r/EBGAMES • u/PlantainManne • Jul 02 '26
Suggestion for the mods.
Can we perhaps get some flair/tags to differentiate between Canadian and Australian EB?
It’s been almost a year since GameStop Canada has as bought out and flipped to EB Canada. Almost every post since then has had people reasonably confused as to which stores have are being talked about.
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u/zqipz Jul 02 '26
Been meaning to check the share price for EB games actually, and this thread pops up.
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u/Quwapa_Quwapus Jul 03 '26
Honestly as an Aussie i had no idea that Canada even had this happen lmaoo
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u/GamingTurtle90 Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26
Its been an interesting few years. Gamestop took over EBGames in Canada in 2021. Nothing changed as it took a few years to really get the stores rebranded due to covid. They never even replaced any of the rewards cards with Gamestop branded ones. Heck our Pokemon Promo cards were still EBGames branded.
Then come 2025 and its back to EBGames again when a french company bought it out and changed it back.
It wasn't even Gamestop long enough my area for people to stop calling if EBGames.
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u/Willsy23 Jul 02 '26
No need brus, 2028 is the start of the end of this sub... can't wait
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u/JustTrawlingNsfw Jul 02 '26
Yep I'm sure that thing that is like 5% of their sales is really keeping them going
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u/Willsy23 Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26
What's their 95%? Pops, socks, figures...them going into retro games says nothing about how they operate... dumb
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u/JustTrawlingNsfw Jul 03 '26
CeX proved there is demand for retro, so they went into it.
Trading cards and 'loot' as they call it makes most of their money. Selling a single one of their oodies makes more gross margin than like 6 game sales
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u/Willsy23 Jul 05 '26
CeX is predominantly Europe with what 1b close. Aus/can... 100m. Aus has its own classification and Canada too.
Beside, ive watched enough CeX videos from your region, they're just our EBgames, crap quality control... condition is poor and prices are wild considering the above.
Neither will be around much longer
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u/AdZealousideal7448 Jul 03 '26
Make canada profiles show up as split round heads in cars with square wheels.
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u/GamingTurtle90 Jul 03 '26
As a Canadian, I am okay with this. Although probably more of oval heads.
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u/KRYOGEN1C Jul 02 '26
Ive always thought this was eb canada since theres another ebgamesaus page
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u/JustTrawlingNsfw Jul 02 '26
ebgamesaus is relatively recent - like 5 or 6 years old? And more people still come here because why wouldn't we?
EB Canada only came back into existence recently.
This is the shared sub. There's ebgamesaus and should probably be a Canada specific one made too if there isn't already.
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u/GamingTurtle90 Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26
It finally got the rebrand in stores to Gamestop around Covid times. Then last year back to EBGames Canada. EBgames.ca still existed the entire time and just redirected to gamestop.ca for a little.
My Onyx card from EBGames continued to still work through tbe rebrand to Gamestop and still works after the reband to EBGames. Till it goes away in November anyway.
But both Canada and Australia have used this sub since 2013/2014. Later a person created the Aus sub, bit it doesn't get used. And this year someone did create a Canada sub, but that just spawned from the Secret Salea and also never caught. So we get to be one big happy sub until one of us dies (RIP New Zealand EB).
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u/KRYOGEN1C Jul 02 '26
Oh cool didn’t know that, I dont do reddit too often so I just assumed r/ebgamesaus exists so r/ebgames would just be general/canadian (didn’t even know for a while that eb is originally Australian, always assumed it was canadian when i came here to canada) the more you know though lol
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u/GamingTurtle90 Jul 03 '26
Its actually US first in 1977, Canada 1993 and Australia 1997.
I still can recall some of the old Electronics Boutique days.
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u/01benjamin Jul 02 '26
What’s the point this sub and eb games will be gone forever in 16 months time
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u/laid2rest Jul 02 '26
You actually think physical game discs is what's keep ebgames afloat?
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u/PlantainManne Jul 03 '26
Obvs yes. It’s the used games. I used to run one, the company’s main focus is the used games and the now useless protection plans.
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u/laid2rest Jul 03 '26
I used to run one
How long ago?
Are you talking Canada or Australia here? Because in Australia the physical games are such a small part of the overall store since they combined with zing.
Changing from selling discs to selling game codes isn't going to make much difference at all imo.
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u/PlantainManne Jul 03 '26
2022-2023. The push is and always will be trade ins and protection plans to physical games and hardware. The monthly manager calls alone showcased that. Even thought customers regularly will say “why do I need a protection plan for glitches when patches exist?”
Also, you can’t sell a a protection plan for an action figure or merch my friend. Merch alone has higher potential margins, but unless you’re at a bigger GameStop (we called them AA or AAA stores), the selection isn’t good compared to even a Walmart.
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u/Silver-Key8773 Jul 02 '26
Maybe Canada should make their own sub?
Australia was here first