Earlier today, I browsed around a new store that opened up just across the street from me. As I was checking their GBA games, something stuck out at me. A Pokemon LeafGreen game wasn't exactly...green. It was a bootleg cartridge with a fake LeafGreen label slapped on. Just behind it was another one. Behind that one were two authentic LeafGreen games.
I tried to think nothing of it, but come on, that should stick out like a sore thumb when the cartridge is GREEN while the other is dark gray. You'd think it'd end there, but it doesn't. Sure enough, to go along with LeafGreen, you have a bootleg FireRed. So now that makes three bootleg GBA games in the case. So I did some more browsing.
I counted a total of 18 bootleg GBA games sitting in the glass case. The labels were different from the authentic ones, as were the GBA logos. Hell, Mario Kart for the GBA had "Game Cassette" instead of "Game Boy Advance." This ranged from Pokemon to Mario Kart, to Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Advance Wars 2, to even the god awful Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis.
So I talk to one of the employees about the fact that they're selling bootleg games. He tells me to hold on and has his sidekick take care of me. I repeat what's up only to be told the following...
"Well if the games don't work, the customers can return them within 7 days for a refund. As long as they work, it's fine."
He then goes back to do his thing, pretending the complaint had no merit to it.
So uh...how does one report a store about this?
I tried to think nothing of it, but come on, that should stick out like a sore thumb when the cartridge is GREEN while the other is dark gray. You'd think it'd end there, but it doesn't. Sure enough, to go along with LeafGreen, you have a bootleg FireRed. So now that makes three bootleg GBA games in the case. So I did some more browsing.
I counted a total of 18 bootleg GBA games sitting in the glass case. The labels were different from the authentic ones, as were the GBA logos. Hell, Mario Kart for the GBA had "Game Cassette" instead of "Game Boy Advance." This ranged from Pokemon to Mario Kart, to Final Fantasy Tactics Advance, Advance Wars 2, to even the god awful Sonic the Hedgehog Genesis.
So I talk to one of the employees about the fact that they're selling bootleg games. He tells me to hold on and has his sidekick take care of me. I repeat what's up only to be told the following...
"Well if the games don't work, the customers can return them within 7 days for a refund. As long as they work, it's fine."
He then goes back to do his thing, pretending the complaint had no merit to it.
So uh...how does one report a store about this?