Speaking of stores with old .01 guides (someone was, I was skimming back a little
)
I had an EB here a year or so back I called "The EB That Time Forgot". I got all kinds of rarities there - the biggest being the hardback Arc The Lad Collection guide for .01. Every drop, they NEVER pulled the guides. I'd go in and easily find pretty much everything I wanted.
Then one day I go in & the manager who was always there kinda grins and says something like "you're not going to find many of those .01 guides any more, we've started pulling them like we're supposed to now." I thought it was pretty funny that he actually told me they were just then starting to do their jobs. Anyway, I found one or two they missed & asked if I could get those, and he says ok. Also grabbed a 50' CAT-5 cable they had marked for $1.00. The guy keeps making smart comments to me the entire time he's checking me out, being a real ass. I checked out & left, didn't ever go back. A couple months later that store shut down.
I thought it was really sorry of that guy to treat me like that tho - I had always been very polite, never given them any grief. I even pointed out deals to him that I know he took advantage of (those Razer mice that were marked down to $10 but hardly anyone could find them at their stores? Mine had two, I got one and had him price check, and he says something like "wow, that's a deal!" and grabs the other one). Oh well, what can you do?
I'm starting to phase out looking for the guides (except for RPG guides, which I actually use) for several reasons. One, it's just getting harder to find them around here. Two, I don't have the space to store them all. And three, when I do find them, I'm tired of getting grief from clerks who didn't do their job in the first place & pull them. If you don't want me to buy them, take them off the shelf before you open. Once you open, anything on the shelf should be fair game for whatever price it rings up for in the system. Bah.