Boy, I sure do love having some rude twat try to push a Nintendo 3DS bundle preorder on me while I'm just trying to look for a used copy of Tekken Tag Tournament 2
Or coming to pick up my preorder and them not having the fucking preorder DLC codes I bought the game from their shitty store for in the first place AND being dicks about it when asked
I remember going to my local game store and selling a PSP jrpg for more than I bought it for. GameStop would have paid pennies for it, because they didn't have to. GameStop showed up in the same strip mall, and the local store closed shortly thereafter.
GameStop is Starbucks, except there was never a competitor to GameStop, or even a large regional competitor afaik, like Dunkin/Tim Hortons, to force them to "compete" in a "free market." Most people didn't sell their games online to get around this, they were going into a store to buy the newest game right there and then.
Capital: there's not enough profit being squeezed out of this opportunity, so I'll advertise more, make exclusive pre-order dlc deals with publishers, and build across the street from local game shops to destroy them, then stop paying as much for trade-ins because I don't have to.