Holy crap, we’ve turned this particular corner now? It’s not that Lemmy is surprisingly overcome with fans of meme stocks, people have legitimately forgotten how the late days of the game specialist retailer as garbage-tier pawn shop for kids worked?
Gamestop and its contemporaries scamming little kids out of their videogame money by paying them next to nothing for games, reselling them at a huge markup and giving exactly nothing back to the people who made the games.
Bookstores apparently scam readers when they buy books off of people and sell them to other people at a markup, and don’t pay the publisher or author a cent.
It is absolutely not. As I’m telling the other person with selective amnesia, Gamestop (and a couple of identical retailers worldwide) had dominant control over both the first sale and all resales and leveraged it to force abusive practices on game developers and publishers, competitors and their more vulnerable customers.
It wasn’t a used book store, it was the equivalent of Amazon also owning 80% of the physical bookstores, telling writers which books would get shelf space, refusing to keep any stock unless someone had preordered it, then proceeding to aggressively hound readers to resell every one of their books and mark them up by several times the cut they got on a first sale, then using that additional second had profit to keep buying locations and driving smaller stores out of business.
As I’m telling the other person with selective amnesia
Pointing out that you managed to precisely describe the used bookstore business model and unilateraly declare it wasn’t the same isn’t amnesia, it is having reading comprehension.
I did not. My actual response is still up there. Saying it doesn’t say what it says doesn’t magically rewrite it, that’s a very weird thing to attempt.
I mean, you know I wrote it, right? I didn’t forget, it was ten minutes ago. Nobody else is reading these.
No, it’s not. You literally presented the same comparison and got a two paragraph description of how the two models aren’t the same, which you’re aggressively ignoring, I have to assume for the sake of trolling.
No, I have not.
Holy crap, we’ve turned this particular corner now? It’s not that Lemmy is surprisingly overcome with fans of meme stocks, people have legitimately forgotten how the late days of the game specialist retailer as garbage-tier pawn shop for kids worked?
I was not ready.
Bookstores apparently scam readers when they buy books off of people and sell them to other people at a markup, and don’t pay the publisher or author a cent.
It is literally the same business model.
It is absolutely not. As I’m telling the other person with selective amnesia, Gamestop (and a couple of identical retailers worldwide) had dominant control over both the first sale and all resales and leveraged it to force abusive practices on game developers and publishers, competitors and their more vulnerable customers.
It wasn’t a used book store, it was the equivalent of Amazon also owning 80% of the physical bookstores, telling writers which books would get shelf space, refusing to keep any stock unless someone had preordered it, then proceeding to aggressively hound readers to resell every one of their books and mark them up by several times the cut they got on a first sale, then using that additional second had profit to keep buying locations and driving smaller stores out of business.
That’s not how used book stores operate.
Pointing out that you managed to precisely describe the used bookstore business model and unilateraly declare it wasn’t the same isn’t amnesia, it is having reading comprehension.
I did not. My actual response is still up there. Saying it doesn’t say what it says doesn’t magically rewrite it, that’s a very weird thing to attempt.
I mean, you know I wrote it, right? I didn’t forget, it was ten minutes ago. Nobody else is reading these.
Replace games with books in that sentence, that you typed, and tell me what the difference is. I will wait.
What are you even doing, man? That’s a quote from four posts ago. Out of context, at that.
The term “gaslighting” is overused on the Internet, but misquoting myself at me while ignoring my own responses is… quite the attempt.
Quoting you.
Yes that’s how comment chains work.
It is perfectly in context as you’re describing the Gamestop business model in that quote.
No, it’s not. You literally presented the same comparison and got a two paragraph description of how the two models aren’t the same, which you’re aggressively ignoring, I have to assume for the sake of trolling.
This conversation is bonkers and it is now over.