clean. I always thought it was very telling.
veterangamerUK
Member
I don’t know CEX keep going, their second hand prices have gone crazy
nush
Member
The secret to CEX is to find stuff to trade in, don't straight up pay cash. You get 50% store credit on the price of "Gone crazy" thus it becomes reasonable. I do a round of the charity shops in my town, check the website prices vs charity shop price go straight into CEX and get good deals.