GAME - and their stupid reward card/preorder BS

myp · **Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2012 16:20

Dimrill wrote:

277 stores close, 40% of workforce axed. Pretty long odds for a White Knight rescuer now.

It'll be brinkmanship. The longer they leave it, the cheaper it'll be.

Plissken · **Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2012 16:29

Nice to see that Head Office, where most of the shit business decisions will have been made bore the brunt.

Quote:

The result is that by the end of the day around 2,104 GAME employees will have lost their jobs - 40 per cent of its UK workforce.

15 of these jobs have been lost from its Basingstoke head office with the rest coming from its stores.

No! Wait! The other one!

Mr Russell · **Joined:** 6th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 12339

Plissken wrote:

Nice to see that Head Office, where most of the shit business decisions will have been made bore the brunt.

Quote:

The result is that by the end of the day around 2,104 GAME employees will have lost their jobs - 40 per cent of its UK workforce.

15 of these jobs have been lost from its Basingstoke head office with the rest coming from its stores.

No! Wait! The other one!

I saw a figure of 385 employees(?) I think at the head office, so that would make around 3% loss of jobs in head office.

When the company I work for was took over there was a 13% staff loss in stores, and a 100% staff loss in head office.

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22397

Yeah, if they get bought, job losses at head office will be pretty much total, unless the company that buys them have no retail presence at all, anywhere.

However until that happens, and as shops get closed, it'l be the shop staff losing out. A few hundred less stores won't make much of a difference to how many people are needed to manage the business as a whole.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

Zardoz wrote:

Get yourself to the next BeeX meet.

Hark at "Sorry, who the fuck are you again?" over here!

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2012 16:57

We don't send you invites to 99% of them.

GazChap · **Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2012 16:59

I thought it was illegal to trade while insolvent?

myp · **Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2012 17:01

GazChap wrote:

I thought it was illegal to trade while insolvent?

Administration is not liquidation.

Zardoz · **Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2012 17:04

Craster wrote:

Hark at "Sorry, who the fuck are you again?" over here!

Also, I've been to 4 meets now. You could make that 5 in April when Markg, Pupil and I go to see Orbital in Manchester.

Spare ticket (£30) if anyone fancies it, btw.

myp · **Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2012 17:06

Zardoz wrote:

Markg, Pupil and I go to see Orbital in Manchester

Poor Mark, going out with the Gollum twins.

GazChap · **Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2012 17:21

myp wrote:

GazChap wrote:

I thought it was illegal to trade while insolvent?

Administration is not liquidation.

Aah.

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Both Game and Gamestation are still open in Cwmbran, surprisingly (I assumed one would shut).

Dimrill · **Posted:** Mon Mar 26, 2012 23:40

Hah! Shopto.net are offering £3 of credit if you send them your GAME loyalty card.

Alberto · **Joined:** 28th Jan, 2011 **Posts:** 1198

I think both the Stockport Game/Gamestation next door neighbours are both open still. At least, I saw a big list of closures and they weren't on it... don't really propose going in just to check though.

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10175

Zardoz wrote:

Craster wrote:

Hark at "Sorry, who the fuck are you again?" over here!

Also, I've been to 4 meets now. You could make that 5 in April when Markg, Pupil and I go to see Orbital in Manchester.

Spare ticket (£30) if anyone fancies it, btw.

no thanks, I'm busy that night. Seeing orbital in Manchester.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14419

GAME is Derby is open today and trading. Amazingly the prices haven't been slashed any. £9.99 for Bulletstorm?

asfish · **Joined:** 5th Dec, 2010 **Posts:** 3353

Ian Fairies wrote:

GAME is Derby is open today and trading. Amazingly the prices haven't been slashed any. £9.99 for Bulletstorm?

Not suprising there were no real bargins when Woolworths went bust, they were selling games for £5-10 more than Play.com in my local store 2 days before it closed.

Administrators are just accountants so they won’t be letting them give anything away, their aim will be run the business as normal, until they sell it or wind it up that is.

Satsuma · **Joined:** 20th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14419

Still, £27 for New Super Mario Bros on DS? Go fuck yourself GAME. Oh you have? Good.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

Hmm. Just seen the closure list. The GAME and Gamestation in Bromley are both closed. That's...irritating.

myp · **Posted:** Tue Mar 27, 2012 17:32

Craster wrote:

Hmm. Just seen the closure list. The GAME and Gamestation in Bromley are both closed. That's...irritating.

http://www.amazon.co.uk

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

Yeah, but I can't impulse-buy online.

metalangel · **Posted:** Tue Mar 27, 2012 17:43

I can't impulse buy if the price is ridiculous.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

I can.

Grim... · **Posted:** Tue Mar 27, 2012 17:45

Craster wrote:

Yeah, but I can't impulse-buy online.

...

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

I can't! The idea of browsing websites for stuff just doesn't work for me at all.

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13386

Craster wrote:

I can't! The idea of browsing websites for stuff just doesn't work for me at all.

Get drunk first.

I once ordered Ozzy Osbourne's entire back catalogue on CD from hmv.com a few years ago. (Came to about £200 IIRC.)

Fortunately when I got up in the morning the order was still 'pending' so I was able to cancel it. I also never drunk that much rum in one evening again.

Bobbyaro · **Joined:** 18th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 11898

where is this closure list?

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

AtrocityExhibition wrote:

Craster wrote:

I can't! The idea of browsing websites for stuff just doesn't work for me at all.

Get drunk first.

I once ordered Ozzy Osbourne's entire back catalogue on CD from hmv.com a few years ago. (Came to about £200 IIRC.)

Fortunately when I got up in the morning the order was still 'pending' so I was able to cancel it. I also never drunk that much rum in one evening again.

QVC is great for drunk ordering.

Dimrill · **Posted:** Tue Mar 27, 2012 18:07

Well if you type "closure list of game stores" into this marvellous thing called 'Google', the first result is this: http://www.platformnation.com/2012/03/2 ... sure-list/ you incredibly lazy person.

Hearthly · **Joined:** 11th May, 2008 **Posts:** 13386

Craster wrote:

QVC is great for drunk ordering.

How many of these did you end up with then?

Attachment:

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My mother-in-law is a mental QVC shopper, she sends about 90% of everything she orders back, she just likes to have a look at things.

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10175

AtrocityExhibition wrote:

I once ordered Ozzy Osbourne's entire back catalogue on CD from hmv.com a few years ago. (Came to about £200

i did that on my last day in Germany, except I got the train to Stuttgart to do it. I also bought two pairs of aviator goggles. While my dad and his girlfriend, having driven non-stop from the UK, packed my stuff into his car. He wasn't happy.

devilman · **Posted:** Tue Mar 27, 2012 19:30

Bobbyaro wrote:

where is this closure list?

Not sure how complete this list is.

TheVision · **Posted:** Tue Mar 27, 2012 19:35

There was a bloke on Sky News last night talking about the demise of Game. He was saying that most people buy their "game DVDs and Cassettes" from a proper store rather than download them. :belm:

myp · **Posted:** Tue Mar 27, 2012 20:06

Craster wrote:

Yeah, but I can't impulse-buy online.

Err, what? There's been so many games I've impulse-bought from the bargains thread - all online.

Derek The Halls · **Joined:** 31st Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 3742

GAME lives on in Doncaster but Gamestation is no more.

Cras · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 49244

myp wrote:

Craster wrote:

Yeah, but I can't impulse-buy online.

Err, what? There's been so many games I've impulse-bought from the bargains thread - all online.

I didn't say you can't, I said I can't.

myp · **Posted:** Tue Mar 27, 2012 20:36

Craster wrote:

I didn't say you can't, I said I can't.

It's pronounced cunt, you cunt.

Mr Dave · **Posted:** Wed Mar 28, 2012 17:22

The list baffles me - shops I know to be usually busy shut, meanwhile the shop in Epsom which gets no customers from what I can tell remains open.

TheVision · **Posted:** Wed Mar 28, 2012 17:30

Yep. The store in Dudley that's normally busy shuts yet the shop in West Brom that is never busy and has a crap selection of games (including preowned) remains open... For now.

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

I read somewhere that they just had a list (an old list) of the amount of profit each shop generates and culled off everything below a certain point regardless of where things were.

So that might lead to situations where two shops in the same street would remain open , and the only one serving a whole town would be closed

Doctor Glyndwr · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 32624

Mr Dave wrote:

The list baffles me - shops I know to be usually busy shut, meanwhile the shop in Epsom which gets no customers from what I can tell remains open.

I'd have thought it won't just be about sales -- rent and lease contracts would also play a part.

Morte · **Posted:** Wed Mar 28, 2012 19:10

I can only assume the list is based on rents...Sheffield basically has no where open any more while Barnsley keeps its two shops.

TheVision · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 9:14

Game could be bought by RBS?

Eurogamer wrote:

The Royal Bank of Scotland will buy GAME out of administration - and it could happen as soon as tomorrow, a new report has declared.

UK trade publication MCV heard the news from "multiple sources".

RBS, which led GAME's money lending syndicate, had been tipped by national press as the favourite to acquire GAME.

But should the report run true, questions will be asked about RBS' rumoured block to a bid made by Comet's parent company OpCapita for GAME last week.

GAME entered administration days ago. Administrators PwC shut 277 stores and revealed plans to let go 2014 staff by the end of the week.

In Ireland, a sit-in protest was held by GAME staff worried about redundancy pay.

Should RBS buy GAME out of administration tomorrow, the business may not necessarily return to life as it once was. The terms of the deal could yet be brutal.

GazChap · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 9:17

If they get bought out, what is the likelihood of the company's share trading being restarted again under the same name?

Zardoz · **Posted:** Thu Mar 29, 2012 9:19

BikNorton wrote:

Zardoz wrote:

Craster wrote:

Hark at "Sorry, who the fuck are you again?" over here!

Also, I've been to 4 meets now. You could make that 5 in April when Markg, Pupil and I go to see Orbital in Manchester.

Spare ticket (£30) if anyone fancies it, btw.

no thanks, I'm busy that night. Seeing orbital in Manchester.

4 reelz?

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22397

TheVision wrote:

"In Ireland, a sit-in protest was held by GAME staff worried about redundancy pay."

Seriously? WTF?

I assume they see protests on the telly, and think that is what everyone has to do if they have an issue about anything.
How do they imagine that will help in the slightest?

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22397

GazChap wrote:

If they get bought out, what is the likelihood of the company's share trading being restarted again under the same name?

Still holding on to those shares?

zaphod79 · **Joined:** 16th Apr, 2008 **Posts:** 14518

Trooper wrote:

TheVision wrote:

"In Ireland, a sit-in protest was held by GAME staff worried about redundancy pay."

Seriously? WTF?

I assume they see protests on the telly, and think that is what everyone has to do if they have an issue about anything.
How do they imagine that will help in the slightest?

The Irish ones seem a little different as they have slightly different redundancy laws over there and GAME seem to be screwing around with them - theres a bit on MVC yesterday that i'll dig up and post in a minute

Trooper · **Joined:** 4th Mar, 2010 **Posts:** 22397

zaphod79 wrote:

Trooper wrote:

TheVision wrote:

"In Ireland, a sit-in protest was held by GAME staff worried about redundancy pay."

Seriously? WTF?

I assume they see protests on the telly, and think that is what everyone has to do if they have an issue about anything.
How do they imagine that will help in the slightest?

The Irish ones seem a little different as they have slightly different redundancy laws over there and GAME seem to be screwing around with them - theres a bit on MVC yesterday that i'll dig up and post in a minute

Sure, but how will a sit-in help that in the slightest?

BikNorton · **Joined:** 30th Mar, 2008 **Posts:** 10175

Zardoz wrote:

BikNorton wrote:

Zardoz wrote:

Craster wrote:

Hark at "Sorry, who the fuck are you again?" over here!

Also, I've been to 4 meets now. You could make that 5 in April when Markg, Pupil and I go to see Orbital in Manchester.

Spare ticket (£30) if anyone fancies it, btw.

no thanks, I'm busy that night. Seeing orbital in Manchester.

4 reelz?

4 reelz.

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