Some of you guys are just impatient pricks that expect way too much out of uneducated consumers, most notably GizmoGC. No offense, but people like you justify the stereotype some people have against employees at game stores. I mean, look:
- Is that Super Nintendo new?
Yes dumbass, it is. We managed to secure band new Super Nintendos that they havn't made in 10 years!!!! AND were only going to sell it for $29.99. Whoc ares that we can get $120 on ebay for a BRAND NEW BOXED ONE, for you, $29.99.
Does the average soccer mom, you know, the one with the money, know that they stopped making them? I doubt it, considering she could care less about gaming. Just do what everyone else does - keep your personal opinions regarding someone's knowledge to yourself, smile, and say no, it's not.
"Do you guys sell 3D Glasses?"
WHY THE HELL WOULD WE SELL 3D GLASSES? What would you use them for, Spy Kids? Why would anyone call a Game Store asking for those? Infact, what store WOULD you call asking for those?
Uh, there's 3D glasses that work with certain video cards, and yeah, they actually work well with stuff like Half-Life 2. Take a
ing chill pill.
The "guys only playing games" stereotype isn't cool, though. There's a girl at a local EB (an XBox fangirl, at that!) that I love talking with, just because her viewpoints are so opposite the normal view.
A quick question for the game-store employees out there: I tend to ask this question alot, worded pretty much excactly like this:
"I'm sure you don't, but might you actually have a copy of Suikoden 2/Valkyrie Profile in the store?"
The no is always followed by "Didn't think so, but it can't hurt to ask. Thanks!"
This is only when I'm buying something else.
Is this a bad thing to be asking? I know it would be if I actually expected a copy and got mad when there wasn't, but is shot-in-the-dark curiousity annoying?
I wouldn't ask it, i'd personally look. I found Suikoden 2 and Intelligent Qube. The former was not mint, the latter was extremely mint and complete, I snatched it.. then put it on hold for guessed, since I had no interest. The employee flipped out when he saw it and joked about taking it instead of putting it on hold. If you ask, there's a chance that if they DO have it in stock, they'll tell you no and get it for themselves.
Maybe i'm just the opposite but I
liked uneducated customers, especially ones walking in looking for Manhunt for their 9 year old kid. I dropped the fact that the game was so violent that it was already banned in several countries, and the dad's like "Are you serious? Well let me see that, I might want it for myself!".. good times..
There's only one time I have ever felt bad talking with a customer, and that's when we had gotten a shipment of Mario Kart: Double Dash in. As I answer the phone, I tell the lady that yes, we have it, and yes, i'll put one on hold for her.. only to turn around and find that three people, in the span of ten seconds, literally walked up and bought the game. We hadn't even priced it yet. She came in looking for it, and since God likes to torture me, she turns out to be a pretty hot blonde.. pregnant, too, but still very attractive.. so I end up having to tell her that i'm an asshat, two weeks before Christmas, and her pregnant with a child coming all the way down here. That one sucked.
I've only had one bad customer.. okay, two, but one was at a store that I didn't work at, but my best friend did. First off, my hell customer: guy shat his pants in the mall and walked around, little pieces falling off as he went along. There was a
ing trail in the mall. The janitor had a hell of a day, and i've never smelt anything so foul.. second hell customer, at my best friend's place of employment.. she worked at an electronic express, a few doors down from EB. I'm extremely close with her, so I stop in all the time when she's working just to say hi or ask if she wants to go get something to eat, whatever. Anyways, like some girls do in the electronic field, she used her charm to sell a big screen TV.. the guy got it, left, and kept calling up there to ask for her. He wanted to ask her out.. nothing really came of it, I don't think, and it wasn't really a "hell" customer as much of a "
off" customer. Never saw the guy, but she got a nice paycheck (nearly double of mine, that week she had made $500).
That's fine. I personally don't mind customers who are nice when they ask questions. I mean, it's part of my job to help customers out...it's the rude ones that piss me off. defiance has a point: ever since I started working with the public when I turned 16, I've been really really nice whenever I go into other stores, even if something happens that I'm not too happy about like something is sold out or I don't agree with a store's return policies (it's the corporate's fault, not the individual employee's fault; they don't deserve to take the blame for it.) I've also gotten in a lot of fights with my friends because I correct them when they're mean to retail people: most of my friends have never worked retail in their life (their credit cards are paid off by their parents). Everyone should work retail for at least a month and this world would be a nicer place.
Maybe it's just her and I, but does anyone else find themselves doing this? I am guilty of this, especially at Hastings. There's one guy up there that I try to make laugh about the situation (like if I pay with a roll of quarters because that's all I have on me), but he's just permanently pissed off.. the women, however, I usually make laugh. I poke fun at some of the own games I trade in to break up the monotony, and i've found that if I'm nice, they usually give me perks. At GameCrazy, sometimes I'll go in just to talk to the guys working (one guy now posts here, I think), i'll share deals I find, I correct them if they give me back too much or too little change.. at Hastings, I ask them if it's okay to do deals and that I have a TON of games to trade, and they're usually okay with it. The last thing I want to be is a devil customer, back up lines, etc.. they're all nice about it, too. I don't think i've annoyed anyone just yet.
Long story short, while I don't agree with some of the logic in this post (mainly GizmoGC spazzing out over one question, remind me not to ask him to pass something at the dinner table.. "WHAT! WE HAVE NO TURKEY! WHAT DO YOU THINK THIS IS?
ING THANKSGIVING! YOU STUPID ASSHAT! OMG!"), it was very entertaining. Returns and irate customers are hilarious, bashing people because they asked a question is not.
..he said Thank You to you, and you replied with Thank You, did you just thank yourself?
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I think we have Suburban Evil in stock Sir. 
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