Man Finds Wii U Kiosk In Gamestop Dumpster

16 responses to “Man Finds Wii U Kiosk In Gamestop Dumpster”

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   leigh

   January 23, 2017 at 12:38 pm

   It’s video-game logic Mark, you always check the bins for items.

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   1. 

      waffleking

      January 23, 2017 at 12:59 pm

      Mark checks his PS4 instead

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         grunt

         January 23, 2017 at 1:43 pm

         Well played sir, well played

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   evilmonkey

   January 23, 2017 at 12:45 pm

   Great to see that giant corporations would still rather throw something away than give it to someone who’ll actually use it.

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   1. 

      jiggle_counter

      January 23, 2017 at 1:09 pm

      I imagine it depends who in particular gave the order to throw them away.

      Back in the days when I worked at McDonalds, all of the managers would ask the crew before throwing things away.

      These ranged from a entire box of chocolate straws, a box of avocados, promotional cups and mugs, and most commonly happy meal toys.

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      outbreak

      January 23, 2017 at 1:31 pm

      Guessing noone wanted it. These things are big and they aren’t about to spend time trying to deal with ebay or anything to get rid of them

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         madadam81

         January 23, 2017 at 1:36 pm

         Probably can’t sell on eBay themselves.

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         evilmonkey

         January 23, 2017 at 1:48 pm

         Bet they didn’t even ask anyone. Was most likely a direct order from head office to chuck it out. They don’t give things away that they can’t use anymore because they are so shit scared of getting sued if anything happens (eg people getting hurt, property getting damaged, and in the case of food people getting sick).

         Plus their mindset is “if we give it to someone that’s one less console that we’ll be able to sell”. Instead of “hey, if we give it away that’s a customer we can sell games to”. Which, from what I’ve been told they make more money off anyway.

         Edit: just watched the video and noticed that the console was missing. Staff member probably took it.

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            outbreak

            January 23, 2017 at 3:28 pm

            That’s not true though. I was offered a 360 one awhie bank through a friend of a friend at eb games. Nearly took it but takes up to much room

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   3. 

      twelvedogs

      January 23, 2017 at 1:37 pm

      the screen is broken and the console is missing, it’s ultimately just a shitty desk

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         evilmonkey

         January 23, 2017 at 1:57 pm

         Would say that head office demanded it be damaged before being thrown out. Probably wanted pictures emailed as proof too.

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         1. 

            benredbeard

            January 23, 2017 at 2:59 pm

            Man not a fan of Gamestop?

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               sot

               January 23, 2017 at 5:32 pm

               He’s probably not wrong though… When I worked in retail I was asked to throw away some returned “faulty” digital cameras and a Nintendo DS. I went to walk away to the dunpster but the manager requires that I snap the DS in half.. I pinched the camera though (turned out nothing wrong just a faulty battery/charger ayyyy)

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               benredbeard

               January 25, 2017 at 8:30 am

               Yeah that shit is just stupid. Why not donate them to a kids shelter or something, stupid billion dollar conglomerates.

   4. 

      smigit

      January 23, 2017 at 10:57 pm

      I’ve seen similar stories over the years and often it seems to come back to laws around writing off goods which guides for profit organisations to dump product rather than gift it.

      They also possibly have some sort of arrangement that prohibits them gifting or selling it too be it arrangements with Nintendo or issues around returns handling and internal policy around promotional gear.

      Lastly another comment said it was missing the console, which makes me question why a charity would want it anyway unless the intention was to sell it themselves to collectors.

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   tslog

   January 23, 2017 at 2:43 pm

   Its a fitting burial for the worst home console in generations.

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