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Gamestop to buy out Electronic Boutique
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Apr 19, 2005 09:40
http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200504/N05.0418.1910.06795.htm
Today GameStop announced it would buy competitor Electronics Boutique Holdings Corp. for $1.44 billion in cash and stock. The combination of these two companies would amount to 3,200 stores in the United States and 600 stores abroad. The aquisition would make GameStop a larger videogame retailer than competitor Wal-Mart.
Electronics Boutique shareholders will receive $38.15 in cash and 0.78795 shares of GameStop Class A common stock for each Electronics Boutique share, the companies said.
Wow, that' s pretty big. I hope this doesn' t mean reduced trade in value now that Gamestop has almost zero competition from other videogame stores.
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RE: Gamestop to buy out Electronic Boutique
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Apr 19, 2005 12:13
The only thing that EB has over Gamestop is the " C" titles. What I mean is that EB gets most, if not all, " C" level games - mostly games that get little (if any) advertisement time and are expected to be sold at a budget price.
Gamestop has few stores that actually get " C" titles on release day.
Other than that, I for the EB buyout by Gamestop...
Videogaming is the contemporary interactive pasttime.
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RE: Gamestop to buy out Electronic Boutique
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Apr 20, 2005 15:34
Doesn' t matter too much to me-- EB is popular back home in Canada.
< Message edited by Sharon -- 20 Apr 05 23:35:24 >
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RE: Gamestop to buy out Electronic Boutique
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Apr 20, 2005 21:05
But doesn' t Gamestop becoming the main videogame retrailer in America scare you just a little? Just a little???  Okay, you can still buy your new games elsewhere. But what about used, huh! What about used!!!!! Ya' ll some heartless people. 
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RE: Gamestop to buy out Electronic Boutique
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Apr 20, 2005 21:13
Gamestop = Electronic Arts ;)
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RE: Gamestop to buy out Electronic Boutique
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Apr 20, 2005 21:21
So you' re saying all Gamestops will start selling one game with minor upgrades each year?
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RE: Gamestop to buy out Electronic Boutique
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Apr 20, 2005 21:44
They' ll just start buying out all the smaller mom & pop stores and probably get some sort of exclusivity deal going with many of the distribution channels their other competitors use ;)
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RE: Gamestop to buy out Electronic Boutique
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Apr 21, 2005 12:01
Even if Gamestop buys out EB, there are still many local competitors like Game Exchange, Slackers, Game Force...
I didn' t really bother with EB too much anyway...they just seemed to be the cheap version of Gamestop.
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RE: Gamestop to buy out Electronic Boutique
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May 02, 2005 23:16
although this thread is old now i had to read it, WHO CARES if EB in usa is sold to gamestop ( whatever that is ) back here in australia EB is still a huge games distributer and well who cares if it happens to people in another country, on the other side of the world, just like that damn tsunami i didnt care bout that so i wont care bout this
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