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>>11708391
>Barely /toy/ related
>Gamestop only closing 500 of their 3000+ stores
>Most people have been purchasing their games digitally or online for years

>>11708409
i was buying toys from gamestop pretty regularly until all the ones around me closed

>>11708391
And nothing of value was lost

>>11708413

>>11708391
Every gamestop in my area only sells funkos, never any actually cool figures. When I do see a cool figure on their website, no store ever has it in stock.

>>11708391
go away logospammer

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I had two Game Stops close to me close like a year ago. The only other ones I would go to was in the mall, and the one directly across the street from it.

we have one in our small town, but their carpet got torn out recently and their clearance section is front and center now. do they fire sale everything near the end? I’d buy a bunch of figures they have if they were 75% off or something

the only thing gamestop was ever good for was pokemon mystery gifts 20 years ago

>>11708413
This, my gamestop had more toy stock then walmart and target

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>>11708391
Gamestop was the last remaining toy chain after TRU. It was just as marked up and hard to shop at unless you were lucky. I also have one last alternative name one, Planet X.

>>11710953
So did mine, but everything was overpriced

>>11708438
>When I do see a cool figure on their website
They are no longer stocking their stores as much as they use it - with a few exceptions, where those stores are actually well stocked. If you have a GameStop at a Mall, those are usually them. If you have a GS that is NEAR a mall, that's also usually them.
The one new GameStop location that opened in Los Angeles, opened in Beverly Hills right across from the Grove and Farmer's Market shopping District. They not only have more toys than most of their stores, they also have Magic and other card play games going on in their store.

>>11710915
The one in my suburb and then the one nearest to me, just last month, closed. I go to Hollywood once a month so I can hit the two stores over there easily but since they are short stocked, unless I pre-order something, I'm not likely to find it other than dumb luck, in person.

>>11710953
>>11708413
Yep, up until both stores near me closed, it was my go to. There are no Walmarts near me, they are even further away than the three nearest GameStops (and all of those are in other cities or suburbs in my Metro Area). And the Targets near me, except one, are the tiny gussied up grocers/pharmacy's no bigger than a Walgreens. They have one tiny aisle of toys which is one third to one half basic bitch LEGO, hard plastic toys for kids, maybe one Marvel Legend, SpinMaster for DC, and basic bitch TMNT, Transformers, Turtles, etc.

>>11708409
I hate to break it to you, boomer, but this is a toy board. We're discussing GameStop as a seller of toys and collectibles, not vidya. Keep up, grandpa.

>>11712719
That's the weirdest place to put a Gamestop. Even more than when there was one on Miracle Mile. Further senseless that they closed the one on West Hollywood, standing between Target and Best Buy even

>>11712725
I've had more luck getting McFarlanes at Best Buy and there's actually one down the street from me, about two miles away. And since I'm a 'loyalty' rewards member from ages ago, I get free shipping to the store, which is the easiest way to do a pre-order.
With fucking GameStop, doing a pre-order to a store is easy, but they fuck those up all the time. Only a pre-order to my actual house gets me what I want, but that requires hitting the minimum.

>>11708391
One near my house that still had the mario galaxy wrap from 2007 on the window closed down :(

>>11708391
My Gamestop went out of business last year and even then it was a huge shit show by the end.

>>Refused to get in new toys; anything new had to be pre-ordered/paid for via the website and set to deliver at the store.
>>Shelf filled with unsold Star Wars Black crap
>>When they announced they were closing, corporate mandate BANNED them from cutting prices of their remaining stock claiming it was going to be boxed up and sent out to other stores
>>Last time I went there, right after they announced they were closing I tried to get a used copy of Super Mario RPG for the Switch that they had on clearance for $40 and had been on on clearance for about three months but when I took it to the register, the clerk told me that corporate was banning them from honoring any clearance prices, telling me they had to charge full price for a game that wasn't even freaking new.

And the closing has made the local Walmart even more brazen as they pretty much stopped carrying new toys period and still refuse to fucking clearance off the unsold stock they have that dates back to 2021/2022 and Ollies hasn't gotten in any new action figures for a full year.

>>11713728
>Walmart even more brazen
WM has to do what their district tells them. They have sucky distribution, which is why you see people posting GI Joe on clearance but other people say their stores in their town never even gotten.
Just replaces GI Joe with Sonic, Turtles, DC, Marvel or whatever other toy franchise you want, and it's the same thing.
It's only basic bitch shit like LEGOs or Fisher Price (and even then it's probably the most BASIC of basic bitch shit of that type/style, etc. of plastic crap) that's at every single store.
Target is the same thing. People were paying fucking scalper fortunes for that Psylocke two pack, then it was on clearance at a few stores, and then it's on the store for ordering, which is free, since fucking Target only requires $35 to get free shipping to home.
All that is just their distributions are fucked up, it has nothing to do with some store lead or some store employee deciding to fuck your particular town over Because GameStop closed.

Fuck them.

Like other dudes mentioned, none of the shit in the website is ever actually in stock at stores. Everytime I go to the store its just funko pops, and dogshit t-shirt/hats of videogame/anime shit that is only worn by usually the most unkempt subhuman types imaginable.

Second, they have the gayest free shipping qualifier. I think its like $80 bucks.

Third, they are like BBTS where they just add money to the retail price of shit for no fucking reason.

Fourth, if you buy games from them they ship you shit that doesn't even have cases or are opened games marked as "new".

Faggots

>>11713728
damn, vulturing cancelled

>>11708391
I still go there for action figgies stop your bullshit.

When I went to Game Stop this afternoon to return my Zatanna figure I pre-ordered from their website, they shouldn't didn't LOOK closed?
Are you lying to me again, 4chan?
I thought that week in prison for deception cured you of that, or are you hoping to go back and have another prison gang bang?

>>11720095
Why do so many of you talk and act like such faggots? Letting the theater kids be in charge was such a fucking mistake.

>>11708391
I only see people at gamestop here when they are stocking a new pokemon TCG booster because people will camp out at closing the night before.

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>>11720155
Ah sis, did some mean black drag queen beat you up and take your lunch money?
Are you going to cry now?
Do you want your mommy to kiss it and make it feel better?

wasn't gamestop saved with all those reddit investors? What happend?

>>11720520
Seriously, why must you act like a gaylord?

>>11720532
They got their allowances taken away and now they are poor, bitter angry boy-childs staying up late, bitching and moaning at every perceived slight on some Mongolian basket-weaving Pinterest board site.

>>11708409
>barely /toy/ related
they’re a glorified toy store now

>>11708391
Does anyone remember the days when there was a Gamestop every 2 miles or so? Sometimes they were across the street from each other?

The real issue is that they massively overreached back in 2008 and opened way too damn many stores for their regions.

>>11708391
They bought and destroyed Think Geek, which was a way better store. And that was decades after they totally ruined Funcoland. And Moviestop.

Fuck those guys.

>>11720946
>sour grapes

>>11708438
It seems to really depend on the store.

The shitty ones are just funkos and magic cards with maybe a rack of shorts and socks in the back.
The nicer ones will have everything separated out with Marvel figures, retro figures, TMNT/Transformers stuff, and then some props in a nicer display.

>>11723340
I do. I have one neighboring pair left though

>>11723341
Yeah I miss funcoland. Our town had one since the early 90s and I would go there to get all my retro carts. They'd have giant bins of loose NES games for cheap and gave me good prices.

Then Gamestop took that store over in 2000 or so and that was it. Also got rid of the employees too.

EB Games was fun too, we had one in the mall half an hour north of here. They carried PC games, but once Gamestop took them over, that ended.

>>11708409
There's a better stock of action figs at my GS than anywhere else in town, earlier this month picked up a figure on clearance for $0 as my membership monthly $5 covered the asking price. Then picked up a Stair Wars fig for $5 instead of $25 last week. Store is clean, staff are great, customers are a way better breed than tarshit or ghettomart. Best toy store in town by a mile.