Another encounter with a GS employee

Why can't Gamestop just use the pre-order display cases that they have. Hell, I still see them out months after a game has been released (like Brain Age 2).
 
[quote name='terribledeli']A roundhouse kick a la Mortal Kombat 3 would have worked just as well.

I was picking up a couple of used DVDs the other day and I had to pay in cash because the employee wasn't sure how to ring me up using a debit card. Even after I pointed out I think it was F8, she wouldn't try.

I know many a-store hire seasonal help, but let's try and fucking train them.[/QUOTE]

nah, management needs someone to yell at, so if they don't train you and you be fruggin it, then you are the one to get yelled at, even though you did nothing wrong... I really hate over paid babysitters...
 
On Friday I managed to pwn a GS employee nicely. I hit up a couple of Gamestops to take advantage of the buy 2 get 1 free, and I found a nice trio of rare titles - dot hack quarantine, Futurama, and Fatal Frame III. As I got to the counter, the guy looked at my games and said to one of the other cashiers that I was buying "his" (i.e. the other cashier's) FF3. This other guy looked REALLY pissed off and mumbled about how he'd been wanting that. So I said "Well, you snooze, you lose, I guess", and I could tell he wanted to jump across the counter and murder me. I felt like really rubbing it in and saying "Well I don't even want to play it, I'll probably just put it on ebay for $60", but I withheld. The pwnage was already at a satisfactory level at that point.
Still, what was this douche expecting? Should have bought it himself right as the store opened, instead he leaves it there on display, on the very biggest shopping day of the year, and the very same day when they're having a B2G1 free sale? LOL.
 
[quote name='microbim']There are no magazine racks at GS, you really aren't the smartest tool in the box now, are you?
Maybe it's the glitter that you wear.[/QUOTE]

I think someone hasn't been around CAG long enough to realize the tradition of an GS/EB bashing thread. ;)
 
[quote name='dinovelvet']On Friday I managed to pwn a GS employee nicely. I hit up a couple of Gamestops to take advantage of the buy 2 get 1 free, and I found a nice trio of rare titles - dot hack quarantine, Futurama, and Fatal Frame III. As I got to the counter, the guy looked at my games and said to one of the other cashiers that I was buying "his" (i.e. the other cashier's) FF3. This other guy looked REALLY pissed off and mumbled about how he'd been wanting that. So I said "Well, you snooze, you lose, I guess", and I could tell he wanted to jump across the counter and murder me. I felt like really rubbing it in and saying "Well I don't even want to play it, I'll probably just put it on ebay for $60", but I withheld. The pwnage was already at a satisfactory level at that point.
Still, what was this douche expecting? Should have bought it himself right as the store opened, instead he leaves it there on display, on the very biggest shopping day of the year, and the very same day when they're having a B2G1 free sale? LOL.[/quote]

LOL Best way to get the uber rare games is to ascertain which employees are newbies and if you've seen a rare game listed online and see the case/manual out on the shelf, ask them to look all over for it.

And, if they say they 'can't find it', offer to buy or ask if you can grab the case/manual, since 'you couldn't find it'.

I've actually managed to get covers/manuals for some of my games with this very tactic.

And yeah, that employee was a major league putz for leaving the case out on the shelf. Good job on the pwnage.
 
[quote name='scott2hotcott']Why can't Gamestop just use the pre-order display cases that they have. Hell, I still see them out months after a game has been released (like Brain Age 2).[/quote]
Now that's what I was thinking about earlier. They say they *need* to gut a game for display, yet they can't use those pre-order cases they've used before and slap a new sticker on saying "NOW AVAILABLE?"

Regarding the whole thing about how gutted games shouldn't be bitched about...what? If I wanted an already opened game, I'd buy it used. If you buy it gutted and change your mind on the game, you won't get what you paid for it back. Why? Because they rang it up as NEW. When they see it open, they'll write it off as used.

Let's look at it in another way.

Say you go to the grocery store and a stock clerk is stock up jam. Now let's say they accidentally popped the top on one of them and you ask them for one of the cans they're stocking. They hand you the popped top one and say it was *just* opened and that it's still fresh.

Would you take it?

Or how about if someone's in the cooler behind the milk section and is throwing in the milk containers. One of those containers has the plastic peel removed from the cap. They insist it's still good.

Would you take it?
 
[quote name='Tsukento']Say you go to the grocery store...[/quote]
Let's make proper comparisons, shall we? An opened game is not the same as opened food. That being said, I'd never buy an CD, DVD, MP3 player, speaker system, television, etc. that had already been opened (unless there were a significant discount applied).
 
While I still frequently deal with this 'gut' issue, there's a ? that came to mind while reading about the different experiences people have had. Namely: what is stopping the GS/EB employees from telling people that the gut is the last copy, especially if they just want to get rid of it? There are plenty of people that don't care about that policy and buy the stuff anyways (parents and younger kids etc. etc.).

Here's an interesting EB experience I'd like to share from 2 months ago when I purchased Heroes of Mana for DS:

Him: The total is $42.xx.
Me: I'm not really sure I want this..I mean, I want it, but $40 is a steep price, and if I saw it for cheaper somewhere else..
Him: Oh, don't worry about it man, it's all good! As long as it's within a week, we'll take it back..
Me: Good, cuz' if I saw it cheaper at another store in the next week, I was planning on picking it up there and just returning that new copy here.
Me: Oh yeah, that's fine. But if you need me to seal it back up, we got a machine in the back that'll do it no problem. Just let me know.
Me: So you're saying I can return it later even if it's open?
Him: Sure. Actually, that's what I thought you meant, hehe. Either way, it's kool.
Me: Hahaha. (while thinking to myself: wow, and I thought -I- used to be a stoner)

Admittedly, it's a nice perk, but I wouldn't do something like that to someone that I wouldn't want done to me. In other words, I wouldn't wanna get a game that has been 'claimed' to be new when it quite obviously isn't. The problem is companies like Capcom and how awfully similar their methods of "factory-sealing" games are to a regular shrink-wrap machine. I've used plenty of them, and the seams are not really hard to replicate.

I dunno, just some food for thought...
 
i'm pretty sure gs/eb gets fake boxes weeks ahead of launch in order to promote preorders. i dont get why these cant be used instead of guts
 
Is there any real point in buying new games from Gamestop? Every worthwhile release seems to have a deal going on at the big box stores. You won't ever get $10 off or a non-preorder goodie for a new game by shopping at a Gamestop.
 
[quote name='outlawmoogle']Is there any real point in buying new games from Gamestop? Every worthwhile release seems to have a deal going on at the big box stores. You won't ever get $10 off or a non-preorder goodie for a new game by shopping at a Gamestop.[/quote]

preorder gifts?
 
[quote name='basilofbkrst']Today i witnessed the worse...we'll say "gutted" new game I could fathom.
[SIZE=-1]Tony Hawk's Proving Ground [/SIZE][SIZE=-1]NEW without a case!!! WTF!?! but it was a-OK because it was 10% off[/SIZE][/quote]

Cant be worse than what i saw, no box, no manual, just the disks, and scratch marks....
 
To all the whiners that sit there and say "Well how would you like to have some kids come in and destroy your store. Or so and so customer bitched at you for something that wasn't your fault." Let me make this clear ...

SHUT THE fuck UP!!
 
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Take two of them. Call the shrink if they don't work.
 
I always like the policy Hot Topic had when I used to manage one of them. for stores with CD listening stations, once the last unit or "demo" was done with, employees could purchase them for $1. Got myself quite a few really good cds on the very cheap.

My GS always gives me a discount though when I get the gut. This particular district is amazing overall, though when I've been traveling and visited the stores elsewhere my experiences have been much less than stellar.
 
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