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BloodBag posted:I guess stuffing the front of the store with t-shirts, funco pops, and waifu figurines and shuffling all the games half-assedly to the back was a bad strategy. Who'd have thunk?
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GameStop is slowly morphing into Hot Topic, so that's no real surprise.
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FilthyImp posted:GameStop is slowly morphing into Hot Topic, so that's no real surprise. GameStopic
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FlamingLiberal posted:I walked by the front of one the other day and while it used to have a bunch of game posters in the window, it is now mostly ads for non-gaming things. At this point I think the non gaming poo poo is all that’s keeping them afloat.
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FilthyImp posted:GameStop is slowly morphing into Hot Topic, so that's no real surprise. FYE is further along this trend. The last time I walked in one, at least 75% of the store space was devoted to Funko Pops, anime figurines and TV show T-shirts. What little music there was could be found in the very back. I blame torrents, Spotify and Pandora.
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CharlestheHammer posted:At this point I think the non gaming poo poo is all that’s keeping them afloat. Detective No. 27 posted:I thought FYE went out of business a decade ago.  , except I found out I was wrong when I saw one a few months ago. It was pretty surreal.
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FYE is going big into vinyl so they might stick around for a while if that fad keeps up.
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Haifisch posted:I wouldn't be surprised. Games are going digital, and people who still want physical discs can get them off amazon(including used games)/in any big box store. GameStop's business practices are so hosed that I bought a "new" copy of a week-old game and they handed it to me in a paper sleeve like it was a honor to shop with them.
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Our GameStop, which I mostly used to buy gifts and such, dropped dead at the end of the last year, and were liquidating their wares. I picked LOTR XBoneS for 180 Eur. and half a dozen games 15-20 Eur per item brand new, 0-day DLC included. Only time I felt that I was not hosed over by their prices or policies.
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Raldikuk posted:FYE is going big into vinyl so they might stick around for a while if that fad keeps up. Considering it's been a fad for like, 20 years, I assume it will. And I don't mean that glibly, it's been at "fad" levels of enjoyment and market since the 90s and has neither grown nor shrank in popularity. I guess there'll always be a niche market for vinyl. Last time I was at an FYE, was the one at the mall by my mom's house last year. It's a good sized store, but only half of it is at all movies and music, and that means literally all their cds, vinyl, dvds, and blu rays are crammed into half the store, while the rest is whatever merchandise. They had a ton of space devoted to marked down band shirts and stuff. It's weird, they even have a dedicated area to retro game machines like Retrons and those plug and play 50 genesis games in one things.
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One of the guys I've bought from on Etsy is encouraging his former buyers to visit his website as he transitions away from Etsy
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Gann Jerrod posted:Moviepass is hemorrhaging money. Speaking as someone who has a moviepass, I'm not surprised at all. I'm honestly surprised it's lasted this long. I think everyone has known it’s not a financially viable model; it’s a “we’ll capture the market and then make money with our dominate position!” plan. I’m perfectly willing to use venture capitalists’ money to see the movies. It’s even less wrong than using VC’s money to use the ride sharing services’ similar models since those hurt the more-regulated incumbent taxi services and “contractor” drivers.
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That link talked about them selling members the soundtrack to the movie they just watched to make money lol
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Professor Shark posted:That link talked about them selling members the soundtrack to the movie they just watched to make money lol That business model comes pre-disrupted
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Professor Shark posted:One of the guys I've bought from on Etsy is encouraging his former buyers to visit his website as he transitions away from Etsy I work with a guy whose wife did jewelry or whatever on Etsy for years but had to give it up because every time she came up with something new, there'd be copies within days getting cranked out in China for a third of the cost.
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The Australian counterpart to GameStop, EB Games, seems to be striking more of a balance of actual games and merchandise (doesn't help that with lovely australian internet physical media still has a foothold) but they've actually turned at least one store into half dedicated video game/general franchise merchandise store. Only partly Funko Pops. Not the worst strategy I figured, since there's clearly demand for it and you can't reliably find game merchandise in regular stores.
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Sears is closing even more stores than previously announced. One Sears in my city already closed last year. The only other one remaining started their "going out of business" sale last week.
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Doggles posted:Sears is closing even more stores than previously announced. drat, the one closest to me is closing.
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Randaconda posted:drat, the one closest to me is closing. Does it really change your life?
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Saw that this morning. Looked through the cities and saw Gainesville is on the list, and my immediate thought was "HOLY poo poo! THE KMART IS FINALLY DYING!!" ..and then it's the Sears at the mall that's closing, with Kmart living to see another day. The Sears sucks too so good riddance, but why won't this loving Kmart die???
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kumba posted:Saw that this morning. Looked through the cities and saw Gainesville is on the list, and my immediate thought was "HOLY poo poo! THE KMART IS FINALLY DYING!!" Right? That K-Mart isn't it the best location, and is really lovely, yet it won't loving die.
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https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/18/17366528/snapchat-decline-internet-ghost-towns
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Randaconda posted:https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/18/17366528/snapchat-decline-internet-ghost-towns Whatever happened to just keeping a diary?
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Balliver Shagnasty posted:Whatever happened to just keeping a diary?
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Krispy Wafer posted:Scene opens at GameStop HQ... This is from six months ago but lol is it ever relevant.
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https://twitter.com/cnn/status/1002165355442253829?s=21 Sears is dying a little faster
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I think we just need to rename this thread the Sears Death Watch/death pool. At this rate, will there be any stores still open by Christmas 2019?
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Sears stores or are you taking over/under on capitalism collapsing before the new year?
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FilthyImp posted:GameStop is slowly morphing into Hot Topic, so that's no real surprise. I just visited the States and there was literally a GameStop and Hot Topic in one storefront
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Those funko things are essentially adult beanie babies
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vyst posted:Those funko things are essentially adult beanie babies *Image of couple in divorce court in the late 90s divvying up Beanie Babies*
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I'm still torn over which Funkopop thing is sadder: This:  or this: https://imgur.com/a/RdTiF
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Zedd posted:I'm still torn over which Funkopop thing is sadder: the contract, by a wide, wide margin. the collector isn't going "MUST HAVE FUNKO POPS" without any remote care for what they are, he's just got a couple things he's big fans of (Batman, WWE, horror movies, 90s/early-2000s cartoons) and grabs up all the ones related to those along with all the con exclusives and weird gimmicks (like "flocked" pops, where they're made with fur on them). WeedlordGoku69 has a new favorite as of 13:36 on Jun 1, 2018 |
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:the contract, by a wide, wide margin. the collector isn't going "MUST HAVE FUNKO POPS" without any remote care for what they are, he's just got a couple things he's big fans of (Batman, WWE, horror movies, 90s/early-2000s cartoons) and grabs up all the ones related to those. Is it not the same person? In the Imgur thread they say his name is James, same as the contract.
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Zedd posted:or this: https://imgur.com/a/RdTiF Well, I have never seen the entire collection before 
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Krispy Wafer posted:Is it not the same person? In the Imgur thread they say his name is James, same as the contract. I thought the imgur guy's name was Chase? e:  okay wow the last name is the same what the gently caress, I think they are the same personthat contract made it sound... a lot more indiscriminate and faster than it appears to actually be, I'm pretty sure this dude's been buying Pops for literally as long as they've existed (some of those are the really really early box design where it tells you they're vinyl figures) and he seems to have specific goals in mind ("collect everything for my fandoms" and "collect everything with a weird gimmick").
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:the contract, by a wide, wide margin. the collector isn't going "MUST HAVE FUNKO POPS" without any remote care for what they are, he's just got a couple things he's big fans of (Batman, WWE, horror movies, 90s/early-2000s cartoons) and grabs up all the ones related to those along with all the con exclusives and weird gimmicks (like "flocked" pops, where they're made with fur on them). He has 15 different Jokers so even if you stick to a narrow range of topics it's still a massive sink.
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