[quote name='Zippon']Even if a bin is right next to the cashier (as it is in one store), I'd rather walk it across the store to the nearest scanner and do it myself.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, the problem at this particular store (not the case at any of the other area stores that I check regularly) is that the electronics department is completely walled off, with only one entrance with a sensor on it, and there is no self-scanner within the department. I've gotten permission from the electronics guys to carry stuff out and scan it myself in the past when they've been busy, but I don't like to do that when I can help it because the sensor freaks out and starts making a bunch of noise about returning to the electronics area. Hell, it's overly sensitive, so it freaks out if you even walk too close to it while you're in the electronics area.
[quote name='Zippon']No, I was specifically referring to a situation where all the decent clearance games were still in the locked case. So there was no way to get to them without asking for a clerk to open it up.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, this is also the only store that I go to that doesn't actually have a case. Some of the games are in individual security cases which are locked onto individual hooks on one rack, and some are in a case behind the register, but for the most part those are only the expensive ones. The rest are in bins -- which I referred to as "clearance" bins, but that's actually a bit of a misnomer because there are a lot of non-clearance $20-30 games mixed in, making it hard to tell what's clearance and what's not (since less than half of games in the bin actually have price tags on them).
[quote name='bigdaddybruce44']My Sears had a ton of the sports games from last year for $2. I picked up a bunch up, figuring, I could use the cases, play the games for easy achievements, and maybe trade them in disc-only to break even. I didn't know how much people are willing to pay for these older games. I threw a bunch of them up for like $15 shipped on eBay, and they sold out in less than a day.[/QUOTE]
What's funny is that they're clearancing all of last year's sports games for so cheap, but the stores around here at least still have stacks of the ones from the year before last, which they're still trying to sell for $19.99. Sears makes no sense sometimes.