Hey, he asked if it could be done, and i said it could. But i think your idea of Capitalism is ludicrous. We cant change our minds if we dont like a product? Bull. It is our perogative to change our minds and be FICKLE if we so choose because if not companies could be raping us blind.
Right. So lets just start returning cars because we just don't like the paint color. Let's just try to return a house because it's starting to smell funny.
Economic systems don't work like that. If everything were so lax, fickle consumers would be raping the companies blind, and in turn, any formal economic system would lapse and more likely that not anarchy would hold sway.
If a game is wholly bad, i say you should be able to take it back.
That isn't the policy you agree to when you purchase said item. By it's purchase you enter into a contract, and hold a liscense for a specific piece of software. That's the major problem people have... they actually think they are buying a game. They aren't. They are purchasing a single user liscense for a software product, with which they are provided a copy of that game on a specific format. They are constrained to the provisions of said software liscense. This would all be quite clear if people actually bothered to read the fine print in thier instruction manuals.
You shouldnt just have to eat your money in return for something less than a pile of garbage.
You should know better than to buy garbage. Caveat Emptor. Let the Buyer Beware. It's standard practice. Just because you don't like that fact doesn't make it any less true.
You can return produce/groceries if you are not satisfied with the product; why not entertainment?
Entertainment is not a necessity for life. Entertainment doesn't spoil. Entertainment doesn't rot. On top of that, there isn't an expressly written liscensing agreement included in the documentation with food products. There is one with entertainment products, and buy purchasing said product, you are bound to said agreement.
You can get your money refunded at certain shows if you do not enjoy the production.
CAN. You can. There is no entitlement to it. Some venues value customer satisfaction very highly, and are willing to take a small loss to keep a potential customer. Videogame stores don't work on that principle for the most part. New game sales produce very modest profits for stores. If they were willing to take back any game for any reason, they'd realize huge losses very quickly. Why do you think EB suspended that policy. They are business, not your friends. They exist to make money, and sometimes to make a profit you have to take a hard line.
Of course, it's not an entirely new idea that media products can't be return after being opened expect in the case of a defect. They did it for beta tapes. The did it for Video cassetes. The did it for cassette tapes. They've done it for CDs. It's not a new concept to do it for videogames.
The customer should always be right, and though i dont promote abusing the gaming industry, if a game is bad you should have the right to bring it back in the store
The customer is not always right. There is a point where business realities set in, and policies must be in place and enforced. People are inherently selfish, and will push for as much as they can get for as little as they must pay. The trick is balancing a satisfactory level where the customer is satisfied and business realize profits.
. Defaming companies by rewrapping games is an unfortunate way to get your money back, but it is the only way short of selling it for less than you paid.
It's fraud. There is no two ways about it. You are knowingly misrepresenting something, and have taken actions to support that deception.
I personally investigate games by looking up reviews and such before buying a game but some people bypass that and sometimes buy for their children without investigating.
Then they get stuck with crap games. If they get stuck with too many crap games, they stop buying games. If people stop buying, the industry stagnates and dies. That's the way things work.
Just like if you opened up the gamebox and inside sat a big fat turd, you should be able to return a crappy game.
You should know better than to buy a crappy game, if you buy it.. too bad. Caveat Emptor. It isn't a new concept.
yes it is possible to copy the game perhaps, but if i returned a box of cheerios half eaten to the grocery store and got my money back, couldnt i just have eaten to get full and returned to get my refund, hence getting a free meal?
You could do it, but the people that sold it to you would want a reason (spoilage, etc), and on top of that, they would track your returns... if you return to much, they will refuse to take your returns... even for food items.
This is a ridiculous comparison but i am just arguing a side where all products should be returnably equal if it is unsatisfactory to the customer.
Just because you think it would be nice, or the way it should be doesn't mean that that is the way it is. It will never be that way. It's a childish, uniformed view that puts one's own selfish desires over everything else.