Gamestop is Cheap and Greedy
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- Опубликовано: 11 сен 2024
- Really gamestop? Out of all the things you can do with these items you prefer to destroy them? Money can be made here or donating is an option.
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calls gamestop cheap while digging through a dumpster.
To prove a point.
Everardo Leon Yep, he is an idiot. Point made.
right over your head
***** He states he know electrical engineering. This guy isn't an idiot. This is to prove a point, not go dumpster diving because he needs this stuff.
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BREAKING NEWS: GUY DIGS IN DUMPSTER AND FINDS TRASH
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He found what used to be thousands of dollars in useable/reparable products. There are tons of people who can repair hardware in a matter of minutes. So god damn wasteful. And like he said, why wouldn't they donate the items for a tax write off? It only makes sense to do so.
It's a liability issue. If the kids eat the old games and get sick, Gamestop will be sued.
You just made my day
If kids eat the old game? The fuck?
*****
It was a joke. A very funny joke.
Bendyrulz0 Oooh
This is fucking funny, dude.
You can't donate Call of Duty Black Ops II to children's hospitals.
Not with that attitude lol
JayPee the last thing we want is CoD squeakers to use cancer as an excuse.
+JayPee It would be a dick move to donate a bunch of games that don't work to a hospital (Just saying if the games could be donated)
+Chespinoid thats not the point though. The point is even if these were M games Gamestop takes advantage of its customers. People buy these games from them and teenagers know nothing better but to go to GameStop. Why couldn't they donate spare accessories or headphones to boys and girls clubs or somewhere else. Gamestop has no moral values they're greedy. GameStop needs competition something that will shut them down the same way Circuit City was shut down by Best Buy.
+Ralph Vincent Relador they don't donate because the product worth donating is broken, AND it's a corporation for fucks sake, you expect them to abandon the goal of making as much money as possible? Jesus, they're a lot dumbasses out there, including Uploader of this video and those who his opinion which aren't thought through
Some people are so stupid. he's not dumpster diving to GET games, he's showing how wasteful Gamestop is.
Finally someone gets it.
+JayPee im talking to a famous person :3
A Kid From Afica Please enlighten me as to how throwing away games and making them unplayable makes money.
+A Kid From Afica Whatever you say. Because they couldnt GIVE those games away huh? They could donate them to an orphanage or a million other things.
A Kid From Afica That really shows how intelligent you are. Not everybody can afford games. Just because your entitled ass has money to throw around on $60 games does not mean some kid somewhere wouldnt love to have even a shitty game for free. You know nothing Jon Snow.
"Electrical engineering"
Jesus fuck, apparently I'm a chef for making ramen noodles.
nope just a disgusting weeab
*****
Nice username lets be friends
I actually logged in just to make a similar comment. I'm glad someone else noticed.
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You shoud check out abortion clinic dumpster.
It's only been an hour since this comment but jesus christ this needs more upvotes.
All of these babies...THAT THEY COULD HAVE DONATED
children in africa could eat those. >:(
Spastmatiker
You fucking stop right now.
ianscoff Well, yes actually. Putting a baby up for adoption is the best solution in my eyes.
lol.. Kinda sounds like you're just angry you didnt get any free games while you were dumpster diving.
LOOOL so true...
well guess what that is good money just thrown out the of the FREAKIN WORLD
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As a former Gamestop employee things only get thrown away if they don't already work. They are cut or destroyed for one of two reasons. One, they were issued as a return to vendor but the vendor requested their destruction. Not destroying them is a breach of contract with the vendor and opens up Gamestop to a lawsuit. Two, Loss prevention reasons. Items that are returned as defective are destroyed by a manager prior to being discarded to prevent internal theft. Employee's friend returns a game as defective to get another copy. Item is then destroyed to prevent the employee or friend form doing exactly what you're doing.
Unless you're suggesting Gamestop should be donating defective merchandise to kids....
Well yes, some things don't get destroyed sure to lack of time or sheer forgetfulness, and sometimes returned items that work but the customer was inept come through too. My goal was to explain the norm. There will always be outliers
Adding to your point, people seem to forget that when they trade in a game, Gamestop might be only giving you a small percentage of what they are selling it for, but they are not going to sell it at that price.
They will have that copy for months and months. It will go down from $50 to $40, then to $30. You might trade a recently bought game and be annoyed you only get $15 for it. But that game will likely not be sold until it is worth $20. It is very unliky that it gets sold at $50 pre owned.
As a company, Gamestop needs to factor that in (especially with so many games having a 9 month life cycle) when they trade games. If an Assassins Creed, NBA 2K or COD game doesn't get sold in its first 9-12 months, then it is likely not going to be sold at all.
Hopefully this will be the top comment soon but I really don't have that much faith at this point. It's more likely that there will be an angry redditor mob and a press release saying the same shit than people actually reading or informing one-another. The most likely scenario of all is that people go to bed feeling that there is still injustice in the world that upvotes can solve by spreading the word.
^These comments.
I don't believe that. Blu rays are super durable, there's no way they have to throw out that many. Plus the only scratches I saw were the ones Gamestop created.
So many stores do thsi kind of crap.
Clothing stores slash all the clothing then throw it away instead of donating it to goodwill or other charities that can get it to homeless/poor people that could use it.
Because it is bad for the business.
Would you want to pay premium prices for a shirt that the great majority of poor/homeless people use?
Generally, the company will tell the redistributor that they will get x% back per item if they return those items. For some items, the costs of sending them back could be more than the price of the items, and instead, the company will request that the items get destroyed to ensure they don't loose money (it would be bad for business if every game was given out for free after a few months).
Actually, it tends to be (in pretty much any retail store out there) that damaged merchandise are destroyed so that the store is reimbursed (at least partially), and doesn't lose money, if the stuff was not destroyed they would be breaching contracts with the manufacturers.
gyloir I can sew. brb dumpster diving that clothing store that sells shirts for 200 bucks each
I used to work at Target in receiving. All items that can be donated are donated - ripped bags of dog food that can't be sold are donated to pet shelters, clothes and other items that went on clearance and didn't sell are donated to goodwill (Goodwill actually marks them up in price), damaged boxes of food or food close to expiration are donated to food shelters...etc. So not all companies do this. I hate Target, I really do, but this is one good thing they do. Also, all damaged product in stores are reimbursed by the company that sold the product. If you go to Target, drop a Glade candle and shatter it, it's not Target that eats the cost, it's SCJ who pays it.
***** awnn bad for business. They could have still donated some of the games.
GameStop here! We completely agree with the suggestions of donating games or accessories to charitable organizations. We do that routinely with our partners Ronald McDonald House Charities, Make-A-Wish Foundation and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
As for this video, it is our company practice to discard or destroy products that are damaged, defective, no longer work, or cannot be repaired, as we would never want to provide any customer or charity a product they could not use or enjoy. It is our understanding that this was the case with the products shown in this video.
What do you guys do to people who bought a headset from you guys, got home, and it doesn't work? Should I throw it in my dumpster or yours?
i was gonna say that the reasons gamestop threw those games, controllers, and consoles away are because they were damaged, defective, no longer work, or cannot be repaired. Im pretty sure we all have threw away consoles, games, and other electronics that were damaged or irreparable.
There are ways of disc repair though......the look of those disks seemed fixable to me and if so why did you intentionally put a slash through each of those disks? As well as cut the cords to each of the wired head sets, controllers, etc. shit doesn't add up.
im not buying it; so you guys bought a controller with a cut cord? lol bullshit alert! I can understand you guys buying a game with a cut on it; maybe you thought it could work! but a controller that was cut all the way to the base? not buying it lol
jRex918 Controllers and headsets are cut because while they CAN be repaired if someone wanted to, it would cost Gamestop more money to do so, so if the headset or controllers don't work they'll just chuck them and cutting the cords prevents people from just taking things and getting say a $50 item for free.
American Strength Disk repair is possible yes, but it also depends on how severe the disk is damaged. As for slashing games that were not operable, most likely it is just company policy.
Donate grand theft auto to a children's hospital so they can walk into a strip club
The sad part is that nearly every business in America does this. Anything that they see as "obsolete" gets destroyed and thrown out. And I do not think of this as a matter of losing out on video games or controllers or systems or whatever (even though that is their intended and still functional purpose). But think about the materials that go into these things and get dumped in a landfill and then the plastics end up in the oceans. In 2010 alone an estimated 5 to 13 million metric tons of plastics made it's way into the oceans. Ever hear of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch? And like I said, its not just Gamestop, nearly every business just destroys and throws out what they do not sell, rarely is it recycled or re-purposed. I used to work for a toy distribution company and oh my god the amount of plastic that gets thrown out in the dumpster every single day. Not recycled, not re-purposed, straight to the landfill and then incinerated into toxins or haphazardly making its way into our environment. Ever go into a Dunkin Doughnuts? Do you know what they do at the end of the night? They throw out garbage bags full of doughnuts and bagels. Same thing with nearly every other similar food distribution stores. I would know because a friend of mine used to work at Dunkin Doughnuts and he would throw the bags of doughnuts in the back of his car and bring em to parties instead. All of that food is thrown out when it could be given to the homeless or to poor families who cannot afford to feed themselves. Yet we just throw it all out.
American corporate consumerism makes me sick.
This is how our world will fail, humans will destroy themselves.
Agreed fully, which is why this video showing a part of the whole story should be spread everywhere. It's sickening and should be shown nationwide just how bad these "friendly companies" are.
Ya I work at a deli and we toss out 20 pounds of bread a night at least =/
JayPee The whole story? Really does look like you're just singling out one company here.
It's amazing how they PR guilt trip you over this stuff when most corporations should be the ones leading by example. Fuck, unions too I worked for Kellogg's the last few years and just seeing the amount of material and human waste still makes me sick
These companies need to be sued for billions each, I think.
You guys are really just focusing on the fact he dumpster dives.... (ANOTHER MAN'S TRASH IS ANOTHER MAN'S TREASURE)
Jason Forester "ANOTHER MAN'S TRASH IS ANOTHER MAN'S TREASURE" is not always true because there are cons that come with dumpster diving. I.e. going on private people's property, knowing if it is legal in your state, etc.
It's illegal in my state to go in a dumpster owned by a store or company because it's still their property.
Keilvenia what state if I may ask
MI
and the walled off area he's currently in would be considered part of GSs property that the public is "restricted" from.
No one judges you for what you throw away... It's their property they can do as they please with it. I'd love for them to donate it but that's on them. Now stay out of people's trash.
Couldn't agree with you more on that ded. This dude is going through trash and complaining that they aren't donating an already scratched disk to a hospital. I'm sure GameStop donate enough money to charity every year.
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D is for Delta "complaining that they aren't donating an already scratched disk to a hospital"
That's what this guy is talking about, they scratch and break things just because they couldn't sell them.
-Pao not sure if stating some point or not. But as if you look closely at the disk they are scratched long before the disks were cut.
Bro they throw it away because it doesn't work and they cut the disk so some jerk doesn't re sell it on eBay
"Why is it that you throw away all of your items, instead of donating to the kids?"
(shows Battlefield, Call of Duty, GTA, Halo, and Mass Effect)
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they cut that shit up because whats stopping you from turning around and selling it to someone else?
patman0250 ok settle down. Im sure if their was any empathy in their heartz they woildve donated it. But, honestly tell me, would you sell the game after you finished playing it or just give it away?
They have to account for all merchandise sold so they would know that their own employees arent stealing their shit.
Also, humans are the only living things on the planet who pollute the earth so, dont try and make it seem like yiu dont wipe your own ass with your hand instead of toilet paoer. We live in excess. You cant deny that.
+You know my name. What if they cut the cords so that people like JayPee wont dig through the trash and get free stuff?
Exactly the reason why they cut their shit, did you see how quickly he jumped on those turtle beaces? You see how quickly he put the xbox360 keybored in his pocket? Exactly why, because they are NOT able to re-sell these and they dont want they getting into circulation again! Ever! Im sure gamestop would of much rather sell us their junk insdead of throw it away, but they cant for a reason!
+Christian Glasenapp Yah. Cuz then you could just jump into their dumpster and pick somethng out and walk into the store and sell it back to them. Lulz
+You know my name. actually they cut the chords for health and safety reasons, if you electrocute yourself on something you stole out of one of their bins while on their property you can sue them but you are kinda correct they actually cut the discs because you can take them back into that same store and trade them for store credit or even sell them back to them, then they have a bunch of shitty games they just tried to dump, they don't test the game b4 they buy them, they just check for scratches.
Not as bad as what that guy finds in the pet store dumpster, live iguana.
Not this guy, someone else.
Rich Theisen actually, the petsmart I look in tosses a TON of dog collars out
JayPee
I got to start dumpster diving damn.
JayPee
They may have been recalled collars. Items get recalled every day for being dangerous.
or a PETA dumpster, dead dogs and kittens.
Sure the games are fucked but take everything else in that bin, just because they cut the cord doesn't mean some solder and electrical tape wont make it work like new.
HAHAHAHAH HE SAYS GAMESTOP IS CHEAP BUT HE IS THE ONE DUMPSTER DIVING FOR FREE GAMES HAHAHAHAHA
put duct tape over the scratches on the disk cuz duct tape fixes everything :D
+PsycoGamer Hahah good joke
+I'm not Original you know im joking
PsycoGamer Well that was a good joke.
+PsycoGamer i thought it was funny
+Trudy Minaj no hes funny
I am shocked the electronics are not being recycled.
nothing quite like throwing gold away.
Throwing away money. Maybe Gamestop should start a repairing section of their company and they could repair those games and hardware rather than throwing them away. More money for them :P
Brad Setzer Hardly throwing away money, it's maintaining the value of the product. If you're able to get products that stores discard for a low price or free, the stores wouldn't be able to sell any more copies. Therefore, to protect their own profits, they destroy discarded copies. Besides, nothing is thrown out for no reason.
Hey Gamestop is still cool as long as they smoke weed
it sure is weird coming to a video, and seeing that my friend on our account, has already commented on it for me.
pwnagemcgee Suuuuuure it is.
pwnagemcgee
It's almost like there's 10 other people using your account, am I right bro?
pwnagemcgee Cause ya didnt blaze it hard enough
What's so bad about game stop my best friend works there and I get free games because of it 😆
"This! ... I can actually probably still use this, there's no way for you to cut the chord."
There's nothing that supports the legitimacy of this video. What is to say that this dude isn't some rich douche that just decided to dump all his gaming paraphernalia in a dumpster to make a viral video? Or that he didn't go into GameStop and bought it all second hand just for this video? Or that he's part of one of the AAA producer's front groups and did this to discredit GameStop?
A few things actually talk for this, one being the quality of the video not being consistent with dumpster diving. Good sound despite the noisy environment points to an external mic, which in turn speaks for at least a second person being there. The quality of the video is not consistent with the cheap phone or camera a person that needs to resort to dumpster diving for games would have.
Another thing is the constant mention of the company name, a tactic well used in fake virals in recent years. There's also the same thing you see in many fake viral accounts, where the account is fairly young, often only a few months old, with either baby vids or pet vids in the same high quality as the "viral" one. It's almost engineered in its structure... and look at JayPee's history? What do we see? 5 months worth of baby vids in the same high quality!
I am not saying that this is fake, but I'm saying that nothing so far points to this being legit, or if it is legit, that it would be a common practice for GameStop. I am also saying that people need to think a little bit before reacting like the world is about to end!
Is legit, was recorded on my phone (S5) and stating the stores name because it'd the store committing this stupid act. Any more questions? Check my buy buy baby video for further proof of legitimacy
JayPee
I don't really doubt the legitimacy, I just want people to open their eyes to the possibility before they go all Gaming with Milruka on others and start bashing them violently just because someone else said something on the Internet :)
Gaming with Milruka I'm not sure that ANOTHER failed RUclips LPer has room to call anyone else anything.
***** so your saying that all you dig can not do a good video? bull i for one have seen this first hand
but we weren't here for this one. Two doesn't mean all stores are doing this my bro found 2 that's right 2 s2 (can't t write wtf )
william mellott
I have no clue what you just said... Maybe try again and this time try to structure your sentences in a humanly readable format.
Now I'm very tempted to sprint to my nearest gamestop store and dive into their backdoor dumpsters.
Same.
Bums.
Josh Wood You don't know what a bum is. A bum is a beggar or a homeless person. Digging through a dumpster to find valuable electronics does not make you a bum.
Josiah Rooney Beggars can't be choosers man. I'm sure you've heard that before.
Josiah Rooney A "Bum" is an adjective and can be used to describe more than just a beggar or a homeless person. Would you like me to call this guy a scavenger or a dumpster diver or be nice and call him an opportunist even though I don't like him? Or I can just call him a bum.
There are plenty of starving children in Africa who would love to eat those disks, scumbag Gamestop
scumbag gamestop
yeah lets donate a bunch of M rated titles to childrens hospitals. that makes sense.
I think he meant donate the money from the games they could of sold
Playstation Guy most of those games are in that dumpster because they couldnt sell them.
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+Playstation Guy most of those games they couldn't sell does not work why else would they throw it in the dumpster.
***** not the point. the point is that organizations like children hospitals, daycares, churches etc more often than not wont show or allow such products within their vicinities. so as to more or less protect their asses from the possibility of offending individuals. anyone who thinks such a thing would be allowed in these kind of places obviously havent worked in one.
I completely agree with you, man! This is sad to see. I've been lucky enough to find FULL games, even systems in my videos diving at GameStop. But it's so ridiculous how they can't just DONATE or at least CLEARANCE these items. I advise my viewers to go dumpster diving, because a lot of stuff (when the GMs at GS don't come in and destroy it) are completely usable and fixable. Rarely do I find that they still destroy their finds.
Call them cheap. Yet he's dumpster diving.
lol
+GNARK1LL420 LOL TRUE
+GNARK1LL420 It's just to show how big of an ass gamestop is.
your right why does he care just go bye games
Hooshang Moghaddam You're* and Buy*
A scavenger is taking the high road? Lower the smoke and mirrors buddy , we know why you're REALLY mad about it and it has nothing to do with children's hospitals.
Lol, I bet he was only there for free stuff and he was mad because they broke it😂😂
prolly true
lol
***** Why would he be there in the first place if it wasn't dumpster diving
Exactly, he was mad cause he wanted free stuff not because they didn't donate it. Plus giving kids Mass Effect and GTA V is a horrible idea.
That's why he took the turtle beaches
"I can still use this" lmao
you sound very disappointed that the discs were cut... are you sure you didn't want to play them yourself?
One super shitty company's trash is another man's treasure
+Crafted Walrus I don't get why people say this...If they throw it away it means it'd go to places like landfills...What use are the games if they're in landfills instead of being the source of a child's entertainment? You'd rather all these things go someplace where they can't be used instead of reused or donated? Please just shut the hell up.
***** I don't get why you're getting so salty about this, do you really think his first intention of going to that gamestop dumpster was to find games and donate them or to "throw away" some trash?
Crafted Walrus It doesn't matter what his intentions were...It'd be reused and there'd be less shit doing nothing in a landfill...Your point is? Do you really think it's better to slash the game and let it sit in a place with loads of trash? Do you think they just decompose? lawl...k.
+Reinaldo Torres (AlphaWolfGr) Are you worried about the discs not decomposing? You're supposed to throw things that won't decompose in the trash, that's the whole fucking point of it.
Hey bud if your so good at electrical engineering fix the stuff and give it to the hospitals your self
smartest thing I've seen so far in the comments
Yea with electrical engineering skills fix the disks somehow cause that makes sense
He meant the wire not the disc, dingus.
Lol don't you feel stupid now, don't ya
sure he can fix the cords but what about the discs?
I watched ReviewTechUSA's video on this and I think they slash the discs to show people theses items don't work-corrupt disc or faulty connections. Because if they didn't someone could take there stuff out the garbage and sell it back to people claiming it all works then run off with there money since there is nothing visually wrong with these items.
I have twice bought games from gamestop that were fake and once bought a game they didn't put in the case. I bought a copy halo reach that wasn't an actual xbox disc, I bought a copy of GTAIV once again not the real disc, and I once bought a copy of Call of Duty Black Ops 2 that they didn't put in the case which I am glad I checked the game before I left spent a good hour arguing with the employee on that one basically telling them give me the game I paid for or give me my money back
Lolol Electrical engineering to learn splicing...
"Good thing I know electrical engineering."
lmao...
Gamestop Cheap,yet hes the one dumpster diving
Hey if they're throwing away shit that can still be used might as well take it
I found 30 something ps2 controllers from gamestop.
Bubby_25 fuck you man
He's mad cause he got nothing for dumpster diving
I know but why would they break everything
+Bob Rob so people like him won't sell the shit back
+Llamalaching that's the only reason he's complaining because gamestop got smarto
+Bob Rob smarter*
+Bob Rob true
Says GameStop is greedy. Digs in trash for garbage and stuff peasants need
One man's trash is another man's treasure
+Laurel Schneider ...They threw it away, it's fair game...What the fuck are you on?
+Laurel Schneider Peasants?
I worked for a gamestop for a number of years. This was a standard practice for defective items.
1:27 yep the anger really gets heard
"I know technical engineering" because I know how cords work
Electrical engineering*
Also, not to condone gamestops actions (I used to work for them a while back and know how profitable of a company they are), but the cost of refurbishment of mass amounts of "disc" games these days is pointless with the amount of circulating copies and the current production outputs of new copies.
That being said, "defectiveness" of these games is often times subjective or from an employees desire to not wanting to deal with a persons attitude on their warranty replacement which they believe is warranted. If you can't reproduce the defect often times if they have already paid for the warranty replacement they will just give them a new copy.
The Gamestop I worked at was in a low income area and I would often just say "fuck it" and give them a new copy because if the game was somehow defective I would want to make the kid happy over denying them a game.
Gamestop should have methods in place to donate games like these to library's, schools, group homes, women's shelters, homeless shelters, and so on. However this could also be said for "expired" food from Star Bucks, Einstein's Bagels, and other companies. Sadly this is not the case.
Great video though, I wish more people saw stuff like this and understood how industries like these work.
You didn't hear him. Even if those discs don't have cases, they could donate them to people who don't have money. No need to package something if they didn't buy it.
Neceros If people dont have money the last thing they need to do is play video games, but thats just me.
I wonder who's sucking you to make you say that XD
Jokes aside, I agree with you.
YOU CAN SPLICE THE CORDS, TAKE EM ALL!!!!!
Why didn't you donate those X12s when you were done fixing them?
impossible to repair, fiber optic cable.
+JayPee wow MAN just wow. GAMESTOP R TOTAL @$$H0les.
+JayPee ...Impossible???...impractable maybe...impossible....well first what do you know about single mode vs. multi mode fiber optics??
+JayPee hey i use to work at Gamestop i use to take all of the used systems and games i was supposed to throw away i then took them home with me without my manager knowing, and on Christmas I would go to the Childrens hospital and hand out all my stuff to the nurses who then handed it to the kids. Ah nothing is more heartwarming than seeing a smile on a bedridden kids face.
Guess What? ur a good person :)
not disagreeing!!! just want to know why you're going through their dumpsters in the first place?
I agree though!! they should be donating those things!!!
I buy all my games on steam so i have no issue with this, but it's despicable they could have donated these games instead they ruin the disks i mean why?
Donate to who? Favor one spot over another and deal with all that? Donate shooting and killing games to young children and assume they have the consoles to play them? The video is clearly misleading. Gamestop doesn't normally throw out perfectly working items. They further destroy or cut items because they are already broken and not working. This bum is breaking the law and trespassing and Gamestop doesn't what these bums going through their trash on a daily basis. This bum in the video is just mad that he couldn't use and sell all that stuff.
True, but stores like Gamestop are ripping off traders us PC gamers get sales on steam and great value for money, i don't buy psychical copies anymore.
I only buy physical copies. And speaking of physical copies, if these games are broke but don't look broken then these bums diving can sell them on ebay or something and rip people off. I only buy physical copies to build my collection, the usability on any other system, and they also have resell value. etc. You're trippin'. There's place like craigslist you can resell or trade your stuff, you don't and shouldn't go to gamestop for that.
Josh Wood It's not against the law to dig through a public trash can or dumpster.
Josiah Rooney It is in some states and it depends if it's on private property or not. etc.
It doesn't matter what he intended to with the stuff, his point still stands. The fact that someone or a company would destroy things they have no use for is underhanded to say the least. It doesn't benefit them in anyway, this just ensures that no one else can either.
It benefits them. They wouldn't do it if it didn't. It just doesn't benefit everyone else, and is morally objectionable. Corporations are amoral. They know no right or wrong, just money.
Emidretrauqe tell me how they benefit?
GarTheRapper If they didn't cut the disc, someone could take it and see that it is defective, and sell it online for money, scamming someone. USE YOUR BRAIN!
you think that's bad top shoe maker's (adidas,nike and so on) receive thousands if not hundreds of thousand's of perfectly fine returned shoes but do they donate them, NO they use a pair of scissor's and cut the toe bit off how do i know i work for them
I used to work for Timberland. They would cut up the footwear as well. Only mistmated shoes (2 different sized) that sat in a storage building for a year first though.
Adam Moore i work at nike sometime's we receive jordans but we are told to repackage them no joke and stuff like football boots and so on we are told too cut them too it's a shame because so many people don't have footwear and we are forced to do this
#YNWA
But you're dumpster diving? THAT'S Cheap.
Michael Brown well i wold do the same caues they are so much thing you can sell
If everything in there is in perfect condition and try to give it back to them, they will be like "best I can do is $2.99"
most those games wouldve still worked. I have games with worse scratches that works fine. Especially Ps3 games since their blu rays are pretty strong
+Ashley Johansson they cut the discs on purpose to prevent people from getting games for free from their dumpsters, they weren't damaged. they just throw them out if they don't sell them in time
Even though there are scratches it works but with these games in particular tha damage is far worse it may be defective or it doesn't work or maybe the scratches are more than they look. JayPee is just mad at GameStop because he doesn't do enough research as they donate to StJude's hospital and make a wish
+Allyosaugh GameStop doesn't throw away working games. The employees get to keep the games and throw the defective games away. The reason why they cut it is so people can't get them and sell it
black ops 3 can cure cancer!!!! dammit hospitals need these!!!
What if a kid want to play that so...
LOL I DIED! "What's the most expensive thing you've got in here... TURTLE BEACHES! YOU CUT THE CORD... WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU PEOPLE!"
Lol "I know electrical engineering" :'D .
that is America for u
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jimmy roberson you ruined it xd
Damn i miss whataburger...
Share this channel and vids and I'll mail you an A1 Thick and Heart Burger lol
Make it a sausage bob and an order of biscuits and gravy and you have a deal.
+JayPee Dude have you seen all the rage videos out there??? they are mostly kids so they could lose money from donating+ There shit is expensive
stop being technical people his whole point is how gamestop throws away so much that can still be used instead of donating it or putting it on sale for like 80% off or something
idiot
+world class dupstep ?
they cut the cord because people like you wont buy anything and just dive through the garbage lol
I would too if it meant free stuff
thats not the problem, the problem is why tjey throw those games ?? even tho its an outdated game, theres have to be someone who didnt have money and relly want to play it
1:45 it's a good thing I know electrical engineering *umphh*
Never cringed so hard in my life😑
THEY THREW AWAY BLACK OPS III WTF!!! THAT JUST CAME OUT!!!!
Bayboi222 I thought I saw bo3 as well but then remembered this came out before it was even announced, but the disk does look kinda like bo2
+Aaron Burkardt that be cuse BLACK OPS III is crap and it kind did not just came out it came out November 6, 2015
+Bayboi222 You're like 11 anything is great to you smh
That is 2 not 3
Actually, you can play the scratched games, if you have the ability to install from a disc that is unscratched. Just borrow a friends disc and install to USB, then as long as you have a disc that does not have a scratched innermost or outermost ring - its usually a go.
Lol calls them cheap while searching through a dumpster for free things
were should i go to buy video games instead of gamestop. They make the prices so fking high god.
I buy my games online directly from the seller.
+Mateo Ramirez aka gamestop...
+head2fiststyle12345 No, game stop is a distributor, I but mine from the seller aka the producer.
+Mateo Ramirez so you go to valve and say "I want half life 3"?
Walmart. They sold me GTA V for 30$, but GameStop gives you a 70$ copy, with scratches.
Actually, cut the disc for Mass Effect 3, but NOT FOR THE OTHERS!
I like the video but that quote " I can fix the cord, good thing I know electrical engineering" lol!
If there are scratched discs, there should be a local dvd store/rental store/game store where they do scratch repairs. Or at least, that's how we do it in Australia. Most of the games are probably broken or corrupted anyways, and the consoles/other hardware most likely defective.
"One of those things where parents don't want their kids" lmfao
If I worked at Gamestop I'd just do what my friend does at the Target she manages. Take the stuff you're told to throw out and keep what you want then just not cut the disks or cables when I throw them out. Not like they'd go and check the bins and shit.
And before you say anything, they HAVE been donating to children's hospitals.
As have I. I even dress up as hero's and go there.
JayPee If some of the games go to a good cause, I can respect that. I just get disgusted by the people who are in it only for themselves, and turn around and resell the games. Those games were trashed either because they were bad games, or the scratches were too severe, and since Gamestop is already in enough hot water over selling RRoD consoles, I'd think they wouldn't want people getting their hands on games that are faulty if they came from them. I am quite familiar with corporate policies.
how do u know
bull fucking shit!
Rami Malek news.gamestop.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=130125&p=community
Is it so hard to do a simple Google search? Got that first result lol.
If splicing a Turtle Beach cord is "electrical engineering", then my mac & cheese is "gourmet cuisine" .
I work in a game store and the only items we destroy are items that are already broken
When games were tested and didn't work, when headphones weren't working because the internals were damaged or the speakers blew, and when accessories that didn't work correctly, it was made sure that someone couldn't just pull these items from the garbage and try to make a quick buck from broken items. People buy used games and replace the disks with broken ones all the time to get a free game. Why the hell would this stuff be donated if it didn't work in the first place? And why let people try to take these, turn around and sell them?
Here at Portugal we have shops that do the same. But I know 2 shops, because this is an internal secret.
The first shop that I know is selling furniture and house decoration. I know because the people outside that goes to his private zone see good furniture at his private dumpster to be destroyed. The dumpster is at the back of the shop for the people not see.
The shop "Pingo Doce", I know this at the 2005, destroy all of his food that cannot sell. The food that have 3 days before the expire date is destroyed too. The destruction of the food is supervised by the chef and the workers are not allowed to eat or bring it to the home. A worker told me that he opened all of the yogurts and with a fork dump it all in the garbage. All of the other food was open, destroyed if possible, and put in the garbage. I don't if this continue today.
Here after Gamestop's recent tweet: "bet y'all wish you bought physical copies now." - Gamestop (2024)
but.. what if all the stuff that was cut was broken from the beginning........
They then wouldn't need to cut the cords or scratch the disks
+Ben Hanser oh yea.. true.
+TheGillyGamer actually they would, because if they didn't cut the broken material dumpster divers could get it and try to resell or trade the broken items. Why would GameStop purposely miss out on making money with games such as black ops 2 and GTA. if they worked GameStop wouldn't have thrown them out, maybe they would have still thrown out Madagascar, but call of duty and GTA no
+Ben Hanser i beg to differ they do that to prevent people from diving it then taking it back in the store and giving it for credit or cash derp
I have never seen you before this moment. I like the cut of your jib, sir. Stay awesome.
kids in Africa could have eaten those discs
In the UK we have one main game store and its called GAME (creative I know) but they have a policy where all games that are not sold within a certain time period they donate to people that are less fortunate than most. But I shop of Amazon be because there is no worry of things like this.
Gamestop is actually not liable for this. The company is incapable of selling games with a certain code after a certain date all set by the developer that made the game itself. It's a way of keeping inventor and a listing of their sales record and a way the developers determine their earnings throughout the sales of the game being launched or sold. For instance MW3: if Treyarch sets the date at 11/28/2015 at that point coding: "8yg564stukg5" is no longer being used the game becomes a what we like to call "dead sale". Why is it a "dead sale" you may ask. Simply because there is a quota that was set and was not reached by their deadline. Now as JayPee stated the games COULD be given away but it's not Gamestop's call on that part which is why sometimes when you walk in and see games on a sort of "clearance" rack selling for really cheap and sometimes they're actually games you thought you'd never see there like "Red Dead Redemption", "Fifa 14-15", etc..hell even Destiny was selling for 13 dollhairs. But, that's also not decided by Gamestop that's decided by the developers. And if they do not want their game selling for that low they can have it destroyed like you see here.
Which Texas Gamestop are you at? I know it is Texas because of the Whataburger trash.
+ThatCooleyKid Gaming League City lol
GameStop disposes items this way because they could not sell them. They know about dumpster divers who, at some point in the past, tried selling them back. This is a way to prevent that.
The kids at the children's hospitals get Nintendo 64's, Wii's, GameCubes, PS2's, Xbox's, and even Xbox 360's. Let's be honest, those consoles have a few of the best selection of games in existence.
If the discs/ equipment weren't cut were you going to donate them to a hospital or keep them for yourself?
regardless of money or no, waste is a huge problem. Maybe the items are broken, but they could re use the materials. When electronic items are disposed of waste regulations have to be followed, in the UK atleast. This has lead to a lot of electronic items being sent to third world countries for disposal as it is cheaper, using techniques much more crued than ours. Some case studies show child leukemia at 40% in areas where this disposal takes place.
Good point. You not only have children's hospitals but the "M" rated games could go teen shelters and the Boys and Girls Clubs. I have donated to a teen shelter in my local area. They are (1) are always low on money because they are under budgeted and (2) those teens could use a little distraction video games could provide and in the very least these games could be an incentive to keep them off the streets. Great video! It looks like Gamestop did not even try to give donate these games. It is not even smart from a business perspective because (1) they could write it off as a tax right off as you said and (2) it could give them some good PR instead of bad PR.
It's called a field destroy and they do it to defective items. Why would they donate broken things to other places. The reason for making it obvious that it's broken is because people will grab them and try and resale them to another store or pawn shop. None of that product was in working condition.
the stuff was more than likely damaged
Regardless of your personal feelings about Gamestop, he has a point. Why not donate these things? I bet it would be a nice upper for children laid up in hospitals, or something fun for kids in orphanage (like he was trying to say), or even just a promotion to give to random people. It would only be good PR for the company, so why not?
You can't donate used games to hospitals because they have a high chance of compromising the kid's immune systems. I donate a couple of games every year to my local kid's hospital and the first time I went there they didn't take my opened used games because it would compromise the children who already have weak immune systems from all the surgeries and medications.
I sort of agree, it is a waste as they could just sell the stuff they are throwing away really cheap, but with that said should you really be going through their rubbish to see what they are throwing away?
Blockbuster used to throw away their vhs tapes and bash them with hammers and take a key attached to the cash register and scratch the disc and if they didn't sell certain DVDs and they would throw them in the dumpster with the yellow plastic locks basically requiring a tool to open them.
It's a common thing to see.
Now that Gamestop is about to go under, videos like this are just going to be super relevant.
Turns out destroying fine products that they could make even a smidge of money on isn't a sustainable business model.
I do know why: Because there as been a very high influx of "Dumpster Diving" videos posted on YT.
AND, instead of donating as you said, they trashed it.
The really stupid part is, I went to trade in a game and I knew they couldn't give me full value, the game was 20 bucks and so I assumed they would give me a decent price but no they give me 7.62, and the game I bought was bought the day before that. And it worked!
This and the fact they support $ony and Micro$oft by refusing to support PC games and causing Crapbox and ShitStation to look like the "holy fucking grail of gaming".
They could even donate that stuff to goodwill. They do auctions, and I've seen a ton of gaming consoles, games, and gaming accessories.
ikr in Canada new games were like $60 and the it raised to $74.99 and now its $80 (BC USD cost more than cad now)
A lot of times when companies have items they cannot sell for whatever reason they contact the manufacturer and get full credit for the item but they HAVE to destroy it or its a lawsuit.