GAME in serious trouble

calex71

There will be a piece on the RTE news soon,

Andy!!

FutureGuy wrote:

Heck I even thought about buying 5 copies of ME3 with my credit in CeX Dublin and trade it back to Game for equal value just to help them get stock.

Wish I could tell you what you sound like but I'll refrain. Superman to the rescue eh? Get real man.

FutureGuy

Andy!! wrote: »

FutureGuy wrote:

Heck I even thought about buying 5 copies of ME3 with my credit in CeX Dublin and trade it back to Game for equal value just to help them get stock.

Wish I could tell you what you sound like but I'll refrain. Superman to the rescue eh? Get real man.

Yeah berate for trying my best to help. Stay classy.

LoganIn

FutureGuy wrote: »

OK now you're you really beginning to piss me off. You were rude and yet I answered your questions openly and honestly.

I couldn't care what Game as a company think about me, and I wouldn't expect them to. I care about the fact that alot of good people were in danger of losing their jobs, and that there might have been a chance that store closures were on a location-by-location basis.

Thanksfully, I'm in a financial position that I don't care about losing a fiver in trade-in value or placing preorders at my local store even though they are a little more expensive (like I did with MW3 Hardened Edition and Street Fighter v Tekken Limited Edition with GAME).

The fact that you think my actions were driven only by greed is fcuking pathetic tbh.

You say your in a good financial position. Well why didnt you buy your vita when trading in ME3? Then and there? why didnt you?

You didnt because you wanted to wait for a sale and use your credit to go against buying a cheaper vita. You took a gamble. A foolish gamble (trusting companies going under) It didnt pay off.


Whos opinion is really pathetic

cloud493

LoganIn wrote: »

You say your in a good financial position. Well why didnt you buy your vita when trading in ME3? Then and there? why didnt you?

You didnt because you wanted to wait for a sale and use your credit to go against buying a cheaper vita. You took a gamble. A foolish gamble (trusting companies going under) It didnt pay off.


Whos opinion is really pathetic

Yours? He didn't fancy buying a vita there and then. He's be shopping at Game for a number of years. He decided to trade in there to help them, and himself. Doesn't make him greedy or stupid really does it.

LoganIn

Andy!! wrote: »

Wish I could tell you what you sound like but I'll refrain. Superman to the rescue eh? Get real man.

... :pac:
FutureGuy should of helped GAME.
Those 5 copies of ME3 would of helped their £180 million pound debt.

:pac:

Krieg

Staff sit-in planned according to RTE, GAME wont provide their full redundancy

cloud493

Full list of apparently closed stores

GAME

Croydon
Bristol Cabot Circus
Bath Southgate
Milton Keynes Midsummer Place
Coventry West Orchards
Norwich
Bromley
Exeter
Plymouth New George Street
Bournemouth Commercial Road
Birmingham Palisades
York City Centre
Liverpool
Telford - both stores
Manchester Arndale - both stores
Burton-on-Trent
Birmingham Fort
Canterbury
Falkirk
Stevenage
Blackburn
Glasgow Buchanan Galeries
Reading Oracle
Basingstoke
Barrow
Bridlington
Weston Super Mare
Stockton on Tees Wellington Square
Newcastle
Edinburgh Ocean Terminal
Edinburgh Princes Street
Stirling
Portsmouth Cascades
Cardiff Queen Street
Dorchester
Gloucester
Preston Fishergate
Slough
Glasgow Sauchiehall Street
Isle of Wight
Northampton
Galway
London Victoria
Dublin Dundrum
Sheffield City Centre
Lincoln Valentine Retail Park
Essex Lakeside - both stores
Barking
Nottingham Listergate
Edingburgh Cameron Toll
Edinburgh Fort Kinaird
Leeds Albion Street
Monoghan
Gretna
Crawley - both stores
Hemel Hemstead - both stores
Belfast
Newcastle - Fenwicks and Eldon Square
Grantham
Meadowhall
Manchester Trafford Centre (upper level)
Crewe
Macclesfield
Hanley Stoke-on-Trent (both stores)
Liffey Valley
Blanchardstown
Birkenhead
Rochdale
Blackpool
Barnstaple
Aylesbury
Dudley Merry Hill
Newport
Bangor
Sunderland
Yeovil
Winchester
Barnet
North Finchley
Brent Cross
Burnley

GAMESTATION

Birmingham New Street
Sutton
Enfield
Bromley
Llaneli
Sunderland
Norwich
Great Yarmouth
Taunton
Ilford
Cumbernauld
Coventry
Hyde
Bournemouth
Brighton
Liverpool
Shrewsbury
Stafford
Leicester
Skelmersdale
Perth
Halesowen
Walsall
Gainsborough
Harlow
Dumbarton
Cannock
Kettering
Stockton on Tees High Street
Salisbury
Hartlepool
Stevenage
Nuneaton
Cheltenham
High Wycombe
Glasgow Sauchiehall Street
Hastings
Long Eaton
Leamington Spa
Norwich
London East Ham
Rhyl
Mansfield
Hereford
Banbury
Middlesbrough
Leeds
Basildon
Congleton
Fife Glenrothes
Preston
Newcastle
Dundee
Meadowhall
Bolton
Wolverhampton
Maidstone
Andover
Swansea
Woolwich
Crawley
Grimsby
Woking
Cheltenham
Luton

FutureGuy

LoganIn wrote: »

You say your in a good financial position. Well why didnt you buy your vita when trading in ME3? Then and there? why didnt you?

You didnt because you wanted to wait for a sale and use your credit to go against buying a cheaper vita. You took a gamble. A foolish gamble (trusting companies going under) It didnt pay off.


Whos opinion is really pathetic

Again not true. I had more games at home I wanted to trade in after deciding I would geta Vita that day, which makes more financial sense than paying cash.

You're making a complete idiot of yourself with your comments.

Lucious Sweet

LoganIn wrote: »

... :pac:
FutureGuy should of helped GAME.
Those 5 copies of ME3 would of helped their £180 million pound debt.

:pac:

Don't be such a dcik dude

Just saw the piece on RTE News and its obvious staff did not know this was coming. The manager of the Blanch branch spoke of a sit in.. Now I reckon this would be one of the most support sit ins EVER

FutureGuy

Andy!! wrote: »

Ilac and Dawson street appear to be closed. If they shut without habing a firesale I'll not be pleased... cnuts.

Andy!! wrote: »

Wish I could tell you what you sound like but I'll refrain. Superman to the rescue eh? Get real man.

And you have the gall to pull me up?

Oafley Jones

cloud493 wrote: »

Partial list of apparently closed stores...

FYP;)

Mr E

Andy!! wrote: »

Wish I could tell you what you sound like but I'll refrain. Superman to the rescue eh? Get real man.

LoganIn wrote: »

... :pac:
FutureGuy should of helped GAME.
Those 5 copies of ME3 would of helped their £180 million pound debt.

:pac:

Nip it in the bud now, guys.... back on topic.

RobbingBandit

By that list the stores in Tallaght,Ilac and Dawson street are still ok for now.

Saruwatari

RobbingBandit wrote: »

By that list the stores in Tallaght,Ilac and Dawson street are still ok for now.

No, ILAC is definitely closed. Walked by there myself today, lights were on, shutters were down and there was just a simple 'CLOSED' sign posted on the window.

Retr0gamer

Please no more talk about Game 'stealing' from you. If you deal in credit you are at risk of bad debts and if you deal in credit with a company that is about to go into administration than you're playing with fire. That's just business. End of.

I don't want to lock this thread but anymore non constructive discussion and warnings and infractions will be handed out.

Asmodean

Gone here in galway. I read an article a short while ago that its rumoured all the irish stores are gone.

Agent J

http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/0326/game.html

Looks pretty bad for Irish stores. Though i can't see *all* of them going permanetly. There is still a market there but much smaller.

caspa307

LoganIn wrote: »

you were going to buy 5 copies lol.
dude, its a business. game dont care about you. as long as you kept buying games thats all they cared about ... your store credit as well as everyone elses dont mean jack to them now.

look i dont mean to come off as rude but countless companies have gone bust shafting people. stuff like this will happen over and over again. you cant trust a company thats going under.

Andy!! wrote: »

Wish I could tell you what you sound like but I'll refrain. Superman to the rescue eh? Get real man.

LoganIn wrote: »

... :pac:
FutureGuy should of helped GAME.
Those 5 copies of ME3 would of helped their £180 million pound debt.

:pac:

logan andy clearly your not in limerick, because if you were then you would know that EVERY SINGLE ONE of the guys and girls in game cruises street do their absouloute ****ing best to help out customers, and they had a handwritten sign looking for copies of ME3 so they could help the people that had the game on deposit! obviously you both have had a bad experiece with game but that dosent mean all the staff in thier deserve to be treated like ****! nor do customers like future that tried to help them out! BTW i traded in a copy of mass effect 3 to them and got the credit and i still have it, but you know hat its 30 euro yes its a small amount compared to others but the staff member that gave me 30 euro now has nothing to live on till the goverment decides they can be arsed to pay him and at that he probably wont get anything because of partial redundancy so paul who has worked in game for 13 yearsand has just had a new baby now gets nothing tell me how your problems are bigger?

Andy!!

FutureGuy wrote:

You're making a complete idiot of yourself with your comments.

Such irony.
Your avatar really suits you.

Also why can a mod call someone an idiot but when a poster does this it means an infraction?

Anybody that's saying the had no intention of capitalising on the shut down is lying. And anyone who is claiming they were trying to save the company is even worse lol.

I explained quite clearly SuperFutureMan why I felt that way about the staff. You wouldn't find a clerk in Cineworld that didn't know about upcoming movies, etc. Gamers aren't getting fired. The majority of staff there would actually look down on us as nerds. I know two girls who work in Game stores. Theyve never played games in their lives.

RobbingBandit

Wonder have Gamestop bought the Irish stores or at least their stock,might explain the actions taken today.

FutureGuy

Andy!! wrote: »

Such irony.
Your avatar really suits you.

Also why can a mod call someone an idiot but when a poster does this it means an infraction?

Anybody that's saying the had no intention of capitalising on the shut down is lying. And anyone who is claiming they were trying to save the company is even worse lol.

I explained quite clearly SuperFutureMan why I felt that way about the staff. You wouldn't find a clerk in Cineworld that didn't know about upcoming movies, etc. Gamers aren't getting fired. The majority of staff there would actually look down on us as nerds. I know two girls who work in Game stores. Theyve never played games in their lives.

Wow, just wow. I'm not lying my friend. I'm unsure why you don't take my words at face value? And your description of Game staff, especially in my store, is incredibly inaccurate. Also, I never said I was trying to save the company.

cloud493

I remember, when I was younger(being from Liverpool) I could get to... 3 gamestations, and 4 Games in a single bus ride. Bit silly really :rolleyes:

Retr0gamer

Andy!! infracted. Don't give me another reason to do so.

FutureGuy

It's really sad if these guys don't get their full redundancy tbh.

so people have known that the company was in serious trouble for the last month and that they went into administration last week and now that they closed down they stole your credit this was clearly coming if you have game credit left thats on you

FutureGuy

Right, onto something more positive....


What were your favourite memories of GAME?

As stated earlier, seeing the PS1 for the first time on a giant 50-60 inch screen was epic.

Also, playing Super Mario 64 for the very first time in there was pretty memorable!

I can remember buying trading cards in there in the early 90's when they were way cheaper than in other stores.

MagicMoose

MCV reports all Irish stores closed. I would have thought at least some of them would be viable. Are they really all unprofitable? I don't see how it makes sense to close an outlet if it makes money.

Though saying that, the Cork city store has been conspicuously quiet for some time now. A Gamestop is about 100 yards away and seems a lot busier.

I never had much interest in either outlet though. They're too expensive. I can see the benefit of buying a console there in case it is fault and needs replacing, but for games you can shop online and get exactly the same title for 20 or 30% less.

Retr0gamer

I liked the grafton street store, although I do remember some of the muppet staff in there convincing a girl to get an Xbox because Halo was on it while she kept telling them her favourite games were survival horror and that she wanted to get the next resident evil, Resi 4 was out in a month of GC. My argumentative self couldn't let that one slide :P

cloud493

I recall in the.. whenever mario kart DS came out, I'd bought some crappy spyro for the DS. And I was going to Game to trade it in for mario, got like, £15 credit. I was kind of upset. Young, you know. The chap in there gave me a one to one exchange (my spyro for mario kart)