Hey guys, thought I'd share something with everyone because I thought it was funny and sad

Apparently since I have bought quite a few items in multiple quantities/spent a lot of money at Gamestop/returned a few too many things my account was flagged and I can't order anything from Gamestop anymore. Tried making a new account, different credit cards, etc. I am pretty sure that the ban is tied to my address.

I think they have some sort of software that tries to catch people who are reselling games by tracking down those who buy multiple copies of the same game. Just a heads up for anyone who does the same from time to time.

Honestly, I don't understand how they can have this sort of attitude when the stuff they sell from the website is almost always junk, i.e. loose, cracked, resurfaced shitty discs in those crappy cases that always break in transit. You'd think they would be happy that I spent $1000+ on their last B2G2 sale.

Why would they care if you are reselling? They get their money either way. If you bought all my stock and then resold for $1 more per item, I'd be pretty happy!

 I have no idea why they have this stance against resellers, but they do. Most of their coupons say something at the end of the small print like "no resellers or dealers".

i guess their thought is that you run a brick and mortar shop and that makes you the competition? that is pretty extreme though. you would think they would be happy with you spending so much money.

Lots of places claim to restrict resellers/wholesalers when the run big sales (like BOGO, or serious deep-discount coupons)

Basically, they want their loss leaders to go to actual end-customers.

I got a letter kind of like that from Nintendo before after ordering a large quantity of oddities from them. They let the order go through that time, but informed me future orders would be limited to 1 unique piece per household.

These companies are so weird. They really shouldn't care if someone buys their inventory. Besides, you are paying not only for the item but the taxes also. I guess when you become big enough and make enough sales, you can make whatever decisions you want for your business.

My advice, have a friend buy the stuff for you.

That just stupid. So what your reselling there games. There making money. That all that matters.

Make different accounts using different addresses like a friends house, family's house, library, and school and make an account for each one. Divide the quantities to each account and do a site-to-store pick up on all of them using different Gamestop locations (They are like Starbucks, they're everywhere). This will also help if they follow IP addresses.

Or you just go to Gamestop and buy X amount of games at the store, and if they say anything, tell em you got a big family in Mexico or something. lol... Like everyone said, It's actually none of their business what you buy and what you do with it as long as they make money really.

This.

It makes sense since you're a competitor. They dont mind if you buy their stuff at their full price but when you get a ton of free/discounted stuff to flip for full price, that obviously hurts their business. As little as one reseller actually hurts their bottom line, it still does.

Looks like the man just stuck it to ya.

Shameful of them, but considering their shameful business practices I'm not entirely surprised, and they don't want to get beat at their own game too. Odd really, they're probably made over the 2for1 stuff giving up freebies, but that's their problem taking in so much trash it takes that to move it.

Shameful? They're running a business, not a charity. If they gave two shits about hurting anyones feelings, they'd have been out of business long ago.

I cant stand Gamestop, but I cant knock them for making rational business decisions.

I'd thank them. Games top is a horrid place to shop, at least in their brick and mortar stores.

Well things could be worse. At least you are banned from Gamestop.com and not NintendoAge.com.

Clutch yeah shameful, has nothing to do with charity. They scam chumps daily with insanely under valued trade-in values and then charge like $3-5 less than a new game. They also open up new games making them used yet selling new. And it appears they also ban people for ordering too much stuff too which is a sad joke as you'd think they'd want some more money in their pockets and more crap out of inventory as it's one less item to pay taxes on each year.

Sure, I dont disagree that they have crappy prices...that's why I dont shop there. They dont "scam" chumps with under valued trade ins. If you dont like the price of the trade in, dont trade your shit in there. I love how people cant take the blame for getting ripped off. If I buy a loose copy of Earthbound for $400, It's my own stupid fault...not the sellers.

They didnt ban him for simply "ordering too much stuff". He was probably flagged as a reseller for ordering multiple copies of the same game during a BOGO sale. I would obviously do the same thing if I were Patrick. If they have a BOGO sale and I can buy 4 copies of Halo for the price of 2, then mark them down a few bucks and sell all 4, that's smart and easy money. If I'm Gamestop, I dont want people undercutting me in any way, especially from my own deals.

Thats all I'm saying. If it were my business, I'd do the same thing.

Gamestop is Evil, more than the average business.

Gamestop is evil, maybe. But when was the last time a reseller had a BOGO? Read their TOS maybe there's something about ordering multiples of the same game. If not, I'm sure there will be soon.

I was almost banned from a Game Stop store once. There was a lady trading in two red Mario Kart DS systems, one broken and one charger between the two. This was going to get her about $15-20 per system at the time. I offered to buy one from her. She didn't mind, but the guy behind the counter got all pissy and said I couldn't do it in the store. I then told her we could step out in the mall and do it. The lady got all confused and asked the guy what would happen if she did, and he just said I wouldn't be allowed back in. I just said I didn't really mind, and would still buy them. But then said "It's really up to you, I don't mind being banned." She was too confused, so she didn't sell them to me. Oh well.

Is it even legal to question why someone is buying average merchandise?

As a consumer it does suck when a reseller buys out all the good stock on sale and there is no choice but to pay full price as if there never even was a sale. Most recently frustrating with the HP Touchpads. That being said, I still wonder if it is legal to assume about and deny a purchase of someone. I could understand if their policy was an across the board "one item per customer". But to single out someone they think may be a reseller, that seems biased.

What if there is someone that randomly wants to decorate their wall with Final Fantasy IX CDs?

You can refuse to sell anyone anything in the retail world so long it is not for discriminatory reasons like race.

It makes no sense why they should care who is buying and how many. I can't imagine running a retail store and refusing to sell all my stock for my retail price.

I can understand wanting to prevent abuse due to abnormal pricing. What they should do instead of banning the user is lock that item from any further sales to anyone until the price is adjusted.

I think it has more to do with the returns. Many companies flag customers that have unusally high number of returns.

During the last B2G2 I ordered over $1000 worth of games, easily 80 games, and I kid you not, all of them were resurfaced, 50% of the cases arrived broken/shattered, easily 40% of the games had small cracks on the inner clear ring of the disc, and about a quarter of them even had heavy scratches on the TOP of the disc. I returned probably 1/3 of everything I bought.