Long ago, gamers grew tired of being exploited by insatiable corporations charging sixty dollars for a game that hardly began to live up to its own promises. Having not the power to challenge the mighty corporations for their money back the gamers rebelled and took the mighty business model of the pawn shop and combined it with the even more powerful horde of unclean teenagers and teenage like men that comprised the gaming community to form a amalgamation that in the end would forget its origin and return to greedy price gouging.
This, of course, is the story of Game X Change in Tyler Texas, a store wearing the disguise of friendly fellow gamer and good intentions but on the inside it’s full of a bunch of lazy, indifferent, and underpaid high schoolers who were lured to the job with the notion that somehow being surrounded by toys means you don’t have to provide any sort of legitimate service to the customers. Game X Change’s basic strategy is simple enough, you give them a game or movie and they will give you two thirds of what that video game or movie is worth in real money or half of what it’s worth in store credit.
This may seem like a measly pay off for your hard earned game but remember you got at least some game play out of it, think of this as a bonus or as recycling. Either way you’re losing money, so try and spend it on a game you know won’t disappoint.
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This isn't a business review so much as a man's tangent against gamers and capitalism. GameXChange is a business. Yes they offer you less than they charge for items but THAT'S HOW THEY STAY IN BUSINESS! So the author would apparently rather the store not exist at all and have more unemployed people populating Tyler than for them to use a business model that keeps the store open… Greedy? Really? For trying to be a profitable business? Get the hell outta here with that garbage.
Sorry for the bad article about a business you have some type of connection to. We accept a lot of different opinionated articles and this one seems to have been written after a possible bad experience at the store with a little truth, irony, and as you say, "tangent against gamers and capitalism". We hope any publicity ends up being good publicity in this case and feel free to explain some of the benefits and value this store has to offer local Tyler shoppers if you would like.