First of all, the blurbs on the back of course. I mostly have 'Euro' boxes, so the texts are there in four different languages normally - I love to hunt for differences there Then, there are the hardware requirements. I'm not the type who laughs over 'ridiculous' systems, but I use those to refresh my memory about different equipment, different common combinations and so on.

Like what, Maybe it's because I don't look at the game boxes once I have bought the game, but what can be interesting/funny about a game box?

All the time? Probably not, but I do enjoy going through my game boxes from time to time, because many of them have interesting and/or funny details I keep forgetting about

Who goes and looks at their game boxes all the time anyway???
Mine sit on the shelf and are rarely touched.

Oh, and I actually prefer buying games in stores that keep the real boxes on the shelves. In stores where they stuff the boxes at the time of the sale, they put this big, ugly seal on top of the box. I prefer my boxes nice and clean .

Well, the best place I've found around here to get "old" games are BlockBuster and Jean-Coutu (a drugstore). However, they seems to buy those games only something like 4 times a year, restock and wait if they sell them all. The price is a bargain tough.

As mentioned before, the only reasonable places I can think of around here is specialized stores. And by specialized stores, I mean computer stores, not stores that are specialized only in computer games... I don't think such a store would survive here.

But I'm not talking about just 'big stores'. They do it everywhere here.

Tuss

The only K-Mart I know about around here died a loooooooong time ago (at least 5-10 years), and our last Zellers will probably do the same now that a new WallMart opened. And talking about wallmart, I hate so much the way they set their alleys that I will probably never go there for anything, even less computer games.

It leaves me with no "big stores" to go for computer games...

Order another box, which reminds me i still haven't got my offspring cover cause some prick stole the case.

Anyway tuss had the right idea either sideways like books or make deep shelves and stack like that. And really who is stupid enough to not realise the box is empty and thus has no game in it.

Pada1: You are forgetting that if you put real boxes up on the shelves, you can stack them on top of one another... a more common practice has been putting them sideways like books on the shelf.

Why don't they have dummy books on the shelf, eh?
:P

Tuss

I'm sorry Delos and EoF for the confusion... my bad... anyway, I agree that putting a real, empty box would be more logical but it might still be stolen being confused with a full real box by some stupid prat trying to shoplift and the owner still wouldn't be able to sell that copy because if I buy a game, I expect it to be in the box and not sold seperatly... So for the more fearfull or paranoid among us, the dummy-box idea might hold some merit...

Maybe for you, it is the best bet. However, if everybody was like you, the gaming industry was nowhere near the $6 billion it's making this year. Gaming industry is fueled by dummies who shop according to nice, flashy boxes in stores like K-Mart and Best Buy. Only the nerds go to real game stores .

First of all, Delos hasn't posted in this thread at all, juha Anyway, I still don't see the point. Sure, they won't have one dummy for every real box, but why not scrap the dummies alltogether and put real (maybe empty if you want to be on the safe side) boxes on the shelves? Again, space is being saved which would otherwise have to be wasted on the dummies.

Edited by Mr Creosote at 22:49 on December, 08th 2002

I fully understand your logic, Creo, Tuss and Sterge but I fear that you misunderstood Delos. Creo, you are right if the store would make a dummy-box for every real box they have. This however would indeed be a complete waste of time. But consider the following math! say a store purchases 10 different games and 10 copies of each game. if they store them all on the shelves, tey would lose the shelfspace for 100 boxes. But if they make a dummy-box of each different game and place them on the shelves, they would lose space for 10 boxes. Granted, in toytal space they lose more seeing as they have 10 boxes more to store but this doesn't really matter because you can stack the boxes more effeciently in the backroom (doesn't have to be one next to another all lined up and so on) + storerooms are generally larger then shelves in my experience So if you own a smaller, more specialised store, you would seek to save shelf-space so you can display more products in total thus increasing your potential sales and therefor, dummy-boxes might be a good option as you also insure that nobody steals the product whilst in the backroom getting a product for another (non-thieving) customer... Isn't this what you meant, Delos?

Creo and Tuss are rigth, having the decoy box is just stupid it does take up twice the room.
And to your point about only buying new games at 'specialised' stores Eagle, how often do you go into one of these stores not knowing what you want, I find that K-mart is cheeper than the 'specialised' stores and would gladly take price over some idiot trying to tell me about a game.

It's really simple maths: a dummy on the shelves plus the real box in the backroom - two boxes per game, twice the space.

Then you have a load of items in your backroom! I worked in retail, and the LAST thing you want to have is stuff in your backroom. If it is all on the shelf that frees up space in the back, for other things. Not only does that happen, but it is a major inconvience for the customer. Customers would rather not speak to the store salesmen.

Tuss

I don't see how they use twice the same space with this method. When you place items on shelves, you usually take care that they are well placed, to be good for the eyes and usually not crowded one on top of another. If they left out only the box to be displayed, they can leave the other boxes in the backstore. Having experience in "backstorism" (lol), I have no trouble to imagine that this method in fact require less space...

It's true that it probably takes less space in Wallmart and K-marts... But then again, who would want to really buy new games in those stores??? When I want to buy a game, at least here, the best bet is always to go to a specialised store. At least there, they know of what they are talking about.

I do guess tough that it depend a lot for each individual stores... And that Wallmarts and K-marts are probably way stronger in the US than here in Québec, too.

You consider this intelligent? If you look more carefully at your own example, you'll see they're using twice the normal storage space with this method.

We have the true boxes here, i don't see why you wouldn't unless the store is stupid and leaves the actual cds in the boxes. Most sotres here leave out the boxes because really who would steal a box.