Frank
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World Law, agent b, gamefly
The inherent lazy gamer in me welcomed the concept of Gamefly, a seemingly innocuous snail mail service that lets you rent video games without having to wait behind a 46 year old man at Blockbuster holding Wild Things 3. Sit home, add a few games to your queue (fuck that word, by the way) and wait for them to arrive in your mailbox. Hooray! I was loving the service for a few days as I rampaged through a bunch of games I’d never pay full price for. But then, things started to get a little bit too heavy on the e-mail front. They mailed me every time a game came and went, which was nice, but then they mailed me to remind me the next day was a holiday. And then, how to handle a 360 disc properly. In total, I received 56 emails from them in just under 2 months. It just got to be too much, but even worse, it reminded me of the way a psycho ex-girlfriend acts.
Now sure, you’re probably saying to yourself “why not just e-mail them back asking to be un-subscribed from their mailing list?” Well, for the same reason you haven’t deleted the number of every psycho ex-girlfriend in your cell phone: glorious little messages of depravity can be an excellent source of comedy. That schadenfreude type shit. Don’t deny it. But this, this was beyond joking about. This was complete and utter Selena fan-club stalker level lunacy…
In the end, Gamefly’s desperation stretched far beyond the day I decided to cancel service. Letter after letter continued to pour in, each more frantically despondent than the last. They sent me 3 e-mails in a day begging me to resubscribe, with tears in their eyes amidst a candle lit basement effigy of my pictures bellowing sacrificial smoke into a ceiling fan. So gamers, unless your e-mail inbox is so barren and miserable that it just has to have a dense layer of dejected turpitude coating its inner walls every day, don’t fuck with Gamefly. That bitch is crazy.
26 comments 
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08.7.2008 ,
at 7:26 am
What’s Gamefly’s #? I’m so cold and alone…
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08.7.2008 ,
at 8:57 am
Nice one. I agree that they do email a lot, some things like purchasing a game for cheap from them is kind of useless in my case since it’s mainly about renting.
I wouldn’t go as far as to unsubscribe from their service though.
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08.7.2008 ,
at 9:34 am
I got an email from Gamefly within 13 minutes of reading this.”Upgrade to 3 Games - Only 25 Cents a Day More!” Leave me alone, bitch
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08.7.2008 ,
at 12:43 pm
I canceled my account a few days ago and wrote an email to support@gamefly.com asking them to never send me another email again. I told them COD4 DS and Geometry Wars Galaxies are on the way no need to email me.
Got an email today, ad the end of it said:
Have Fun!
GameFly Support
http://www.gamefly.com/help/GameFly – Ready to Play ®
Fuck you Gamefly! Its over bitch, move on!
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08.7.2008 ,
at 2:25 pm
Imagine if they sent you text alerts.. I usually use a “separate” e-mail (one I barely check) for these services
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08.7.2008 ,
at 5:20 pm
lol @ being a psycho girlfriend
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08.7.2008 ,
at 5:26 pm
they forgot the mandatory “you know, there is something wrong with you! you’re fucked up. You’ll never get a girl as hot as me!”
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08.7.2008 ,
at 8:55 pm
GameFly came up to me when I was ordering from PizzaHut.com and said she’d give it to me free for 30 days. I knew it was too good to be true. And now I know I was right to trust my instincts. She was just trying to make you jealous. What a whore.
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08.8.2008 ,
at 6:04 am
“We’ve shipped: A lock of hair sprayed with perfume
We’ve recieved: A restraining order”
LMAO
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08.8.2008 ,
at 10:36 am
I had a Gamefly account for a while. It was registered under an email address for one of my domain names that only Gamefly knew (gamefly@mydomain.com). About a week after I canceled my Gamefly account, this email accounts inbox started getting flooded with spam. Not from Gamefly, but from everyone else under the sun. I had no spam in this inbox (not counting the spam described in this article) until I canceled the Gamefly account.
I ended up sending one last email to Gamefly thanking them for selling my account info to spammers, and then setup a permanent auto forward directing all email (spam at this point) sent to gamefly@mydomain.com to something@gamefly.com (forgot exactly which @gamefly.com I used).
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08.9.2008 ,
at 1:37 pm
This article was great because it was so true. I had gamefly for a bit. Thought it was okay. The main problem for me was the delay in receiving the games because of their few shipping centers. I cancelled my account and I still get e-mails from them all the time. At some point I’m going to block them. I’ve just been lazy.
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08.9.2008 ,
at 9:11 pm
I did a Gamefly trial.
Worked great for me. Nothing ridiculous like this.
Look what you made me do! with pics? What the hell?That bitch is crazy!
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08.9.2008 ,
at 10:10 pm
Woah. What’s with the GameFly hate?
I’ve got a 4-game subscription and it’s been one of my most favorite things. I just wish they had a 1-2 day turnaround instead 6 days from game to game.
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08.10.2008 ,
at 4:11 am
Thank you, this made my night. I “lol’ed” at 5 in the morning. great stuff
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08.10.2008 ,
at 7:31 am
God… if gamefly could have netflix’s turnaround i’d be in heaven
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08.10.2008 ,
at 1:45 pm
Just a lot a dumb blather. Gamefly is awesome. I’ve never been spammed at the email address I used to set up my gamefly account and the mail I get from gamefly is relevant to it’s purpose and of no more a volume than any other online retailer I have an account with.
There’s a reason the gamer stereotype is one of an isolated, irrational, self-serving jerk. Need no more evidence then the above to see why.
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08.12.2008 ,
at 11:57 am
Tim is obviously a Gamefly employee!
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08.12.2008 ,
at 10:17 pm
fuck that gamefly skank, she smells like garlic and guidos.
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08.14.2008 ,
at 9:02 am
HA! The thread just got even more out there. I’m not sure what side of the tech-fence you all grew up on, but it doesn’t take much to understand that even joking about spamming is not that funny.
I’m sorry, but as a conscientious net-citizen I take offense at slandering good companies just for the sake of a hollow laugh.
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08.14.2008 ,
at 10:11 am
HEY! Tim is right!
Why don’t you take yourselves seriously for once. Gamefly is credible, courageous, and cost effective. For shame minus world, for this is the most offensive joke you’ve ever told.Net-citizens unite!
VOTE McCAIN! -
08.23.2008 ,
at 4:38 am
amazing…lol
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08.26.2008 ,
at 4:18 am
I hate spamming.
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09.1.2008 ,
at 1:11 pm
people are mad about this LOL LOL LOL gamefly did not ship your sense of humor you bags o’ douche.
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make it linkable immediately
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09.10.2008 ,
at 2:33 am
As far as parody and satire, this is pretty funny and the images well done but I haven’t gotten the same email frequency you have. Maybe it’s changed who knows. It’s a great service though and the spam mail is a very small price to pay.
Besides, if you admit to not doing anything to stop it I can’t feel bad. -
09.12.2008 ,
at 3:45 am
I think the best way to mess up with Gamefly is to register a new mailbox, JUST for their whiny emails.
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11.8.2008 ,
at 1:35 pm
I hate gamefly because…
1) Slow turn-around. I mean seriously, live in NY and I’m dealing with the PA shipping center. It’s great the handful of times that it only takes them a day to receive my game and a day to send a new one, but that hasn’t happened in months. Now it’s more like they receive it a four or five days after I mail it and send me a new one three days after that. It really sucks. I’d do the whole Blockbuster in-store rentals thing so I could at least go in and exchange things whenever I wanted to, but the nearest Blockbuster is like an hour away from me so no dice.
2) I almost never get the games at the top of my gameq. Sure, when I first signed up, my games were being shipped in order, but now, they skip around my Q more than alphabet soup on crack. I don’t think I’ve gotten a new release, again, in months.
I don’t get any mail from them except the alerts about when they ship/receive a game but I’m convinced that they intentionally ship faster and exactly the games you want for newer customers just to get you to stay with them and once you’ve been with them long enough for them to feel like you probably won’t leave, that’s when you get to see what their service is REALLY like.
