EXPOSED! The Ugly Truth of Pre-Ordering Pushing: Part One

[phoenix1967]

They sold out of Gears of War here. I'm glad I reserved my copy.

[Mike Leon]

Frankly, I don't see how this roll-over business is news. It is pretty obvious the way they hype the shit out of a title until it comes out and then that same day or the day after change all the posters and cut-outs in the store to an upcoming title from the same genre.

[Tondog]

Only game I've preordered is Elebits because it came with a cute little plushie and I'm a sucker for things like that!   

[djbeatmongrel]

you know when i worked for GS i thought reserves were useful if you had a definite intention of picking a game up or it was some lesser known title. what pissed me off was not all games were reservable. For example, when cooking mama came out we sold out within the first day and the demand for copies was insane (even though we pushed the shit out of it to people looking for ds games for their young girls). the company is stupid for making select titles reservable.

[hXd]

The only thing I see myself putting a reserve on in the future is Smash Bros. Brawl.

[Tynstar]

I think the last games I reserved was Steel Battalion for the Xbox.

[Izret101]

Plus reservations are "part of their commission" which i know at least at gamecrazy was a lie.

They had stopped giving people commission for reserves but kept saying you would recieve them.

System/Game warranties, reserves, membership cards, disc buffs, are all supposed to give employees commission.

In all actuallity though the employee is tricked into pushing these things and the company makes almost a pure profit off of them while they see a minimal or no return for it.
Unless your a manager then you get a nice bonus at the end of the year for your store doing good.

I did a work around of bothering customers with preorders and would just preorder 20-100$s in stuff refund my cash and make me look good.

Doesn't look good for the store when their preorder/reserve turn around %age sucks but what did i care. I wasn't the manager

[Tondog]

Part Two is up!

http://www.thebbps.com/bl...e-order-pushing-part-two/

This is even better than the first one. I highly recommend reading the conclusion.

The most interesting part of this installment is how he mentions just how much money GameStop makes on forgotten pre-orders.

[two_scoop_steve]

thanks for the 2nd part tondog great read