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Originally Posted by gxer2002 I get the same feeling when i ask the employees to scan items too and its like an inconvenience for them. If that's the case they should have placed a price scanner in the electronics dept. Some even tell me the sticker price is the price of the game and i ask them to double check and surprise surprise its not. Half the things in there have not been updated in price.

"can i get a price check?"

(employees looks at the sticker price) "its $59.99"


these people actually hate there job, im not asking for a in kidney, im asking to push a couple buttons, people are soooo lazy

Originally Posted by aleraiders "can i get a price check?" (employees looks at the sticker price) "its $59.99" these people actually hate there job, im not asking for a in kidney, im asking to push a couple buttons, people are soooo lazy

We, CAGs are at fault when this happens. Stop asking and just politely state what you want.

The easiest thing to do is to say "Please scan this". Or "Please open this glass case" instead of "Can you open this glass case?"

The term "price check" doesn't mean the same thing to them, as it does to other people.

I have never gotten a negative response when I tell them to scan games.

I do ask some basic questions like "do you have a handheld scanner?" if yes, (I tell them, not ask) "Please come with me" and "Please scan these games" or I'll ask "How many more XXXXXX games do you have in stock?" after the answer (I tell them, not ask) "Please get them for me".

It might sound like I am ass, but my way works without any hassle.

Picked up on my out of town trip yesterday:

Muramasa $9.97
MotorStorm Pacific Rift $9.97
Wet $9.97

Originally Posted by Readthepost We, CAGs are at fault when this happens. Stop asking and just politely state what you want. The easiest thing to do is to say "Please scan this". Or "Please open this glass case" instead of "Can you open this glass case?" The term "price check" doesn't mean the same thing to them, as it does to other people. I have never gotten a negative response when I tell them to scan games. I do ask some basic questions like "do you have a handheld scanner?" if yes, (I tell them, not ask) "Please come with me" and "Please scan these games" or I'll ask "How many more XXXXXX games do you have in stock?" after the answer (I tell them, not ask) "Please get them for me". It might sound like I am ass, but my way works without any hassle.

I completely disagree with this.

It doesn't matter how you word the statement/question. As long as you're polite and respectful there should be no problems.

This isn't some intricate dance or game of chess we're playing. You're just requesting the service of a person who is there to assist you as one of their primary functions.

Originally Posted by CAiNiACprime I completely disagree with this. It doesn't matter how you word the statement/question. As long as you're polite and respectful there should be no problems. This isn't some intricate dance or game of chess we're playing. You're just requesting the service of a person who is there to assist you as one of their primary functions.

i feel like im playing the lottery sometimes when i ask for a price check, sometimes i do say PLEASE and they still check the sticker price, so that really isnt the solution

its hard to believe.....readthepost lives in the NY area, and people are polite????

thats why i have pages full of upc's for this reason

Is it just me, or is Wet (at least the PS3 version) a lot harder to control than it should be? I tried playing it for a bit and got frustrated with how difficult it was to get it to actually do what I wanted it to do -- I'd hit a button and then it would seem to decide whether it wanted to do what that button was telling it do or not. And that was just in the tutorial level. Does it get any better, or should I quit while I'm ahead and move on to something less frustrating and more fun? I like a challenge and all, but not when the challenge is "make the controls work".

Based on my experience with the local Sears, their customer service is so bad. It is just so much easier printing out UPCs and scanning them at the self price checker than politely asking them to unlock the glass case and pull out games to price check. They don't seem to care about the customers who are buying video games. They rather help the ones who are buying TVs and digicams.

Managed to pick up a few DS Imagine Family Doctor for $.97 each. Was about to leave when the cashier said there's usually this other guy who comes through and sweeps all the clearance stuff out of the store. PS3 Singstar bundles I've been eyeing since they were $14.97. There were 4 bundles sitting at $4.97. Picked up the remaining 4.

I hated WET. yeah the guy was upset that I interrupted his tv watching job, lol. I had him open the glass cases on all the diff imagine games and price check them, lol.

Originally Posted by eau Picked up on my out of town trip yesterday: Muramasa $9.97 MotorStorm Pacific Rift $9.97 Wet $9.97

Where did you find Muramasa that cheap? My Sears sold both copies at $20!

Originally Posted by Readthepost We, CAGs are at fault when this happens. Stop asking and just politely state what you want. The easiest thing to do is to say "Please scan this". Or "Please open this glass case" instead of "Can you open this glass case?" The term "price check" doesn't mean the same thing to them, as it does to other people. I have never gotten a negative response when I tell them to scan games. I do ask some basic questions like "do you have a handheld scanner?" if yes, (I tell them, not ask) "Please come with me" and "Please scan these games" or I'll ask "How many more XXXXXX games do you have in stock?" after the answer (I tell them, not ask) "Please get them for me". It might sound like I am ass, but my way works without any hassle.

No matter how nice I am it doesn't seem to matter since the employees 90% of the time will act like I'm imposing. So I can say please and thank you and be as cordial as can be and they'll still be rude asshats who don't wanna do their in' job.

So anymore I just go in and ask for a pricecheck. No please, no thank you. If something comes up as it's been reported here and I want it though, then I say thank you. If it's something I know others will want(i.e. Fallout 3 GOTY for PS3) and there's multiples of it I'll grab all of them for others.

Oh and Arcane, I found myself constantly trying to get Ruby to go in the direction I wanted her to in WET and being frustrated when she was acting like a circus acrobat on speed that had suffered major brain trauma. Good game if you're a better shot, but I tend to suck at shooters, so I traded that as quickly as I bought it.

Originally Posted by IAmTheCheapestGamer Oh and Arcane, I found myself constantly trying to get Ruby to go in the direction I wanted her to in WET and being frustrated when she was acting like a circus acrobat on speed that had suffered major brain trauma. Good game if you're a better shot, but I tend to suck at shooters, so I traded that as quickly as I bought it.

Heh, yup, that sounds like my experience -- though I don't think being a better shot would necessarily help, given how gimped the movement is. Good to know that it's not just me then. Yeah, I hate not giving games more of a chance when I buy them, especially ones like this that sound like they should be awesome in concept, but I may just hurry up and trade it while I can still get back what I paid for it in TIV.

If you want a game somewhat similar to WET but that I think had actually halfway decent controls, try Stranglehold.

It has the same action/diving/super slo mo mechanics like WET. I had a copy for the longest time from Kmart for like $4 but I also had a huge backlog at the time so I dumped it.

Originally Posted by CAiNiACprime I completely disagree with this. It doesn't matter how you word the statement/question. As long as you're polite and respectful there should be no problems. This isn't some intricate dance or game of chess we're playing. You're just requesting the service of a person who is there to assist you as one of their primary functions.

As you can see below, a lot of CAGs tried being polite, but still got a dumb response when they asked for price check ie "Can you price check this game?" and the employee looks at the sticker price and says "it's $59.99 like it says on the sticker".

But by making a statement (polite or not polite) "Please scan this game or scan this game, you lazy ass", you never get a "it's $59.99 like it says on the sticker" response because you didn't ask for a price.

I really wish more employees followed your idea, "You're just requesting the service of a person who is there to assist you as one of their primary functions".

Originally Posted by Readthepost As you can see below, a lot of CAGs tried being polite, but still got a dumb response when they asked for price check ie "Can you price check this game?" and the employee looks at the sticker price and says "it's $59.99 like it says on the sticker". But by making a statement (polite or not polite) "Please scan this game or scan this game, you lazy ass", you never get a "it's $59.99 like it says on the sticker" response because you didn't ask for a price. I really wish more employees followed your idea, "You're just requesting the service of a person who is there to assist you as one of their primary functions".

You're missing the point. What I'm saying is there is no need to word things in a special format as you so believe. It doesn't matter how you say it or ask as long as you are polite and courteous, thats the only requirement.

Employees are going to respond however they want regardless of a few substitute words or switched placement. The fact of the matter is, there is no parlor trick to getting a genuinely helpful individual who is a pleasure to interact with. Sometimes you get lucky, sometimes you don't.

Originally Posted by IAmTheCheapestGamer No matter how nice I am it doesn't seem to matter since the employees 90% of the time will act like I'm imposing. So I can say please and thank you and be as cordial as can be and they'll still be rude asshats who don't wanna do their in' job.

I sometimes get the same rude attitude, but I don't care as long as I get them to scan the games. The end result is more inmportant than attitude.

Long time ago, I got a rude employee who said "all the sticker prices are correct" (and didn't want to scan the games with his handheld)...so I told him "ok I want that, and that, and that" (even games I knew were full price). I picked over 25 games, had him carry them to the register, and told him "read each price from the computer" then picked a few clearance games and told him "I don't want the others......lets go pick up some more games". He had a WTF attitude, I told him "hey, I tried to make you life easier, but now you learned that hard way". I picked another 20+ games and ended up buying maybe 6 games total.

Originally Posted by Readthepost He had a WTF attitude, I told him "hey, I tried to make you life easier, but now you learned that hard way". I picked another 20+ games and ended up buying maybe 6 games total.

You've never worked retail have you? First, that was an assholic thing to do, but more importantly, who did you really hurt? Working retail is incredibly boring the vast majority of the time. And even if this made a *little* more work for the guy, he had to be in the store anyway. I know I'd have had fun with you when I was a clerk. I'd have scan each game so slowly and any that came up less than sticker, I'd scan a 2nd time and perhaps ask another associate if it were true.

He could have made things much harder on you than you could on him. At least scanning the games and then straightening out the shelves afterwards would eat up some time till quitin' time. At least that's how I would have looked at it. Plus, it'd be a story I'd share w/ the other clerks about this "Cheap Asshat Gamer" that came through. I guess I'm sort of an optimist though.

Just picked up Singstar Volume 2 bundle for PS3 for 4.97, Motorstorm Pacific Rift for 9.97, Muramasa for 9.97 and 4 copies of Imagine Family Doctor for .97 each. Funny thing is when the clerk scanned the first 3 games he didn't even flinch but when he was scanning Imagine FD, he noticed that they rang up for 97 cents. He couldn't believe it so he went to change the price of each one to 14.97, which is what they were priced at on the pink clearance label. As he was doing this, I stood next to him and caught him trying to change the price and I asked him "Didn't those just ring up for .97?" He says he has to go off the price on the label, and I told him that the previous 3 games were not labeled correctly either. He realized he was caught in a lie so he ran off and asked his manager what to do cuz the games ringing up at 97 cents can't be right. Luckily the manager said to sell the games for whatever they ring up for. I was not being rude at all and he understood it wasn't a price mistake so not being a jackass to store clerks does pay off sometimes.

Originally Posted by hostyl1 Plus, it'd be a story I'd share w/ the other clerks about this "Cheap Asshat Gamer" that came through. I guess I'm sort of an optimist though.

I lol'd.

But seriously, I have and still currently work in retail. I'm courteous and pleasant on both sides of the table, and I expect the same in return.

Theres really no excuse for how a majority of employees and customers feel they have the right to act nowadays.

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