[quote name='sgaldis']Well, I had to make the epic trip of 30 miles to find the nearest PS3 copy today! Get to the store, and find that my most-hated GS manager ever has been moved to this store; I thought I was safe from him (I frequent all of the GS' in this town, so I just usually avoided the store he was at), but not today. If it was anything else otherwise obtainable within another 30 miles, I would have just left the store, but the PS3 TE is fairly hard to come by.
Anyway, this guy is the type of d-bag who will issue 'refurb' fees for games not having cover art, manuals, etc..., tries to get you to renew your PUR card when you have months remaining (tried it on me today, and mine expires in October, LoL), uses the BS circular logic/lying to tell you how you would basically get the card for free if you renew today (yeah, because I just traded a bunch of games in, which you would then subtract $15 from my total to give me my 'free' renewal, right, asshole?) and harasses you more insistently for pre-orders more than any other GS clear i've EVER seen (and that's saying a lot)...Yeah, I'm sure it's gonna be super-hard to track down a vanilla copy of Modern Warfare 3 come the holidays if I don't preorder 5 months in advance!
I had a pretty big stack of my more valuable games from the recent BBV sale to trade in to get the TE, though, so I had to trade in there. Somehow I conned my wife and son on taking me on this little joy ride out of town, so my time was VERY limited, though, otherwise I definitely would have just done the trade-in at another store. I went so far as to get out of line a couple of times when I was not gonna get the other clerk's register, but that wore thin with my wife after awhile.
Anyway, I decide to just accept my fate, and let the d-bag process my trade-ins. What do you know, 5 games out of about 10 got hit with refurb fees (totaling $10.75), and to rub a final bit of salt into the wound,
tard entered my copy of Bully: Scholarship Ed. Wii in as Ant Bully (that one has a nice $2 base TIV, if you were curious), another net loss of probably $7-9 with the current promo. Of course I checked the receipt for the refurb fees in the parking lot, but didn't scrutinize it closely enough until I got home to see that he had actually put in the wrong game; Of course, I got refurbed on 'Ant Bully' for $0.75 since it didn't have a manual or cover art; how ironic that because it didn't have that stuff, asshat couldn't even read the disc properly to type in the right game, so I basically got double-penalized by him on that one. That is my fault for trusting a slimy weasel like this MF to do anything properly, though: c'est la vie.
Oh yeah, well back to the topic, I did manage to get my semi-rare PS3 TE today for $119, so I'm still pretty happy. Again, the asshole manager had no idea it was on sale, then started to pretend I got some kind of bonus deal once he finalized the transaction and saw it was down to $119 from $149.
Lessons:
-Never take your (unwilling) family members on a game flipping/buying trip. This is my own cardinal rule, so I was asking for it today, I know, but our current vehicle situation dictated that my only way of getting my hands on this TE this weekend would be under my wife's rules (using her car)...can't argue with that.
-If time permits, try to always to your trading at a 'friendly' store that you may have noticed in the past is less likely to give you bogus refurb fees, etc...Also, make sure to take care of those good CS', by getting pre-orders from them, etc...If you run into an employee that is rude/out of line/rubs you the wrong way, the last thing you ever want to do is give them the satisfaction of a card renewal, warranty, or a pre-order from them. There are simply too many other GS' around to have to deal with these idiots.
-Always check your receipt CLOSELY, and any games you might get to make sure the discs are included, etc...BEFORE YOU LEAVE (I'm not even going to go on a long rave about the other discovery I made today: Tatsunouko vs. Capcom Wii I got from BBV last week, had no disc in it when I checked today, again store is 30-40 miles or so away.)
Admittedly, I've been doing a lot of flipping and travelling lately, and not much sleeping, so I've made some pretty noob-ish mistakes, but DAMN dealing with that manager really chaps my hide. Losing out on $20 or so in credit, and one game out of 30-40 from the BBV sale is not the end of the world for me normally, but having to transact with that guy just really threw things over the top and ruined my day. I'm going to go out of my way to give them a bad review on their survey, and cancel a pre-order there next time I'm in town.[/QUOTE]
Wow. You really took it without lube, huh? I woulda cancelled the transaction right then and there after finding out I was refurbed(I ask BEFORE the transaction is complete) and went to the next closest GS to do the trades.
Of course, this is when I'm glad to gloat that I'm single and could actually do that pretty much without alot of hassle....if I weren't banned from GS that is.
Speaking of checking discs and what not, I suppose I'd better double check those movies I bought from BBV late last week to make sure I have discs in the cases AND they're not in truly deplorable shape. So thanks for the reminder...