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It took all of about 90 seconds from start to finish today for me to pick up Raikou.

And in the deal, GameStop also got me to buy some strategy guides I otherwise would not have been interested in. I got a Shiny legendary, GameStop got some money. Both sides are happy.

Originally Posted by Bloomy If the game won't let you delete a Wonder Card, that means you haven't picked up the thing that came with it.

Thanks for the reply. I found this out before I read it, though. Went to the pokemart to get my Raikou & the guy gave me Regigigas. So I put that in the PC and went back. Then he gave me Jirachi. Lol, shows how much I play these days.

Went to gamestop today to reserve Kingdom hearts recoded. While i was giving the guy my info i got my shiny legendary. Everyone keep looking at me weird tho and saying "Why's that old guy playing pokemon?"

I'm only 20 years old, I'm not that old :(.
Thanks for the heads up OP

Got Raikou for HG and SS. Used my girlfriend's pink DS. Needless to say, I feel like a man today.

I always walk around with my Dragonite in SoulSilver... Him and me been through some stuff....

Haha, was able to get Raikou from the parking lot today on SoulSilver and Platinum. Score!

I can't believe some GS's are using this to get pre-orders. I work at a GS and I can say if you are refused for this reason, call a district manager. If they give you the run around still, call Nintendo. This should not be a paid event and no purchase is necessary period.

Originally Posted by discordman I can't believe some GS's are using this to get pre-orders. I work at a GS and I can say if you are refused for this reason, call a district manager. If they give you the run around still, call Nintendo. This should not be a paid event and no purchase is necessary period.

Out of curisosity, is it true that if each employee doesnt get a certain amount of preorders and a certain amount of powerup subscriptions per week, then that employee is automatically fired? If true, it must be extremley easy to get preorders and subscriptions. If this practice really happens, you'd assume there is a constant turn around time with gamestop employment, but i've always been under the impresion that gamestop is one of the hardest damn jobs in all of retail to get because so many white males apply and very few people leave.

Originally Posted by Tobezijian Went to gamestop today to reserve Kingdom hearts recoded. While i was giving the guy my info i got my shiny legendary. Everyone keep looking at me weird tho and saying "Why's that old guy playing pokemon?" I'm only 20 years old, I'm not that old :(. Thanks for the heads up OP

I guess it is okay for a 20 year old girl to play Pokemon though. The person getting my game discs started a conversation with me about changing the date when they finished work so they could get all of them at once.

Originally Posted by Drclaw411 Out of curisosity, is it true that if each employee doesnt get a certain amount of preorders and a certain amount of powerup subscriptions per week, then that employee is automatically fired? If true, it must be extremley easy to get preorders and subscriptions. If this practice really happens, you'd assume there is a constant turn around time with gamestop employment, but i've always been under the impresion that gamestop is one of the hardest damn jobs in all of retail to get because so many white males apply and very few people leave.

This is going to be really off topic but oh well..

Gamestop is a sales job like any other retail job. However they probably do get a ton of applicants because everyone wants to work there because people somehow have this delusion that its fun to work with video games. Each store only has a couple employees so its not like a conventional retail store that has 50 or more employees per store. I haven't seen more than 2 working any store in my area at once however if its the holiday season they probably have more like 3 employees working at once. I would imagine this makes it harder to score a job there.

While we are on the subject, you probably don't want a job there, having to deal with opinionated gamers, soccer moms and god knows what else walks into that store doesn't sound like fun. Plus since its a sales job you have to push push push people to buy things, you have to meet quota's in order to keep your job so you can actually get hours, and I wouldn't want to be doing that. The store is tiny and the customers that come in are usually smelly and since its so small the smell lingers longer. Honestly I would rather work at a grocery store if I had a choice. When hiring you they don't care about your knowledge of video games they only care that you can sell things to customers.

It would probably be really cool to work at an independent game store though, that sold all kinds of different consoles because you could talk to the customers about a wide variety of gaming topics. The last time I went to the flea market I had a lot of fun talking to the different sellers about video games and they had fun talking to me about them especially the sellers at the larger booths and they seemed like they were genuinely interested in video games. Gamestop is just a retail sales job where you just happen to be selling video games so its not really like that. I don't really try to carry a conversation with the clerks there unless I personally know the clerk because the clerks at GS think that is annoying.

I was an asst. manager and back then there was pressure to make sales, but given the area the store was in, I stopped being worried about it and did my job helping people. And people liked my honest views versus trying to get them to buy a ton of stuff and getting on back about a sub or reserve; they often made those on me being respectful versus being pushing or being a jerk about it.

I went to a GS, but I wasn't able to get the Raikou. I'm hoping I can get out tomorrow to get one for my SoulSilver, can you trade on from another person? I'm thinking I may need to see about doing that if I can get out in time.

Got my free Pokemon in Pearl and Heart gold today, and my gf got one for her Diamond game. Now I just need to remember to go back in two weeks.

Picked it up today after going to 3 Gamestops. Tried to get it from the parking lot (relatively close to the store), but it wasn't working. I tried stopping my car right infront of the store, and it worked. I guess the range isn't as big as some people thought.

Originally Posted by DOMINATOR912 Picked it up today after going to 3 Gamestops. Tried to get it from the parking lot (relatively close to the store), but it wasn't working. I tried stopping my car right infront of the store, and it worked. I guess the range isn't as big as some people thought.

It's probably because the range of the signal will be dependent upon the range that the broadcasting DS system gets, not GameStop's routers.

Before I went to GS, a friend and I had lunch at Panera next door. We could both get GS's WiFi but not the signal of the DS.

Originally Posted by Tobezijian Went to gamestop today to reserve Kingdom hearts recoded. While i was giving the guy my info i got my shiny legendary. Everyone keep looking at me weird tho and saying "Why's that old guy playing pokemon?" I'm only 20 years old, I'm not that old :(. Thanks for the heads up OP

Probably less about an "old guy" playing Pokemon and more about somebody taking out their DS to download something in store. There would naturally be some curiosity about that IMO if they didn't know about the giveaways in the first place.

I heard you can change the date on your DS to get the other Pokemons. Anyone tried it and know if its true or not?

Originally Posted by chickenbutt I heard you can change the date on your DS to get the other Pokemons. Anyone tried it and know if its true or not?

You have to change the date on the transmitting DS, not the receiving DS. So you would have to do that on the DS Gamestop is using to give out the free Pokemon.

Pretty sure the date on the DS distributing the pokes has to be changed for that to work.

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Originally Posted by Monroeski Probably less about an "old guy" playing Pokemon and more about somebody taking out their DS to download something in store. There would naturally be some curiosity about that IMO if they didn't know about the giveaways in the first place.

Yeah most people assume you're there to buy games or play demos at a store, not bring your own games in and just start playing them. It feels weird with Pokemon and feels only (just) a little less weird with Dragon Quest IX. Just do whatever feels comfortable. I'm not one to judge how someone gets their free Pokemon.

(I got my Raikou at a GS that's right in front of a food court.)

Sucks, the GS closest to me can't do it. Nintendo has to fix their machine, so no Shiny Raikou for me. I'll go another GS to get the other shiny Pokemon. If anyone has a extra shiny they want to trade or whatever, I don't have any great pokemon, really a casual player, let me know.