I worked for Gamestop.
Seeing a guy come in, pick up his pre-ordered game for $60 (plus tax), turn around and trade it in the next week for maybe $35 (at the time), and purchase the next $60 game he had pre-ordered was tough to accept.
Here's what he was doing: renting games for $25-30 a week (plus tax, which is like $3 per game here in VA, so he was renting for like $28-33 per week)
I guess if you only want to rent the very newest games, you have to pa...
I was a retailer for a major computer company for a while...
I don't have a lot of money and I didn't care to jump into a new OS when Vista came out, so I couldn't test Vista for myself for a while. Not at home, only on the retail floor.
At first, Vista was rigthfully badmouthed. It was initially a bit buggy and PC manufacturers tried to sell unrealistic specs to run it. This situation led to Vista's current reputation. I parroted that to my customers for too lon...