Official PlayStation 3 Thread

[Yoshi]

I've never had a problem preordering from them. Dont know what your problem is. How are they going to fuck me out of $25 any how when that money goes to the purchase of the system?

$25 today is worth more than $25 in June, and they're not paying you interest on your loan.

[SamuraiMoogle]

$25 today is worth more than $25 in June, and they're not paying you interest on your loan.

Oh god, big deal.

[Joust Williams]

I have more of a problem with the fact that much of their business doesn't help a developer at all.

This became an EB thread pretty fast.

[Yoshi]

GameStop has made a huge amount of money on hundreds of thousands of people with that attitude. There might be better alternatives out there still if people were willing to stand up to their bullshit.

[B-Ri]

$25 today is worth more than $25 in June, and they're not paying you interest on your loan.

Honestly, if something is going to be scarce, or hard to find, the preorder "loan that no interest is paid on" is not that bad at all. Consider it an extremely minor convenience fee so you dont have to drive all around town to find a damn copy of something (but then if they fail at doing that i will demand my interest)

[SamuraiMoogle]

Its the only place I can go where the games I want will be out on release day. Whats so damn terrible about that?

Also....Waaaaah Eb's the devil.

[Joust Williams]

www.amazon.com

[Razor Ramon]

$25 today is worth more than $25 in June, and they're not paying you interest on your loan.

How much interest can you gain from April to June on $25? I'm not financial guru but I'm going to speculate it's an ignorable amount to the commom man.

Its the only place I can go where the games I want will be out on release day. Whats so damn terrible about that?

Also....Waaaaah Eb's the devil.

Do you live in the sticks? On release day, every single place around me has the game. Bonus points for mom and pop shops because they normally have it earlier.

[Yoshi]

There might be one scarce American game released every year, and 99% of the time, you can still buy it day one with no preorder.

It's a huge boon for GameStop though. Let's say 100,000 people preorder that bundle two months early and that GameStop gets 3% interest on their cash annually. GameStop would make 0.03/12 * (1 + 0.03/12) * $25 * 100,000 = $6,265.5 on interest alone just on that one SKU.

[Joust Williams]

Oh and don't forget that people don't cash in on those preorders. So that two months becomes "until people decide to put it on something else assuming they buy it that day"