Pre-Ordering Video Games from Amazon.com with Release Date Delivery

Whenever I go into a GameStop, the people behind the counter try to get me to pay them for games that have not come out yet. This is ridiculous, first off, because you get no discount at all for the game. Also, they will have plenty of them on the day they come out, so it is entirely unnecessary that you spend money early. I'm amazed anyone falls for it.

It is even more amazing that anyone falls for this stupid ploy because you can pre-order the same games from Amazon with release date delivery, they don't charge you until they are about to ship them, they usually give you a discount on the game itself, and the cost of the game plus shipping almost always costs less than the cost of the game in a store, because there is no sales tax. The game will then be waiting for you at your home when you arrive there after work/school/whatever.

Of course, it's even more inexpensive to wait until the game is a few months old and get it once it drops in price, but if you want to buy a game new and have it the day it comes out, GameStop is never the way to go.

Amazon paid me no money to say this, and it is definitely worse for the environment to have all that packaging and fuel used to get something delivered to your home, but it is still worth saying that GameStop has been completely outmaneuvered by Amazon.com.

I mean, Amazon even takes video game trade-ins now. And you can use them for anything on Amazon, which means pretty much everything. I bought Annie's Macaroni and Cheese from Amazon one time.