Natsume selling old new stock

[BigusSchmuck]

That's not unlike Gamestop's practice of destroying their old stock of 4th and 5th gen games when the 6th gen was arriving.

Can you provide any links or proof of this?  I find it hard to believe.  What seems more likely is that they would simply take them out of circulation and store them in a warehouse.  Gamestop has done some dumb things but destroying games seems counter-intuitive since they you know, sell games.

http://www.ign.com/articles/2014/03/05/inside-the-secret-world-of-gamestop-dumpster-diving

[xelement5x]

Yeah, there is a guy in my area that does this regularly and trade a ton of cases and stuff into the local retro shop to get stuff he actually wants.  I commend his frugality, but I am not so damn broke I am gonna start going through their trash yet.

[HailingTheThings]

That's not unlike Gamestop's practice of destroying their old stock of 4th and 5th gen games when the 6th gen was arriving.

Can you provide any links or proof of this?  I find it hard to believe.  What seems more likely is that they would simply take them out of circulation and store them in a warehouse.  Gamestop has done some dumb things but destroying games seems counter-intuitive since they you know, sell games.

The owner of a "Mom + Pop" game store once told me a tale of his friends dumpster diving at Gamestop locations from the early 2000s and on. Totally confirmed this. Said once they stopped carrying retro games for the second time that they simply threw away tons of NES, SNES and GEN titles. Cases and all.

[technozombie]

Looking at the video in the link that is field destroy items. Something that has been returned and its not worth it to the manufacturer or GameStop to ship back. When shitty after market controllers are returned they are always field destroy.  If retro games were thrown out they were likely returned as defective and not deemed worth fixing at the time. I was a GameStop store manager for about 3 yrs. I even managed a Funcoland turned GameStop. When the end of retro games came they went on sale. What didn't sell was returned to corporate, not trashed. I'm sure they wholesaled them after that.

[HailingTheThings]

Looking at the video in the link that is field destroy items. Something that has been returned and its not worth it to the manufacturer or GameStop to ship back. When shitty after market controllers are returned they are always field destroy.  If retro games were thrown out they were likely returned as defective and not deemed worth fixing at the time. I was a GameStop store manager for about 3 yrs. I even managed a Funcoland turned GameStop. When the end of retro games came they went on sale. What didn't sell was returned to corporate, not trashed. I'm sure they wholesaled them after that.

This is interesting. Thank you.

[TheOldMan]

I was a GameStop store manager for about 3 yrs.....
When shitty after market controllers are returned they are always field destroy.

My nephew was an assistant manager for about a year. He had to 'field destroy' a nice 17" LCD from one of the promo setups.

Manger insisted he use a hammer.
That really hurt

[Enternal]

Some gamestops have started to convert their wii sections to disc only which also like regular ds means a bunch of case and manuals headed to the garbage.

I manage to hit up gamestop here when they got rid of their 16 bit games. Got Super Mario RPG, Super Metroid and Inindo Complete.

About 4 years ago when they got rid of their PS2 games I brought just over 100 games (no sports) Disc Only for a dollar a piece.

[technozombie]

I was a GameStop store manager for about 3 yrs.....
When shitty after market controllers are returned they are always field destroy.

My nephew was an assistant manager for about a year. He had to 'field destroy' a nice 17" LCD from one of the promo setups.

Manger insisted he use a hammer.
That really hurt

I once had a district manager who would  just call us and give us his password so he didn't have to come do the field destroy like he was supposed to. Anyways, a manager in a nearby store moved a bunch of PC games to defective( PC was always field destroy) anyways they sat in the back for awhile until the DM called and gave his password then the guy just brought them home.

[wilykat]

Many years ago, before Gamestop sucked up Funcoland like a cheap hooker sucks up John's wiener, Funcoland at one time bought and sold used VHS tapes.  It was right when DVD first came out and in a few years, DVD started taking over video market and people were dumping VHS at garage sales and boot sale for a dollar a pop. Funcoland stopped buying tapes and their stock just vanished.

I can't believe every Funcoland shipped thousands of used tapes to store in warehouses.  Storing worthless stuff for 15 years is costly, they probably had it smashed or something then tossed in dumpster for tax write off.