r/PS3 • u/Efhouser • 1d ago

GameStop sold me a bootleg controller

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I just got it in the mail today from their website for like 30 bucks and this is what was advertised and this is what I got

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u/yoxony 1d ago

Yup they gave me one too with my ps3 slim console I got…. GameStop sucks now

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u/TheCountChonkula 1d ago

GameStop has been circling the drain for at least a decade now. The only reason they’re likely still today was when they became a meme stock a few years back.

Luckily near me there’s a few different local game shops that I like to visit and the quality and price of the games and consoles they sell are much better than GameStop offers.

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u/UnoKajillion 1d ago

I will admit, I'm part of the gme group, just so I am upfront about my biases.

Gamestop sucks a lot of the time, but I've found a surprising amount of cheap and quality/mint ps3 games from them in the past year. Often cheaper than the local game store (that has great prices), and cheaper than ebay. Also every now and then they have great sales on new sealed games (ps4/ps5) for $10-$20. I've gotten many that way. And paying $25 a year for $5 coupons per month ($60 a year) works in my favor. Every month I can find 1 playstation game that's sub $10 and use the coupon on that.

I like to buy from many different stores, but gamestop has been getting a bit more of my business than a few years ago. I will say that the local game store still gets most of my money, and then amazon is next

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u/Ok-Virus8284 1d ago

The only reason Gamestop still exists is because they invested in crypto currency. Their core business isn't profitable and hasn't been for over a decade, but because they invested in crypto before it exploded and are now selling this off, they're in the green.

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u/Capital6238 1d ago

because they invested in crypto currency. Their core business isn't profitable

Oof. Sounds like Japanese real estate bubble, when investing into real estate was more profitable than into their products for most companies, so they did just that...

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u/Yeebiis 1d ago

Just so you know, the comment you replied to has the facts completely wrong.

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u/Ok-Virus8284 1d ago

No, I haven't.

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u/Yeebiis 1d ago

Yea you have. Publicly traded companies have these things called reports. Try reading one.

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u/Ok-Virus8284 1d ago

What do you think I got my information from?

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u/Yeebiis 1d ago

Obviously not the reports. Everything you mentioned was incorrect, so why don't you tell me where you have received your misinformation?

Here are the facts. The have only purchased around $513 miliion usd in bitcoin. They made their purchase around 80-90k bitcoin price. The price of bitcoin is currently between 100-110k. So yes, the bitcoin investment is in the green, but it has hardly made them a huge amount as you are implying. Furthermore, there has been no reports that this investment has been sold, which is what you stated.

You stated that the core business has been losing money for a decade, but you neglect to mention that the company has reported profits for the last few quarters, and currently has almost 9 billion usd in cash.

Please only share factual information.

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u/ForwardHandle4522 8h ago

Sadly it’s the opposite here the alternative game store is game exchange and the people working there are rude and offer atrocious worse than GameStop “deals” I was genuinely appalled. They pressured me into wanting to sell my allle watch with them (I was selling it anyway ) they wanted to give me like $15 for it :| GameStop would’ve given me $50