Question #46: Your Retail Horror Stories

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Question #46: Your Retail Horror Stories; January 1st, 2009
Topic Started: Jan 1 2009, 08:10 PM (113 Views)
Rocky2000	Jan 1 2009, 08:10 PM Post #1
Spectre of iG Posts: 2,264 Group: Founder/Admin Member #1 Joined: January 15, 2007 XBL Gamertag Rocky2000 What I'm playing: Uncharted 2: Among Theives, NHL 2010 PSN Username Rocky2000	We all buy games. We all rent games. There is a way to avoid the game retail store space by ordering online, or buying from a local friend or other workarounds, but the most practical way is to visit your local video game retailer. I want to know some crazy ass retail stories from you guys. Really bad ones. Throw some good ones in there if you'd like, but from most of the chatter on other forums and communities, there's never really what some people would call a "flawless experience" with the shops. So yeah, have at it. Give us your best and worst game retail store horror stories! -Rocky
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saucey feet	Jan 2 2009, 04:19 AM Post #2
General Bad Example Posts: 440 Group: Moderator Member #51 Joined: September 18, 2007 XBL Gamertag saucey feet What I'm playing: Borderlands, Forza 3	So I reserved my copy of Gears of War 2 from Blockbuster back in like, August I think. My best bud works there so I reserved it from him. Release day comes, and I decide to go to the midnight release so I could play it all night. So I get there and let the few other people get their copy first, so I could talk to my friend and take my time. He puts my name in and DUN DUN DUNNNNNNN it says that I have nothing reserved!!! And they didn't have enough copies anyway!!! So, after much discussion, they got their manager to come. She didn't know what to do, so they called the district manager. SHE didn't know what to do, so they asked me to come back the next day so they could figure out what to do. They all knew I bought it, but the system didn't show it, and the fact that my friend was standing up for me made it look like "internal theft". One of the nice employees saw how sad I was that I had to wait until the next day, so he broke open the rental box and rented it for me so I could play it. A few days later I went back and they gave me a copy, calling it a "benefit of the doubt" according to the manager. In conclusion, Blockbuster may not have the best system, but the people that work there are kick ass =] I don't know if that qualifies as a good or bad story
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Rocky2000	Jan 2 2009, 08:27 AM Post #3
Spectre of iG Posts: 2,264 Group: Founder/Admin Member #1 Joined: January 15, 2007 XBL Gamertag Rocky2000 What I'm playing: Uncharted 2: Among Theives, NHL 2010 PSN Username Rocky2000	It was probably internal theft, as like 80% of all theiving is... but yeah. I work there, and the computers are shit. We're still running DOS, and as such are prone to things like... everything. So yeah. That's not too bad -- at least they had the decency of renting you the copy. Did you end up getting it for free? Or did you have to pay up again?
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saucey feet	Jan 2 2009, 06:00 PM Post #4
General Bad Example Posts: 440 Group: Moderator Member #51 Joined: September 18, 2007 XBL Gamertag saucey feet What I'm playing: Borderlands, Forza 3	"A few days later I went back and they gave me a copy, calling it a "benefit of the doubt" according to the manager." They gave it to me. I DID pay for it, so it's a good thing they gave it to me or I would have made a scene =p
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SpartanZypher	Jan 2 2009, 06:10 PM Post #5
Vanguard Posts: 1,904 Group: Founder/Admin Member #2 Joined: January 21, 2007 XBL Gamertag SpartanZypher What I'm playing: Assassin's Creed II, Modern Warfare 2, Forza Motorsport 3	I've never had anything worth mentioning about retail. The worst thing I could think of is not getting a game on it's marked release day, think it was Chromehounds.



thornes70	Jan 2 2009, 06:26 PM Post #6
Hooch Tester Posts: 601 Group: High Seniority Member #11 Joined: January 31, 2007 XBL Gamertag Thornes70 PSN Username eksir989	You know, I don't really have anything bad... The chumps who work at gaming stores.. Oh HEY ROCKY! LOL Seriously, I go in and if they have a game there for me to buy - I buy it, if not, I don't. One thing I don't do is reserve a copy of anything. There's just something that feels... shady to me about that. One thing I don't do is take advice from the employees, since I don't know them and I know a ton of people I game with who give better advice and know to some extent my playing style and tastes. My wife (who is also a gamer, btw) nearly has to bitch-slap them when they start trying to give her advice about a game she is preparing to buy, because they always tend to have an opinion and a need to give it, even when it's not asked for. It's caused my wife to stop going in to get games at some places.



PANZ3RG	Jan 5 2009, 02:26 PM Post #7
New Comer Posts: 28 Group: Members Member #90 Joined: May 28, 2008 XBL Gamertag PANZ3RG What I'm playing: Sadly, nothing	I call around a few local stores when I had heard that the street release date had been broken by Toys R' Uses for BioShock. My buddy absolutely had to have this game. So, I finally contact the furthest possible toys r us from me (probably 30 miles) and I was in luck, I asked to verify they had a few copies left, and was told it shouldn't be a problem. I enter Toys r Us and head to the electronics/game section, and there's a 10 year old boy uttering some unintelligible gibberish to the cashier. I stand there patiently waiting, and after a minute or so of tapping my foot, the kid's 120 year old grandmother walks up and purchases a copy of the M rated Bioshock for the kid. I ask the cashier if there are any copies left, and just my luck, that minor got the last one. End of story, I never bought Bioshock, and ended up borrowing it from someone weeks later.
	GamerTag: PANZ3RG Location: Florida Murphy's Law: Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.


Rocky2000	Jan 5 2009, 10:07 PM Post #8
Spectre of iG Posts: 2,264 Group: Founder/Admin Member #1 Joined: January 15, 2007 XBL Gamertag Rocky2000 What I'm playing: Uncharted 2: Among Theives, NHL 2010 PSN Username Rocky2000	ehhh..... Panz. That's freakin' terrible.
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