Best Buy’s beef with GameStop taken to a super petty, but rather hilarious level

Matt Hawkins Contributing Writer, Video Games

Now THAT is how you get promoted to assistant manager.

The following image, which first popped up on Reddit, has been quickly making the rounds, and for good reason…

bestbuytrolling Best Buys beef with GameStop taken to a super petty, but rather hilarious level

Such a shame that both parties suck, really. I’ve made it abundantly clear on multiple occasions why I hate GameStop, but here’s another reason:

It was recently revealed the once super hard to get, due to a limited run, Hyperdimension Neptunia had been reprinted and available at stores across the country. Great! But at each place I went, it was the same story: they only had one copy… which they had opened and gutted, to have the stupid box on display (which you could have never found anyway, due to how poorly they are).

Yet by their arbitrary and totally retarded standards, it’s still considered “new” and will charge you as such. Even though there’s absolutely no difference between it and the copies that had been previously opened by a customer, which they sell as “used”. I also think it’s fairly well known by now that the dimwits who work at GameStop all take open copies of games home to mess around with, a “perk” at the job.

Meanwhile, Best Buy isn’t that much better. Good luck trying to find one in which the sales people are not inept/ignorant as hell and their gear is actually set up proper. Countless folks across the country have their HD televisions set up improperly, mostly due to how they same them set-up at the store (“But that’s how it looked at Best Buy!”). Plus we all know what a sham the Geek Squad is, who make up problems to rip off poor folks who aren’t technically knowledgeable, as well as them going through customer’s personal files for their own nefarious means.

God, I really miss the days of independently owned game shops (that GameStops helped to drive out of business) and Circuit City (which folks passed in favor of Best Buy, for whatever reason, God only knows).

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