[quote name='jp554731']How can game stop be alright???? I had to call seven managers to get on one of thier managers.....wouldn't you be pissed off too?? He tried to jack my PS3 offa me for not answering the phone... He tried to save his own ass by giving me that PS3 early......thats
ed up... Gamestop needs a better way to handel preorders....they can't trust instore managers because this shit would happen more often....[/QUOTE]
I'll quote myself from earlier in this thread for starters.
[quote name='mykevermin']*sigh*
The trials and tribulations of first-world living. Such serendipity.[/QUOTE]
Now then. You're expending a lot of anxiety over a system you already own now.
Should you have had to call seven managers? I don't know, and frankly I don't care. GS took care of you in the end; truth be told, you're not entitled for anything with a preorder. If you consider the confusion from the time GS took the preorders to earlier this week, it is clear that *nobody* had any idea whether or not your number in line mattered. It turns out they did do that, but really, your sense of singular entitlement is (1) overdrawn and (2) misplaced.
You've yet to show me why GameStop sucks. Perhaps their management sucks, perhaps the employees in your regoin suck. Perhaps you suck; your demeanor in this thread sure doesn't suggest to me that you have any sort of discretion or social tact when making an argument. I will confidently guess that most of your conversations with the aforementioned managers did not take place in the form of polite inquiry, but, rather, you barking at them to get things done. Strangely enough, I've found when you treat people with respect, it's often reciprocated. When you stomp and grouse about your sense of deserving, claim of right, and sense of entitlement, making demands all the way...well, if I was the store manager I'd have made sure to find a way to get you on that second shipment.
With that said, I guess you getting your Playstation 3 wasn't enough to make you happy. It's almost as if you're the living incarnation of Roald Dahl's character "Veruca Salt."
EDIT: As my post implies, if you read between the lines, I would not have been pissed off, because (1) I'm a patient man, and (2) there are important things to be upset about in life, and then there's PS3 preorders and similar ilk. Truth be told, it is impossible for me to be in your shoes, because I just wouldn't be upset about it. What, are you gonna wait two more weeks? That would only be something worth being genuinely upset about if, for example, you were in a freak accident between now and then, and lost both hands, never to play games again.
It's a game system, dude. You're in the same boat with a lot of other people (this whole board is teeming with anxious and angry and bitter people this week - and here I though gamers celebrated launches - upset that they got a 20GB, or upset that they won't get their Wii delivered to their home on Sunday, or that their Wii composite cables aren't being hand delivered Monday morning by Herve Villaichaize), so I'm not focusing on you personally so much; what really concerns me is that this sense of instant gratification and entitlement is (1) reaching a fevered pitch as a result of people being made to wait a day -
a day!, and acting as if they were told to sacrifice their first born child to the god Fils-Aime, they react with such anxiety, moaning, wailing, and gnashing of teeth, and (2) shows a large cohort of adolescent and adult males who are acting like petulant children, kicking and screaming in the toy aisle because they aren't getting precisely what they wanted. It's frightening, it's annoying, and most of all, it's
ing childish. I'm ashamed, frankly.
to me...
? WOW....just...WOW. Every time I read one of RegalSin's posts I can't figure out what the heck it's supposed to mean. Do I have to order a secret decoder ring or something?
