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GameStop Offers $50 Certificate For Coupon Fiasco

Posted by timothy on from the token-effort-for-stealing-tokens dept.

First time accepted submitter milbournosphere writes "It appears that GameStop has a guilty conscience. They are offering a $50 gift certificate to any person who bought the new Deus Ex at GameStop. You may recall that GameStop has admitted to removing the OnLive codes good for one free game from new, unopened copies of the game. From GameStop's email: 'For your inconvenience, we would like to offer you a free $50 GameStop gift card and a Buy 2 Get 1 Free pre-owned purchase. We want to earn back your trust and confidence in the GameStop experience. Please bring in this email and your store receipt or order confirmation from GameStop.com and present it to a Game Advisor.'"

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  1. Corporate humility at its best by richdun · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Please humbly accept our apologies. To make this better, we'd like to offer you the chance to buy more stuff from us.

  2. They've done this for years by Jim+Hall · · Score: 4, Informative

    I haven't bought new from GameStop in years because of their general practice of lending new copies of games to employees and then later selling those games as new. Last time I tried to buy a new game from them, it looked like this guy's game, so I just walked away without buying. Now I only buy new from my local Target store, or online from Amazon.

    I still go to GameStop to buy and sell used games, though.

  3. Re:hmph. typical by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Why yes sir, the rotting banana peel and a mummified female index finger were part of the original packaging."

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    The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
  4. Corporate naming b.s. by MickyTheIdiot · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Does anyone else throw up in their mouth a little bit when they read a corporate euphemism for "store clerk" like "game advisor"?