NintendoAge http://nintendoage.com/forum/ -Sqooner How long will Gamestop hold stuff for? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=58799 2011-11-06T23:33:13 -05.00 Alder 14 How long will Gamestop hold stuff for? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=58799 2011-11-06T23:31:01 -05.00 Alder 14 How long will Gamestop hold stuff for? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=58799 2011-11-06T22:20:12 -05.00 Alder 14 Originally posted by: Tanooki

Well then if that's the case then the Gamestop 'hold' for preorder is nothing but another one of their lies to sucker people into a false sense of security. I knew people who worked there years back (decade ago) and then I was told if you paid the $5 it's a soft hold, but if you put up the full amount while you can't have the item early it is considered sold and will be yours when you arrive. If that was wrong, or was right then and is wrong now, that's just sad and should be legally banned from being done as it's criminal misrepresentation.

I'm not entirely sure of the legality of it, all I know is that a hold is only as good as the person holding it.

I'm sad to say many time when I was working at a store we had people come in to pick up a pre-ordered game and someone else had sold it.

Most of us had integrity, but yeah, my boss would have sold the shirt off your back if it helped the store.
]]> How long will Gamestop hold stuff for? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=58799 2011-11-06T21:30:35 -05.00 Alder 14 How long will Gamestop hold stuff for? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=58799 2011-11-06T12:19:50 -05.00 Alder 14 Originally posted by: Tanooki

As far as I know if you have a hold on a game they have to hold it, mind you if it's only a $5 deposit there is a window on it, but if you have paid outright it is yours. If you're gone then pay it off before hand, and if it's not there when you get back then they illegally sold off what you paid for and owned. If you go the preorder route they can just say you have a hold, but not a guaranteed hold for X date as shady as that is as I've seen them do that crap time and again over the years.

Sadly, this is not the case. They can't actually sell you the game until it has been released, and they can't sell it to you unless you are there. Technically they can sell it to you, but they aren't supposed to.

People used to call in all the time and try to buy things over the phone, or have us sell transfer a game from one store to ours and they wanted to pay for it right away. It can be done, but is against policy. A lot of it comes down to the integrity of the store workers.

They can and will return any cash you put towards it, and your store credit can be used for other things. They will try to talk you in to pre-ordering something else, though.


Originally posted by: dra600n
Originally posted by: Mindl3ss

As for how long they hold pre-orders, it goes store to store. Policy is usually 7 days. As for being able to pre-order it at one and picking it up at another, that shouldn't work. Once you drop the money on it at one store, it stays at that store.



Unless the 5 gamestops in my area (in 4 towns) are owned by the same person, which I doubt, I don't see why this wouldn't make a difference. Everything goes through their main hq anyway, so the $$ is still going to where it needs to.



It doesn't all go to their HQ. The only time it does is for backing up and if you load it on to a gift card or your "power up" rewards card. Pre-orders are per store, though. How easy would it be to drop a load of credit on to an account with a trade and then have someone steal it at another store? And a lot of people are pretty dumb, or don't want to have their personal information in a computer, so they use someone else's account, often times someone who doesn't come in often (or at all).

Often times one or two games get sent to one store and another may not get any. Some manufacturers base how many to send to  a single store based on how many pre-orders that store has.

I worked at one of the major game retailers for over 3 years, and I still have friends who work at them and currently manage stores.
]]> How long will Gamestop hold stuff for? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=58799 2011-11-06T11:51:39 -05.00 Alder 14 How long will Gamestop hold stuff for? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=58799 2011-11-06T10:55:52 -05.00 Alder 14 Originally posted by: Mindl3ss

As for how long they hold pre-orders, it goes store to store. Policy is usually 7 days. As for being able to pre-order it at one and picking it up at another, that shouldn't work. Once you drop the money on it at one store, it stays at that store.



Unless the 5 gamestops in my area (in 4 towns) are owned by the same person, which I doubt, I don't see why this wouldn't make a difference. Everything goes through their main hq anyway, so the $$ is still going to where it needs to.

]]> How long will Gamestop hold stuff for? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=58799 2011-11-06T00:14:04 -05.00 Alder 14 How long will Gamestop hold stuff for? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=58799 2011-11-05T23:20:58 -05.00 Alder 14 How long will Gamestop hold stuff for? http://nintendoage.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=7&threadid=58799 2011-11-05T23:13:27 -05.00 Alder 14
As for how long they hold pre-orders, it goes store to store. Policy is usually 7 days. As for being able to pre-order it at one and picking it up at another, that shouldn't work. Once you drop the money on it at one store, it stays at that store.

Now, how long they actually DO hold it depends on the store manager, or DM. When I was at a "major retail game store" we had the 7 day policy, but our boss told us to sell through our entire stock. It was BS. But in some cases they couldn't get more if they didn't sell out of what they had... which doesn't justify it. ]]>