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It seems that Gamestation, the High Street retailer that trades in Computer games and related paraphernalia, have taken to destroying Retro Gaming equipment. Now this rather worries me. I am a big fan of old consoles and old gaming, and I believe that there is very much a market for these. So I thought that I would follow this up.
Today, 24th March 2008, I sent them an e-mail asking about the veracity of these claims via their web enquiry page.
"Dear Sirs,
It has come to my attention that there is now a policy within your organisation by which you are now destroying retro gaming consoles and related paraphernalia. (Please see attached link: www.rllmukforum.com/index.php?showtopic=180208)
Personally, I can not understand how this can be considered good policy. I appreciate that overheads are high, particularly for your stores in high profile, metropolitan areas but I do find this very distressing.
I must admit, I am not awate of the veracity of these claims, but I would like to be made aware if this is the case. If it is so, I would be willing to purchase some of these old consoles and also games.
I Look forward to hearing from you soon, and if you are unable to help me on this enquiry, I would greatly appreciate if you could put me in touch with the relevant department.
Kind Regards,"
Thanks for visiting, and please pass this onto your friends who would be as upset as me that Gamestation are doing this.
Hopefully I'll have an update for you soon.
Michael
2 comments:
That really is a bag of shite. I have a busted Amiga 1200 (to be honest, I assume it's busted...it's been in a box for about ten years) and I can't bring myself to get rid of it. And getting a pristine SNES from a recycle store in Japan was one of the happiest days I had over there.
Good luck getting a response...
Its amazing that gamestation planned to just destroy them. Its utter madness.
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