Craziest/Funnies thing you've ever heard from an EB/GameStop employee

[anubaph]

What is the craziest or funniest thing you've ever heard from an EB Games or GameStop employee.
For and example, an EB manager confirms a rumor that Sony is buying Rockstar.

Inpired by 1up Yours

[Chacrana]

Well, when I went to get Odin Sphere, this guy was convinced that no store in the country had the game. It apparently doesn't exist. I picked it up at Best Buy 5 minutes later.

[The Mana Knight]

I walked into GS once, and heard one customer ask what's Nintendo's new console coming out (this was back in 2001). The employee said Gamecube. The guy then asks what's that other console coming out, and he says Xbox. Then the guy asks the employee, so when is X-Cube coming out.

At one of my EB locations, I overheard the employees talking about a customer. This guy comes in asking if they have Halo on PS2 in-stock. The employees said Halo is a Microsoft game and can only be found on Xbox. That customer started yelling, saying the employees were lying, because Halo certainly is on PS2. He was going to look elsewhere and ebay, because he just knows they have Halo on PS2.

There's this one guy at my local EB who's completely fanboyish (wears a Gamecube T-shirt a lot). One customer wanted to buy a PS2, and he told them there are no more PS2 games coming out, and he better not get one. That same guy gave me a hard time for owning a PS3, telling me to sell it and buy a Wii.

The Gamestop in my mall is also very pushy at times (slidecage may know what store I'm talking about).

One guy wanted to buy a brand new 360 game. The employee told a family to not buy the game, because the used was cheaper. They didn't care, they still rather buy new. Next thing the employee says is, new games only have a 7 day warranty, while used games have a longer warranty, so that's why you buy used, along with saving more. He's also like, if that new game stops working after 7 days, you're screwed. So in the end, they bought used.

Another time, when Mom was buying her son a copy of Super Paper Mario. He pushed the strategy guide on her. He pushed the replacement plan on her. Also, he pushed her to preorder Super Mario Strikers. I mean, this wasn't a small push, but a big one.

You better preorder Halo 3, Madden 08, etc. because you're guaranteed to get it on release, and I guarantee you won't find the game anywhere on release (that's what Gamestop employees say).

[wubb]

Had a Game Crazy employee that didn't know the DS couldn't play GB and GBC games. This was 6+ months after it released.

I forget exactly how the topic came up, but at some point I mentioned a GBC game wouldn't play on the DS

GC: "Sure it will, the DS is BC."
Me: "It will play GBA games, but not GB or GBC."
GC: "No, really!? Let me get a DS out of the display here and I'll show you."
[grunts and struggles to insert the GBC game] (In case you didn't know the DS slot is sized so they physically won't fit.)
He then admitted that they must not work on the DS. :mrgreen:

I didn't think that made the guy stupid by any means, but he really should know basic information like that if he's working in a gaming store.

[Mr Unoriginal]

One time they asked me if I would like to pre-order anything! Haha! Fucking nubs.

[Strell]

One tried to sell me a PS3.

Ho ho ho! What good laughs we all had!

[anotherpoorgamer]

Employee: There's no Gamecube component cable.
Me: Yes there is one, supposedly for $4.99.
Employee: It must be third party, not Nintendo brand or something.

Not exactly crazy/funny, but more odd to me. :)

[Scorch]

I walked into GS once, and heard one customer ask what's Nintendo's new console coming out (this was back in 2001). The employee said Gamecube. The guy then asks what's that other console coming out, and he says Xbox. Then the guy asks the employee, so when is X-Cube coming out.

At one of my EB locations, I overheard the employees talking about a customer. This guy comes in asking if they have Halo on PS2 in-stock. The employees said Halo is a Microsoft game and can only be found on Xbox. That customer started yelling, saying the employees were lying, because Halo certainly is on PS2. He was going to look elsewhere and ebay, because he just knows they have Halo on PS2.

One guy wanted to buy a brand new 360 game. The employee told a family to not buy the game, because the used was cheaper. They didn't care, they still rather buy new. Next thing the employee says is, new games only have a 7 day warranty, while used games have a longer warranty, so that's why you buy used, along with saving more. He's also like, if that new game stops working after 7 days, you're screwed. So in the end, they bought used.

How are those crazy things said by employees? The first two are stupid customers, the last is actually true. Buying used is cheaper with a longer guarentee.

[pop311]

Around the time Pokemon Stadium came out, I went to GS to get something (can't remember what though) and I over heard a kid asking his mom for Pokemon Stadium, but she said that she wouldn't get it for him because it was too violent. Dumbass.

[InuFaye]

One time i walked into a Gamestop and found out that the management is STILL flipping wiis on ebay. Thats why they never have more then 1 system at a time. Not exactly funny but disgusting nonetheless.

For a funny story, Once upon a time when i used to work at a gamestop, I was talking to a co-worker who swore that Gears of War was coming to the PS3. And that he kept talking about the next console will be all the consoles in one with every game ever available on the machine. And one guy that said his dad lives in japan and made final fantasy 7 and that his brother was the inspiration for cloud and his sister for yuffie. Also had one guy that swore spiderman lived outside his house.

When i worked there i sersioulsy wondered if the looney bin had escaped and they all wanted to come shop at GS.

[The Mana Knight]

How are those crazy things said by employees? The first two are stupid customers, the last is actually true. Buying used is cheaper with a longer guarentee.They were customers. I just had to share those stories too. A lot of this comes from copy/paste from another forum I posted in a similar thread once before at.

[Greetard]

The Mana Knight and slidecage live in the same area? Let's nuke it.

[Fanboy]

Also had one guy that swore spiderman lived outside his house.

Okay, this made me laugh.

I love going into EB Games and hearing clerks hard sell people on jumping on a Halo 3 pre-order because "if you don't pre-order, you won't be able to get one until March 2008!". LULZ

[Puffa469]

I love when they try to tell me that unless I order game X, I wont be able to get it at all. Thye basically imply that they will only sell preorders and then never stock the game again. Even funnier when game X is one of the rarer, limited print run titles like Madden, or Halo.

[Scorch]

they do the "you won't be able to find it" routine here, but the employee knows he's lying and it comes off rather comical.

"you.. uh.. yeah, that one is pretty popular, and it being around christmas, uh.. it won't be exactly easy to find, it's going to be pretty popular"

The customer's then like "nah, it's cool. i'll wait until it comes out"

"you sure? it's going to be really hard.. uh really hard to find because it'll be around christmas and all"

:bomb:

[FaintDeftone]

I had an EB employee feed me with a bunch of BS about the GCN version of Twilight Princess. He told me that the game could only be purchased online through Nintendo's online store, and it's in extreme limited quantities. This was after they stopped taking preorders on the game. He said and I quote:

"pssh, should have preordered"

Yeah right, dumbass. I walked into a Kmart on day of release and picked it up, then left. Everytime I go to an electronics store they have tons of copies available on both Wii and GCN. What a moron.

I remember two different EB stores I go into fed me with some Halo 3 BS. One week I went in and they said "have you preordered Halo 3? We're stopping preorders on monday". About three weeks later, they both said the exact same thing to me. About another month later, they said it again. Geez, it seems like every week you guys stop preorders on Halo 3 huh? Fucking tards.

[Graystone]

I had one guy who I guess hated his job. Give me a 10 min rant while checking out, pre-ordering his stuff that. EB is going to go under, and that why gamestop bought them out. "This whole corporation thing won't last."

I finally told him to stfu. I don't care what he thinks. I didn't come in here to listen to him piss, and moan about his job. Other then that 99% of my trips to EB/GS have been pleasant ones.

[The Mana Knight]

I remember two different EB stores I go into fed me with some Halo 3 BS. One week I went in and they said "have you preordered Halo 3? We're stopping preorders on monday". About three weeks later, they both said the exact same thing to me. About another month later, they said it again. Geez, it seems like every week you guys stop preorders on Halo 3 huh? Fucking tards.I hear that EVERY time I buy a 360 game. Are they still taking Halo 3 preorders, because I was told they'd stop by now? :lol:

[SL4IN]

well this wasn't said by an employee, but a customer. ok, so let me give you the skinny on my situation.

I work at an independent video game store called FX video game exchange. we compete with two separate gamestops in our area. we carry everything from atari 2600 to the most recent of titles and games and on top of that, we NEVER pressure you to preorder, we don't require you to put money down, and most of all, we give anywhere from 20%-50% mroe trade in value than gamestop. ok, now on with my story.

I was working my 12-6 shift yesterday and a young girl abpout 12 or 13 comes in with her 16 year old sister and 8 year old brother and their mother. I asked if I could help them out with anything and they where looking for a gba sp charger. so, I grab one of the used ones hanging on the wall, and explained to them it could be used on a gba sp and a nintendo ds. the 12 year old then preceeded to tell me that and I quote "no it doesn't. you don't know what you're talking about." baffled, I kindly told the girl it does and even offered to demonstrate it for her, but she consistently tells me I'm wrong. well, after a good long 5 minute explanation and demostration, the little girl then tells me she has a nintendo ds lite, to which I had to explain it requires a smaller charger.

I have another quite hilarious story which I'll post in a little bit. I'm sure everyone here will enjoy it.

[Strell]

Haha. Hey SL4IN, over in Post Oak Mall?

[SL4IN]

Haha. Hey SL4IN, over in Post Oak Mall?

haha yeah. hey you live in college station?????

[Strell]

Aye.

[PyroGamer]

I went in to buy a used copy of Oblivion, it had recently been discounted to $35 for that week or something like that.

Anyways he was convinced that it wasn't $35 (I handed it to him to scan, saying "this should be $35", at which point, rather than scanning it, he engaged me in the following conversation), so when I explained to him that, not only was it $35 online, but the NEW version was $40 in the store add, so it couldn't be more than that, he attempted to convince me that "when you add shipping and everything it turns out the same price anyways".

Yes, I'm sure we've all payed $25 in shipping for a >1 pound package from EBgames.


After way too much ado (some of it caused by the fact that they were training a cashier) they finally rang up the game and I was on my way... though I still had to go back in and ask for a receipt when I realized it wasn't in my bag.

[A Happy Panda]

I went and canceled my Halo 3 Legendary pre order because I originally had 2 copies ordered. One at home, and one at the GS down at school. I canceled the one at home because I'll be at school when it launches.

I pre-ordered 2 because there wasn't a release date yet.

Anyways I go and say "Hey, I wanna cancel my Halo 3 pre order."

And the guy is like "Oh ok, just the regular one?"
"No, the legendary edition"

Another employee who was looking through some drawer for a used game turned around and was like "Wait, you're canceling the Legendary edition?"

"Yeah...I have 2 copies, I only need 1"

The guy I was talking to was like "Really? The Legendary edition?"

"Yeah....like I said, I don't need 2."

"Pfft ok dude. But wow. Cancelling the legendary edition. Wow."

The guy in the drawer "You don't want to pre-order Bioshock or Mass Effect?"

Me: "No, I'm going to wait on those. And if I want them, I'll just pick it up in-store."

Employee: "Yeha. Good luck finding copies."

"I think I can find a copy or two."

Their utter disbelief in my comments and actions was pretty much gold. They were like "OMGAHZ. Like, dis guyz a total noob! Bioshock and Mass Affectz without a pre order!? LAWLZ!!! AND he's NOT buying Halo 3 Roffle roffle" I took my $25 back and left smiling. I was also thinking about how much more I know about the games industry than probably everyone involved with GS but I digress.

Oh those GS employees. Will they ever learn *shakes head*

[pandabox]

i actually went to gamestop last nite to buy an elite...and the guy tried to tell me that hdmi doesnt work on hdtv's...im like wtf dude?:roll:

then a coupla weeks ago the same guy asked me if i'd like to pre-order bioshock for ds? noob

[KingBroly]

Twilight Princess for PS3
Galaxy for 360

Not kidding.

[Milkyman]

Employee: There's no Gamecube component cable.
Me: Yes there is one, supposedly for $4.99.
Employee: It must be third party, not Nintendo brand or something.

Not exactly crazy/funny, but more odd to me. :)

Why? On later revisions of the gamecube they removed the port that you needed to use with the component cable, and as far as I know, said component cable from nintendo was only available for purchase on line.

[Tsukento]

I had an EB employee feed me with a bunch of BS about the GCN version of Twilight Princess. He told me that the game could only be purchased online through Nintendo's online store, and it's in extreme limited quantities. This was after they stopped taking preorders on the game.
If it was before the game was actually released, it's not exactly all that crazy. Japan's only method of getting the GameCube version of Twilight Princess was through Nintendo's online store. There was a time where everyone was speculating that the same would happen in the US at the rate the release was going.

[Chuplayer]

Me and the guy there were talking about Nintendo 64 and Zelda 64 before Zelda 64 came out. He wasn't a fan.

Him: "I can't stand that joystick."
Me: "But Zelda's gonna be awesome."
Him: "Meh."
Me: "And the gold cart!"
Him: "You wanna make every game for your N64 gold? I can do it for you."
Me: "Really?"
Him: "Yeah. I've just gotta get a can of gold spraypaint from Home Depot."
Me: :|

Also, last year when they were beginning to clearance out Genesis games. Not the same guy, of course.

Him: "Mortal Kombat? That game's awesome!"
Me: "Not the first one. Especially on the Genesis. It's like a tech demo of a tech demo."
Him: "But it's got the blood code!"
Me: "So, you've got to put in a code for something you got on the arcade normally?"
Him: "Still rules."
Me: "No, and there was a better code that gave you blood and so much more, dullard."
Him: "Why you gotta call me a dullard?"
Me: "No, that's the code. DULLARD."
Him: "Oh."

Back in August 1999 at EB, they were telling me that Dreamcast controllers broke really easily. Eight years later, and I'm still using my first controller. Their controllers were probably breaking because dumb kids came in and broke their demo units on purpose.

Early 2000, I think, somebody at Funco said they weren't carrying Saturn games anymore even though they were on display. A couple weeks later, I bought more games. I think they finally dropped Saturn games in 2001. Joke's on them, though. I got Guardian Heroes there for super cheap at the end of the Saturn's preowned run there. Disc only, but it still rules.

[derder]

I live near a GameCrazy where everyone that works there is batshit insane, they tell me the craziest shit.

When the price dropped for Dead Rising:

The cashier told me he couldn't sell it to me.

I asked why.

He said that I wasn't a member so he couldn't sell it to me for the new price. He THEN tried to convince me to buy the membership, which, according to his logic was free (25+20=45=sticker).

I refused. He then asked if I had seen the price in their flyer. I said, "No, I read it on the internet."

After checking to see if I had ever traded something in, he finally sold it to me.

When the tradein 50% bonus was active I was told (in this order):

That it didn't exist,
I had to preorder a game and pick it up with the credit at the same time(?),
I had to buy a new game,
I had to buy a new game from a new system,
I didn't have to buy anything:applause:,
I had to buy a new game from a next-gen system,
I could return any unopened merchandise within 7 days,
I couldn't return unopened merchandise within 7 days without a passcode,
I couldn't return unopened merchandise within 7 days without the manager,
Unopened merchandise had to be exchanged,
To leave.

[postaboy]

I was heading to ebgames to renewed my edge card, when i overheard the cashier telling a milf not to buy a psp/dslite because a xbox portable is coming out this xmas. lol

[io]

I went and canceled my Halo 3 Legendary pre order because I originally had 2 copies ordered. One at home, and one at the GS down at school. I canceled the one at home because I'll be at school when it launches.


Hey, Panda, which store? Let me know and then I can totally picture whichever set of clerks it was saying that ;).

I once heard the clerks at an EB a few months before the PS3 launch tell some little kids that it made toast. They had them completely convinced of it too. So, yeah, that was actually EB employees being pretty funny and not stupid, but I just had to share.

Otherwise I just have the usual issues to deal with like pushed preorders (you always know what's coming when they ask you what systems you own) and the fact that I nearly always have to fill them in about their own deals.

[MrCress21]

I used to work at a GS and I worked with some real dumbasses. You had all the stereotypes: the 16-year-old girl who plays her DS on the sales floor and ties up the phone calling her douchebag 22-year-old boyfriend. The Pokemon kid who, well, just plays Pokemon.
It's not any worse than any other retailer, where you have the mix of old fucks who dont care anymore, otherwise respectable college kids and...everyone else.
They do push you hard to preorder and I saw more than one guy get canned for not putting up numbers.
But this was my worst experience.
It's launch day for Devil May Cry 3, somehow my fave series even after the abysmal second one. I go to pick it up, dude tells me they dont have it, but I can preorder it (it's already out!). I tell him hell no, I'll walk to Wal-Mart across the street.
Dude: "They don't have it. I called them."
Me: "I'll go check anyway, it's not that far."
Dude: "I'll call again."
Dude proceeds to "call" Wal-Mart while I mill around. I would have left, but damn am I lazy.
Dude: "They don't have it."
I go to Wal-Mart, they have about 50 copies in the case and two full boxes of DMC3 goodness. I buy one and head back over because I'm feeling quite rude.
Me: "Hey man, good thing I didn't preorder (holds up game, still sealed). "
Dude: "Hey you got a PS2? Want to trade that in? You can apply the credit to a new release."

[SL4IN]

I used to work at a GS and I worked with some real dumbasses. You had all the stereotypes: the 16-year-old girl who plays her DS on the sales floor and ties up the phone calling her douchebag 22-year-old boyfriend. The Pokemon kid who, well, just plays Pokemon.
It's not any worse than any other retailer, where you have the mix of old fucks who dont care anymore, otherwise respectable college kids and...everyone else.
They do push you hard to preorder and I saw more than one guy get canned for not putting up numbers.
But this was my worst experience.
It's launch day for Devil May Cry 3, somehow my fave series even after the abysmal second one. I go to pick it up, dude tells me they dont have it, but I can preorder it (it's already out!). I tell him hell no, I'll walk to Wal-Mart across the street.
Dude: "They don't have it. I called them."
Me: "I'll go check anyway, it's not that far."
Dude: "I'll call again."
Dude proceeds to "call" Wal-Mart while I mill around. I would have left, but damn am I lazy.
Dude: "They don't have it."
I go to Wal-Mart, they have about 50 copies in the case and two full boxes of DMC3 goodness. I buy one and head back over because I'm feeling quite rude.
Me: "Hey man, good thing I didn't preorder (holds up game, still sealed). "
Dude: "Hey you got a PS2? Want to trade that in? You can apply the credit to a new release."

I feel both bad for you and blessed that i've never had to deal with an incompetent GS employee before.

[MrCress21]

I feel both bad for you and blessed that i've never had to deal with an incompetent GS employee before.

As long as it doesn't stop you from getting your game, you'd be surprised what you can take.
If I hadn't had a copy of that game...well that kid was fuckin dead. In a way, it's not their fault. That company is pretty crazy, but hey we love games and they sell them. We're stuck together.
When I worked there, I had another amusing thing happen - this guy comes in with a pretty gem-mint X-Box (from the outside anyway) that he wants to sell. Now last summer, these were in high demand for some reason.
So I give him I think around $50 for it, but he takes cash and that's 20% less. So I think he's got around $40.
Well, he decides to spend it in the store (I asked him to just put it in credit, but he wanted cash in his hand).
So while he's looking around, I print out a tag for the XBox, bag up the cords and shit and put a $119.99 sticker on that bad boy.
Five minutes later, kid comes in, sees me putting it in the case and buys it.
Dude comes back up to me, says there's nothing else he wants so maybe he should keep his XBox.
Oops.
Maybe not in the spirit of this thread, but funny nonetheless.

[SL4IN]

As long as it doesn't stop you from getting your game, you'd be surprised what you can take.
If I hadn't had a copy of that game...well that kid was fuckin dead. In a way, it's not their fault. That company is pretty crazy, but hey we love games and they sell them. We're stuck together.
When I worked there, I had another amusing thing happen - this guy comes in with a pretty gem-mint X-Box (from the outside anyway) that he wants to sell. Now last summer, these were in high demand for some reason.
So I give him I think around $50 for it, but he takes cash and that's 20% less. So I think he's got around $40.
Well, he decides to spend it in the store (I asked him to just put it in credit, but he wanted cash in his hand).
So while he's looking around, I print out a tag for the XBox, bag up the cords and shit and put a $119.99 sticker on that bad boy.
Five minutes later, kid comes in, sees me putting it in the case and buys it.
Dude comes back up to me, says there's nothing else he wants so maybe he should keep his XBox.
Oops.
Maybe not in the spirit of this thread, but funny nonetheless.

well technically he gave you his system and you already gave him the cash for it, so it was final. but none the less, if that happened to me, I'd go apeshit.

[whoknows]

At this one GS I don't go to very often this woman acts like it's 2006 and praises the Wii like its Jesus and bashes everything else aside from Blue Dragon which is way better than Final Fantasy according to her.

[The Crotch]

Back in August 1999 at EB, they were telling me that Dreamcast controllers broke really easily. Eight years later, and I'm still using my first controller. Their controllers were probably breaking because dumb kids came in and broke their demo units on purpose.
The controller ports, however? Ouch. Still, nothing a pair of plyers and a screwdriver can't fix.

[MrCress21]

well technically he gave you his system and you already gave him the cash for it, so it was final. but none the less, if that happened to me, I'd go apeshit.

Oh, it didn't happen to me. I was the prick that did it to the guy. I know the sale was final and I would have felt bad for him. But who sells a pristine system that way?
Me? Sell to GameStop? Bwahaah. Only when I flip games (which is wrong, but feels...oh so good).
Basically, the employees are stupid, the corporation is corrupt, they'll tell you the most ridiculous BS, but...
Long live GameStop. Here's another tale:

I'm working and kid wants to buy a used San Andreas. I sort of casually tell the kid's dad, "Hey man, that game is great, but probably a little racy for a 10-year-old."
I go out to break down some boxes and do some back room duty (have you ever seen the backroom at a GS? I am sure they have Jimmy Hoffa's corpse back there, but YMMV). I come back out and my coworker, who listened to the whole exchange, has got the kid set up with a new game.
That's right...Vice City.
But the kid's dad bought it, and he's old enough, so...

[Fragonard]

I don't think I've had a bad experience at a game store, although that might be because I just ignore every word that comes out of anyone that works there.

[JEKKI]

I posted this in another thread, but this employee one time was like

"I don't see what all the hype about Soul Caliber II is... I beat that game in like 12 minutes, it sucks"

[Callandor]

During the "trade 3, $10 bonus" last summer, I was told the bonus didn't apply if one of the games had a sequel. I tend to avoid that store now.

[A Happy Panda]

I posted this in another thread, but this employee one time was like

"I don't see what all the hype about Soul Caliber II is... I beat that game in like 12 minutes, it sucks"

Man has a point. It DOES suck.

And io - It was the GS in Tanasbourne. It was some fat guy with glasses and some other generic douchebag looking kid.

[io]

And io - It was the GS in Tanasbourne. It was some fat guy with glasses and some other generic douchebag looking kid.

Ah, that's a bit too far out there for me - never been to that one. Seriously, I frequent 6-8 other stores in the Portland area, but not that one :lol:.

[webcaster68]

Oh SL4IN I love the store you work at I try to shop there instead of gamestop keep up the good work.

[sp00ge]

$21 in credit for this stack of games and DVDs

I laughed at him and walked out. I went to the EB down the street and got almost double for the same stuff. I never went back to that scamming Gamestop again.

[mxpowar]

You don't know what you started, OP. EB/Gamestop is a BS MACHINE and this thread may well go on forever(or until a mod gets tired of it and deletes it). Anyway, recently, when Enchanted Arms for the PS3 dropped to $19.99, I called up my local EB and asked if it was in stock(I knew it probably was but I didn't want to go there for nothing) and the guy tells me Enchanted Arms never came out for PS3, only for 360. I said I'm pretty sure it did, can you please check. He says, fine, hold on and 3 seconds later (not long enough to check) he says nope, no PS3 version. So anyways, I know he's lying and I decide to chance going there and of course its in stock. Then, while I'm checking out, the guy tries hard to get me to pre-order games. First, he asks if I want to pre-order Halo 3, I say I don't have an XBOX 360. He says, ok how about bioshock? I say I-Don't-Have-A-360! He says ok, ok, how about Mass Effect? Then I finally lose my patience and say Look, man, I just came in to buy this game and if you ask me one more stupid question I'm gonna leave and buy this somewhere else. Finally that shut him up. He looked like a kid who has just been spanked. I don't usually like to get angry at EB/GS employees because its not their fault they're retarded, G-d made them that way but this time it was worth it.

[Kfoster1979]

Just the other day I was in GS and the Manager of the store sold a guy on a Halo 3 pre order not a big deal right. Well the guy asked about the 3 versions so the Manager starts with the legendary but when he gets to the 129.99 price the guy stops him and says no I don't want that one. Well you can get the regular edition for 59.99 but if you have and HDTV you have to have the limited edition the regular will not be in HD. So the customer asked again so if I get the regular Halo 3 I can't play it in HD?

Manager: Nope you have to have at least the Limited.

Customer: Your Full if shit you just lost my business.

Me: :rofl: :applause:

[phear3d]

yeah op, you dont know what you started.

the lumines craze.. this got me huntin for the game (i found 5 that day, but it wasnt easy). checked on their site which store has it in stock. alot did so i made alot of calls, possibly about 30 GS/EB. after about the 8th GS call, the guy said they have lumines and hes looking at it right now. i said to make sure, he said yes its brand new sealed. so i said ill be right over in 10 minutes.

10 mins later i ask for the lumines copy. he went and check but didnt find it, he apologize and said he didnt have it anymore. i told him that i called and he said it was infront of him. he said "oh im sorry, i apologize, this isnt my day!" so i was upset a little. i shop around and see a Growlanser Boxset. i immediately said i want this and proceeded to look for the game. they couldnt find the game. at this time i was upset so i go "are you kidding me?" in a not-so-friendly tone. so i asked if they can just sell me the empty box with the goodies they said they have the game somewhere just cant find it. SO THEY HAVE THE GAME AFTERALL. im about to head out when the guy bends down and i saw a sealed copy of .Hack Vol 1 GU Premium set and i said, "Ok ill take that one instead."

He was sweating while doing the transaction at this point. Then i remembered maybe its not all there, so i ask if its complete. He said yeah its still sealed, then i will never forget when he asked "Do you want me to open it for you to inspect?". I didnt realize how loud i was until my wife told me i was when i yelled "NO!"

i guess my question is, why are they so STUPID? i really hate going to that store knowing something like this will happen. when i checkout and ask me if i want to preorder before theyre even done asking me i just say it out loud NO THANKS.

comparing some of these pre-order stories i think GS has something to do with this. do whatever they can, stupid or not, to get that pre-order.

[lombarvm]

Having a gamestop employee explain to me what Mario Galaxy was going to be like....

"Its going to be Mario. Only IN SPACE!"

[cranguy]

"'Wii' is Japanese for 'Let's play together.'"


With a Japanese degree, I couldn't let that slip by.

[IAmTheCheapestGamer]

Otherwise I just have the usual issues to deal with like pushed preorders (you always know what's coming when they ask you what systems you own) and the fact that I nearly always have to fill them in about their own deals.

You know what would be hilarious would be to say 'Oh I own the best console out'. Now, they'll probably be thinking the PS3 or 360, but you come back with(name OLDDDDDDD SYSTEM, like the Atari 2600).

That would be a 'wtf' moment right there and I could only imagine how slack jawed they would be with your 'best console'. Even better would be if you asked if a game based on the movie ET was coming out for it. :lol:

[IAmTheCheapestGamer]

As long as it doesn't stop you from getting your game, you'd be surprised what you can take.
If I hadn't had a copy of that game...well that kid was fuckin dead. In a way, it's not their fault. That company is pretty crazy, but hey we love games and they sell them. We're stuck together.
When I worked there, I had another amusing thing happen - this guy comes in with a pretty gem-mint X-Box (from the outside anyway) that he wants to sell. Now last summer, these were in high demand for some reason.
So I give him I think around $50 for it, but he takes cash and that's 20% less. So I think he's got around $40.
Well, he decides to spend it in the store (I asked him to just put it in credit, but he wanted cash in his hand).
So while he's looking around, I print out a tag for the XBox, bag up the cords and shit and put a $119.99 sticker on that bad boy.
Five minutes later, kid comes in, sees me putting it in the case and buys it.
Dude comes back up to me, says there's nothing else he wants so maybe he should keep his XBox.
Oops.
Maybe not in the spirit of this thread, but funny nonetheless.

LOL And this is why you NEVER trade in stuff until you're done browsing the store, since once you sign that paper saying you traded it, it's the store's property now.

Poor slappy.....I won't ever sell my Xboxs, though my PRP is running out on mine in Nov, so I may be looking for a used, complete one that works like shit to use for that purpose, since the PRP doesn't say it HAS to be the one I bought from them. :lol:

[A Happy Panda]

Ah, that's a bit too far out there for me - never been to that one. Seriously, I frequent 6-8 other stores in the Portland area, but not that one :lol:.

Blech. How can you stand the idiocy? Haha. The only other ones I go to are EBX in Washington Square (which is surprisingly competent...for the most part) and the Babbages (which is not so competent)

I also visit the Pioneer Square one sometimes when I'm downtown, but since I'm in the burbs I'm not over there much.

Another story I thought of. This kid and his mom came in to trade in his Xbox1 and some games. They offer some amount and the mom is like umm...we're going to go to GC and see how much they give us.

The clerk is like oh wait, "can you...write down the amount on this business card and bring it back. Gamecrazy gives some excessive trade-ins, it's just not business."

She's like "Oh sure, if its less than here I promise we'll come back."

I was in the store for like another 15 minutes...they never came back. And the GC is literally 30 seconds away in a car. Literally. Not exactly dumb, but I enjoyed seeing GS lose their business.

[monkeydeew]

madden 08 didnt come out for gamecube

[tangytangerine]

Poor slappy.....I won't ever sell my Xboxs, though my PRP is running out on mine in Nov, so I may be looking for a used, complete one that works like shit to use for that purpose, since the PRP doesn't say it HAS to be the one I bought from them. :lol:

That won't work. They print the serial number of the console on the receipt, which is needed to swap the system. So as soon as they notice the serial numbers don't match, they'll deny it.


As for weird, ever had a employee tell you Mech Assault was coming to PS2?

[SaraAB]

The first rule of thumb is to NEVER call a GS or EB to ask if they have a game in stock from the locator, all you are doing is telling them that they have something good in the store and then the employees wisk it away to that magical employee hold drawer and you will never see it again while it is still showing up on the locator. If you want to go buy something from the locator you have to actually drive to the store to get it.

[phear3d]

The first rule of thumb is to NEVER call a GS or EB to ask if they have a game in stock from the locator, all you are doing is telling them that they have something good in the store and then the employees wisk it away to that magical employee hold drawer and you will never see it again while it is still showing up on the locator. If you want to go buy something from the locator you have to actually drive to the store to get it.

yeah but 90% of the stores that i called that didnt know what was the whole deal with the lumines. if i didnt call them, i would have driven about 150 miles total to all the stores, not a very smart move. the majority of the stores i called had 1 or no copies. about 20% of the stores that had one either just sold their copy or someone already put it on hold. when i went to the store that had 4 copies someone had called in and said that they'll also pick them up as well. of course i beat them to it.

there was 1 store i called that had 8 copies , but they were 80 miles away from new york city. im sure someone made a small fortune out of those like i did with mine (sold each for $40+, my last copy was $48).

[Techsticles]

Alright I'm old I guess, but here's a couple semi-amusing stories:

1) I worked at a Funcoland years ago during the time when they merged with Gamestop. Anyways this chunky Mario looking guy comes in and trades in some SNES rpgs, he gets the credit slip, walks around looking for some SNES rpgs and decides to buy one of them he just traded in because he couldn't find any others he wanted to play.

2) I got fired because I smarted off to the district manager once when he commented on how poor my cleaner and magazine subscription sales were. I believe I told him it was stupid to have to force something on customers they don't really need or they may already have. Ironically a week or so later he came in and fired most everyone from the store I had like 80% upsales that day or whatever the fuck they were called back then... they called it insubordination. (I want to give a shout out to Doug who may or may not still be working as a DM in Houston, fuck you!!!) HAHA

3) A long long time ago in a glaxay far away, and before I worked there, a buddy of mine from High School worked there. I was talking to him one day and he tells me some kid came in and tried to steal the foam padding around a Virtual Boy they had. The kid took off running and he chased after the kid and tackled him. Subsequently the kids parents were called and the dad beat his kids ass infront of my friend.

[Caliburn]

One clerk pitched for me to preorder Halo 3 for XBox360 or PS3, as I was scooping up PS1 games on clearance.

[gothamcentral79]

i guess i'm a lucky one because i rarely even have gamestop employees mention preordering to me and if they do it's just once and then they drop it. i'm more annoyed by their customer service. everytime i go in their is 3 or more employees behind the counter just bullshitting and only 1 employee ringing customers up. i end up spending 10+ minutes in line waiting to be helped.

[phear3d]

i'm more annoyed by their customer service. everytime i go in their is 3 or more employees behind the counter just bullshitting and only 1 employee ringing customers up. i end up spending 10+ minutes in line waiting to be helped.
which brings me sometime ago i see 3 of them behind the counter doing nothing and all of a sudden the guy ringing me up starts throwing the game boxes pretty hard on the counter, and give me this look like hes doing me a big favour. i gave him a bad look but that didnt do anything so i slammed by credit card ontop of the boxes and he has this look like he was about to be eaten. pretty funny. he didnt mention any pre-orders to me after that incident.

[anubaph]

I was in a Gamestop two days in a row (My brother asked me to pick up Madden '08 for GC for him). The same clerk who had helped me on Tuesday helped me again on Wed (since they usually have the old PC games I want in the back room). Even though he remembered me and the games I had been looking for the previous day, AND the fact that I did not have a 360 or PS3, he still tried to push Halo 3, Bioshock, Mass Effect, and Heavenly Sword pre-orders on me. Twice in two days!

[IAmTheCheapestGamer]

That won't work. They print the serial number of the console on the receipt, which is needed to swap the system. So as soon as they notice the serial numbers don't match, they'll deny it.


As for weird, ever had a employee tell you Mech Assault was coming to PS2?

Well then, I guess I'm going to be calling BB corp, since I swapped out my Xbox I bought on Black Friday about 2-3 days later since the controller sounded like it was gonna fly apart at any second and they told me my extended warranty was STILL good and "covered the Xbox I had at that time"or some such vague statement, which to me is loophole speak for 'ANY fuckin Xbox I decide to bring in'.

We shall see in November though, as I plan on trying(at least) to cash in that PRP on SOME Xbox.

[Punk_Raven]

I remember I was in a gamestop and this guy called up and asked for some Naruto game for the PS2. The first naruto game for the ps2 i think. I'm thinking it was like " Naruto Ultimate Ninja ". The guy who called up asked for " Naruto Ultimate Fighter " and the clerk said " no, we don't have it". The guy hung up the phone and said " Naruto Ultimate NInja dumbass". Don't know if it was that game, but it was pretty funny / dickish.

[tangytangerine]

I remember I was in a gamestop and this guy called up and asked for some Naruto game for the PS2. The first naruto game for the ps2 i think. I'm thinking it was like " Naruto Ultimate Ninja ". The guy who called up asked for " Naruto Ultimate Fighter " and the clerk said " no, we don't have it". The guy hung up the phone and said " Naruto Ultimate NInja dumbass". Don't know if it was that game, but it was pretty funny / dickish.
How would you feel if you got calls all day asking for wrong titles. Say someone called asking for "Super Mario Sunny Delight" for Gamecube:roll:. Who knows, the kid calling could've been a dick about asking for it.

Iamthecheapestassgamer, the warranty just covers that one system. So as soon as you returned it, the PRP was used up. So expect to fight it in November.

[IAmTheCheapestGamer]

Iamthecheapestassgamer, the warranty just covers that one system. So as soon as you returned it, the PRP was used up. So expect to fight it in November.

Oh I plan on doing just that, since I was told the wrong thing apparently and that it was STILL valid. I may hit a BB and verify that NOW, so I don't have this much hassle in Nov.

[A Happy Panda]

How would you feel if you got calls all day asking for wrong titles. Say someone called asking for "Super Mario Sunny Delight" for Gamecube:roll:. Who knows, the kid calling could've been a dick about asking for it.

Iamthecheapestassgamer, the warranty just covers that one system. So as soon as you returned it, the PRP was used up. So expect to fight it in November.

Ehh. Some complaints against retail employees aren't warranted...but that's a legitimate complaint. How hard is it to say "Oh you mean Super Mario Sunshine" or "Oh, you mean Naruto Ultimate Ninja?"

Not very.

That employee is a dick for sure and actually should be repremanded. By saying no they don't have it, he basically lost out on a sale.

Also, whats the worst the kid could've said to be a dick? "Hey, do you fucks have Naruto Ultimate Fighter in?" I highly doubt that.

[Techsticles]

That employee is a dick for sure and actually should be repremanded. By saying no they don't have it, he basically lost out on a sale.
If its anything now like it was 5-6 years ago, which I'm positive it is, they don't care. The only thing that matters are upsales and preorders. A regular sale just lowers your percentages and makes you look bad.

[DX]

Was in an EB games across the street from a Wal Mart Supercenter and joked with my wife about the 9 copies of CSI season one they had instock used. The clerk asked if we needed help and I made a comment how those probably came from the WM across the street. he stated no they couldnt be stolen because "they run all the serial numbers on their products to make sure they arent stolen"......

[life.exe]

Walked in today to trade in some PSP games. The employee inspects them, then tells me the games are "too new" and they wont take them...

[Fanboy]

Me and the guy there were talking about Nintendo 64 and Zelda 64 before Zelda 64 came out. He wasn't a fan.

Him: "I can't stand that joystick."
Me: "But Zelda's gonna be awesome."
Him: "Meh."
Me: "And the gold cart!"
Him: "You wanna make every game for your N64 gold? I can do it for you."
Me: "Really?"
Him: "Yeah. I've just gotta get a can of gold spraypaint from Home Depot."
Me: :|

That's actually funny in a way that all the other stories in this thread are not.

[sp00ge]

Walked in today to trade in some PSP games. The employee inspects them, then tells me the games are "too new" and they wont take them...

You should know that GS requires games to have at least one skip across a sidewalk before they are acceptable. :D

[dracula]

craziest thing i ever heard from a GS employee was that they could not take trades because they lost their pawn license. Since buying games for $3 and then putting them on the shelves to sell for $30 is their bread and butter, i thought it was pretty dumb not to stay on top of something that important.

[thesilentshadow30]

Not long ago they changed the sign of from EB to Gamestop at one mall store that I sometimes go to. When it was changed they had some people asking what happened... Well the clerk was trying to seem intelligent and started telling a story. " EB Games and Gamestop were the biggest game stores and were fighting for the same market share and with competition from Target, Best Buy and Wal-Mart they got together and decided to merge and that was they would have a bigger market share and not be fighting with each other."

.....

[thetoxicone]

A few years back ign had an April Fool's article about an upcoming virtual boy themed gba sp that played all the games in red and black only and so on. This article was obviously fake and anyone with half a mind would know that. So a couple days after that article was on the ign I'm at a gamestop checking out the gba games and the clerk comes up to me and asks me if I heard about the virtual boy gba sp that was going to be coming out. After his rant I just walked out of the store trying not to laugh.

[Unickuta]

Not long ago they changed the sign of from EB to Gamestop at one mall store that I sometimes go to. When it was changed they had some people asking what happened... Well the clerk was trying to seem intelligent and started telling a story. " EB Games and Gamestop were the biggest game stores and were fighting for the same market share and with competition from Target, Best Buy and Wal-Mart they got together and decided to merge and that was they would have a bigger market share and not be fighting with each other."

.....

He probably believes that.

[Unickuta]

This old lady walks in and ask the employee, I want to buy a good racing game for playstation 2 for my son (it was christmas). The gamestop employee gives her GTA san andreas LOL

Err...an old lady's son is probably like 30, and it is called Grand Theft Auto, so it really isn't that whack(hehe- whack)

[orangecrush]

Alright I'm old I guess, but here's a couple semi-amusing stories:

3) A long long time ago in a glaxay far away, and before I worked there, a buddy of mine from High School worked there. I was talking to him one day and he tells me some kid came in and tried to steal the foam padding around a Virtual Boy they had. The kid took off running and he chased after the kid and tackled him. Subsequently the kids parents were called and the dad beat his kids ass infront of my friend.

Funniest video game store story ever.

[masterofdarkness]

If I ever work there I will have my facts straight and not be a total asshole :P

[mxpowar]

If I ever work there I will have my facts straight and not be a total asshole :P
That's what you say now but if you ever do end up working there, part of your "training" will be to have your brain lobotomized and replaced with a recording that loops "would you like to pre-order (insert hyped upcoming game)?" True story.

[dinovelvet]

Walked in today to trade in some PSP games. The employee inspects them, then tells me the games are "too new" and they wont take them...

Wuhhh? What does that even mean? You should have rubbed them on your crotch, and then put them back on the counter, saying "How about now?"

[monkeydeew]

the current email 10% off coupon 'is not complete and cannot be accepted' and no he wouldnt even look at it and said i was trying to scam him.

wow, i guess i know who i'm cancelling 3 preorders on

[DesertEagleXIX]

I put $10 on Crackdown about a two months before release. The receipt was faded to begin with, so I stored it in an old sun-light proof ammo container.

Still, it became pretty unreadable. I picked up Crackdown for cheaper, and go into Gamestop about three weeks later.

Me: "I'd like to pick up [game x] and use my store credit from Crackdown. Here's my receipt"

GS: "I can't read your receipt, dude."

Me:" Well can you look it up by telephone number?"

GS:"No, dude. You need a valid receipt to pick up the game. That receipt isn't valid"

Me:"Well, what am I supposed to do, you guys have my money."

GS: "Take better care of your receipts, man.

Me:"Well, can I talk with the DM?"

GS:"That's policy from the DM; I can't do a thing"

Complete bullshit. I got GS Corporate to get me in touch with the DM. He said the only way they could give me credit, was if the order was under my cell phone number and they would call me in-store. Luckily it was. What a wired situation them calling me, standing 5 feet away.

Never went back to that Gamestop.

[Blackout]

Alright I'm old I guess, but here's a couple semi-amusing stories:

1) I worked at a Funcoland years ago during the time when they merged with Gamestop. Anyways this chunky Mario looking guy comes in and trades in some SNES rpgs, he gets the credit slip, walks around looking for some SNES rpgs and decides to buy one of them he just traded in because he couldn't find any others he wanted to play.

2) I got fired because I smarted off to the district manager once when he commented on how poor my cleaner and magazine subscription sales were. I believe I told him it was stupid to have to force something on customers they don't really need or they may already have. Ironically a week or so later he came in and fired most everyone from the store I had like 80% upsales that day or whatever the fuck they were called back then... they called it insubordination. (I want to give a shout out to Doug who may or may not still be working as a DM in Houston, fuck you!!!) HAHA

3) A long long time ago in a glaxay far away, and before I worked there, a buddy of mine from High School worked there. I was talking to him one day and he tells me some kid came in and tried to steal the foam padding around a Virtual Boy they had. The kid took off running and he chased after the kid and tackled him. Subsequently the kids parents were called and the dad beat his kids ass infront of my friend.

:applause: First story is great, lmfao.

One time I was at GS with my friend. He was trading in some games because he needed something to play. He was trading in FF12 CE and the asian dude behind the counter was like "no way your trading this is man! I can't believe it!". It was like a 5 minute back and forth thing debating my friend NOT to trade in FF12.

Another time this prick worker was showing off to the asian dude (who was probably a noob worker) about how many preorders he gets and how good he is on XBL. Funny too cause I haven't seen the guy since, LOL. He probably got fired.

Another time at this ghetto in da hood GS, I had to wait 20 minutes in line for Armored Core PSP. there was like 6 people working there, but only one person at the counter. One black dude who was working there was hitting on some chicks and like 3 employees were in front checking out some car. Meanwhile the GS is packed to hell. It was probably the most ghetto GS ever. Games were on the floor, stacks of games everywhere. It was a mess.

[urzishra14]

I go in to a few as often as I can.. I remember picking up Balder's gate dark alliance 2 for the xbox.. and i was purchasing, inspected the disc (no scratches or anything) and was pushed for the warrenty was told "i'm never going to see another one again you should get the warrenty" I told him "i'm an adult I think I can handle disc based media by myself thanks by no thanks"..

another time I was purchasing midway arcade treasures 2.. it was a few years ago.. but i've always had a beard , i'm pretty obviously over 18 (i think i was around 20 at the time) anyways, i was talking to the clerk before i bought it how "i loved Mortal Kombat in the arcades i cant wait to play it again.. " and i got ID'd.. it was kinda weird.. i never got ID'd for a game before..

and finally this one comes from my girlfriend.. she was in NC and I was in UT and I told her she should go find Marvel Vs Capcom 2.. and she went to a gamestop or something and asked the clerks and they pretty much laughed at her saying "you're never going to find one again" and everytime we go into a used game store now and find one we are sure to mention it..

[electronicmaji]

Taking in 3 ps2 games (including rare edition of Xenosaga 1) and 10 dvds and getting offered a grand total of ...$18 dollars for them...I was trading in for WOW:TBC and was totally hooked at that time that I almost took them up on it; althought I had...like no money on me... :drool:

[Rodimus]

I worked at a mom & pops video game store about 8-9 years ago when I was in High School. We were mall based so parents would drop their kids off at the mall during summer and play our PS2 & Dreamcast kiosks all day long. We had them all connected to one power strip and to be a dick I would occasinally unplug the system when we noticed they had been playing for way too long or was getting very involved. The kids would say "Hey, it turned off." & I'd replay with something like, "Yeah, somtimes it shuts down when the system gets too hot."

At the same store we had alot of regular customers and some where plain freaks. We constantly had an odd couple with their son come in. I think the kid didn't go to school cause he was as dumb as bricks. But this was when the Pokemon card craze was hot and they got perminatly removed from the mall cause they were scamming little kids out of their Pokemon cards. They were always real shaddy people and the father would constantly ask me if I had an idea for an invention to tell him and he could get the rights to make it and we could split the profits.

Lastly we had one of those real annoying geeks that constantly came in but never bought anything. The guy was like 6 foot tall, weighed about 300 lbs and had the most annoying rat tail hair cut. I just wanted to clip the stupid looking thing off. Anyways he came in and constantly would lie about random shit for no reason. One of my favorite lies he told me was that his uncle made all the Final Fantasy music. So I asked him, "So your uncle is Nobu Uematsu" and said, "Yeah but I call him uncle Kevin." He later told me uncle Kevin married a Japanese girl and it was their culture if you're international that you must change your name to a Japanese name.

[A Happy Panda]

I worked at a mom & pops video game store about 8-9 years ago when I was in High School. We were mall based so parents would drop their kids off at the mall during summer and play our PS2 & Dreamcast kiosks all day long. We had them all connected to one power strip and to be a dick I would occasinally unplug the system when we noticed they had been playing for way too long or was getting very involved. The kids would say "Hey, it turned off." & I'd replay with something like, "Yeah, somtimes it shuts down when the system gets too hot."

At the same store we had alot of regular customers and some where plain freaks. We constantly had an odd couple with their son come in. I think the kid didn't go to school cause he was as dumb as bricks. But this was when the Pokemon card craze was hot and they got perminatly removed from the mall cause they were scamming little kids out of their Pokemon cards. They were always real shaddy people and the father would constantly ask me if I had an idea for an invention to tell him and he could get the rights to make it and we could split the profits.

Lastly my we had one of those real annoying geeks that constantly came in but never bought anything. The guy was like 6 foot tall, weighed about 300 lbs and had the most annoying rat tail hair cut. I just wanted to clip the stupid looking thing off. Anyways the came in an constantly would lie about random shit for no reason. One of my favorite lies he told me was that his uncle made all the Final Fantasy music. So I asked him, "So your uncle is Nobu Uematsu" and said, "Yeah but I call him uncle Kevin." He later told me uncle Kevin married a Japanese girl and it was their culture if you're international that you must change your name to a Japanese name.

Ahahahaha. I don't care if its not a GS story, but I think we have a winner.

[refusedchaos]

Me: hey id like to return this copy of Vampire Rain, i didnt open it
GS Employee: Sorry dude you cant return new games
GS Manager: Yes you can you $$$, dont you ever pay attention you lazy ass?

[edavis0780]

Lastly we had one of those real annoying geeks that constantly came in but never bought anything. The guy was like 6 foot tall, weighed about 300 lbs and had the most annoying rat tail hair cut. I just wanted to clip the stupid looking thing off. Anyways he came in and constantly would lie about random shit for no reason. One of my favorite lies he told me was that his uncle made all the Final Fantasy music. So I asked him, "So your uncle is Nobu Uematsu" and said, "Yeah but I call him uncle Kevin." He later told me uncle Kevin married a Japanese girl and it was their culture if you're international that you must change your name to a Japanese name.[/quote]

Comic Book Guy!:D

[Punk_Raven]

Comic book guy always had his facts straight.

[masterofdarkness]

That's what you say now but if you ever do end up working there, part of your "training" will be to have your brain lobotomized and replaced with a recording that loops "would you like to pre-order (insert hyped upcoming game)?" True story. Nah I'd kick their ass if they tried...

[NismoZZzz]

Well I work there and I'm about to leave with this upcoming tuesday being my last day (w00t).

Regardless, so many weird ass customers walk in and I will admit some of my co-workers are idiots when it comes to policy and common sense on video games. The other day some guy asked if he new HDMI port 360 Premiums were out and my employee blatanly said it was only the Elite about 4 times to the guy. I always have to but in and fix the situation with the correct information. I understand all of your situations you had with many of the locations. I visited a few myself and despise a good chunk of them.

Our best customer in the sense of not being the best is this one we named CODE BOY. He's in his 40s and comes in with we assume his wife. He always looks at the same games and talks to himself.

CB: THRILLVILLE? BEAT IT......DIDN'T LIKE IT!!!!!"

Then he will continue to walk around the store doing this and yellingout that same exact phrase, but with a different game.

Now why we call him CODE BOY. Everytime he comes in for the past 3 years, he always tells us the same 2 codes.

CB: Hey, you play Castlevania?
EMP 1: I gotta get something in the back
EMP 2: No.
CB: WELL, YOU CAN DOUBLE JUMP LIKE INTO OTHER LEVELS AND GET THESE SUPER POWERS THAT DESTROY EVERYTHING AND YOU CAN DOUBLE JUMP AND....(insert more BS here)

or the other code.

CB: IN SOCOM 3, I GOT THIS CODE WHERE YOU CAN SHOOT SOMEONE FROM A MILE AWAY!!!! I SHOT SOMEONE 15 LEVELS AHEAD OF ME IN THE LAST LEVEL!!!!!!!!!!!


If there are 2 employees on the floor, one will always leave the other to suffer.

[masterofdarkness]

Well I work there and I'm about to leave with this upcoming tuesday being my last day (w00t).

Regardless, so many weird ass customers walk in and I will admit some of my co-workers are idiots when it comes to policy and common sense on video games. The other day some guy asked if he new HDMI port 360 Premiums were out and my employee blatanly said it was only the Elite about 4 times to the guy. I always have to but in and fix the situation with the correct information. I understand all of your situations you had with many of the locations. I visited a few myself and despise a good chunk of them.

Our best customer in the sense of not being the best is this one we named CODE BOY. He's in his 40s and comes in with we assume his wife. He always looks at the same games and talks to himself.

CB: THRILLVILLE? BEAT IT......DIDN'T LIKE IT!!!!!"

Then he will continue to walk around the store doing this and yellingout that same exact phrase, but with a different game.

Now why we call him CODE BOY. Everytime he comes in for the past 3 years, he always tells us the same 2 codes.

CB: Hey, you play Castlevania?
EMP 1: I gotta get something in the back
EMP 2: No.
CB: WELL, YOU CAN DOUBLE JUMP LIKE INTO OTHER LEVELS AND GET THESE SUPER POWERS THAT DESTROY EVERYTHING AND YOU CAN DOUBLE JUMP AND....(insert more BS here)

or the other code.

CB: IN SOCOM 3, I GOT THIS CODE WHERE YOU CAN SHOOT SOMEONE FROM A MILE AWAY!!!! I SHOT SOMEONE 15 LEVELS AHEAD OF ME IN THE LAST LEVEL!!!!!!!!!!!


If there are 2 employees on the floor, one will always leave the other to suffer.
haha that sucks

[Rodimus]

^ Where I worked we also had special names for the usual odd ball customers.

Nerd Guy: Very Quite, rarely spoke, he was about 40 years old. He was a good customer and very loyal to us, however sometimes he asked the most random questions like, "Didn't the last boss of Grandia 1 have more HP than the last boss of Grandia 2?" He never looked you in the eye and was always rocking back and forth, he would often point at stuff he wasn't even looking at which confused me. I think he had autism. For some reason we created a myth that he visited the woods and ate bacon with squirrels.

Stubbles: This guy always had a five o'clock shadow and came in with with his gf alot. He always looked like he hadn't taken a shower in a week. He rarely ever bought anything and when he did he would try to bring it in just a day or two later claiming it didn't work. The first time we gave him his money back since we couldn't replace it. But the second time I knew he was lying. He was trying to return Draconus for the DC, he claimed it frooze at the memory card screen. I told him we could replace it and he didn't want to cause he was scared the same problem would happen again. I quickly hooked up a DC, popped the game in and showed him it worked fine on ours and it must be his system or VMU. After about 5 minutes of arguing he finally brooke down and said he just didn't want it and he didn't like the game. I told him that's not a valid reason to return something and said I could give him trade-in credit. He didn't like it, but he had to take it. I won :)

Convertable Kid: He was about 9 years old, he had a lisp and was obsesed with DBZ. We carried those PS1 DBZ imports with the Game Wizard to play imports on your American PS1. The DBZ games & Game Wizards were very expensive at the time so he could never buy one, but he always came in an asked about them. Since he had a lisp he didn't call the Game Wizards "Converters" but "Convertables" hence his name. It was hard for me not to laugh everytime he came in asked, "Do you stwill hawve the convertables?" He thought these games were the greatest in the world just cause it was DBZ. He couldn't have been more far from the truth. I was such an a-hole when I was younger, making fun of little kids with lisps. :cry:

[IAmTheCheapestGamer]

I put $10 on Crackdown about a two months before release. The receipt was faded to begin with, so I stored it in an old sun-light proof ammo container.

Still, it became pretty unreadable. I picked up Crackdown for cheaper, and go into Gamestop about three weeks later.

Me: "I'd like to pick up [game x] and use my store credit from Crackdown. Here's my receipt"

GS: "I can't read your receipt, dude."

Me:" Well can you look it up by telephone number?"

GS:"No, dude. You need a valid receipt to pick up the game. That receipt isn't valid"

Me:"Well, what am I supposed to do, you guys have my money."

GS: "Take better care of your receipts, man.

Me:"Well, can I talk with the DM?"

GS:"That's policy from the DM; I can't do a thing"

Complete bullshit. I got GS Corporate to get me in touch with the DM. He said the only way they could give me credit, was if the order was under my cell phone number and they would call me in-store. Luckily it was. What a wired situation them calling me, standing 5 feet away.

Never went back to that Gamestop.

I swear, I think Best Buy AND Gamestop use invisible or disappearing ink on their receipts, since even the receipts from Circuit City I have somewhere around here in this mess from 2 years ago are still legible.

<shakes head> Then again, I keep all my receipts stacked on top of one another on my one dresser, so that could be it.

[masterofdarkness]

^ Where I worked we also had special names for the usual odd ball customers.

Nerd Guy: Very Quite, rarely spoke, he was about 40 years old. He was a good customer and very loyal to us, however sometimes he asked the most random questions like, "Didn't the last boss of Grandia 1 have more HP than the last boss of Grandia 2?" He never looked you in the eye and was always rocking back and forth, he would often point at stuff he wasn't even looking at which confused me. I think he had autism. For some reason we created a myth that he visited the woods and ate bacon with squirrels.

Stubbles: This guy always had a five o'clock shadow and came in with with his gf alot. He always looked like he hadn't taken a shower in a week. He rarely ever bought anything and when he did he would try to bring it in just a day or two later claiming it didn't work. The first time we gave him his money back since we couldn't replace it. But the second time I knew he was lying. He was trying to return Draconus for the DC, he claimed it frooze at the memory card screen. I told him we could replace it and he didn't want to cause he was scared the same problem would happen again. I quickly hooked up a DC, popped the game in and showed him it worked fine on ours and it must be his system or VMU. After about 5 minutes of arguing he finally brooke down and said he just didn't want it and he didn't like the game. I told him that's not a valid reason to return something and said I could give him trade-in credit. He didn't like it, but he had to take it. I won :)

Convertable Kid: He was about 9 years old, he had a lisp and was obsesed with DBZ. We carried those PS1 DBZ imports with the Game Wizard to play imports on your American PS1. The DBZ games & Game Wizards were very expensive at the time so he could never buy one, but he always came in an asked about them. Since he had a lisp he didn't call the Game Wizards "Converters" but "Convertables" hence his name. It was hard for me not to laugh everytime he came in asked, "Do you stwill hawve the convertables?" He thought these games were the greatest in the world just cause it was DBZ. He couldn't have been more far from the truth. I was such an a-hole when I was younger, making fun of little kids with lisps. :cry:
I'd laugh too, if he spit on someone else XDXDXDXDXD

[Rozz]

I swear, I think Best Buy AND Gamestop use invisible or disappearing ink on their receipts, since even the receipts from Circuit City I have somewhere around here in this mess from 2 years ago are still legible.

<shakes head> Then again, I keep all my receipts stacked on top of one another on my one dresser, so that could be it.
They use something called "thermal receipts" I think, which are cheaper for the company to buy but at worse for the consumer because they wear out. FYE uses the same ones I believe.

Also, once I saw a kid ask for Dragonball Z Budokai 3 and the guy kept insisting they had no new copies left (even though I saw one on the shelf) and they said all they have is the used one.

And I had an employee walk up to me, acting nice and then trying to get me to pre-order Halo 3 legendary, saying it's going to be worth hundreds of dollars on eBay one day. Yeah, I'm sure of it.

[masterofdarkness]

They use something called "thermal receipts" I think, which are cheaper for the company to buy but at worse for the consumer because they wear out. FYE uses the same ones I believe.

Also, once I saw a kid ask for Dragonball Z Budokai 3 and the guy kept insisting they had no new copies left (even though I saw one on the shelf) and they said all they have is the used one.

And I had an employee walk up to me, acting nice and then trying to get me to pre-order Halo 3 legendary, saying it's going to be worth hundreds of dollars on eBay one day. Yeah, I'm sure of it.Not at the rate they are asking people to buy it now. The more people pre-order the less people are going to want it... unless your part of FatAssGamer.com.;)

[bison11]

Well this in not so much a employee but a customer. The employee asked which basketball game the guy was going to get either Live or 2k, the man was buying madden at midnight, the guy was like i dunno, the employee kept pushing him to reserve it, then the guy said "I dont know, i will probably just get both of them". then i think he resereved both. I mean who gets both basketball games and reserves them both

[NismoZZzz]

^ Where I worked we also had special names for the usual odd ball customers.

Nerd Guy: Very Quite, rarely spoke, he was about 40 years old. He was a good customer and very loyal to us, however sometimes he asked the most random questions like, "Didn't the last boss of Grandia 1 have more HP than the last boss of Grandia 2?" He never looked you in the eye and was always rocking back and forth, he would often point at stuff he wasn't even looking at which confused me. I think he had autism. For some reason we created a myth that he visited the woods and ate bacon with squirrels.

Stubbles: This guy always had a five o'clock shadow and came in with with his gf alot. He always looked like he hadn't taken a shower in a week. He rarely ever bought anything and when he did he would try to bring it in just a day or two later claiming it didn't work. The first time we gave him his money back since we couldn't replace it. But the second time I knew he was lying. He was trying to return Draconus for the DC, he claimed it frooze at the memory card screen. I told him we could replace it and he didn't want to cause he was scared the same problem would happen again. I quickly hooked up a DC, popped the game in and showed him it worked fine on ours and it must be his system or VMU. After about 5 minutes of arguing he finally brooke down and said he just didn't want it and he didn't like the game. I told him that's not a valid reason to return something and said I could give him trade-in credit. He didn't like it, but he had to take it. I won :)

Convertable Kid: He was about 9 years old, he had a lisp and was obsesed with DBZ. We carried those PS1 DBZ imports with the Game Wizard to play imports on your American PS1. The DBZ games & Game Wizards were very expensive at the time so he could never buy one, but he always came in an asked about them. Since he had a lisp he didn't call the Game Wizards "Converters" but "Convertables" hence his name. It was hard for me not to laugh everytime he came in asked, "Do you stwill hawve the convertables?" He thought these games were the greatest in the world just cause it was DBZ. He couldn't have been more far from the truth. I was such an a-hole when I was younger, making fun of little kids with lisps. :cry:


Haha, yeah we have a few names for oddballs as well.

CODE BOY: A 40 year old man who repeats the same 2 codes everytime he visits the store.

THE BROTHERS GRIMM: Two brothers (two fat kids) who always come in the store looking for games their father refuses to purchase. One will always end up running out of the store with his father chasing him around the parking lot. They never look you in the eye and always stutter their words.

RESIDENT EVIL BOY: A 30 year old man who will always buy only Resident Evil games. He has purchased multiple copies, trades them in, then buys them again. Will always ask about Resident Evil and will always talk about it.

HAKEEM OLAJUWON AND OTTO ROCKET: Two kids who always skateboard to our store to play the Xbox 360 interactive and trade in busted gamecube games. One reminds me of the HAKEEM OLAJUWON from the Rockets NBA team back in the 90s and the other looks like OTTO ROCKET. Both annoying and always lean on the counters.

THE SESAME STREET GANG: Four blonde kids who always come in and just stare at the television playing the monthly TV crap. They always talk pokemon and play the DS interactives and buy world of warcraft trading cards.

THE SPITTER: An old lady who comes in often that buys PSP movies and always trades them in. She has bad hearing and will always louldly say "HUHHHH" while spitting all over your face while talking.

THE WII BROS: Two guys who come in and will always say Wii is the best and everything else sucks. They buy all the fluff Wii has and always continue to support it. They also despise FF7.

[daminion]

One guy wanted to buy a brand new 360 game. The employee told a family to not buy the game, because the used was cheaper. They didn't care, they still rather buy new. Next thing the employee says is, new games only have a 7 day warranty, while used games have a longer warranty, so that's why you buy used, along with saving more. He's also like, if that new game stops working after 7 days, you're screwed. So in the end, they bought used.


I've heard this exact spiel before.

[dracula]

Now why we call him CODE BOY. Everytime he comes in for the past 3 years, he always tells us the same 2 codes.

CB: Hey, you play Castlevania?
EMP 1: I gotta get something in the back
EMP 2: No.
CB: WELL, YOU CAN DOUBLE JUMP LIKE INTO OTHER LEVELS AND GET THESE SUPER POWERS THAT DESTROY EVERYTHING AND YOU CAN DOUBLE JUMP AND....(insert more BS here)

or the other code.

CB: IN SOCOM 3, I GOT THIS CODE WHERE YOU CAN SHOOT SOMEONE FROM A MILE AWAY!!!! I SHOT SOMEONE 15 LEVELS AHEAD OF ME IN THE LAST LEVEL!!!!!!!!!!!


If there are 2 employees on the floor, one will always leave the other to suffer.

fwiw there is an item you get which kills everything on the screen. I honestly forget which fo the CV games had it- of course it had nothing to do with a double jump. Unless, he meant double jumping up to one of the lamps and it drops the item that kills everything on the screen.

[dracula]

Well this in not so much a employee but a customer. The employee asked which basketball game the guy was going to get either Live or 2k, the man was buying madden at midnight, the guy was like i dunno, the employee kept pushing him to reserve it, then the guy said "I dont know, i will probably just get both of them". then i think he resereved both. I mean who gets both basketball games and reserves them both


someone with absolutely no cheapness at all. Both of those basketball games will be under 10 bucks within the next 9 months.

[jousley]

I had some Gamestop girl try to sell me an Edge card membership...AFTER I used my Edge card on a used game. I said "Well..I just renewed this one about 2 weeks ago" to which she replyed "Well, dont you have a friend that needs one? Buy it and give it to them" to which I replied no thanks. She kind of whimpers and leans forward saying "My DM is in the back...it would really look good for me if you bought this membership....Ill give you this CD free with it "(it was some preorder bonus CD)

I was really getting mad by this point...I HATE pushing sales staff. I look over toward her manager that was standing behind the counter with her, assuming he would notice me getting upset...he shrugged his shoulders and smiled at me. That was the final straw, and I just pushed all the games back across the counter (it was during the B2G1 sale...a bit over $200 worth) and said forget it. I thought the girl was going to cry. Felt good to walk out of the store like that though.

[monkeydeew]

I had some Gamestop girl try to sell me an Edge card membership...AFTER I used my Edge card on a used game. I said "Well..I just renewed this one about 2 weeks ago" to which she replyed "Well, dont you have a friend that needs one? Buy it and give it to them" to which I replied no thanks. She kind of whimpers and leans forward saying "My DM is in the back...it would really look good for me if you bought this membership....Ill give you this CD free with it "(it was some preorder bonus CD)

I was really getting mad by this point...I HATE pushing sales staff. I look over toward her manager that was standing behind the counter with her, assuming he would notice me getting upset...he shrugged his shoulders and smiled at me. That was the final straw, and I just pushed all the games back across the counter (it was during the B2G1 sale...a bit over $200 worth) and said forget it. I thought the girl was going to cry. Felt good to walk out of the store like that though.


uggo?

[magiic]

I had some Gamestop girl try to sell me an Edge card membership...AFTER I used my Edge card on a used game. I said "Well..I just renewed this one about 2 weeks ago" to which she replyed "Well, dont you have a friend that needs one? Buy it and give it to them" to which I replied no thanks. She kind of whimpers and leans forward saying "My DM is in the back...it would really look good for me if you bought this membership....Ill give you this CD free with it "(it was some preorder bonus CD)

I was really getting mad by this point...I HATE pushing sales staff. I look over toward her manager that was standing behind the counter with her, assuming he would notice me getting upset...he shrugged his shoulders and smiled at me. That was the final straw, and I just pushed all the games back across the counter (it was during the B2G1 sale...a bit over $200 worth) and said forget it. I thought the girl was going to cry. Felt good to walk out of the store like that though.

That's awesome. I'd do the same thing. I hate that kind of BS

[Punk_Raven]

jousley, you lost me when you didn't buy the games. That and when the manager smiled and shrugged. What impression did that give you? Elaborate.

I'm thinking it's either that you thought the girl was BSing or that you were appauled by the fact that the manager didn't do and or say anything when he saw his employee practically begging you to buy an edge card.

[cranguy]

jousley, congrats on standing up for the consumer's right (term used loosely) not to be annoyed endlessly, especially when he's patronizing the store. I don't think I could have done the same thing, but I definitely applaud you.

[mxpowar]

I don't know what your gender is, Jousley, but if the girl was good looking, you could have said, " So, how BADLY do you want me to buy this EDGE card?" And then give her a wink. Just to see what she would say. :)

[jousley]

Thanks Magiic and Cranguy. Punk_raven, I was pissed that the manager stood there and let such unprofessional behavior happen in front of him when it was clear I wasn't interested in buying a second membership. His smile and shrug felt like he was saying "What can I do about it?". As for the girl, Mxpower...oh she was very cute. About 15 years younger than me, but still cute for sure...not sure my wife would have liked me saying THAT though ;) Maybe Im getting old, but her being cute just annoyed me even more with her behavior. Just seemed like she was used to getting away with "sweet talking" people into doing what she wants. Not buying the games didn't hurt me much. Believe it or not, there are 5 Gamestops, 2 Game Rushes, a Game Crazy and a Game Swap within about 15 minutes of that area....I just went to the next Gamestop and got the same games, without the hassle.

[jer7583]

I bet there's plenty of Gamestop managers that would die to hire a cute girl that can pressure lonely nerds who can't say no to a girl into pre-ordering stuff.

There's one chick who works at the one here, but she's a monster. Man hands, dark ass eye makeup, piercings, o'donnell body, the whole works.

[xRiskyx]

A gamestop employee told me God of War 2 is the LAST ps2 game being made.

I knew he was full of shit the second he said that.

[LilPaintballer]

i walked in to gamestop like most tuesday mornings, and noticed the had a huge bin of gamecube games and i saw bongos, the convo went like this
Me: Hey
Him:Hey, can i help you?
Me:Yea, how much are the bongos on that shelf
Him:Those...
Him:Well if there not giving those away free by now id say 5 bucks

hes a really nice guy though and knows alot about games

[Punk_Raven]

Ahh. I can agree with you, then. The cuteness wouldn't have helped at all. If I were you, I would've just laughed in her face and told them that I was going to a Gamestop close to here where I won't be practically begged to get something that I obviously don't need. What sucks is that they probably praise this type of behavior. I'd like to belive that most nerds today are wiser than to fall for this type of BS, but I know that it is not true.

[monkeydeew]

I bet there's plenty of Gamestop managers that would die to hire a cute girl that can pressure lonely nerds who can't say no to a girl into pre-ordering stuff.

There's one chick who works at the one here, but she's a monster. Man hands, dark ass eye makeup, piercings, o'donnell body, the whole works.

i ALWAYS preorder for pretty girls, i hope more show up at GS

[djkunai]

i ALWAYS preorder for pretty girls, i hope more show up at GS

Fellow CAGs, I give you subject "A".

[carrottopso]

HAAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA i must be subject B. But then i go back in and tell them I want to return the pre order.

[davo1224]

You NEVER ask a customer to help you out unless it's someone you know. Shit, if you suck at your job that bad then it's better off that you're fired.

[Paco]

i ALWAYS preorder for pretty girls, i hope more show up at GS

You're just encouraging their bullshit. I make it a habit NOT to treat cute or pretty girls any better then regular people.

[monkeydeew]

i dont preorder crap from hot girls b/c i feel pressured to, i do it to screw over mr pony tail & goatee. if pretty girls have good numbers, then thats less annoying 30 year old pricks who smell bad and <3 naruto.

and paco your sig is really vulgar wtfreak player

[poolshark181]

i walked in to gamestop like most tuesday mornings, and noticed the had a huge bin of gamecube games and i saw bongos, the convo went like this
Me: Hey
Him:Hey, can i help you?
Me:Yea, how much are the bongos on that shelf
Him:Those...
Him:Well if there not giving those away free by now id say 5 bucks

hes a really nice guy though and knows alot about games

for some reason, i busted out laughing at this, :)\


my own story, i went into a gamestop about 3 months ago hunting for a wii,

Me: Hi
Gs Manager: Hello how can i help you?
Me: Do you all have any Wii's in stock?
Gs Manager: *grins stupidly* nope, we do have ps3's though


I just walked out after that, if i wanted a ps3 i would have asked if they had it -.-

i got a wii about 3 weeks later at another gs though =]

[ihavenolife123]

and paco your sig is really vulgar wtfreak player

Just google the first line, its hilarious

[snotknocker]

On Batman Dark tomorrow

"I guarentee this will be the best $50 you'll ever spend, this game by far is the best i ever played"

[galvatron2k1]

This one a**hole from Gamestop will go over to the local Target close to release and make sure they are not breaking street date on any games and if they do manage to make a mistake, he calls on them to get them in trouble.
It's one thing to happen to be in the Target and notice they broke a street date. It's another to actively seek it out to fuck them.

As a side note, I happened to go into an EB a long time ago (before the merge) and was discussing how I had bought a game from a major retailer and the guy starts talking about how they broke the street date and it wasn't supposed to come out until the next day. I explained to him that he had his dates off and that the current day was the street date (which it was) and he got all pissed off and said he was going to report the store and I'm a jerk for supporting them. Needless to say, that was the last time I was in that store.

[IAmTheCheapestGamer]

i ALWAYS preorder for pretty girls, i hope more show up at GS

I've only ever put down pre-orders if someone is willing to bend the rules for me(ie let me grab pennied stuff). Otherwise, I just kinda look at them like 'I'm not giving you a dime' when they ask if I'm 'interested in anything that's coming out'.

[Tsukento]

Pretty girl wants numbers with pre-orders? She's gonna have to give her number out to get herself a pre-order.

[Punk_Raven]

i dont preorder crap from hot girls b/c i feel pressured to, i do it to screw over mr pony tail & goatee. if pretty girls have good numbers, then thats less annoying 30 year old pricks who smell bad and <3 naruto.



You sure do have some fucked up logic, but w/e. :-?

[Punk_Raven]

Ok, in continuation of the other thread about my problems with my Edge card, I have a story. The guy who looked at the card looked at it, typed stuff into the computer, slid it through the card reader ( that it CLEARLY for credit/ debit cards ) and then tells me that I have to re register and pay. Yeah. He couldn't have gotten any numbers on the card becuase looking back it was completely illegible, but my vision is shit so idk.

[IAmTheCheapestGamer]

Ok, in continuation of the other thread about my problems with my Edge card, I have a story. The guy who looked at the card looked at it, typed stuff into the computer, slid it through the card reader ( that it CLEARLY for credit/ debit cards ) and then tells me that I have to re register and pay. Yeah. He couldn't have gotten any numbers on the card becuase looking back it was completely illegible, but my vision is shit so idk.

WAIT!! So they said you had to PAY AGAIN for the Edge card and magazine subscrip?? F that, I would've said 'cancel my order and f off, I'm going elsewhere'. You know how many times over the past 2-4 years I've had to have my Edge card sticker reprinted? I'd guess it's somewhere around 3-8 times, since EACH time the damned ink magically disappears.

And, each time they're able to make out the numbers JUST enough to enter them in and reprint the sticker for me. This last time the clerk was smart and put a piece of clear packing tape over the sticker, to protect it from some fading, not that it matters since my card expires in like 2 months anyway.

So, just go to a different place and get the sticker redone, since they SHOULD be able to read at least SOME of the numbers, unless the card and sticker ended up in some fluid which made the numbers COMPLETELY illegible.

[blandstalker]

This is a customer story. Happened yesterday. I am not making this up.

A woman comes in with her kid, who looks four, maybe five. As she's making her way to the front, she says "Alright. We're here to boogie-oogie-oogie [makes motion with her arms] or maybe Sonic."

At this point I thought she might be somewhat cool. I didn't realize she was completely insane.

Insane Woman: So, do you have Boogie for the Win? Is it any good?

[for some reason, she called it 'the Win' instead of 'the Wii']

GS woman: Yeah, and I don't know. I haven't played it.

Insane Woman: How come you don't know? I saw the video and it looks great.

GS woman: I haven't played it and I haven't heard from anyone who has.

Insane Woman: Can you put it on the Win over there? Can we try it out?

GS Woman: We're not allowed to demo anything. If I were to open it up, I would have to sell it as used.

Me: [at this point, I'm trying not to laugh]

Insane Woman: The Mario Party 8 we got here was open and you said it was new.

GS Woman: [unintelligible]

Insane Woman: Well, what about Sonic? Sonic and the Secrets. Sonic and the Secret Heroes. Sonic and the Secret Whatever. On the Win.

GS Woman: I'm not sure you want that. Many people didn't like it.

Insane Woman: Well, that stinks. We need something new because we don't like Mario Party 8?

GS Woman: You don't? It's Mario Party. What's not to like?

Me: [remember this for later]

Insane Woman: He's bored with it. We wanted Boogie or Sonic. Have you got anything else?

GS Woman: There are games over there.

Insane Woman: Oh, good. We got the Win and all he ever plays is Sonic Heroes. That's like a Gamecube game.

Insane Woman: These are all fifty bucks. I don't want to spend fifty bucks because he may not like it. Like Mario Party 8. We don't like Mario Party 8.

GS Woman: Yeah, well, with Mario Party 8, they made it completely different.

Insane Woman: What do you mean?

GS Woman: Well, Mario Party 4 and 5 were really good, but then they changed everything and people were disappointed.

Me: [huh? didn't you just express surprise that they didn't like it.]

Insane Woman: [to kid] Well, what do you think of [some crap licensed game]? We could go to Blockbuster and rent it. Unless we can take it back if we don't like it.

GS Woman: You can't do that for new games; you'd have to trade it in. But you could bring back a used game.

Insane Woman: [seriously] You can't buy used Wii games.

GS Woman: Yes you can.

Insane Woman: But you can't find them anywhere.

GS Woman: There are some used Wii games right over there.

Insane Woman: Shut up! Where?

GS Woman: [points...right where Insane Woman was a moment ago]

Insane Woman: [awed] No.......way!

[Insane Woman just stares for a minute, like it's a religious experience]

Insane Woman: Well, that's good. I don't want to go back to Blockbuster because he [points to kid] hid Flushed Away from me and we had to pay like forty-five dollars to Blockbuster and then afterwards he wouldn't ever play it again.

Me: [Your kid hid a game from you, you paid $45, and you're here buying him another one?]

Insane Woman: We don't like Monkey Ball either.

GS Woman: Why not? A lot of people thought it was good.

Insane Woman: It's too simple for us.

Me: [It's too simple for your 5 year old? How long did you play?]

Insane Woman: Oh, here's [can't see it] for $40, and here's SpongeBob for 24.99. I think we'll go with that. What do you think?

I wanted to hang out and listen for the next 20 minutes or so, but I had to get going.

[Rozz]

How could you have remembered all of that?

[dracula]

I don't know what your gender is, Jousley, but if the girl was good looking, you could have said, " So, how BADLY do you want me to buy this EDGE card?" And then give her a wink. Just to see what she would say. :)


i was going to say somethign like this, if she was even semi decent looking but looked a bit skanky i would have said, "forget about the CD, let me have your phone number and i will buy your card."

I am half joking here, in reality a woman working in a game store geared towards selling product to the young male demographic, she should use that tactic every day "my DM is in the back and it would look really good if you bought an edge card from me." Then she should get all pouty, and bat her eyes at you. Shit she would sell 10 edge cards a day if she was at least semi decent looking.

[pandabox]

^ +1 on that one :applause:

[mxpowar]

i was going to say somethign like this, if she was even semi decent looking but looked a bit skanky i would have said, "forget about the CD, let me have your phone number and i will buy your card."

I am half joking here, in reality a woman working in a game store geared towards selling product to the young male demographic, she should use that tactic every day "my DM is in the back and it would look really good if you bought an edge card from me." Then she should get all pouty, and bat her eyes at you. Shit she would sell 10 edge cards a day if she was at least semi decent looking.
Amen, brother!

[mxpowar]

You hooked on the penis power, and this man won't even buy you any shrimp from long john silver and that plate like what 2.99? But he gets you a mouth full of sperm and a rectum full of sperm. All he offering you is a side of penis. And he has this HEAT. This power from his PENALS.

WTF?!!!!!!!!

[blandstalker]

How could you have remembered all of that?

Well, my son was in the corner playing Viva Pinata and I told him he could have 10 minutes and I had already traded my stuff in and looked over the likely suspects. The store was empty. I had little to do and was actually thinking about this thread, and how nothing much ever happens when I go to Gamestop.

Then the woman bursts in boogie-oogie-oogie-ing, and she had my full attention. Given the ludicrous stuff that both she and the GS employee were saying, how could I not remember it? Especially since it kept getting weirder as it went on.

[Allnatural]

Insane Woman: Can you put it on the Win over there? Can we try it out?

GS Woman: We're not allowed to demo anything. If I were to open it up, I would have to sell it as used.

Me: [at this point, I'm trying not to laugh]

Insane Woman: The Mario Party 8 we got here was open and you said it was new.

GS Woman: [unintelligible]
I know the "omg! GS sells open games as new!" complaints are getting old, but the woman, crazy or not, makes a great point.

[cranguy]

Insane Woman: So, do you have Boogie for the Win? Is it any good?
Boogie FTW lol. Sounds like she's been reading too many forums.

[crowbb]

Many moons ago a friend of mine was returning a CD-ROM based game and the employee resisted taking it back insisting "How do I know you didn't put a virus on this?"

[mxpowar]

Many moons ago a friend of mine was returning a CD-ROM based game and the employee resisted taking it back insisting "How do I know you didn't put a virus on this?"
Your friend should have said " Actually I did put a virus in it and now that you touched it, you're infected!"

[hegor]

I remember before I even worked in gaming retail I visited this mom and pop store in SoCal call Games for Less. This is about three months after the PS2 came out. This mom came in and wanted to buy one. The clerk said she would be happy to sell her a PS2 but she would need to buy a horizontal stand for it. She asked way, and the clerk told her that several PS2s were catching on fire and that the stand would protect her home from damage. She bought a PS2, horizontal stand, memory card, and a game. Given that she had just believed that the PS2 was a fire hazard, she just got one anyway.

[dinovelvet]

Not really crazy or funny, but just...odd.

I found some decent Playstation 1 games on the store locator a few days ago, so I went to this out of the way Gamestop to find them. Of course I didn't see any PSX titles, while I was looking, a girl working there asked if I needed help. Conversation :

Me - Yeah I was looking for some original Playstation games, do you have any?
Girl - Oh no, we haven't sold those in a while.
Me - Right. The thing is, the store locator said...
Girl - (interrupting) Do you know you can play Playstation games on a Playstation 2, and also on a Playstation 3?
Me - ....OK thanks, bye.

I think mention of "original Playstation" triggered a robotic programmed response to try and sell me a PS2/3, so I thought it was best to cut it off right there. The words "protection plan" and "extended warranty" were probably not far away, had I not made my daring escape.

[mrblinG22]

i called a gs employee a noob when i asked him about cod4's street date, then he said "whats a noob?"

laaaaawl what a noob..

[crowbb]

Hehe actually my friend's response was a bit different. He was returning it because it had clearly been returned before (Due to writing in the manual that said call Phil and a number). So he opened it up and said ok, well who is Phil and why should I call him? They took it back after that.

Your friend should have said " Actually I did put a virus in it and now that you touched it, you're infected!"

[cranguy]

I remember before I even worked in gaming retail I visited this mom and pop store in SoCal call Games for Less. This is about three months after the PS2 came out. This mom came in and wanted to buy one. The clerk said she would be happy to sell her a PS2 but she would need to buy a horizontal stand for it. She asked way, and the clerk told her that several PS2s were catching on fire and that the stand would protect her home from damage. She bought a PS2, horizontal stand, memory card, and a game. Given that she had just believed that the PS2 was a fire hazard, she just got one anyway.Wow. This sounds like the age-old "get women to think they are protecting their family" approach that gets exploited over and over again, especially in TV commercials.

Still funny that she bought it after being convinced it was a fire hazard.

[The Mana Knight]

Speaking of Gamestop, my Gamestop had me SO upset today, that after I pick up my Wild Arms 5 preorder, I'm NEVER preordering another game from them. I'm even going to pass up on getting Growlanser: Heritage of War (PS2) after upsetting me so much.

They might have thought it was funny, but not me (It relates to something I removed a friend on my Facebook for doing once).

[mxpowar]

Speaking of Gamestop, my Gamestop had me SO upset today, that after I pick up my Wild Arms 5 preorder, I'm NEVER preordering another game from them. I'm even going to pass up on getting Growlanser: Heritage of War (PS2) after upsetting me so much.

They might have thought it was funny, but not me (It relates to something I removed a friend on my Facebook for doing once).
Since you're leaving out the best part of your story, your post is kind of a tease, isn't it?

[electronicmaji]

Speaking of Gamestop, my Gamestop had me SO upset today, that after I pick up my Wild Arms 5 preorder, I'm NEVER preordering another game from them. I'm even going to pass up on getting Growlanser: Heritage of War (PS2) after upsetting me so much.

They might have thought it was funny, but not me (It relates to something I removed a friend on my Facebook for doing once).

it sounds like a diehard ff7 fan who dresses like aerith all the time getting owned and then swearing of that store for the rest of their life....


ROFL lets all laught at the noob!

[yukine]

Speaking of Gamestop, my Gamestop had me SO upset today, that after I pick up my Wild Arms 5 preorder, I'm NEVER preordering another game from them. I'm even going to pass up on getting Growlanser: Heritage of War (PS2) after upsetting me so much.

They might have thought it was funny, but not me (It relates to something I removed a friend on my Facebook for doing once).

It must be something that makes you look bad, as you won't tell us what happened. Don't worry, we won't make fun you... much.

[Punk_Raven]

This thread will not die.

[Lord Draconus777]

Ok, here's the stupid gamestop manager boast of the day:

So, me and my brother walk into a local gamestop, just to look around. So, my brother, who's been looking for a Nintendo Wii for a while now, inquires about the shortage, despite me telling him that Nintendo is purposely keeping it low. So anyway, the manager at this gamestop decides to bullshit my brother by exclaiming that the Wii is the best selling console in history. He went on to try and make fun of my brother by going "I mean, how do you expect to find on when in 8 months, it's already sold more than the PS2 in 7 years!!!?!??!?" Immediately after walking out, I told my brother that the manager their was a short bus kid.

[Jesus_S_Preston]

I have a sad employee story.

I went to pick up my Bioshock LE on Tuesday and had a conversation with the guy working there about it. He was stuck at work all day and wouldn't be able to play it until that evening. Poor guy.

Seriously, though, the EB around here is great.

[Punk_Raven]

How can the Wii sell more than the PS1 when no one can find the damned thing? Still.

[Gameboy415]

-Shortly before the PS2 came out I was at Gamestop buying a stack of Dreamcast fighting games for $20 each

GS Guy: "Man, why are you buying these? Dreamcast is GAY! You should save up for PS2, its gonna be so swee-
Me: (cutting him off mid-sentence) "Do you want this money?" *waving wad of cash*
GS Guy: "w-whaa?"
Me: "Do you want this money? If you don't shut up and ring up my games, I'm leaving."
GS Guy: ".......that'll be $59.99...."

-This one's a little strange, mostly because it was my first time back in America in over a year and a half:

*GS Guy rings up my games, I pay, dude hands me the games*
Me: Thanks.
GS Guy: Thank you. ENJOY YOUR DAY!
Me: Yeah you to- wait, what?
GS Guy: Huh?
Me: What'd you just say?
GS Guy: .......enjoy your day....?
Me: Oh....uh......you too....
*I walk of the store confused*

Sounds dumb, I know, but prior to that day, I had NEVER heard anyone say anything other than "Have a nice day!" when I was leaving a store.
But EVERYWHERE I went last December, I heard "Enjoy your day!"
When the hell did that become the new phrase??

It just really caught me off guard. :lol:

[redfusion]

-Shortly before the PS2 came out I was at Gamestop buying a stack of Dreamcast fighting games for $20 each

GS Guy: "Man, why are you buying these? Dreamcast is GAY! You should save up for PS2, its gonna be so swee-
Me: (cutting him off mid-sentence) "Do you want this money?" *waving wad of cash*
GS Guy: "w-whaa?"
Me: "Do you want this money? If you don't shut up and ring up my games, I'm leaving."
GS Guy: ".......that'll be $59.99...."


Heh, that sounds like a penny arcade comic.

[Link927]

-This one's a little strange, mostly because it was my first time back in America in over a year and a half:

*GS Guy rings up my games, I pay, dude hands me the games*
Me: Thanks.
GS Guy: Thank you. ENJOY YOUR DAY!
Me: Yeah you to- wait, what?
GS Guy: Huh?
Me: What'd you just say?
GS Guy: .......enjoy your day....?
Me: Oh....uh......you too....
*I walk of the store confused*

Sounds dumb, I know, but prior to that day, I had NEVER heard anyone say anything other than "Have a nice day!" when I was leaving a store.
But EVERYWHERE I went last December, I heard "Enjoy your day!"
When the hell did that become the new phrase??

It just really caught me off guard. :lol:

December, might have been some temps or something during the holiday season, or maybe its just the xmas spirit?

[JadedJedi]

I walked into a EB in the middle of summer, whith nothing in my hand and the employee says, "What did you bring to trade in today?"

[Scotty P]

Prelude: I am 22 years old and look 25 at youngest.

Going into Gamestop: I pick up the Persona 3 strategy guide on my break from work intending to get in and out as quick as possible.

Pimply faced employee: Asks his manager if he needs to check my ID, clearly and audibly in front of me, then asks me for my ID, and I laugh.


You probably had to be there, but it was funny to me.

[Animefalcon]

You can play crysis with a geforce 4 mx card

[zerowing]

Picked up the new DS, the guy was so clueless and was lost in space, I gave him two hundreds and he just stared at them for about 2 minutes. Then after the transaction he just hands me the box, no reciept and no bag, I just sat there waiting and finally said, "How bout a reciept?"

[hegemonyhog]

Games I've been told by the employees at the crappy EB Games I'll need to preorder in the past year or so in order to ever get them:

God of War II
Gears of War
Kingdom Hearts II
WarioWare: Smooth Moves
Super Paper Mario
Madden 07/08
New Super Mario Bros.
LoZ: Twilight Princess (Wii)
Metroid Prime 3
Guitar Hero 2
Odin Sphere
Disgaea 2

What I was advised against preordering, as there would be plenty available:

The Nintendo Wii

[unicron129]

Finally I have a story. Yesterday my little sister brought her DS Phat to gamestop to do the trade in deal where you give them your old ds and 79.99 for a new DSL (keep in mind that I had only heard of the promotion on CAG not in a GS store). So my mom asks some girl if they are running the sale and the girl just looked at us dumbfounded. So she asks this other guy if they are doing the sale and the guys like "I have no clue...".

So I move slightly to the left of the girl that works there and theres this 3' by 6" banner on the little "island" with the accesories RIGHT NEXT TO HER HEAD that says "trade in your old DS and 79.99 for a DSL". So im like "oh, you guys are doing the sale, its on that poster ". So the girl just stares at the poster for 10 seconds and then says "I dont know is it?". Then she calls over the other guy who finally agrees.

I just thought the whole thing was pretty funny. Oh, and a heads up for the deal, they charge you tax over the 129.99 not over the 79.99.

[reibeatall]

I just thought the whole thing was pretty funny. Oh, and a heads up for the deal, they charge you tax over the 129.99 not over the 79.99.

No they don't.

[ITDEFX]

I walked into a EB in the middle of summer, whith nothing in my hand and the employee says, "What did you bring to trade in today?"


That's usually standard EB/GS employee policy.

Yes I have had that happened to me a few years ago, took one step into the door and just before I cleared it, the guy hammered me with that question. I should have just said, "yes...but they are actually at your parents house so give me the keys to your car and your house I will go get them!"

I dare someone to say that to them and see what they do lol.

[Scorch]

I dare someone to say that to them and see what they do lol.

They would probably look at you like you're retarded. That wasn't funny at all.

[monkeydeew]

So I move slightly to the left of the girl that works there and theres this 3' by 6" banner on the little "island" with the accesories RIGHT NEXT TO HER HEAD that says "trade in your old DS and 79.99 for a DSL". So im like "oh, you guys are doing the sale, its on that poster ". So the girl just stares at the poster for 10 seconds and then says "I dont know is it?". Then she calls over the other guy who finally agrees.

this exact thing happened to me too.

[DuelLadyS]

Picked up the new DS, the guy was so clueless and was lost in space, I gave him two hundreds and he just stared at them for about 2 minutes. Then after the transaction he just hands me the box, no reciept and no bag, I just sat there waiting and finally said, "How bout a reciept?"

I like to imagine he was just giving your money the anti-counterfeit-once-over, but his later actions suggest he was stalling so it looked like an anti-counterfeit-once-over, when he didn't really even know what he should be looking at. :lol:

[unicron129]

No they don't.

Well according to the receipt my sister got and how much extra she had to pay they do.

[xGunCrazyx]

i asked for Jet Set Radio Future, and they told me to look in PS2 section
also, i reserved so many games (since i hate them asking me to reserve crap for five minutes) that i had enough money to buy a new game.
i swear they were actually begging me not to take off the reservations lol

[tangytangerine]

No they don't.
Yes, they do.

They ring up the DSL as $129.99, use the regular DS as $50 store and you pay $79.99. Since you're not paying for it all with store credit, you have to pay tax. Game Crazy uses the same method.

[Link927]

i asked for Jet Set Radio Future, and they told me to look in PS2 section
also, i reserved so many games (since i hate them asking me to reserve crap for five minutes) that i had enough money to buy a new game.
i swear they were actually begging me not to take off the reservations lol

Well it goes against there numbers, so obviously they dont want to have negatives

[klew]

Before I figured out never to buy a shrinkwrapped game from them again, I'd purchased a "new" game only to find that underneath the shrinkwrap was a case that still had price sticker glue on it and concealed a disc with smudges and scratches.

When I confronted the store clerk, she had the audacity to insist that it was in fact a brand new game and say, "That's how it came from the manufacturer."

[monkeydeew]

i'm pretty sure you can just exchange it for another copy of the same game.

[ITDEFX]

They would probably look at you like you're retarded. That wasn't funny at all.

Not trying to be funny... but to annoy me before I can clear a door you bet your ass I am going to be pissed off. Now if he is retarded enough to give me the keys to his car and house... now that would be one hell of a story to tell.

[SaraAB]

I would just turn around and walk out the door, and buy the game online or at the store next door, a few days of waiting for an online purchase or going to the store next door is not going to kill me. If it was a preordered game then I would first cancel the preorder then go to another store.

[ReaperZER0]

I've had the same thing happen to me with them mentioning I need to pre-order a game, because I'll never find it if I don't pre-order. Mine was Guitar Hero: 80's, they were convinced that I wouldn't be able to find it at all. I'm like, do you know how many stores are within a small driving distance from me that are almost guaranteed to have this game? :roll:

But the worst was when I was buying a bunch of used games from somewhere. Now I'm a collector, so when I get games, I check that the disc is in perfect or very near perfect condition, the instructions are intact, and the rest of it is good as well. So I had a giant stack of games I wanted to look at, and I bring them up there. They must have thought WOW at first. But I have to check each one, so the guy gets annoyed the more I do this. You'd think he'd be stoked that I'm getting so much, but he's visibly not.

We go through a whole bunch of things, I ask if they have more copies of x game, he and the other guy say, "Maybe we do, maybe we don't" after I had refused to purchase a protection plan on the games, and told my friend to not do it either. I finally say, okay, fine you want me to get them somewhere else? At that point he gets super super mad, but he plays it calm, so he's just seething under the surface.

I forget what else happened, but I know that enough bad stuff happened just on that one transaction to make me never want to go to that store ever again.

On the upside the closest EB to me now has to be the NICEST store ever. They don't try to sell me crap, the guys (and supercute girl) in there actually know their stuff and will actually be straight with me if I ask them how a game is. Only pre-order they ever tried to sell me was Rock Band. Which was a smart move, because they knew what I liked, and that is the type of game that you absolutely need to pre-order because that $200 bundle isn't likely to just be laying out everywhere.

[masterofdarkness]

My EB guys are kick ass. We talked for like 10 minutes about Gameboy and the Neon signs That I wanted, Then i asked about guitar hero stickers that were on the counter and they were like "does he want them" "yea" "w/e you can have them just don't tell anyone"

[Scorch]

They ring up the DSL as $129.99, use the regular DS as $50 store and you pay $79.99. Since you're not paying for it all with store credit, you have to pay tax. Game Crazy uses the same method.

Yes, but GameCrazy charges tax on the portion you pay. GC would charge tax on the 79.99, not the 129.99.

[Byrd]

Cause of the way I dress, I sometimes get mistaking for working at those locations. I've at least been asked twice to help in Best Buy.

Now that the back story has been layed, I was out at the Toy's R Us picking up a few games that had a great drop in price for the 360 (Thanks to you guys....or curse you for making me use money). Either way standing in line there is a lady infront of us who is about to buy a 360 for her child. She doesn't know much about the subject in hand and really was relying on the sales person and her kid on what to actually buy. He was pushing a core system, HDD, 2 extra controllers, batteries (not the charger), and the cherry on the cake, a memory card.

After like 10 minutes; we're slow shoppers, she turns and see's that we have 360 games in our hand and ask for help. After basicly telling her what to really get (hardware wise) we come up to the insurance plan. Now BB you can basicly switch your system right there in the store (This was last year) and we already had one system die on us around the time so we knew this system was hit or miss.

TRU has a mail in service, you couldn't pick up a new system that day so basicly a 400 plus? sale was moved over to BB and I can feel this sence of hate coming from the managment and all cameras focused on us. My buddy and myself quickly hurried out of there and haven't been there since. Around 6 months time is long enough for them to forget about me....right?

[ITDEFX]

Cause of the way I dress, I sometimes get mistaking for working at those locations. I've at least been asked twice to help in Best Buy.

Now that the back story has been layed, I was out at the Toy's R Us picking up a few games that had a great drop in price for the 360 (Thanks to you guys....or curse you for making me use money). Either way standing in line there is a lady infront of us who is about to buy a 360 for her child. She doesn't know much about the subject in hand and really was relying on the sales person and her kid on what to actually buy. He was pushing a core system, HDD, 2 extra controllers, batteries (not the charger), and the cherry on the cake, a memory card.

After like 10 minutes; we're slow shoppers, she turns and see's that we have 360 games in our hand and ask for help. After basicly telling her what to really get (hardware wise) we come up to the insurance plan. Now BB you can basicly switch your system right there in the store (This was last year) and we already had one system die on us around the time so we knew this system was hit or miss.

TRU has a mail in service, you couldn't pick up a new system that day so basicly a 400 plus? sale was moved over to BB and I can feel this sence of hate coming from the managment and all cameras focused on us. My buddy and myself quickly hurried out of there and haven't been there since. Around 6 months time is long enough for them to forget about me....right?


that's exactly what I would have done. When I worked retail, I NEVER told a customer that they needed shit they didn't actually need. TRU employee's don't work on Commission. When I was an AM at Radio Shack, yea I try to sell accessories so I can get the extra spiffs, but only WHAT THEY NEED!! So for example if I sold a cell phone, I would convince them to get a carrying case with clip, a handsfree headset and car charger. That's all they really need. And if they said no, really insist on the case because it makes so much of a difference in protecting the phone. I'd rather have my case take the brunt of bumping or dropping then the phone. If it wasn't for my case, my phone would be scratched up/damaged by now :(

[fivecardstud]

my eb/gs workers told me they were all fired becuase they had worked there too long and were making too much! Ha! And the company wanted to hire new people who knew nothing so they could pay less!

[ITDEFX]

Against my better judgment, I went into EB games this morning and picked up a used gamecube for my nephew. Wow they really DON'T package this thing well..just shove everything in the box. Seemed ok, but I will test it tonight.

Anyways when I asked if they had any Component cables , I got this weird look by the eb games guy and he responded "Nintendo NEVER MADE Component cables for the Gamecube"..my reply was "You sure about that?"

Although no longer for sale, NINTENDO did make one
http://store.nintendo.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?lastAction=setCurr&jspStoreDir=NOASTORE&languageId=-1&catalogId=10001&categoryId=44009&productId=63594&currency=USD&storeId=10001&ddkey=ProductCheck

I also told him that he better talk to his DM about this and get better trained on it Nintendo products.

I walked out laughing at such an idiot.

[maguszxz]

I always keep getting the preorder shakedown. You will never find this game in this lifetime unless you preorder, that's what they tell me. One time, I had a GS employee damn near corner me to pre-order Pokemon Diamond and Pearl. Then after the 15th "NO!!!", he said I would have a hard time finding a copy after launch. 2 days after the launch while wandering into the Walmart Electronics Dept., I see not one but 10 coples of Diamond and Pearl each. Goes to show you that EB/GS is full of it. That is their crime and it is also their punishment.

[io]

Anyways when I asked if they had any Component cables , I got this weird look by the eb games guy and he responded "Nintendo NEVER MADE Component cables for the Gamecube"..my reply was "You sure about that?"

Although no longer for sale, NINTENDO did make one
http://store.nintendo.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?lastAction=setCurr&jspStoreDir=NOASTORE&languageId=-1&catalogId=10001&categoryId=44009&productId=63594&currency=USD&storeId=10001&ddkey=ProductCheck

I also told him that he better talk to his DM about this and get better trained on it Nintendo products.

I walked out laughing at such an idiot.

Well of course they did. I'm still using mine ;). (You need to make sure the GC you have supports it, though, as they removed that capability later in the console's life).

I overheard a GS employee doing the right thing the other day. It was a good trip overall as I got the 30% bonus and 20% preorder bonus stacked along with my Edge card and got boatloads of credit. The other clerk was helping a woman buy some games for her kids. Sure, he pushed the used instead of new thing on her but that's no surprise. But then she asked about Guitar Hero III and whether she should preorder it or not. Of course, you know that got the guy salivating ;). But in this case it is probably a good idea as the kid wanted it for his birthday which was right around when it came out. So she put a preorder down. Kudos for the GS clerk for not harassing her about preorders before that though - she was the one who brought it up and he actually, probably, did her a favor in this case. That's the way it SHOULD go at these stores!

[monkeydeew]

'dont you feel bad for wanting to cancel this preorder you are making my numbers look bad'

[killjoy188]

When I bought Rune Factory at GS they seriously tried to get me to buy Bratz. Bratz is for...7 year olds? I'm in college.:roll:

[Nealocus123]

I had to move up to Seattle WA from San Diego CA for college, and I forgot that I had a TON of things pre-ordered. So I went to Gamestop and checked, and it ended up being about $30 worth! The manager and I were talking, but he was being a real ass to me saying how much Seattle University wasn't a good school and that it's the suicide capital of the world, and blah blah blah. I cancelled a good 6 or 7 pre-orders on that guy LOL! Fucking screwed! He gave me the whole whiney shpeel on how it made his numbers look really bad. Whatever.

[io]

I cancelled a good 6 or 7 pre-orders on that guy LOL! Fucking screwed! He gave me the whole whiney shpeel on how it made his numbers look really bad. Whatever.

But what does he expect you to do if you are moving? See, they need to have a way of transferring preorders to different stores without penalizing the clerk or customer. Otherwise this HAS to happen when people move or whatever.

And don't let him give you grief about Seattle. I live near Portland - sure, it rains a bit here (and more so in Seattle), but it's not THAT bad. Of course, coming from San Diego, of all places, it may be more of a shock. I moved here from Tucson, though, and it wasn't overwhelming. It's nice to be able to go outside during the summer - not possible 5 months out of the year in Tucson, anyway ;).

[mickeyp]

Do you want to preorder this game?
This is what they said about the new donkey kong game that is coming out for the ds when I asked about the release day. I told them I would not have a hard time finding a donkey kong game.

[joker______]

its kinda funny when you get the dumbasses when you ask Ps2 only games such as God of War 2 or Final Fantasy 12 & they still ask "For what System?"

[Zingela]

its kinda funny when you get the dumbasses when you ask Ps2 only games such as God of War 2 or Final Fantasy 12 & they still ask "For what System?"

This is done as precaution, and honestly (also personally), mostly out of habit.

You'd be surprised how many times that seemingly-ridiculous question helps out. Half the time when I'd just check and pull out the game for them, some customers will just stare at me like I'm crazy and then say something about wanting it for Xbox, to make GoW2 a popular example.

However, that's just me. I had to correct a coworker one day that was telling someone, being completely serious, that Halo 3 would be cross-platform and on the PS3 on the 25th. Ugh.

[eswat]

Just overheard today at EB:
Hey *manager*, I constructed additional Pylons.
o_O

[Blade]

I've reported at least three Maine employees for being assholes. I pretty much hate them all, and I advise against shopping at a GS/EB in Maine.

One time, someone whom the clerk was friends with just picked up a soundtrack and walked out the store with it. I tried to do the same because I thought they were free, and this asshole says I'm stealing merchandise. It turns out it really WAS free, and he wanted me to buy the game to go along with it. Later on, the same guy wouldn't allow me to return a PS1 game that didn't work, even though I returned it in 3 days. I asked the manager to do it instead.

Another time, I was in the Bangor, ME location, and this bitch told me directly to my face that "there will never be a sale involving Donkey Kong and the DK Bongos." The other clerk said, "Well yes, there will be next week." She snapped at him and told him to shut up.

In Waterville, ME, at this time last year, everyone was talking about how retarded the Wii is and how nobody will want to buy it. Now, they all talk about wanting to play Metroid Prime 3.

[opterasis]

I've reported at least three Maine employees for being assholes. I pretty much hate them all, and I advise against shopping at a GS/EB in Maine.

One time, someone whom the clerk was friends with just picked up a soundtrack and walked out the store with it. I tried to do the same because I thought they were free, and this asshole says I'm stealing merchandise. It turns out it really WAS free, and he wanted me to buy the game to go along with it. Later on, the same guy wouldn't allow me to return a PS1 game that didn't work, even though I returned it in 3 days. I asked the manager to do it instead.

Another time, I was in the Bangor, ME location, and this bitch told me directly to my face that "there will never be a sale involving Donkey Kong and the DK Bongos." The other clerk said, "Well yes, there will be next week." She snapped at him and told him to shut up.

In Waterville, ME, at this time last year, everyone was talking about how retarded the Wii is and how nobody will want to buy it. Now, they all talk about wanting to play Metroid Prime 3.


Good thing I've never come across a gs/ebs on my way to Bucksport Maine. Sounds like I'd want to stab some of the people that work there.

[ITDEFX]

Why the hell are they so annal about anything outside of a customer buying a used game/pre ordering?


Seriously, someone needs to do a hidden camera investigation.

[Rodimus]

I got the craziest story from GS right here:

I bought a preowned God of War (non-GH) The clerk didn't ask me to preorder anything or sell me any fluff. He was nice, talkitive, very informed, and didn't look down on me. As a bonus the game & case was in perfect condition. What the hell is going on with that GS, somebody needs to properly train this guy.

[Kain Vincent]

I got the craziest story from GS right here:

I bought a preowned God of War (non-GH) The clerk didn't ask me to preorder anything or sell me any fluff. He was nice, talkitive, very informed, and didn't look down on me. As a bonus the game & case was in perfect condition. What the hell is going on with that GS, somebody needs to properly train this guy.

That's bullshit. Can't believe he didn't get you to preorder some game that you will "never find elsewhere" when it comes out. :roll:

[ITDEFX]

i forgot to mention...

Years ago I was buying some cheap stuff for my cube and was asked if I wanted to Pre-order halo 2 for 5 dollars. I said no thanks...finished the transaction.
As I walked out he said, "Good luck finding halo 2, as you won't be able to get it for years!" It was the first game I picked up from Best Buy after I got my xbox from the sam goody closeout last year.

:)

[tangytangerine]

That's bullshit. Can't believe he didn't get you to preorder some game that you will "never find elsewhere" when it comes out. :roll:
No, I had the same experience today. Brought back a defective copy of Vexx(GC) today, traded in Fifa 2005(Xbox), exchanged Vexx for Mark of Kri & picked up Red Faction while I was there. Not once did I get asked to preorder something.

BTW, they're still giving $2 for Fifa 2005(got $2.20 with edge card). Decent enough for a game I found for free in used Xbox I bought at Game Crazy. It went towards Red Faction's purchase. Thought I point out Fifa's price, so someone could add it to CAGwiki.

[Kain Vincent]

No, I had the same experience today. Brought back a defective copy of Vexx(GC) today, traded in Fifa 2005(Xbox), exchanged Vexx for Mark of Kri & picked up Red Faction while I was there. Not once did I get asked to preorder something.

BTW, they're still giving $2 for Fifa 2005(got $2.20 with edge card). Decent enough for a game I found for free in used Xbox I bought at Game Crazy. It went towards Red Faction's purchase. Thought I point out Fifa's price, so someone could add it to CAGwiki.

I was being sarcastic in my original post (can't express it well online, so I can understand the confusion. If so, sorry about that). I have generally good expierences at my local EB/GS stores, but sometimes I have gotten such preorder pushes on me.

[joe2187]

Last thanksgiving During the black friday deals, they ran an ad where they were selling the New "GTA: Vice City Stories" and "DUB Racing" for the psp, That if you buy both you would only pay 25 dollars total. Im thinking hey thats a kickass deal. I just got out of circut city and they open their doors in 5 minutes i'll go check it out.

So i get to the store and see the guy openiing the doors and pulling back the gate, i go inside and ask for the PSP deal in the ad. The guy goes in the back and comes back and says sorry we sold out this morning............They just opened the doors and they already sold out?...Wow amazing who were these invisible people that just walk in and buy stuff in under 3 seconds?

I tell the guy he couldnt possibly have sold out this morning because i just saw him opening the damn store, Then he changes his story...says they dont have the DUB Racing game in stock but they do have vice ciy for 49.99. Why am i gonna pay 49.99 for one game when the ad says i can get two games at half that price? he tells me he's sorry and that he cant do anything. I ask him to call another store maybe they got it...The guy gives me an attitude telling me "why cant you just buy the damn game already, you dont need two" I ignore him and he tells me the other store has also Conviently Sold out of the DUB Racing deal, I ask to call some other stores in the area, he does so and says none of the other stores have it. I ask him what the bullshit is all about and i guess he got tired and told me it was all a scam, the ad was made to lure people in for a good sell and dissapoint them and sell them something else....Bastards

[zman73]

Last thanksgiving During the black friday deals, they ran an ad where they were selling the New "GTA: Vice City Stories" and "DUB Racing" for the psp, That if you buy both you would only pay 25 dollars total. Im thinking hey thats a kickass deal. I just got out of circut city and they open their doors in 5 minutes i'll go check it out.

So i get to the store and see the guy openiing the doors and pulling back the gate, i go inside and ask for the PSP deal in the ad. The guy goes in the back and comes back and says sorry we sold out this morning............They just opened the doors and they already sold out?...Wow amazing who were these invisible people that just walk in and buy stuff in under 3 seconds?

I tell the guy he couldnt possibly have sold out this morning because i just saw him opening the damn store, Then he changes his story...says they dont have the DUB Racing game in stock but they do have vice ciy for 49.99. Why am i gonna pay 49.99 for one game when the ad says i can get two games at half that price? he tells me he's sorry and that he cant do anything. I ask him to call another store maybe they got it...The guy gives me an attitude telling me "why cant you just buy the damn game already, you dont need two" I ignore him and he tells me the other store has also Conviently Sold out of the DUB Racing deal, I ask to call some other stores in the area, he does so and says none of the other stores have it. I ask him what the bullshit is all about and i guess he got tired and told me it was all a scam, the ad was made to lure people in for a good sell and dissapoint them and sell them something else....Bastards

That is illegal I believe, to use the old bait and switch...

[SaraAB]

I think its illegal too, that is bait and switch. Did you actually look for the games on the shelves or check the store locator before leaving the house to see if there were any in stock? The store locator will tell you if the games are in the store, and if you really wanted them you could have confronted the employee with a printout of that information, even if the games were not on the shelf. I would have first of all read the fine print on the ad carefully, looked on the shelves for the games and then brought the games and the ad up to the counter, it would be pretty hard for the employee to refuse if you had the games and ad in hand.

I am pretty sure its also illegal to advertise a sale for a product you do not have. Like if target advertised that they have Wii systems in a sunday ad they have to have at least a few on the shelf at store opening at least or its illegal to advertise because they don't have the product, thats why a lot of stores hold their shipments for the sunday ad, because if they didn't have any and people found out about it the store could get into serious trouble.

[joe2187]

No I never knew about thay store locater thing, it was 8:00 in the morning and I just got out of running around a fully packed Circuit City for 2 and half hours. I saw the ad and went to go check it out. I bothered the guy for about half an hour before he got pissed and told me it was a scam and to buzz off. I checked the shelves and saw only used DUB Racing games the ad said it had to be New and i had to purchase both DUB and Vice City to get the deal, otherwise nothing else on the fine print. I never reported it or anything...i was tired and I had other things to do than screw around with lying companies. either that or the employee that helped me really didnt like me.

[yukine]

Eh, that's no big deal.

When the Wii came out, I called the store I was going to wait outside of for several hours about how many Wiis would be available in the morning... he assured me they had 9 in stock.

I waited in line for 6 hours, and he opens the store and says he only has 6 now.... I was number 9 in line.

FUN TIMES!

[electronicmaji]

Eh, that's no big deal.

When the Wii came out, I called the store I was going to wait outside of for several hours about how many Wiis would be available in the morning... he assured me they had 9 in stock.

I waited in line for 6 hours, and he opens the store and says he only has 6 now.... I was number 9 in line.

FUN TIMES!

When the wii came out that happened at any store. Hell even Mom and Pop. The supply information was pure rumours at best.

[Puzznic]

When the wii came out that happened at any store. Hell even Mom and Pop. The supply information was pure rumours at best.


I think it has more to do with employees snatching them up at the last second.

[Rodimus]

I think it has more to do with employees snatching them up at the last second.

Either that or the store manager hooks up a freind. That's how I got mine :bouncy:

[chosen1s]

That is illegal I believe, to use the old bait and switch...

Uh...

Have you tried to get your $20 from Circuit City on a "guaranteed game" yet? I tried with Skate on the 360 last week and they refused to pay based on "the manufacturer didn't ship it so it's not our fault".

[microbim]

I walked into a EB in the middle of summer, whith nothing in my hand and the employee says, "What did you bring to trade in today?"

Well, they achived exactly what they wanted.
The idea is not to ask you if you brought trades because they really wanted to know, but to make you remember that so that you will bring trades next time because you are used to hearing it.

i guess you didn't really get it.

[linkpwns]

Oh man, this one is a killer. I went into Gamestop the other day, waited on the line and asked the manager if he had Warhawk for the ps3. So the guy goes, "No man, we sold out. Yeah, all on the first day" And I was like, wow, cause I really didn't expect that and I asked why, to which he responded. "Man, it's a freakin' killer deal!!!! You get a game, and a headset for 60 bucks bro, it's an amazing deal!!!!!!" And I was like well how much does the PS3 headset go for? and he was all like "Bro, it's fifty bucks, thats what I'm saying!!!". He went on for about 10 minutes about how great of a deal it was. I asked it he thought local stores would have it in stock and he was like "No, bro, sony said it was limited, it was such a good deal! They were loosing massive amounts of money!!!" I said okay. Today, I walked into TRU and pick that up and 2 other games with the buy 2 get 1 deal

[eswat]

"That's good you preordered ____. You wouldn't have had a chance to get it otherwise" = always makes me chuckle.

[nectarsis1]

^ Yea I got that one about FF X.....went to Best Buy right after (early release?)...took it back to EB...showed the manager...laughed my ass off :)

[phear3d]

Cause of the way I dress, I sometimes get mistaking for working at those locations. I've at least been asked twice to help in Best Buy.

this reminds me.. im not sure if anyone had seen this last year. improv everywhere did a prank at bestbuy. pretty funny.

http://www.youtube.com/v/utkkXCF8ZVc

[ITDEFX]

this reminds me.. im not sure if anyone had seen this last year. improv everywhere did a prank at bestbuy. pretty funny.

http://www.youtube.com/v/utkkXCF8ZVc



that was pretty much useless :-\

since employee's don't have a standard uniform, the only thing you can impersonate is there stuck up "I am better and smarter then you!" attitude

[Hitze]

A couple years ago, I couldn't buy some Mortal Kombat game(I think Deception). Okay so, I was 17. The guy asked for an ID(which was strange, because I was never asked for one before that), so I showed him my license and whatnot. He said something like, "Oh, you're 17? You have to be at least 18 to buy this". I pointed out that, even on the box, it said "Mature: 17+" or whatever it says. Then, he said something like "Sorry, you have to be 18 to buy this", completely ignoring what I just said.

At the very same time, I bought Hunter: The Reckoning. This game was in one of those generic GameStop boxes, so there was no rating on it -- it is also rated M. He didn't give me any trouble with it.


But besides that incident, most of my experiences with my local GS/EBs are good. Someone gave me the first Phoenix Wright game when I bought the second, which actually ended up being pretty awesome. I never played the first(although my brother has it -- I planned on playing through his before I started the second), so I beat it in a couple days. So, three or four days after I bought it, I went back to GS and told them about their mistake. They exchanged it without any problems.

[davo1224]

this reminds me.. im not sure if anyone had seen this last year. improv everywhere did a prank at bestbuy. pretty funny.

http://www.youtube.com/v/utkkXCF8ZVc

That was pretty funny. They had the typical Best Buy worker mannerisms down cold. What was even funnier was the real employees getting so flustered. Don't like being made to look like jackasses I guess.

[PA capex]

Being an ex GS employee it sucks to see that so many people are dicks/morons/idiots/complete assholes about stuff. It had always been my dream to work at a store like this since i was i think 16, alphabetizing games for a living what better job than that, (besides being a tester) i would always imagine how i would be able to help people who dont know about video games and educate them. I was so wrong... i had crappy hours mainly because the manager only has himself and two assistant managers working most of the time, to better help costs he would say.

So, i would end up working once or twice every two weeks at the store. When i did work i was always told to push pre orders, and you know what i would. Maybe not to the extent as i've seen here but i would mention it, if anything my only line was that you could pre order the game and it would be like putting it on layaway, you can pay little by little and finish paying of the game by the time its released (which is why i pre order games).

After a couple of months of the shitty hours i decided to get another job (im a server at CHILIS now) and i called my manager to see if we could work around my new schedule...he never called back after me leaving many messages to him, i said fuck it and quit the job. I still sometimes go to the store, catch up with an old friend i have there, but it still sucks to hear employees give bullshit excuses on why you should pre order this or become a member.

(by the way, i consider myself very knowledgable in video games to the point where even my managers would ask me questions about games)

[Rodimus]

A couple years ago, I couldn't buy some Mortal Kombat game(I think Deception). Okay so, I was 17. The guy asked for an ID(which was strange, because I was never asked for one before that), so I showed him my license and whatnot. He said something like, "Oh, you're 17? You have to be at least 18 to buy this". I pointed out that, even on the box, it said "Mature: 17+" or whatever it says. Then, he said something like "Sorry, you have to be 18 to buy this", completely ignoring what I just said.

The thing I always found screwy with the rating system was "M" Mature is for people 17 and up while "AO" Adult Only is 18 and up. It's the same rating with only a 1 year differance. You earn the responsibilities of driving a car before you are demmed responsilbe enough to play GTA....

[yukine]

When the wii came out that happened at any store. Hell even Mom and Pop. The supply information was pure rumours at best.
It was a manager, and he assured me he had them in stock... as in, in the back of the store.

It had nothing to do with "supply information." :rofl:

[whoknows]

When I asked for a Ratchet demo they told me "If you pre-order I'll give you one" when it used to be they give it when you pick up the game.

I remember pre-ordering Killzone and then getting the demo when I got the game. It was so useful.

[icedout297]

When I was in GS today... The MANAGER told me I better preorder Halo 3 because if I don't there will be no copies again until February. Hahaha, what a tool.

[vlv723]

Is it me or now their upselling is reserves?

Yesterday, the two ladies that were working, they didn't mentioned about reserves, they just want to complete the sale...now that's a good thing.

Monday, oh this is when it gets really fun...

So have you reserve Halo 3?
-Got the Legendary Edition reserved at another location.

Oh man, Army of Two is a badass game.

I asked, have you seen the trailer for it?

He said, no, but here is a GI article about it...

Showed it to me...it's just a single picture...I need gameplay.

He said, that is the actual gameplay.

I laughed inside..oh come on, this is just a picture.

Then told him straight out, once I see the video, then I'll think about it.

Are they actual gamers or just retail sellers?

[Derrick1979]

Well they are supposed to be both lol.. but at a location one time where I used to live one of the guys working there told me after I asked him about a game he said " I really don't know I don't play games I will ask the other guy"


The location I go to on a regular basis now is a different story, they pitch pre-orders but they don't press on it. Now if you ask them about a game especially a RPG they wont shut up and all you want to know if it is good or not and if it's worth a buy. They have even told me before to stay away from certain titles and I thought that was cool...

So it is hit or miss if you find one that is decent then just shop there...

[SL4IN]

almost every GS i've been to, none of the employees seem to have any smarts as far as video games are concerned.

[eswat]

So it is hit or miss if you find one that is decent then just shop there...
Yeah. I only shop at the location near my work, since they pretty much know what I want from their business now. I never folded when they asked me to preorder. I just preorder when I feel like it. So they don't bother trying to push preorders on me anymore. (except Halo 3, though he only asked if I did, I said yup but not there, and that was it)

[Link927]

I find that certain GS will have a specialty. For example, my local GS has a bunch of PS2 and various sports title knoledge, while another one has their handhelds down. Both stores seem to have an employee who knows their 360 and/or Wii. I have yet to find any store or any employee that knows ps3, or pc gaming (Which I would be interested in).

[Blackshear]

This was awhile back, when XBox Live was just starting out on the orig. XBox.

I was overhearing a employee bash xbox to try to make a customer buy a ps2.. the guy seemed like he was kinda leaning towards the xbox but the fanboy employee kept spewing a bunch of bs.. the only bs that sticks in my head that the employee said wa "It's free to play online with PS2, with Xbox your have to pay $50 per month."

[johnnypark]

Yeah. I only shop at the location near my work, since they pretty much know what I want from their business now. I never folded when they asked me to preorder. I just preorder when I feel like it. So they don't bother trying to push preorders on me anymore. (except Halo 3, though he only asked if I did, I said yup but not there, and that was it)

I had a "safety" store where I knew people wouldn't try to upsell me since I was in there often enough, opposed to being treated like a mindless, talking wallet at most stores. Problem is, the one I went to is very close to another, and they had a manager swap and now I never know which one is safe. The other manager is completely insane, he's very loud and oppinionated, and despite having been rung up by him enough to know me by face, he ALWAYS gives me a speech on pre-ordering.

Not just the routine speech, though. After I decline, he warns me that I'd better not be "in here on release day, complaining to ME that we don't have any copies in. SHOULDA PRE-ORDERED! Only $5 gets you a copy! If you can afford to drive around to 5 different stores to check if any are in stock, you can afford to reserve one!"

He goes on to explain to me that at any given time, he has at least 4-5 games on preorder to make sure he's "guaranteed" his copy.

EVERY. FUCKING. TIME.

[eswat]

I had a "safety" store where I knew people wouldn't try to upsell me since I was in there often enough, opposed to being treated like a mindless, talking wallet at most stores. Problem is, the one I went to is very close to another, and they had a manager swap and now I never know which one is safe. The other manager is completely insane, he's very loud and oppinionated, and despite having been rung up by him enough to know me by face, he ALWAYS gives me a speech on pre-ordering.

Not just the routine speech, though. After I decline, he warns me that I'd better not be "in here on release day, complaining to ME that we don't have any copies in. SHOULDA PRE-ORDERED! Only $5 gets you a copy! If you can afford to drive around to 5 different stores to check if any are in stock, you can afford to reserve one!"

He goes on to explain to me that at any given time, he has at least 4-5 games on preorder to make sure he's "guaranteed" his copy.

EVERY. FUCKING. TIME.
Lawd. One of these days you should just buy a high-profile title on release and ask him "... you were saying?".

[worshipsf]

I was standing around looking at Wii games today when a GS employee comes up and asks if she can help me.

Me: "Can you tell me how much Tomb Raider Anniversary and Manhunt 2 for the Wii trade in for?"

Her: "Yes, we do take trade-ins... let's see, how much are these games now..." <walks over and inspects the price tags> "You have these games already then right? And want to trade them in? Let's see, this one is $34.99 used so that means.............................. How much did you pay for them?"

Me: "Uh...."

Her: "Well, you wouldn't get as much as you paid for them, unfortunately. But you can trade them in here. I'm not really sure how much we give for them... But we do take trade-ins, and it would be a good idea for you to look into that."

Me: "..."

[IAmTheCheapestGamer]

I was standing around looking at Wii games today when a GS employee comes up and asks if she can help me.

Me: "Can you tell me how much Tomb Raider Anniversary and Manhunt 2 for the Wii trade in for?"

Her: "Yes, we do take trade-ins... let's see, how much are these games now..." <walks over and inspects the price tags> "You have these games already then right? And want to trade them in? Let's see, this one is $34.99 used so that means.............................. How much did you pay for them?"

Me: "Uh...."

Her: "Well, you wouldn't get as much as you paid for them, unfortunately. But you can trade them in here. I'm not really sure how much we give for them... But we do take trade-ins, and it would be a good idea for you to look into that."

Me: "..."

HAHAHAHAHA! At least she didn't use the usual tactic of 'bring them in and we'll see how much they're worth'.

[JnJosh]

one time i got dinged 2 dollars off a trade in value, that i had to pay in cash instead of having it taken off the value) for a scratch in the booklet, i peeled a sticker off. I got charged 2 bucks with tax for that.

yet i go to ebgames out of town and trade in guitar hero 2, that has a noticable scratch on the disk (it played fine) and i said "do i get charged because of it?"
the employee said "no we will just refurb it and make sure it plays fine, if it doesnt oh well"

jesus my local (mall) eb sucks

[opterasis]

"Sir, if you don't preorder Halo 3 legendary now, you won't ever be able to find it, since its going to be very limited edition. So if you want it, preorder now"

[tiredfornow]

I was picking up Geometry Wars: Galaxies(DS) over the weekend and one of the employees at a downtown GS/EB says ''Uhhh, they don't make that for DS. You must be talking about the downloadable game on Xbox Live. You have to, you know, have a Xbox for that.'' I argued with him for a bit that it was indeed a game and even on the Wii and he said ''We don't carry imports and thats a Microsoft game, sorry.''

I asked him to call the store down the road to see if they had it and to his surprise, they did. I laughed and walked out without saying thanks or anything and I could see his reflection behind me in the window with his arms up like ''What? I didn't know'' to the other employee. :P

[Pck21]

When GS/EB had the "trade in your PS2 for a $100 of a PS3" deal, I immediately called around to see if any store actually had one in stock. The EB closest to my house had a "few" in stock so I decided to head on down there. I walk in with my PS2 in hand and said, "I'm looking to trade in my PS2 towards a PS3 for the deal that's going on." The kid looks up and says, "We're not doing that anymore." So I said, "Well I just called no more than 10 minutes ago and that guy said that you were doing it and have them in stock." He then retorted with, "That stopped last week." So I said, "Ok then how do you explain the e-mail I got this morning stating that it started TODAY?" He just looked at me with an evil grin and asked if I still wanted to buy a PS3 WITHOUT the $100 off. What a turd. No offense to him but he was a hunchback too and looked really bizarre. For someone who looks like that, you'd think they would have a great personality, but Quasimodo was a jackass.

Anyways I went to another EB about 20 minutes from me and the guy said that he had a ton of PS3's in stock and that the deal was definitely today. Went down there, picked one up, and walked out a semi-happy customer. I say "semi-happy" because they didn't have Resistance in stock. I just hopped over to the Best Buy located directly behind the store and picked it up with no problem.

[georox]

"Sir, if you don't preorder Halo 3 legendary now, you won't ever be able to find it, since its going to be very limited edition. So if you want it, preorder now"

>_> Bastard beat me to posting it.

[ITDEFX]

Went to the gamestop in chantilly the other day to pick up Splinter Cell 1 for the xbox and see if they at least had another Action Replay unit (because I mis placed mine). When asked why I needed such items I told the guy that I was modding my xbox to turn it into a media center and needed it. He didn't believe me, but it is possible...don't know why you need splinter cell for it though.

Anyways he says that they never made an Action Replay for the xbox 1. I replied by telling him that that's strange because I bought my AR unit from THIS STORE last year..then he gives me this excuse that they don't make anymore because the xbox has been discontinued.

Get this, when I asked if he could do me the favor and try out my Halo 3 (which refuses to play on my 360 without locking up) he RAISES his voice at me while there are customers in the store and tells me he can't because it's an M rated game. So fucking what? I just want him to load the game, load a map and see if it locks up the 360..if it does, then it's the disc. He finally tried it and was convinced that he had to log into Xbox live to play it, and I told him he didn't. So it did work (loaded the map and all that), leading me to believe that my 360 is truly fucked up and refuses to play halo 3.

Anyways I paid for my SC1 and got out of there.

what a tard.

[scott2hotcott]

Earlier this summer when GS had their "Gamer Day" sales (or whatever they were called), I was purchasing Counter Strike for the Xbox. I hand the game to the employee, who was probably in his mid-twenties. I'm 22, and yet the conversation went like this:

Employee - "Believe it or not there are actually still games coming out on the original Xbox. Would you like to pre-order Ratatouille?"
Me - "No."
Employee - "Are you sure? It's going to be available on all systems, actually. Would you like to pre-order it for a different system?"
Me - "No."

Normally I would have responded with something witty, but this one just completely caught me off-guard........Ratatouille? Seriously?

[bigpimpin07]

LMAO at most of these stories, but at my gamestop, whenever i go in, the clerks ask me " would you like to pre order anything today?" i give them a polite "no" and they back off, they're not that pushy here. :)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=i5M4YrMK1Qw&feature=related

[Access_Denied]

About 2 years ago, I was in a GameStop. (I think I was buying a DDR mat.) Anyway, it was about 8 months after the PSP came out, and the homebrew scene was booming. So, I'm waiting in line for a riducously long time. (Can't remember why.) So I start talking to some Asian guy who was behind the counter, but not doing anything. We were talking about the PSP and DS. I said I like the PSP. He said that the PSP was shit, DS has better games. I said, "Yeah, but the PSP has a few decent games, and plus there's homeb...". He immediately cuts me off, and reassures me the PSP is shit. I tried telling him like 10 times about homebrew, or some decent games on the PSP, but before I could get to it, he'd cut me off again. Finally, he was telling me some fanboy story, and I just left the mat on the counter and left, while he was in the middle of talking to me. Inconsiderate bastard is lucky I didn't punch him. You can have your opinion, but don't be a dick about it.

[greydemise]

"its not the customers who piss me off...its the employees who work here!"

^that seriously is a real quote, by the way

[heatdolphins45]

I had this conversation with a GS employee over the summer.

ME: What is the release date on Halo 3?
GS GUY: Sept 25, but you should preorder it now.
ME: nah, I have enough games to play.
GS GUY: People will be lining up at 6 am in front of best buy getting beat up and stuff for it. (looks over to other GS guy, and says "Are you working on that day")
GS GUY #2: "I'm not sure, it's going to be a madhouse"
I started to laugh after this as I walked out the door. sure enough on Sept 25. at Best Buy at 5 in the afternoon there was 30 copies just sitting there....:lol:

[danito]

A worker had to make sure to specify to me that "used" meant that it had already been played. Gee, I had no idea...

[mykevermin]

I guess I'm lucky - the folks at my GS not only overrode the register jockey who tried telling me I couldn't trade in sealed games, but they also tell me when they only have guts of games (which they always do, sure, but they never try to convince me how "new" it is).

Now the day they give me 10-15% off that copy of the game since it isn't sealed? I'll buy it, but that's for another thread altogether.

The GM there did, however, try explaining to me that everybody played 360 online, and implied that it was silly that I only bought multiplatform games for my That Triple.

[XxSmityxX]

I wonder why when I go to Gamestop or EB I buy a new game and it has never been opened all the new games are in the glass sealed? what state are your guys from that buy new games that aren't sealed?

[MSUHitman]

I wonder why when I go to Gamestop or EB I buy a new game and it has never been opened all the new games are in the glass sealed? what state are your guys from that buy new games that aren't sealed?

It's because the last new copy in the store is the gutted one (where the empty box is on the shelf and the game is in a sleeve behind the register.) Many times, unless it's a huge title like Halo 3, Gamestop only carries x amount of copies of the game new and if you're getting it a couple of months from release, you're going to get the gutted copy.

Gamestop does not have/want to spend the money/resources to either make copies of the box art like TRU, put all the games behind a glass case like Wal-Mart/Target, or individually box and security tag all the games like Best Buy.

[IAmTheCheapestGamer]

About 2 years ago, I was in a GameStop. (I think I was buying a DDR mat.) Anyway, it was about 8 months after the PSP came out, and the homebrew scene was booming. So, I'm waiting in line for a riducously long time. (Can't remember why.) So I start talking to some Asian guy who was behind the counter, but not doing anything. We were talking about the PSP and DS. I said I like the PSP. He said that the PSP was shit, DS has better games. I said, "Yeah, but the PSP has a few decent games, and plus there's homeb...". He immediately cuts me off, and reassures me the PSP is shit. I tried telling him like 10 times about homebrew, or some decent games on the PSP, but before I could get to it, he'd cut me off again. Finally, he was telling me some fanboy story, and I just left the mat on the counter and left, while he was in the middle of talking to me. Inconsiderate bastard is lucky I didn't punch him. You can have your opinion, but don't be a dick about it.

So basically, you wanted to punch that guy because he wouldn't let you ramble on about the PSP's 'zomg homebrew'? Both of you sound like huge fanboys and admittedly he was probably only trying to hawk a DS on you to improve his sales numbers.