GameStop reaching out for your Twilight Princess

[wraggster]

via joystiq

Ring, ring ... ring, ring. Have you recently been disturbed by Aeris' dinnertime calls? GameStop's automated insider dialed up Opposable Thumbs to drop a hot tip: Twilight Princess now has a $35 trade-in value -- "if you're finished with it, why don't you bring it to the store and trade it in?"

Apparently GameStop, which controls most of the US's used-games market, is squirreling away as many of those one million Zelda copies in circulation as it can, just in time for ... spring? GameStop's spam-calls might indicate that the retailer is not reaching its double-sale quota. GameStop is probably having trouble buying back copies of Twilight Princess (so it can sell them again for a solid profit); likely because consumers are holding on to the game. And so the calls go out.

Inside the store is one thing -- but pestering your loyal customers on their phones? That's just squirrelly business practice.

[pkmusicmaker]

Yeah I got a call from them. I think it just makes them look desperate, it's pathetic. They push used products way too much to begin with, this is getting annoying.

If you walk into the store, they barely have a single new game, everything is used. And if you're buying a new game and they have it used, they'll pester you to buying a used copy instead.

One time I was buying a Gamecube controller and the cashier said "you should get a used one instead, they're better" so I said "how is that?" and he responded "uhh, cause it's cheaper" - no thanks, Gamestop.

[Sousanator]

i like buying my gear used,, nothing wrong with saving money,,

i ended up buying zelda for the wii used for only $40(with manual),
so trading it in for $35 seems like a good deal,

but seeing how my wii collection is quite small (wii sports+zelda) i dont think ill trade it in

[SSaxdude]

I see copies of Zelda all over at Target and other stores, I don't know why Gamestop is desperate for it.