Gamestop to Offer Incentives to Managers for PS3 Sales?

[Melf]

If this is true, get ready to be hammered when you enter their stores.

Gamestop managers whose stores outperform other district branches in PS3 console sales will be handsomely rewarded thanks to a Sony-sponsored "contest."

Gamersreports.com claimed in a news item today that Sony is dangling incentives in front of Gamestop managers whose stores sell the most PlayStation 3 units.

In what is apparently a Gamestop memo, managers are advised that stores with the highest average PS3 sales in a given district will win 20,000 points redeemable at the company's GamestopRewardstop.com website. One overall winner will be showered with an additional 10,000 points.

It appears Gamestop customers would be well-advised to do their research on console choices before entering the store, and to not necessarily rely on employee advice.

Source.

[Yoshi]

That's very smart of Sony. Everyone who shops in GameStop regularly is an idiot by definition, so why not tell them what they want?

[Dolemite]

Someone find out the user/password for the GamestopRewardstop.com site so we can find out what they can trade all those points in for. I bet it's handjobs.

[Wildkat]

Someone find out the user/password for the GamestopRewardstop.com site so we can find out what they can trade all those points in for. I bet it's handjobs.

Have you ever met a Gamestop manager?

Its likely Meth.

[AaronChance]

Have you ever met a Gamestop manager?

Its likely Meth.

Heh. The last time I went to GS the manager couldn't have been a more stereotypical meth user if he tried. A strung out, confused man with one fingernail painted black.

[Andy]

If this is true, get ready to be hammered when you enter their stores.

When was the last time you visited a GameStop?

[Melf]

Andy, this is sarcasm. Sarcasm, Andy.

Sit down, have a drink, get acquainted.

[Bacon McShig]

Uh, companies used to do these kind of incentive contests with various products all the time when I worked retail. This is nothing new.

[Dyne]

so do just the managers of the winning stores get points or the salepeople that actually do the selling?

[Tommy Tallarico]

What do you think?