[quote name='Oswald9599']Really? Tysons? The GM is a pretty good guy and he's usually up on this stuff. I had this set up at my store friday morning. Legendary is a very linear shooter...Im talking super linear. Its not as good as it looks though, the visuals are much better than the gameplay and overall story.[/QUOTE]
The manager on duty was an older woman. At first I talked to a younger employee, who looked all over for info on a mail-in rebate, despite my telling him that I wasn't talking about that. Then he went and got her, and she again went looking for the mail-in rebate. When we finally cleared up that I was talking about a regular sale, not a rebate, and that it I had it on good info that the Arlington store had it, she said that she'd have to call them. She went off to call them, and the corporate office I presume since it took so long, and then came back about 20 minutes later to say that the items were indeed on sale.
I dunno, my general experience with the Tysons store is that, while the GM may well be up on his stuff, the employees are frequently unusually clueless about what's going on in their own store. This isn't the first time that I've had to tell them about their own sale. I'm not going to complain too much because I
did eventually get out of there with my games in hand (and hell, the store was probably considerably less picked-through since they hadn't been advertising the sale at all), but it's one of the reasons (beyond the insanely high CD and DVD prices) that I don't shop there very often.
One thing that I was pretty unhappy about was that they had a table in the front of the store with a sign that said "All XBox, PS2, and Gamecube games 75% off", but half of the games on the table were recent-release XBox 360 games (i.e. $59.99 games like Bionic Commando and RE5 that weren't really on sale at all). While I certainly didn't expect that those were actually on sale for that price, it struck me as damn-near false advertising to have them there (especially with the ambiguity of the word "XBox" on the sign). The employee that I mentioned it to said something about how "someone probably just set them there" (um, yeah, right), but didn't make any effort to actually remove them.
Thanks for the info on Legendary. From the sound of it, I'm glad I skipped it.
[quote name='Durmat']Arcane, I must have seen the same copy of Mirror's Edge as you did. Despite it being labeled as $59.99, I took it up front, where it rang up for $15.00. I think the difference is: games with price drops to 29.99 or less- discount; games on sale for 29.99 or less - no discount. Of course, it's moot now and that theory could be totally wrong.[/QUOTE]
Haha, I guess I should have taken that up to the register and had them check the price on it. I was absolutely starving by that point, though, because I'd put off getting lunch to go there and then had to stand around while they figured it all out, so I just wanted to get out of there and didn't feel like arguing any more. I would assume that the price sticker never got updated when the price dropped, but it was updated in the system and was therefore picked up for the sale. Oh well, as it was I spent more money than I really should have anyway.
More interesting question is how this will affect rebates. It would seem that all rebates that printed out should be valid.
I would assume that any rebates that actually printed out from the register will be honored. For mine, the guy handed me a small photocopied form for a "buy 2 games at $29.99 or up, get $20 back" rebate for the two games that were originally $29.99. I'm less certain that will work, given that the games actually rang up on the receipt at $15, but I'll probably send it anyway just for the hell of it. Worst they can do is refuse it.
Tomb Raider Legend $15
Geist $2.50
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