Ugh, so I picked up the mag on Wednesday night (48 hours ago), since I saw a copy of Batman: AA GotY in my local BestBuy, and was searching for the Tekken 6 bundle. So I come back the next day and it's gone. I end up going to 2 other locations (still on the search for my Tekken 6 360 bundle, which I find at the furthest one, of course
) and none of them have it. So, after talking to a store employee at one of them, I figure I can apply the coupon online. Wrong. Back of the coupon even says as such, so I'm rather annoyed. I stop by my local BB tonight, ask if they can provide me a rain check. The guy says no. I ask if they can ship it from the closest store and I'll pay here and pick it up (there's a store that has it that's quite a drive away, but close enough that it could be shipped in a day or 2). So, I figure that since I didn't use any coupons (the $10 off pre-owned stuff would have been nice, but it's like $5 for shipping and there was no ship-to-store option for anything I could get cheaper than GS with the coupon), and I have my receipt and the magazine is in pristine condition, I can at least return it, right? Nope.
Upon returning it to Customer Service (on suggestion of the store-pickup guy), the younger worker flips through it and says it looks fine, but then his supervisor comes over and says magazines are final purchase. Now, I get the idea on general magazines not being returnable (since you buy them to read) but the main selling point of the mag (over-priced, I think) is the coupons which I did not and could not use because of their shortage of copies. How is that my fault? How is it my fault that they refuse to let them work online (like they should), or that they won't rain check me or ship it from another store? I tried every possible alternative and they have the nerve to tell me that I pretty much threw away $6.50??? They wouldn't give me SC or the next magazine, or anything. I stormed the
out. Poor BB, if I got my money back they'd have only a day to sell that piece of shit to someone else.
Regardless, I was originally headed out to K-mart tomorrow to use my MvC3 credit towards BS: Epic, and I found out when I got home that the second closest location (they're just about tied in distance, but the K-mart deal is actually worth the drive) is actually the town over from said Best Buy, gotta hit Walmart on the way regardless, so it's a moot point. However, I'm sure I'll never be buying this piece of crap magazine ever again and I think BB should make it easier for me to give them my money. I thought the whole coupon not working with the sale of Ass Bro was annoying enough, but this just took the cake for me. Thinking about ripping the coupons out of the next issue, lol.
Edit: If anyone actually wants the coupons (aside from the Batman one, probably) and lives on Long Island in the Nassau area, you could probably get them from me.
Edit 2: Wait, how the hell was I supposed to pick-up a pre-owned game with the coupon if they're online only (BB employee said as such)? Just figures there's giant holes with the only 2 coupons I was interested in. Oh, and they put the same Ass Bro coupon in next month's issue so I assume either the price is shooting back up and they have a ton of copies (instead of, or they're going to make it useless coupon-filler again.