For which I applaud him. Never heard sales pitches delivered so smoothly, except maybe in front of a mirror. Which I might as well have been.

I would like to point out that I am not paid by Kotaku, though I would love the opportunity to write for them. This was a rant written to blow off some steam, not an expose on the downfall of GameStop in the new corporate America. You want that quality writing, tell Kotaku to hire me and I'll buckle down and do the…

Christ, they should have featured your story, not mine. Mine was just venting.

... No I'm not?

That's how it was pitched to me when I worked at GameStop. And I would have, if he had bothered to go above the pitch and tailor it to what I was looking at. Pitching is fine, just try to make it worthwhile instead of using it as a crutch.

It's like I didn't already know all of this! And it's also like I didn't ever ask to have my rant plastered all over Kotaku to generate thousands more hits than anything else on this site! Hooray!

As I said to someone else: "To which I refer you back to my previous statement—wouldn't it, on the most basic level, have been a better idea to base his suggestions and pitches on what little he knew about me, based on what I was looking at? That way he would have seemed like he cared about my visit, and started a…

To which I refer you back to my previous statement—wouldn't it, on the most basic level, have been a better idea to base his suggestions and pitches on what little he knew about me, based on what I was looking at? That way he would have seemed like he cared about my visit, and started a relationship that would have…

You're telling me. My inbox is insane at the moment. I don't think the system can even keep up.

How is it asinine? And forgive me, but I've been trying to respond to a lot of people, and might have missed your post. Not trying to be an ass, I'm trying to figure out why people feel differently.

But would you not agree that suggesting something based on what I have in my hand would be better than a carte blanche, throw everything at the wall and see what sticks because my boss said I have to ask about x,y,z?

Thank you so much. This is precisely why I wrote the rant.

But consider the cumulative effect of all this. There wasn't any pause for breath, after each rejection he plowed right ahead to the next.

If you think I posted this with big waving flags saying "PLEASE POST ME ON THE FRONT PAGE WHERE PEOPLE WILL BITCH IN DROVES FOR A ONE-SIDED RANT", you are gravely mistaken.

Because I hadn't been in one for well over a year. It was shocking to be greeted with a drone rather than a living person. And if you'd like to just dismiss it because the GS employee isn't here to defend himself, that's fine. If I could find him and get him here to have a debate or conversation, I'd love that…

If he cared at all about his job, I would have been a godsend (I use that jokingly, but you see my point). I'm obviously passionate about games, and if he'd taken a moment to try to strike up a conversation I'd have been more than happy to chat about upcoming games or whatever. There was never a moment I felt like he…

Last time I'll repeat this—I fault him mostly for failing to pay attention and try to upsell me on relevant items. The deeper problem lies with GameStop's practices. Perhaps I didn't make this clear enough in my initial rant. But then again, not many people expect their rants to be brought to the main page, and so…

Perhaps you missed the 4+ times I told him outright I wasn't interested in anything he was selling?

I don't mind the badgering as much as I do the irrelevant harassment. There were plenty of 'ins' he could have used to make it a more pleasant experience. He could have made small talk about Mass Effect's endings, or asked if I was excited about Dark Souls on the PC. Instead, he went for the easy regurgitation of…

Yes, and that's what I've been clarifying in TAY. The employee is to blame somewhat for a complete and utter lack of initiative, but I blame corporate the most for promoting this horrifically bad business practice.