Just wanted to throw this out there. There is a new bar that opened up over between Canton and Fells Point calling themselves Baltimore Bar Arcade off of Boston St.
https://www.facebook.com/BmoreBarArcade
The preorder only benefits the employee at the time of the preorder. It only hurts when a preorder is cancelled though it affects the employee that does the cancel and not the original employee that took the order.
A return would only hurt store comp for that day. Gamestops top priority is...
It should work, we were able to do it for a customer who traded in his 360 and put the bonus $50 down on a PS Vita. There is suppose to be a code to input on the register for it to work on the systems you can preorder. I guess the staff at your store was to lazy to read the store informer...
White Marsh's clearance for games is usually way down by the books. Last time I checked they had Sly Collection, Vanquished, Split Second, Super Street Fighter 4, Killzone 2, Battlefield 2 all on PS3 on clearance and a bunch of Wii shovel ware.