[quote name='dchrisd']Fine, if its not scamming and if the stuff has no value, then as I said, just ask for the so-called freebies. If its no big deal, there's no need to go through the motions of buying the CE game, unpacking it, then returning whatever you don't want for your money back. Just tell the employee you want the freebies and unpack the game in store. Keep it simple.
As for the penny guides, your analogy makes no sense because theres no scamming involved. You pay the penny and the store gives you the guide. No gameplaying. No buying something then returning less than what you bought for a full refund.[/QUOTE]
It is the same thing because you
know that it is Gamestop's policy to destroy those guides. They aren't supposed to sell them and you and I both know it, the only way they'll ring you up for one at the register is if the employee is ignorant of their own policy and you exploit that ignorance likely at their expense as they can be reprimanded or worse.
In fact, if anything buying a penny guide would actually be worse because it requires a conscious violation of their rules. Nothing about returning the item indicated on your receipt violates a Gamestop policy that I'm aware of.
I just don't get the weird double standard I'm seeing here. Let's review a few other recent similar things I've seen discussed here:
* People buying penny guides is okay even though it exploits ignorant/new employees for personal gain and violates store policy.
* People buying Rayman Origins at TRU and getting the Skyrim CE for half off even though the ad clearly says the second item must be of equal value or less.
Here.
* People getting games B1G1 instead of B2G1 because Target's registers were initially applying the promotion incorrectly.
Here.
In all three of those cases we're knowingly exploiting an error or mistake. In this case we're talking about returning the item that they knowingly and purposefully printed on your receipt: a standard, used copy of AC:B.
[quote name='admiralvic']Im sorry, but I have to reply to this.
You're right its not scamming (persay), it's fraud. However fraud sounds a lot more severer than say scamming... so similar to pishing = hacking, you're seeing people use more common terms.
CAG is a place of higher morals (most of the time) than say Slickdeals. While you can do whatever the
you please...
NO ONE wants to read about some asshole who is suggesting and most likely preventing others from getting in on the deal. The simple fact you can't justify your point properly is proof enough you SHOULDNT be doing it. Furthermore the fact I can tell you its straight up fraud; means I can justify my point perfectly in 1 word.[/QUOTE]
If you could justify your point perfectly in one word why did it take two paragraphs and giant bolded underlined red letters? It isn't fraud because we are talking about returning the item that is indicated on your receipt as they intended. I don't see how that's fraud.
As for your other unfounded insinuations I am not excluding anyone from getting in on any deal or I wouldn't have posted it here. I've never even been ON Slickdeals. I'd just rather see stuff end up on somebody's shelf than in a Gamestop dumpster and was trying to help people get in on the action before they gut all the copies left out in the wild. If you'd prefer the stuff to end up in the trash then we'll just agree to disagree.
As I said earlier, if I said something I shouldn't have I will edit the original post but considering that some people seem okay with it (and some have already done it successfully) and some object it will take more than a random user belligerently typing at me in giant red caps to convince me.
