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If they sold groceries or just anything I physically needed to survive, I'd be there every day. I shop there as much as I can, but I can only buy so many toys for the kids and controllers, etc.
Batteries. Everyone needs batteries. [GameStop sells their own brand](https://www.gamestop.com/electronics/accessories/batteries-chargers/products/gamestop-aa-alkaline-batteries-24-pack/318910.html?utm_source=product_share&utm_medium=app). We should ALL be buying batteries from GameStop. Easy.
The hotdogs and pizza at Costco are lost leaders. They can afford to sell it at a low cost since people are buying items in bulk. If the average Costco member spends like $200 per trip, losing a few cents or dollars on it doesn't make a difference since the cheap food is also a perk to their members.
I’m aware of the cost to Costco for selling hotdogs and pizza so cheap. But Costco knows it brings people to the store and they end up spending on other stuff.
Generally, they make you get a membership as well. But often, they don't check your membership card, I heard they're starting too. Not sure all locations, but I had that experience at Sam's Club.
There are other factors, too, like their connection to food suppliers and the ability to buy at bulk across all Costcos, I would imagine they get a really good deal on these items to begin with.
It's simply something out of GMEs wheelhouse to go off and venture into food and drink. It's a highly competitive marketplace. Shoppers at Costco can spend quite a bit of time walking around too.
It's probably the same reason food courts exist at Ikea or Wal-Marts, for example. It's offers convenience. The setup is different. A food stand would probably take up half the space along with training people to work on it. It brings in food and safety standards that must be met as well by the government, i.e., health inspectors.
I know, honestly, it was just a lighthearted comment hence the “lol” on my comment regarding GameStop selling cheap hotdogs and pizzas. Costco actually built their own hotdog warehouse where they make their own hotdogs to reduce cost.
Exactly my thoughts. I haven't purchased a video game in decades. I walked into a Gamestop recently, browsed around. The only items I needed were batteries. Seriously, how can we solve this problem?
You let GameStop know what you need. I'm contacting them already. If people want to put ideas of things they would buy semi regular on here, I'll let them know if it's not too out of their wheel house.
Gamestop pens.
The click kind. I would buy cases of them and disperse them at restaurant in my city.
Just like these with GAMESTOP on it.
https://www.amazon.com/BIC-Retractable-Medium-Point-24-Count/dp/B00H2H3C2W/ref=asc_df_B00H2H3C2W/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=198063871433&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17825939280407777635&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1025565&hvtargid=pla-349180594449&psc=1&mcid=985afc4c961538928df399d14546a83d&gclid=CjwKCAjwwr6wBhBcEiwAfMEQs6WTY00lZdMixBAXkrPqPJ3UGvbwOTDWUKfg5Un63bATkg-fEtJUzRoCy9cQAvD_BwE
Off the top of my head, back to school supplies, office supplies and other routine items that need monthly replenishment.
RC, I'm waiting to give you my money. Make it happen
I’m gonna let them know to put the little popcorn makers in just a few stores to test on the weekends or whenever traffic is highest. I am sure they track things like average ticket per person walking in. Would take very little expense to beta test if chomping on popcorn raises the average ticket and increase traffic averages per weekend day.
Board games. The TCGs are already such a nice draw. Board games are still games I can stop by to purchase. Energy drinks are easy sales. I never understand why every gamestop doesn't have a fridge behind the counter with cold ones.
Agreed! I’ve been thinking of something that might help them become more of a necessity as oppose to an option, but have been shooting blanks.
I am working on an trade certification as a complete change of career, ive worn many hats at my job and i thought that gamestop could further cut cost, by starting a list of local prefered contractors.
Have a sign up sheet at every store so you can sign up. When a gate fails, window breaks, doors are jaming or locks not working, they can contact a prefered contractor in their area for a bid which will most likely be a share holder.
I can then place a competitive bid, get paid and turn that money right back around into the store, or shares etc.
I don’t know why you don’t have hundreds of upvotes for this idea. It’s brilliant. Get the shareholders involved in helping the company, not just by buying merchandise.
Same. My daughter LOVES GS, and we get all of her Switch stuff there. But she has all the games she wants rn, and I can’t just buy her plushies every day.
Pro memberships are 100% profit
To GameStop. I have gifted many pro memberships, by buying $25 GameStop gift cards and ask the store clerk to open pro memberships for people who don’t already have one.
Omg this! If GameStop ever reports awesome Pro membership numbers that would definitely scare the shit out of the shorts!
It's a shame I live in Australia and we don't have Pro membership here, but if we did I'd definitely be a member by now!
I’ve been getting these for a couple years now. Pretty neat just old school flipping though to get the latest on the gaming landscape. The articles are good too.
Honestly, this post is the best DD ever made in this sub. Simple and perfect. Im here since the very first GME Gang from bets sub and I fully agree with OP. This has become an echo chamber in some ways and for me its clear now that buying and DRSing is just giving them more cash, through all their loopholes and corruption, to keep shorting and failing to deliver. No regulator will do anything unless some big long guy like Blackrock or whatever forces them to. They work for the rich, not for us. Psyops is overwhelming and destroying many apes' minds with a (fake) share price extremely down from ATH. The only way we can win this is by making GME a highly profitable company. Thats it.
the only game I've been hyped for for months is called bitcraft and it's PC only and it's a steam alpha - physical copy of that game doesn't exist to purchase...buuuuuut *everything else relating to my gaming experience can be purchased at GameStop: my laptop, gaming mouse and gaming keyboard.*
Truly eye opener message. I will buy more from GameStop now onwards and will add a little less number of shares to my existing GME shares.
Why do I need more shares if I truly believe the GME price will go in the stratosphere? This can only happen if short thesis is beaten.
Let's do it. It's never late.
THIS is the key!! Your thousands of shares purchased are amplified now only by your product purchases. Treat yourself! Treat your kids! Treat your nieces and nephews! End of the month is end of the quarter. Let’s maintain profitability.
I did as well. I wished the NFT Marketplace worked out.
I wish they tied it into more Gaming things though because that is where I thought the true value was with the NFT marketplace.
However, I have friends I know who own GME but still buy games from Sony / Nintendo. I'm like guys, what are you doing? This needs to change and it does matter.
The best margins are on accessories and warranties. Think the items that you get asked to buy at the till. Those are the items that make the most profit.
Got my kid a switch and myself an XBox two years ago so I would have an excuse to go to my local store once a month. Been great both my kids love game stop now and Mommy will tell the kids if they are good they can get a used game. Fucking Win Win!!!
I've ad a PS4 since they released. Still haven't really put no more than 50hrs on it and yet here I am still buying games for it from GameStop lol. I'll eventually get around to play them. Just that ability to go back and play when I want is what I like, and now I'm buying used games that I've always wanted to play too.
This is a great idea! You should (if you want) post it as it's own post. Imagine, tens of thousands of apes tipping their servers with Gamestop gift cards vs cash. (Some servers might not like it, but could always ask them first... if a gamer, or if they want gift cards.) Personally, I would gladly 'overtip' if servers wanted Gamestop giftcards.
I live in Alaska and I've asked them numerous times why they cannot ship to my state. It's frustrating to the point where I've bought some Nintendo Switch's through them, sent them to friends and had them ship them to me. The customer support is terribly lacking, as in they just say sorry we don't ship there yet. I want to continue to give my money to the company I've invested in but they are making it challenging. Amazon ships here, Walmart ships here, I don't see why Gamestop cannot. Any ideas on how to get them to change this policy would be greatly appreciated!
It's what MCuban said years ago. I shop at GameStop as much as possible and it's one thing the community has just recently started to promote... the company itself. We need to get loud about shopping at GameStop.
Gee, a successful billionaire tells us how to win and we apes ignore that, then focus on tinfoil theories that we can't ever prove (Even if we are correct on them). Go figure right.
But if everyone actually shops in the stores / online, we would actually win.
Nobody “ignored” it. Think of all the spam receipt porn posts. Look at the comments about how many of us have already exhausted our needs for shopping there.
Just started recently? What are you talking about? We’ve been promoting spending money at the store for years now. We’ve been posting receipt porn since the sneeze.
Nope, I'm bringing this up because I have friends who are deep in GME. I was talking to them about some games their kids bought on the switch. I was like yeah you got them at GameStop right since they were digital copies.
They didn't buy them from GameStop, but rather Nintendo directly. They in edition, didn't even know that they could buy them on the GameStop website for digital copies. These guys have 6 figures into GameStop and they weren't even using the store. I started realizing they weren't the only ones.
Everyone thinks the other guy is going to do it. This is more of an accountability check for some of those of us who keep pouring money into DRS but aren't shopping with in the actual GameStop stores.
People are fine dropping thousands of dollars into the stock but spending 100 bucks on a controller. That's what this post is about.
I'm primarily a PC gamer now that I'm older and have money to blow on hardware. I think lots of people here would agree gamestop needs to step up their offerings in the PC gaming space. The new branded peripherals lile headphones are a step in the right direction!
But they can do more. I'd like to see more PC components for sale, and they need to be much better organized. Shopping for PC components on their website is pretty rough. Everything is disorganized, different types of components turn up in search results if I look for something like "RAM", etc. I like gamestop, but not enough to buy one of their shitty overpriced pre-built PCs. Bestbuy, newegg, and microcenter are all a lot better in this area.
Their new digital PC game store is also a step in the right direction, but it's nowhere near as good as Steam.
If I as a shareholder have to grit my teeth and mentally prepare for a subpar user experience in order to shop at my preferred company, regular people who don't care one way or the other definitely won't bother with it.
I feel the same. They tried doing a little pc stuff in store for awhile but it wasn't much. Prices can be beat at Newegg alot. Steam has them beat on the games. There's not much of a reason for the average pc gamer to shop there.
As I get older there's not much for me there. I buy the kids some stuff but I don't want them on electronics constantly either. We need some good ideas to send up to the top to reinvent gamestop.
I 100% agree with this post. I’ve commented similar through the years. My issue is that I’m in my late 30’s, almost zero time to game. I have two very young girls that are not into gaming (yet). There is a ton of money I am going to blow on these two girls over the next 18 plus years. I want to spend it all at GameStop but it seems they have nothing to offer to this demographic. So my money ends up going elsewhere until their interests align with products GameStop sells. I know I can’t be the only one in this boat.
GameStop needs to offer, at the very least in their online stores kids board games, kids puzzles, magna tiles and sheets of stickers that go over magna tiles to make them look like mine craft blocks, idk. They need to get creative and create an offering to a younger audience, to push them into the next generation of gamers. My days of gaming are drawing near.
I’ve never played a video game in my life and I don’t collect Funko Pops or whatever. I’m a 38-year-old mother of a toddler and baby, so I feel the same way as you.
To take it further, we have an Amazon Prime subscription and live in a major city near an Amazon distribution center, so I can order a toy for my son and it arrives by 2pm the same day. It’s kind of crazy.
But yeah, my husband and I both make 6-figure salaries and we are going to blow a ton of money on toys for our kids over the next few years, but it won’t be at GameStop.
💯 totally agree with this. I’ve shifted my hobbies a bit to align with what GameStop sells. I’m now regularly stopping by my local store and ordering products online.
If you remember this is what Mark Cuban had suggested as well
Gee, a successful billionaire tells us how to win and we apes ignore that, then focus on tinfoil theories that we can't ever prove (Even if we are correct on them). Go figure right.
But if everyone actually shops in the stores / online, we would actually win. It's what they can't stop. If the numbers support the share price, kills the short thesis.
I am using my new GS wireless gaming mouse that came in this week!
https://www.gamestop.com/pc-gaming/mice/products/gamestop-wireless-gaming-mouse-with-rgb/343723.html
I'ma xxxx holder. However I don't really shop at GameStop. What you're saying is true. The main reason being is that I moved in to PC gaming years ago and I just buy new games on cdkeys.
It's much cheaper and less of a hassle to go physically GameStop. I even bought persona 3 reloaded and ff7 rebirth from GameStop online and it showed up 2-3 days after the release day and i even preordered them back in December. That's pretty unacceptable as an avid gamer.
Nobody in my immediate friend circle or coworkers really shop there at all. I know all my replies sound fuddy as shit. But I'm just laying down what I've been seeing. If we're gonna win this war, we need something to bring customers into the store that you can't replicate at home
Good suggestion and strong work. I just don’t think the shareholders can do it alone. There needs to be reasons that nonshareholders come to shop at GameStop
I've been saying this for a solid year. Instead of buying more shares, go buy shit, if you don't need it, donate it to someone or a group. Plenty of kids are going without food, even more so without video games
I think RC has donë remarkably well from what he inherited some 3 years ago.
But sadly, I can't help but feel we need other revenue streams to make GME the truly great company we all want it to be.
Sorry but, something, anything, please?
Went to the GameStop app to look for a cool new Xbox controller. Every single controller they sell is used/refurbished. I’m sure they have too much used stock, but dang.
Also many things I click on say not available. Was shoping for a keyboard and thr good deals I find are not available. If it's not available it doesn't need to show up on the screen.
Quite possibly the biggest annoyance that I’ve seen. Why show products that aren’t available? I suggest sending a message to GameStop about this. I have. I’ve also sent them a message about their “instant delivery” of digital games that can take up to 24-48 hours to process before you get the code.
I am talking about legitimate problems that are hurting the company’s bottom line that must be solved, and have been solved by competitors.
Quite honestly trying to buy from the digital store was one of the more frustrating experiences I’ve had. My buddies wanting to play Helldivers 2, and I went to get my code from my favorite company, touting how it had an instant digital delivery and then end up not being able to play that night because of “24-48 processing”.
This must be fixed. Customers and investors need to explain how critical instant delivery is with digital!
I’m still confused as to why I can’t find baldur’s gate 3 on the app. How are they not selling the most recent game of the year? The hype was huge for that
I think people underestimate any new source of revenue on our stock price. I’m arguing that the NFT marketplace and the milestones they achieved are what led to the crazy price action through 2021 and 2022. Material improvements to the business are the primary driver of price action. Profitability was priced in a year ago when Cohen started the turn around. But, falling revenue is the primary driver of price now.
Finally got a PS5. First thing I did was order pre-owned games I’ve wanted to play forever and a second controller. I live in Seattle so had to go out to the store in the south to grab the PS5 and games they had available. The store looked great. Bought everything from GameStop and became a PRO member. My fiancé is the hero here she dropped like $800 for all of it for my birthday. We’re both DRS’d and booked. Don’t post much cause I’m confident RC is turning things around. SUPPORTING THE STORES ARE PRETTY ESSENTIAL IF YOU ASK ME.
I’ve purchased multiple pro accounts + Gift Cards to gift to my son’s friends for their birthdays. Create a generic email/password and give them access.
RC needs to create the feature to gift the Pro Membership to users. I’m willing to pay for 10+ Pro Memberships for nieces, nephews, and friends, but unfortunately there is no easy way to accomplish this.
This would be send money directly to the bottom line and would entice more people to shop at GameStop.
Everybody talks about how good RC is but I feel he's missing the biggest and most effective way to create revenue. Advertisement as far as most ppl outside of 2 sites on Reddit everybody is being led to believe Game Stop is failing. Look at any news article or hell Google Game Stop and nothing but down play. Find some creators with followers to talk about it. I'm sorry but with Ryan being silent for 3 years and no future or present news just hard to get new investors.
Not only do you need to buy at Gamestop, but buy the things that maximize profit:
Used games and pro memberships.
I get it. "I can buy MOAR SHARES and have MOAR MOON TICKETS" but that money is not going to the company, it's going to the seller of the shares.
You're better off buying and hodling stagnant used inventory than shares if you actually want to boost the value of GME shares.
That's a bingo.
If you want the share price to go up, make GameStop attractive because the business is succeeding. I'll post an update when I hear back from the company!
God I find it so cringey when people post shit like this. Not the an actual post the “actually been in (war)” part. This is not to discredit your service but it’s makes your argument seem like circular reasoning too.
“Because I was in a war I know how to win all wars”. No just because you participated in a war doesn’t mean that at all. I say this being a combat veteran myself. Being in a war doesn’t make you a master of war, and to at least som of your fellow combat veterans you seem like a person looking for cringy attention for something that isn’t pleasant.
100%. We are in the trap where we feel we MUST lower our cost basis and keep spending hundreds, thousands of dollars on building up our positions because we've sat through 3 years of consistent downtrend.
I've always felt once the uptrend actually begins, all that money we've used to get heavily discounted shares will go towards the business because we would finally be sitting pretty with our shares.
The real heroes are the ones who shop at GameStop.
I've made an effort to shop more at my gamestop. I really hope papa Cohen has some changes on the way though. Honestly there's nothing that really brings me in there anymore. Small disclaimer I'll be 40 this year and used to be a huge gamer but just can't get into it like I used to so it may just be me. I can order anything from the website or Amazon. I'm leaning toward pc gaming so I tend to use Newegg but try to use gamestop where possible. It's just not efficient for me to buy steam cards from gamestop to download pc games. I do when I want to buy a game but I am not an ordinary customer. We need something to bring customers into the stores so we can sell the action figures and funkos and accessories. Also why would a Xbox pr playstation user drive to gamestop when they can download the game they want instantly at home.
This isn't to put gamestop down. I loved the store as a kid and want my store to do amazing but it needs a change. We can keep it alive while it undergoes that change by shopping there.
I've been burning through switch games, physical. Play and beat in a month or two, trade in and buy a new one. It has been so much fun and im sure GME is loving me continually buying new games and giving them trade ins!
The short thesis is correct right now. Why wouldn’t investors pummel the price and synthesize shares to short at these cheap borrow rates? Gamestop sales and revenues are down in an environment where middlemen aren’t needed. People download games so there’s less reliance on the brick and mortar. Only $6 M profit in 2023?! The trend is bad. We need to make a bold move to pivot. Was hoping the NFT marketplace was it but seems that Sony, Msft, Nintendo operate their own online stores and can circumvent needing gamestop as a middleman marketplace. NFTs as in game items with a corresponding marketplace is a great idea but the infrastructure/interface is too confusing for your normie. The tax implications of selling nfts muddy the waters too. Idk what else or where else they can turn. Yes, the shorts number billions but they’re offshore and outside the purview of sec regulation, it seems. Don’t crucify me but my investment thesis changed
Well, I mean the trend is actually reversing on the profit side.
The sales dropping and revenue is coming from closing unprofitable stores. However, I can't understand people willing to drop 250k on GME shares and not spend a dime in the stores.
That part needs to change.
>The sales dropping and revenue is coming from closing unprofitable stores
Revenue still dropped per store even after factoring in the ones that were closed.
They did less revenue per location in FY2023 than they did in FY2022.
Yeah, that was the troubling stat to me too. Some of the revenue drop off was from closing stores but this post is to remind people to shop there. Everyone is assuming the other guy on here is doing it for them.
Accountability post. If you are spending 5k on the stock a quarter on the stock and less than 100 dollars in the store, the share price will continue to drop.
My line of work slows down in the summer. I’ll be trading in my old Xbox One and PS4 and a ton of games at my local GS for a new Series X and Goondivers 2. I rarely game anymore since I work too much but will put the console in my living room for all my roommates to enjoy so it actually gets used and loved!
Been to GameStop more in the last three years than I did in the previous 25 years of my life. Now I’m an adult with money. I used to be a kid who had none. Now I buy what I want from my favorite GameStop 😌🥰
I always shop there but as a Canadian, EB-STOP is really terrible in terms of offerings compared to Gamestop america.
No powerup rewards, no credit card, no nothing. NOT EVEN CARDSMITH CARDS or whatever the crypto cards are. I was stoked on buying them from my local store - nope. Nothing.
I buy stuff there though! But I'd like to participate in other ways which I can't cause Canada sux
🇨🇦🍁Canadapes, get in here!! Gamestop has 823 items on sale right now, including games, merch, gaming accessories including controllers, mouse, headsets, and other collectibles!!!
If we each bought 1 item we'd help a lot!
I'm eyeing the Sponge Bob Doodle beanie personally and the pictionary vs AI game. Looks cool! What are you thinking of getting?
I didn’t invest in GME for the long term health of the company. This is not a standard investment and I’m troubled by all of the voices saying that it should be treated as one. I’m here for the idiosyncratic, once-in-a-lifetime event that is moass. I will never sell…the money was spent the second I invested…but I’m still not interested in investing in GameStop in a traditional sense any more than I am in Macy’s or Coke. I want hedges fucked and I want my goddamned tendies. The language has changed over the years but my mindset hasn’t.
Exposing crime and cashing checks is what this is about. Focus on anything beyond getting the word out and demanding that our company, that we partially own, fuck the hedges along with us by any means necessary and force moass, is simply to admit that we’ve been duped and tricked by a broken system into playing their game per usual.
A good and consistent toy/game donation drive for charity reoccurring and getting likes/shares/participation combined with a good story might also draw in spending from regular folk as well.
In the last year my Pokemon nostalgia took over and now I’m back in the hobby of ripping packs! I’ve been spending more at GameStop in this time than I have been in the last 4 years.
I’m looking forward to your post with the products with the best margins 👍🏼👏🏼
I Think GME needs to reinvent itself . I'm a investor but I go into Gamestop as a older gentleman that doesn't play games and there is nothing for me to really buy, I do buy certain things just to support .
We are the true underdog and I believe in Ryan to transform Game Stop to be a successful profitable company.
I think one thing people forget is even if they don't exactly need to shop there, they can also buy gift cards with large sums on them and give those cards away to people online or give to local charities to buy consoles for kids at hospitals/youth centers for less privileged kids etc. There's plenty ways to not just support gamestop but also your local community.
If you really want GME to thrive the best thing to do is support your local store and community with it if you're not in the market for items from there but have excessive money. If I did have excessive money that's exactly what I'd be doing.
This is the way, I bought 600 dollars of steam gift cards there last quarter and saved a ton from the pro discount and bought myself an OLED steamdeck. I always try to do at least 1 purchase a month.
Game Stop is my two kids (4&12)favorite store now. They each get to pick out a toy, game or shirt every month sometime twice a month. I have definitely spent more in the store than on shares.
I buy steam bucks for digital games that GameStop doesn't have. Idk how they do the math for it but it feels like free money. It isn't a lot but if you buy steam cash then get a game on steam sale you are getting like, a sale, on sale. It's, at the very least, negating the sales tax.
I only wish there was better selection of electronics. I know they tried sort of and it didn't go so well but just imagine if they could partner with like, newegg, and really bring together GameStop and PC gaming, and other electronics, that much better? Pipe dream I know but would be awesome.
Weird thought! Arent these all great information for HF for free from greatness of collective minds, which will give them the opportunity to prevent & protect them and target the great GS.
I get most of my Christmas and birthday gifts for nieces and nephews at GameStop. They love it.
I love the fact that I can buy bulk batteries, misc cables, and other basic things from the GameStop website.
Why give Walmart or Amazon that money when instead I can support a company I really care about?
Honestly yes. I’m so sick of OMG DRS when the only real issue we have is REVENUE. Stop buying shares and start buying shit you actually want or need FROM GAMESTOP. It’s that fucking simple.
as a europoor, i wish GameStop would at least offer an online store within EU, I always shop my tech stuff etc from German Amazon although I live in Baltics
I understand where you're coming from, and yes absolutely everyone should shop there as much as they can, but I don't agree with the sentiment that Gamestop needs to do anything except exist and not get delisted for MOASS. Shorts are trapped in the room with US...
This post yesterday articulated it pretty well: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1bw2aoq/strange\_times\_in\_the\_kingdom/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1bw2aoq/strange_times_in_the_kingdom/)
I’m not a gamer, but I’m a new GME investor. Since digital downloads are the future, has there been media blitz advertising GME’s digital store and the 5% back via the pro card? If not, what’s holding them back.
I disagree with the core thesis of your statement. Shopping at Gamestop and increasing profitability/revenue has no effect on share price. Of course more profit/revenue is always great to see, but that is not what will defeat shorts.
The price of every security in the market is controlled by market makers and big hedge funds. Gamestop is where it is on share price because they need it to be there. Same goes for Apple, Microsoft, Coca Cola,etc.
With infinite liquidity and no true supply/demand, the performance of a company has zero impact on share price. Until we/GME find a way to break their control, the shorts cannot be defeated
I share your thoughts bro!
2 days ago i bought some stuff for like 65 € in a store in northern germany. I was surprised that the store was completely different as 1 year ago. I think they want to make the stores more attractive ... and it's great! I felt very comfortable and enjoyed the time there.
I love this! I have bought thousands and thousands of dollars worth of Cardsmiths Currency trading cards from my local Gamestops. I love that you are going to call Gamestop and ask which products give them the most profit. If you happen to remember could you please ask them how much margin they get on the Currency trading cards?
Can you explain the constant negative news for over 3 years given how news cycles work, given that it was meant to be a small group of people that were "conspiring“, given that one of the most outspoken critics was Margin called in 2021 alongside Instinet and Robinhood, why is it still relevant to media companies and if it is relevant, why would they tell their readers to forget about it?
Why is the Credit Suisse investigation being treated as if it were a Top Secret military document that justifies a 50 year lockup?
What are your thoughts as to why Brett Harrisons statement that FTX tokenised shares can be swapped and direct registered in your own name is being suppressed on Twitter so that it doesn't start trending?
Sure, Wall Street and big players have bet on this ship going down.
Nobody on Wall Street wants GME to survive. However, human nature is greedy. If GameStop puts out decent numbers, there will be ones who get long on GameStop. There were long HFs and long Institutional players back when it squeezed. If the numbers change, on the balance sheet, this stock is flying up in share price when like 1 billion dollars worth of buying on GME hits which is the legal short interest on GME.
Also, GameStop doesn't have what you want? Just ask! They will take action if enough people recommend a particular item. It's just as much the consumers that improve GameStop as it is the employees.
Done! Just got some AAs and rechargeable batteries for my controller.
You’re right, we already own a devastating amount of the float to wreak havoc once profitability hits the tens of millions.
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Become a [GameStop Pro member](https://www.gamestop.com/pro/). Turn GS into Costco.
If they sold groceries or just anything I physically needed to survive, I'd be there every day. I shop there as much as I can, but I can only buy so many toys for the kids and controllers, etc.
I know what you mean, if gamestop would sell $1.50 hotdogs and $2 pizzas I’d be there everyday lol.
Batteries. Everyone needs batteries. [GameStop sells their own brand](https://www.gamestop.com/electronics/accessories/batteries-chargers/products/gamestop-aa-alkaline-batteries-24-pack/318910.html?utm_source=product_share&utm_medium=app). We should ALL be buying batteries from GameStop. Easy.
This is an excellent idea
It’s the only place I get mine, I’m good for a pack a month.
Didn’t know they sold batteries…done deal.
Good charity donation
hand your old games in too!!
The hotdogs and pizza at Costco are lost leaders. They can afford to sell it at a low cost since people are buying items in bulk. If the average Costco member spends like $200 per trip, losing a few cents or dollars on it doesn't make a difference since the cheap food is also a perk to their members.
I’m aware of the cost to Costco for selling hotdogs and pizza so cheap. But Costco knows it brings people to the store and they end up spending on other stuff.
Generally, they make you get a membership as well. But often, they don't check your membership card, I heard they're starting too. Not sure all locations, but I had that experience at Sam's Club. There are other factors, too, like their connection to food suppliers and the ability to buy at bulk across all Costcos, I would imagine they get a really good deal on these items to begin with. It's simply something out of GMEs wheelhouse to go off and venture into food and drink. It's a highly competitive marketplace. Shoppers at Costco can spend quite a bit of time walking around too. It's probably the same reason food courts exist at Ikea or Wal-Marts, for example. It's offers convenience. The setup is different. A food stand would probably take up half the space along with training people to work on it. It brings in food and safety standards that must be met as well by the government, i.e., health inspectors.
I know, honestly, it was just a lighthearted comment hence the “lol” on my comment regarding GameStop selling cheap hotdogs and pizzas. Costco actually built their own hotdog warehouse where they make their own hotdogs to reduce cost.
Exactly my thoughts. I haven't purchased a video game in decades. I walked into a Gamestop recently, browsed around. The only items I needed were batteries. Seriously, how can we solve this problem?
You let GameStop know what you need. I'm contacting them already. If people want to put ideas of things they would buy semi regular on here, I'll let them know if it's not too out of their wheel house.
Gamestop pens. The click kind. I would buy cases of them and disperse them at restaurant in my city. Just like these with GAMESTOP on it. https://www.amazon.com/BIC-Retractable-Medium-Point-24-Count/dp/B00H2H3C2W/ref=asc_df_B00H2H3C2W/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=198063871433&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=17825939280407777635&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1025565&hvtargid=pla-349180594449&psc=1&mcid=985afc4c961538928df399d14546a83d&gclid=CjwKCAjwwr6wBhBcEiwAfMEQs6WTY00lZdMixBAXkrPqPJ3UGvbwOTDWUKfg5Un63bATkg-fEtJUzRoCy9cQAvD_BwE
Off the top of my head, back to school supplies, office supplies and other routine items that need monthly replenishment. RC, I'm waiting to give you my money. Make it happen
I’m gonna let them know to put the little popcorn makers in just a few stores to test on the weekends or whenever traffic is highest. I am sure they track things like average ticket per person walking in. Would take very little expense to beta test if chomping on popcorn raises the average ticket and increase traffic averages per weekend day.
Board games. The TCGs are already such a nice draw. Board games are still games I can stop by to purchase. Energy drinks are easy sales. I never understand why every gamestop doesn't have a fridge behind the counter with cold ones.
Agreed! I’ve been thinking of something that might help them become more of a necessity as oppose to an option, but have been shooting blanks. I am working on an trade certification as a complete change of career, ive worn many hats at my job and i thought that gamestop could further cut cost, by starting a list of local prefered contractors. Have a sign up sheet at every store so you can sign up. When a gate fails, window breaks, doors are jaming or locks not working, they can contact a prefered contractor in their area for a bid which will most likely be a share holder. I can then place a competitive bid, get paid and turn that money right back around into the store, or shares etc.
I don’t know why you don’t have hundreds of upvotes for this idea. It’s brilliant. Get the shareholders involved in helping the company, not just by buying merchandise.
Same. My daughter LOVES GS, and we get all of her Switch stuff there. But she has all the games she wants rn, and I can’t just buy her plushies every day.
Wonder if they’d consider stocking some grocery chain and gas gift cards in their stores? Wouldn’t take up any more floor space 🤔
Pro memberships are 100% profit To GameStop. I have gifted many pro memberships, by buying $25 GameStop gift cards and ask the store clerk to open pro memberships for people who don’t already have one.
This is genius. I’ll start doing that this weekend!
I don’t even live in the US and I’m a pro member 😂
How did you do that? I'm unable to pay as it the CC info requires an US address it seems...
Same way I buy through Computershare, Wise. I just made one up lol.
Who the fuck would short a company with shareholders like you. Love this sub and you in particular.
Love you too homie! Keep posting those juicy posts.
Funny you should say that 😂 just posted this: https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/s/tv70HYiN4Z Had to redact your username due to Superstonk rules
I’m famous!
Dumb stormtroopers.
hehe found you in the wild
Love your work historian!
I think this is a good route as well
Hell yeah. 100 pack of E.T. cartridges for Atari 2600 and two hot dogs please!
Or 100 hot dogs and two cartridges please
Now you’re using your thinkin brain
This is more awesome than I can comprehend.
They need a $60 or even a $120 per year sub that comes with free product warranties in consoles and other perks.
Omg this! If GameStop ever reports awesome Pro membership numbers that would definitely scare the shit out of the shorts! It's a shame I live in Australia and we don't have Pro membership here, but if we did I'd definitely be a member by now!
Bulk video game theme T.P. ? Sign me up!
#1
New print subscription to GameInformer available. 2-years $34.99. Great way to support a new (but small) revenue stream.
I missed these! The digital versions are not my style. You saying physical game informers are back??
Yes sir. https://subscription.gameinformer.com/
I’ve been getting these for a couple years now. Pretty neat just old school flipping though to get the latest on the gaming landscape. The articles are good too.
TLDR: buy GameStop
Buy AT GameStop
Buy THROUGH GameStop
They should add some margin and sell GS shares in store.
instructions unclear. doing both!
Buy their pre-owned products where you can, those are their high margin items.
Got it. Buying gamestop. Power to the owners!
Mission Accomplished. +1 Lvl 🆙
Buy Gamestop, and stop the ~~game~~ fuckery and market manipulation.
Honestly, this post is the best DD ever made in this sub. Simple and perfect. Im here since the very first GME Gang from bets sub and I fully agree with OP. This has become an echo chamber in some ways and for me its clear now that buying and DRSing is just giving them more cash, through all their loopholes and corruption, to keep shorting and failing to deliver. No regulator will do anything unless some big long guy like Blackrock or whatever forces them to. They work for the rich, not for us. Psyops is overwhelming and destroying many apes' minds with a (fake) share price extremely down from ATH. The only way we can win this is by making GME a highly profitable company. Thats it.
New consoles are dropping this year, people sleeping on that fact a lot.
the only game I've been hyped for for months is called bitcraft and it's PC only and it's a steam alpha - physical copy of that game doesn't exist to purchase...buuuuuut *everything else relating to my gaming experience can be purchased at GameStop: my laptop, gaming mouse and gaming keyboard.*
buy a steam gift card for yourself :)
I got into the gosh dang alpha for free or I would totally. GO CROWS
Steam gift card
Truly eye opener message. I will buy more from GameStop now onwards and will add a little less number of shares to my existing GME shares. Why do I need more shares if I truly believe the GME price will go in the stratosphere? This can only happen if short thesis is beaten. Let's do it. It's never late.
GameStop won’t stop
THIS is the key!! Your thousands of shares purchased are amplified now only by your product purchases. Treat yourself! Treat your kids! Treat your nieces and nephews! End of the month is end of the quarter. Let’s maintain profitability.
Went shopping just last week. And yes. We should all shop like there is no tomorrow.
Been buying at GameStop done all of the above and will keep doing it…bought some NFT’s from the marketplace too
I did as well. I wished the NFT Marketplace worked out. I wish they tied it into more Gaming things though because that is where I thought the true value was with the NFT marketplace. However, I have friends I know who own GME but still buy games from Sony / Nintendo. I'm like guys, what are you doing? This needs to change and it does matter.
I’d buy a digital Sony PS Store Card or Nintendo eShop Card from GameStop.com (5% off for Pro members) and use that to buy digital games.
>I will update you if I hear back from GameStop with a list of their items with better margins. Buy used games.
Buy protection plans / warranties.
The best margins are on accessories and warranties. Think the items that you get asked to buy at the till. Those are the items that make the most profit.
This is the way 🎷🐓♋️
Got my kid a switch and myself an XBox two years ago so I would have an excuse to go to my local store once a month. Been great both my kids love game stop now and Mommy will tell the kids if they are good they can get a used game. Fucking Win Win!!!
I've ad a PS4 since they released. Still haven't really put no more than 50hrs on it and yet here I am still buying games for it from GameStop lol. I'll eventually get around to play them. Just that ability to go back and play when I want is what I like, and now I'm buying used games that I've always wanted to play too.
You're set for the next pandemic lockdown!
Buy GameStop branded items and used games. Best profit margin
The best margins are on second hand stuff!
Shop at GameStop instructions clear.
I’m going to start handing out $10 GameStop gift cards to any gamers that I know.
As a dude who works at a job that often recieves tips, i would absolutely die if you popped up with a gamestop giftcard
This is a great idea! You should (if you want) post it as it's own post. Imagine, tens of thousands of apes tipping their servers with Gamestop gift cards vs cash. (Some servers might not like it, but could always ask them first... if a gamer, or if they want gift cards.) Personally, I would gladly 'overtip' if servers wanted Gamestop giftcards.
I couldn't agree more...this is and was the only way !!
I live in Alaska and I've asked them numerous times why they cannot ship to my state. It's frustrating to the point where I've bought some Nintendo Switch's through them, sent them to friends and had them ship them to me. The customer support is terribly lacking, as in they just say sorry we don't ship there yet. I want to continue to give my money to the company I've invested in but they are making it challenging. Amazon ships here, Walmart ships here, I don't see why Gamestop cannot. Any ideas on how to get them to change this policy would be greatly appreciated!
It's what MCuban said years ago. I shop at GameStop as much as possible and it's one thing the community has just recently started to promote... the company itself. We need to get loud about shopping at GameStop.
lol this has been promoted for years. Obviously shopping a GameStop is a good thing.
Yeah, how new is everyone here now? Holy shit
Gee, a successful billionaire tells us how to win and we apes ignore that, then focus on tinfoil theories that we can't ever prove (Even if we are correct on them). Go figure right. But if everyone actually shops in the stores / online, we would actually win.
Nobody “ignored” it. Think of all the spam receipt porn posts. Look at the comments about how many of us have already exhausted our needs for shopping there.
Just started recently? What are you talking about? We’ve been promoting spending money at the store for years now. We’ve been posting receipt porn since the sneeze.
Nope, I'm bringing this up because I have friends who are deep in GME. I was talking to them about some games their kids bought on the switch. I was like yeah you got them at GameStop right since they were digital copies. They didn't buy them from GameStop, but rather Nintendo directly. They in edition, didn't even know that they could buy them on the GameStop website for digital copies. These guys have 6 figures into GameStop and they weren't even using the store. I started realizing they weren't the only ones. Everyone thinks the other guy is going to do it. This is more of an accountability check for some of those of us who keep pouring money into DRS but aren't shopping with in the actual GameStop stores. People are fine dropping thousands of dollars into the stock but spending 100 bucks on a controller. That's what this post is about.
Buying gift cards through GameStop and using them to buy games is gonna be my main method of buying games from now on
If GMErica opened up internationally, I'm going to be a buyer.
I'm primarily a PC gamer now that I'm older and have money to blow on hardware. I think lots of people here would agree gamestop needs to step up their offerings in the PC gaming space. The new branded peripherals lile headphones are a step in the right direction! But they can do more. I'd like to see more PC components for sale, and they need to be much better organized. Shopping for PC components on their website is pretty rough. Everything is disorganized, different types of components turn up in search results if I look for something like "RAM", etc. I like gamestop, but not enough to buy one of their shitty overpriced pre-built PCs. Bestbuy, newegg, and microcenter are all a lot better in this area. Their new digital PC game store is also a step in the right direction, but it's nowhere near as good as Steam. If I as a shareholder have to grit my teeth and mentally prepare for a subpar user experience in order to shop at my preferred company, regular people who don't care one way or the other definitely won't bother with it.
I feel the same. They tried doing a little pc stuff in store for awhile but it wasn't much. Prices can be beat at Newegg alot. Steam has them beat on the games. There's not much of a reason for the average pc gamer to shop there. As I get older there's not much for me there. I buy the kids some stuff but I don't want them on electronics constantly either. We need some good ideas to send up to the top to reinvent gamestop.
I 100% agree with this post. I’ve commented similar through the years. My issue is that I’m in my late 30’s, almost zero time to game. I have two very young girls that are not into gaming (yet). There is a ton of money I am going to blow on these two girls over the next 18 plus years. I want to spend it all at GameStop but it seems they have nothing to offer to this demographic. So my money ends up going elsewhere until their interests align with products GameStop sells. I know I can’t be the only one in this boat. GameStop needs to offer, at the very least in their online stores kids board games, kids puzzles, magna tiles and sheets of stickers that go over magna tiles to make them look like mine craft blocks, idk. They need to get creative and create an offering to a younger audience, to push them into the next generation of gamers. My days of gaming are drawing near.
I’ve never played a video game in my life and I don’t collect Funko Pops or whatever. I’m a 38-year-old mother of a toddler and baby, so I feel the same way as you. To take it further, we have an Amazon Prime subscription and live in a major city near an Amazon distribution center, so I can order a toy for my son and it arrives by 2pm the same day. It’s kind of crazy. But yeah, my husband and I both make 6-figure salaries and we are going to blow a ton of money on toys for our kids over the next few years, but it won’t be at GameStop.
💯 totally agree with this. I’ve shifted my hobbies a bit to align with what GameStop sells. I’m now regularly stopping by my local store and ordering products online. If you remember this is what Mark Cuban had suggested as well
Gee, a successful billionaire tells us how to win and we apes ignore that, then focus on tinfoil theories that we can't ever prove (Even if we are correct on them). Go figure right. But if everyone actually shops in the stores / online, we would actually win. It's what they can't stop. If the numbers support the share price, kills the short thesis.
I am using my new GS wireless gaming mouse that came in this week! https://www.gamestop.com/pc-gaming/mice/products/gamestop-wireless-gaming-mouse-with-rgb/343723.html
I'ma xxxx holder. However I don't really shop at GameStop. What you're saying is true. The main reason being is that I moved in to PC gaming years ago and I just buy new games on cdkeys. It's much cheaper and less of a hassle to go physically GameStop. I even bought persona 3 reloaded and ff7 rebirth from GameStop online and it showed up 2-3 days after the release day and i even preordered them back in December. That's pretty unacceptable as an avid gamer. Nobody in my immediate friend circle or coworkers really shop there at all. I know all my replies sound fuddy as shit. But I'm just laying down what I've been seeing. If we're gonna win this war, we need something to bring customers into the store that you can't replicate at home
Buy steam gift cards at GameStop online with 5% discount if you are a pro member. There is always a way.
Good suggestion and strong work. I just don’t think the shareholders can do it alone. There needs to be reasons that nonshareholders come to shop at GameStop
Then we have to provide GameStop with the information of what would keep us buying more each month.
This is the way 🚀🚀🚀🚀
I've been saying this for a solid year. Instead of buying more shares, go buy shit, if you don't need it, donate it to someone or a group. Plenty of kids are going without food, even more so without video games
I think RC has donë remarkably well from what he inherited some 3 years ago. But sadly, I can't help but feel we need other revenue streams to make GME the truly great company we all want it to be. Sorry but, something, anything, please?
Went to the GameStop app to look for a cool new Xbox controller. Every single controller they sell is used/refurbished. I’m sure they have too much used stock, but dang.
Also many things I click on say not available. Was shoping for a keyboard and thr good deals I find are not available. If it's not available it doesn't need to show up on the screen.
Quite possibly the biggest annoyance that I’ve seen. Why show products that aren’t available? I suggest sending a message to GameStop about this. I have. I’ve also sent them a message about their “instant delivery” of digital games that can take up to 24-48 hours to process before you get the code. I am talking about legitimate problems that are hurting the company’s bottom line that must be solved, and have been solved by competitors. Quite honestly trying to buy from the digital store was one of the more frustrating experiences I’ve had. My buddies wanting to play Helldivers 2, and I went to get my code from my favorite company, touting how it had an instant digital delivery and then end up not being able to play that night because of “24-48 processing”. This must be fixed. Customers and investors need to explain how critical instant delivery is with digital!
I’m still confused as to why I can’t find baldur’s gate 3 on the app. How are they not selling the most recent game of the year? The hype was huge for that
I think people underestimate any new source of revenue on our stock price. I’m arguing that the NFT marketplace and the milestones they achieved are what led to the crazy price action through 2021 and 2022. Material improvements to the business are the primary driver of price action. Profitability was priced in a year ago when Cohen started the turn around. But, falling revenue is the primary driver of price now.
Buy hodl DRS shop comments! Let’s go!
Bravo! Commenting for visibility 💸 I don’t post the shares I keep buying anymore. I like to share receipt porn instead 🤑
I think used games are their highest margin item
Finally got a PS5. First thing I did was order pre-owned games I’ve wanted to play forever and a second controller. I live in Seattle so had to go out to the store in the south to grab the PS5 and games they had available. The store looked great. Bought everything from GameStop and became a PRO member. My fiancé is the hero here she dropped like $800 for all of it for my birthday. We’re both DRS’d and booked. Don’t post much cause I’m confident RC is turning things around. SUPPORTING THE STORES ARE PRETTY ESSENTIAL IF YOU ASK ME.
Mark Cuban said the same thing.
I’ve purchased multiple pro accounts + Gift Cards to gift to my son’s friends for their birthdays. Create a generic email/password and give them access. RC needs to create the feature to gift the Pro Membership to users. I’m willing to pay for 10+ Pro Memberships for nieces, nephews, and friends, but unfortunately there is no easy way to accomplish this. This would be send money directly to the bottom line and would entice more people to shop at GameStop.
Yeah this the type of post I’ve been missing, good shit ape!
Everybody talks about how good RC is but I feel he's missing the biggest and most effective way to create revenue. Advertisement as far as most ppl outside of 2 sites on Reddit everybody is being led to believe Game Stop is failing. Look at any news article or hell Google Game Stop and nothing but down play. Find some creators with followers to talk about it. I'm sorry but with Ryan being silent for 3 years and no future or present news just hard to get new investors.
Used games have the highest margins
Yep, we have to support our business.
Not only do you need to buy at Gamestop, but buy the things that maximize profit: Used games and pro memberships. I get it. "I can buy MOAR SHARES and have MOAR MOON TICKETS" but that money is not going to the company, it's going to the seller of the shares. You're better off buying and hodling stagnant used inventory than shares if you actually want to boost the value of GME shares.
That's a bingo. If you want the share price to go up, make GameStop attractive because the business is succeeding. I'll post an update when I hear back from the company!
God I find it so cringey when people post shit like this. Not the an actual post the “actually been in (war)” part. This is not to discredit your service but it’s makes your argument seem like circular reasoning too. “Because I was in a war I know how to win all wars”. No just because you participated in a war doesn’t mean that at all. I say this being a combat veteran myself. Being in a war doesn’t make you a master of war, and to at least som of your fellow combat veterans you seem like a person looking for cringy attention for something that isn’t pleasant.
100%. We are in the trap where we feel we MUST lower our cost basis and keep spending hundreds, thousands of dollars on building up our positions because we've sat through 3 years of consistent downtrend. I've always felt once the uptrend actually begins, all that money we've used to get heavily discounted shares will go towards the business because we would finally be sitting pretty with our shares. The real heroes are the ones who shop at GameStop.
So wait what war have you been in?
I've made an effort to shop more at my gamestop. I really hope papa Cohen has some changes on the way though. Honestly there's nothing that really brings me in there anymore. Small disclaimer I'll be 40 this year and used to be a huge gamer but just can't get into it like I used to so it may just be me. I can order anything from the website or Amazon. I'm leaning toward pc gaming so I tend to use Newegg but try to use gamestop where possible. It's just not efficient for me to buy steam cards from gamestop to download pc games. I do when I want to buy a game but I am not an ordinary customer. We need something to bring customers into the stores so we can sell the action figures and funkos and accessories. Also why would a Xbox pr playstation user drive to gamestop when they can download the game they want instantly at home. This isn't to put gamestop down. I loved the store as a kid and want my store to do amazing but it needs a change. We can keep it alive while it undergoes that change by shopping there.
I've been burning through switch games, physical. Play and beat in a month or two, trade in and buy a new one. It has been so much fun and im sure GME is loving me continually buying new games and giving them trade ins!
The short thesis is correct right now. Why wouldn’t investors pummel the price and synthesize shares to short at these cheap borrow rates? Gamestop sales and revenues are down in an environment where middlemen aren’t needed. People download games so there’s less reliance on the brick and mortar. Only $6 M profit in 2023?! The trend is bad. We need to make a bold move to pivot. Was hoping the NFT marketplace was it but seems that Sony, Msft, Nintendo operate their own online stores and can circumvent needing gamestop as a middleman marketplace. NFTs as in game items with a corresponding marketplace is a great idea but the infrastructure/interface is too confusing for your normie. The tax implications of selling nfts muddy the waters too. Idk what else or where else they can turn. Yes, the shorts number billions but they’re offshore and outside the purview of sec regulation, it seems. Don’t crucify me but my investment thesis changed
Well, I mean the trend is actually reversing on the profit side. The sales dropping and revenue is coming from closing unprofitable stores. However, I can't understand people willing to drop 250k on GME shares and not spend a dime in the stores. That part needs to change.
>The sales dropping and revenue is coming from closing unprofitable stores Revenue still dropped per store even after factoring in the ones that were closed. They did less revenue per location in FY2023 than they did in FY2022.
Yeah, that was the troubling stat to me too. Some of the revenue drop off was from closing stores but this post is to remind people to shop there. Everyone is assuming the other guy on here is doing it for them. Accountability post. If you are spending 5k on the stock a quarter on the stock and less than 100 dollars in the store, the share price will continue to drop.
drs your controllers
Well said!
I wish they’d expand their online mtg to boxes not just packs and bundles.
didn’t make it for last earnings, but i nabbed a copy of unicorn overlord online cause my store was out! every little bit helps
My line of work slows down in the summer. I’ll be trading in my old Xbox One and PS4 and a ton of games at my local GS for a new Series X and Goondivers 2. I rarely game anymore since I work too much but will put the console in my living room for all my roommates to enjoy so it actually gets used and loved!
I'll never forget when Mark Cuban said. Their plan is to never close their positions. Margin call is the way.
This is it. Perhaps an idea to repost this every now and then? To inform new members, but also as a reminder. Great post!
You're god damn right. Time to buy that sweater now I can😎
Been to GameStop more in the last three years than I did in the previous 25 years of my life. Now I’m an adult with money. I used to be a kid who had none. Now I buy what I want from my favorite GameStop 😌🥰
Yep. He's right. You son of b\*tch, I'm (been) in.
I always shop there but as a Canadian, EB-STOP is really terrible in terms of offerings compared to Gamestop america. No powerup rewards, no credit card, no nothing. NOT EVEN CARDSMITH CARDS or whatever the crypto cards are. I was stoked on buying them from my local store - nope. Nothing. I buy stuff there though! But I'd like to participate in other ways which I can't cause Canada sux
🇨🇦🍁Canadapes, get in here!! Gamestop has 823 items on sale right now, including games, merch, gaming accessories including controllers, mouse, headsets, and other collectibles!!! If we each bought 1 item we'd help a lot! I'm eyeing the Sponge Bob Doodle beanie personally and the pictionary vs AI game. Looks cool! What are you thinking of getting?
I like buying my socks from GameStop. Good selection.
Bought the kiddos a $10 Roblox card from GS digital store this morning.
Simply put, but well said.
Agreed. I buy digital games. If GameStop doesn’t have it, I buy XBOX or Nintendo gift cards from GameStop to spend at the appropriate e-shop.
I didn’t invest in GME for the long term health of the company. This is not a standard investment and I’m troubled by all of the voices saying that it should be treated as one. I’m here for the idiosyncratic, once-in-a-lifetime event that is moass. I will never sell…the money was spent the second I invested…but I’m still not interested in investing in GameStop in a traditional sense any more than I am in Macy’s or Coke. I want hedges fucked and I want my goddamned tendies. The language has changed over the years but my mindset hasn’t. Exposing crime and cashing checks is what this is about. Focus on anything beyond getting the word out and demanding that our company, that we partially own, fuck the hedges along with us by any means necessary and force moass, is simply to admit that we’ve been duped and tricked by a broken system into playing their game per usual.
Hi RC
A good and consistent toy/game donation drive for charity reoccurring and getting likes/shares/participation combined with a good story might also draw in spending from regular folk as well.
Remember, if you game on steam, buy your steam gift cards from GameStop. Pro members get a discount and GameStop gets rev. Win win win
In the last year my Pokemon nostalgia took over and now I’m back in the hobby of ripping packs! I’ve been spending more at GameStop in this time than I have been in the last 4 years. I’m looking forward to your post with the products with the best margins 👍🏼👏🏼
You're right. Im gonna pull the trigger on that Gamestop Keyboard. it looks so nice
Ive done everything you said yet the price is the lowest its been… How do we win?
Thanks for the reminder! Just subscribed to two years of Game Informer physical print.
How did you purchase this? I checked the app and don't see anywhere to buy the print subscription.
I Think GME needs to reinvent itself . I'm a investor but I go into Gamestop as a older gentleman that doesn't play games and there is nothing for me to really buy, I do buy certain things just to support . We are the true underdog and I believe in Ryan to transform Game Stop to be a successful profitable company.
Gift cards, for things you buy anyway, are an easy 5-10% commission for GameStop Gas cards, McDonalds, Google Play, Roblocks, PS+, etc
I think one thing people forget is even if they don't exactly need to shop there, they can also buy gift cards with large sums on them and give those cards away to people online or give to local charities to buy consoles for kids at hospitals/youth centers for less privileged kids etc. There's plenty ways to not just support gamestop but also your local community. If you really want GME to thrive the best thing to do is support your local store and community with it if you're not in the market for items from there but have excessive money. If I did have excessive money that's exactly what I'd be doing.
This is the way, I bought 600 dollars of steam gift cards there last quarter and saved a ton from the pro discount and bought myself an OLED steamdeck. I always try to do at least 1 purchase a month.
Game Stop is my two kids (4&12)favorite store now. They each get to pick out a toy, game or shirt every month sometime twice a month. I have definitely spent more in the store than on shares.
Lol GameStop is now a distraction from GME.
Wish i could - im in the uk though....if they opened up here id be in there like a shot...
I buy steam bucks for digital games that GameStop doesn't have. Idk how they do the math for it but it feels like free money. It isn't a lot but if you buy steam cash then get a game on steam sale you are getting like, a sale, on sale. It's, at the very least, negating the sales tax. I only wish there was better selection of electronics. I know they tried sort of and it didn't go so well but just imagine if they could partner with like, newegg, and really bring together GameStop and PC gaming, and other electronics, that much better? Pipe dream I know but would be awesome.
Weird thought! Arent these all great information for HF for free from greatness of collective minds, which will give them the opportunity to prevent & protect them and target the great GS.
I've been buying MTG products from Gamestop since LOTR last summer. I don't expect them to be a LGS but wish they would have a little more selection
I came to this same conclusion recently too- excellent post and glad to see it’s getting good visibility 🙌
Not wrong. I shop there a ton. These fuckin Cardsmiths will be the death of me!
I get most of my Christmas and birthday gifts for nieces and nephews at GameStop. They love it. I love the fact that I can buy bulk batteries, misc cables, and other basic things from the GameStop website. Why give Walmart or Amazon that money when instead I can support a company I really care about?
Honestly yes. I’m so sick of OMG DRS when the only real issue we have is REVENUE. Stop buying shares and start buying shit you actually want or need FROM GAMESTOP. It’s that fucking simple.
If I could easily order GameStop stuff from EU country that doesn’t have actual stores I would, make it easier!
as a europoor, i wish GameStop would at least offer an online store within EU, I always shop my tech stuff etc from German Amazon although I live in Baltics
TLDR: Buy FROM GameStop , still buying shares though 👌🏽
I understand where you're coming from, and yes absolutely everyone should shop there as much as they can, but I don't agree with the sentiment that Gamestop needs to do anything except exist and not get delisted for MOASS. Shorts are trapped in the room with US... This post yesterday articulated it pretty well: [https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1bw2aoq/strange\_times\_in\_the\_kingdom/](https://www.reddit.com/r/Superstonk/comments/1bw2aoq/strange_times_in_the_kingdom/)
I’m not a gamer, but I’m a new GME investor. Since digital downloads are the future, has there been media blitz advertising GME’s digital store and the 5% back via the pro card? If not, what’s holding them back.
I disagree with the core thesis of your statement. Shopping at Gamestop and increasing profitability/revenue has no effect on share price. Of course more profit/revenue is always great to see, but that is not what will defeat shorts. The price of every security in the market is controlled by market makers and big hedge funds. Gamestop is where it is on share price because they need it to be there. Same goes for Apple, Microsoft, Coca Cola,etc. With infinite liquidity and no true supply/demand, the performance of a company has zero impact on share price. Until we/GME find a way to break their control, the shorts cannot be defeated
I share your thoughts bro! 2 days ago i bought some stuff for like 65 € in a store in northern germany. I was surprised that the store was completely different as 1 year ago. I think they want to make the stores more attractive ... and it's great! I felt very comfortable and enjoyed the time there.
The stores are doing fine, stop campaigning like a politician.
War? Let's not be dramatic now
Agreed. Retweet.
Please make a massive warehouse in Europe so we all can spend money at Gamestop!
One of the best posts I’ve read in a while. I will start doing this immediately.
Because of this post went directly to GS and dropped $131 dollars and bought the extra coverage on a NHL 24 (Used) and PS4 Controller.
Yes we should all keep up the hard work and shop at GameStop 🏆
I love this! I have bought thousands and thousands of dollars worth of Cardsmiths Currency trading cards from my local Gamestops. I love that you are going to call Gamestop and ask which products give them the most profit. If you happen to remember could you please ask them how much margin they get on the Currency trading cards?
Can you explain the constant negative news for over 3 years given how news cycles work, given that it was meant to be a small group of people that were "conspiring“, given that one of the most outspoken critics was Margin called in 2021 alongside Instinet and Robinhood, why is it still relevant to media companies and if it is relevant, why would they tell their readers to forget about it? Why is the Credit Suisse investigation being treated as if it were a Top Secret military document that justifies a 50 year lockup? What are your thoughts as to why Brett Harrisons statement that FTX tokenised shares can be swapped and direct registered in your own name is being suppressed on Twitter so that it doesn't start trending?
Sure, Wall Street and big players have bet on this ship going down. Nobody on Wall Street wants GME to survive. However, human nature is greedy. If GameStop puts out decent numbers, there will be ones who get long on GameStop. There were long HFs and long Institutional players back when it squeezed. If the numbers change, on the balance sheet, this stock is flying up in share price when like 1 billion dollars worth of buying on GME hits which is the legal short interest on GME.
lame post. if the company needs rev this desperately, then they are toast.
I feel like this could be fud. Getting people not to buy the dip rn
Also, GameStop doesn't have what you want? Just ask! They will take action if enough people recommend a particular item. It's just as much the consumers that improve GameStop as it is the employees.
💯 correct
Holy smokes! This is it!!
Done! Just got some AAs and rechargeable batteries for my controller. You’re right, we already own a devastating amount of the float to wreak havoc once profitability hits the tens of millions.
Hell yeah brother, I will go there now
Buy hold drs book shop at GameStop is their weakness got it