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Yeah not fan how they merged with zing pop culture.The gaming mods will love us going off topicthe EB thread is that-a-way ------------>
I shopped a lot at my closest EB (early 2000's until the late 2000's). The "managers" that were there in that time were awesome. I know good salesmanship rather than "friendship" but because I'd basically be there at the same time every week.... they looked after me with various deals and heads up on certain promotions (re: don't buy it now, wait till next week and it'll be cheaper etc). Also pre youtube walkthroughs I used to buy the game guide books with my new game purchases. They'd give me some for free (saves them throwing them out as well I guess) still took them haha.
I stopped going to EB "regularly" around 2008-9 for a variety of reasons (got games cheaper at a Harvey Norman for one thing). Still popped in every now and then to get an xbox/psn subscription card.... hate how it's more of a gaming "loot" place these days.... but in saying that I've usually found some gaming accessory in there that I otherwise wouldn't have purchased (Captain America wallet for the win hahaha).
I do wish EB would start trading/selling retro consoles Gamestop in the US sell retro games and consoles
I think that's their current strategy (being that Zing and EB are owned by the same people), many years ago they opened ZING stores and they were far better back then, being that the stuff they had was more high end - action figure replicas and the like. More "zing" stuff gradually got added to EB and EB has slowly reduced the amount of game software in their shops. The gamers loot is everywhere!!
But yeah apparently Zing stores will be further integrate into EB - it'll be more noticeable when the ZING stores start closing once their leases finish up. Although it'll be weird seeing it happen to the stores that are literally the shop next door to EB lol.
