The problem I have is that gamestop is a terrible company. For christmas my sister bought me this universal gift card that had all these shops it supported and I chose gamestop to get some nintendo switch games. I spent like 3 hours watching videos of games and was like a kid in a candy store, and had all these games in my cart. When I went to checkout, I did everything right with this universal gift card, and gamestop would not honor it. Now you can say "well that's a problem with the gift card company". You may be right, but I'll never know if it was gamestop or the gift card company. The gift card company shows the active balance, it has accepted the numbers, and so the holdup is at gamestop so I am blaming gamestop. Neither company will return emails or calls.

Gamestop says on their website "we don't accept any gift cards that aren't from gamestop itself." OK well then why did you allow the universal gift card company to have you on their gift card? Are you suing them for trademark infringement? No you are not. Gamestop is a liar, a fraud and they basically just took my sisters (and my) money and threw it away.

I call this now, 'gift card based fraud laundering', because it creates a plausible deniability of culpability by implicating multiple companies that point to each other as the guilty party.

That's why I'm not investing in a company that I don't believe in. A company that has decreasing relevance in the world.

Their games are sometimes much more expensive than Nintendo's website itself which offers seriously deep discounts (like 75-90% off downloadable games) which is much better than gamestops physical resell games.

I just don't get how or why they are still around. Or why anyone who has ever tried to interact with this retailer would want to own their stock. I'm not the kind of person who is willing to invest in the death star to make a little change. There's better and more moral ways to earn money, and yes, it matters.

The problem I have is that gamestop is a terrible company. For christmas my sister bought me this universal gift card that had all these shops it supported and I chose gamestop to get some nintendo switch games. I spent like 3 hours watching videos of games and was like a kid in a candy store, and had all these games in my cart. When I went to checkout, I did everything right with this universal gift card, and gamestop would not honor it. Now you can say "well that's a problem with the gift card company". You may be right, but I'll never know if it was gamestop or the gift card company. The gift card company shows the active balance, it has accepted the numbers, and so the holdup is at gamestop so I am blaming gamestop. Neither company will return emails or calls.

Gamestop says on their website "we don't accept any gift cards that aren't from gamestop itself." OK well then why did you allow the universal gift card company to have you on their gift card? Are you suing them for trademark infringement? No you are not. Gamestop is a liar, a fraud and they basically just took my sisters (and my) money and threw it away.

That's why I'm not investing in a company that I don't believe in. A company that has decreasing relevance in the world.

Their games are sometimes much more expensive than Nintendo's website itself which offers seriously deep discounts (like 75-90% off downloadable games) which is much better than gamestops physical resell games.

I just don't get how or why they are still around. Or why anyone who has ever tried to interact with this retailer would want to own their stock. I'm not the kind of person who is willing to invest in the death star to make a little change. There's better and more moral ways to earn money, and yes, it matters.