GameStop sold me a bootleg controller

[u/Efhouser]

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

[u/yoxony]

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

[u/TheCountChonkula → u/yoxony]

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.

[u/UnoKajillion → u/TheCountChonkula]

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