I too have had a free pube in a pre-owned game. Traumatic as fuck.

Never heard of Curzon either.

Dante you've got pull, get GAME to open up a smaller store in Harrow, London. HMV here closed recently so there is nowhere to buy new releases and it's a fairly big centre for a local area.
A single unit shop would do it, one that gives me and me only extra discounts on new releases and more for my trade-ins.
If you could just whip off a quick email to head office I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks.

cosmicjellybean wrote:

Diluted Dante wrote:

I assume it's a London only thing, as I've never heard of them either.

Small arthouse cinemas, pretty much London based (only 6 cinemas, including HMV Wimbledon). They also own Artificial Eye Films which gives them access to awesome Q&A's with the directors and actors, as well as putting their films online day and date with cinema releases. They also hired me at their offices about a month ago

Bastard!!

Just got in with a new 250 S after doing the do at Gamestation. Got £70 for the ageing, wheezing Elite, one of the better kept Elites your man remarked, thumbing through the immaculate preserved contents.

£122 for a considerable chunk of 360 and DS software, which they were happy to match and beat CEX's prices where theirs didn't already. Max Payne 3 got me £18, £6 for Dead Rising which I thought was generous, £13 for Mario Kart DS and £12 for NSMB, they even took in my Euro copy of Brink by scanning an instore one. Was gunning for the console and Sleeping Dogs for £199, but it's apparently been a bit of a hit and there were no copies so I managed to get Spec Ops instead of the offered selection of one from Ghost Recon, Lego Batman 2 or London 2012. Even got £10 credit on the loyalty card from the trade ins and a four foot receipt for my troubles.

I will say they were a very pleasant bunch in the Bradford store, things seem to be working a lot better with their new overlords. Chuffed with the S too, absolutely whisper quiet, the old Elite had worked up quite a wind tunnel tone over the years, and my thumbsticks were worn and wandering.

I did a similarthing in Gamestation when I got my Gears 360 console. The girl was trying to get me as many freebies and extras as she could, I think Gamestation is my preference for high st shopping.

Oh I havent forgotten about Duke Nukem webbins ( well i have but ya know). I will send it tommorow

Diluted Dante wrote:

Their margin will be a bit shit. No deposits either? Tut tut.

Hassle free shopping without being pushed stuff? Repeat customer.

Last time I was in town I saw that Game have finally closed one of their two stores in Aberdeen.  Unfortunately they've closed the generally-better-managed-and-always-better-stocked-despite-being-smaller Union Street store, leaving the bright-and-breezy-but-somehow-still-devoid-of-stock Bon Accord Centre branch.  Gamestation on Union Street is still a grimy little hole where everything - floor, display units, staff, customers, stock - needs a fucking good scrub and intensive disinfecting.

I think it's about knowing your customer. If it's a casual shopper, maybe they don't know about new releases. If someone trucked in with a load of games and knew exactly what they were after, I'd reckon theyre fairly well versed.

regmcfly wrote:

I think it's about knowing your customer. If it's a casual shopper, maybe they don't know about new releases. If someone trucked in with a load of games and knew exactly what they were after, I'd reckon theyre fairly well versed.

It's amazing though how far you can go with a question as simple as 'What's your next game then?' Even when talking to 'one of us' there''ll be plenty of times that they haven't pre-ordered Darksiders for example even though they plan to come in and pick it up 9am Tuesday.

Although reading Live's comment above yeah, I suppose I probably am better than most at this stuff.

Is that the one that is near enough tottenham court rd?

The thing is, who goes to Oxford st for a game? There are normally more local branches and the big money on Ox st is foreign people fashion shopping.

No presence on the most important retail road in Europe? Seems silly to me even if you're breaking even or running at a small loss.

They are in the basement of Hamleys but surely it impacts the brand. Even HMV have kept their megastore open.

The Oxford St branch was basically HEY LOOK AT ME.

It's silly to keep it with the new company. It's obviously sad that people will lose jobs, though they are looking to move everyone.

Still Blackburn is re-opening, so it's not all bad.

This is it.

Thae average gamer has little interest in Oxford st and the average Oxford st shopper has no interest in gaming.