Yes, a lousy thing to be asking about, but I have a stupid problem. I bought a game today and when I got it home I started playing it...about 1 1/2 hours into the game my little brother got home and it turns out, he already has this title; I just didn't know he had it. I went to Gamestop to try and exchange it for a new copy (saying it was faulty) but the guy just pulled out the floor copy and switched the cartridges for me. Is there anything I can do about this or am I stuck? Stupid mistake, I know, but is there any way to fix it?
Your message board topic is not a specific question, just a general query that covers the overriding tone of your post. You ask a specific question right at the end of your paragraph.
Stupid mistake, I know, but is there any way to fix it?
The other message board users proceed to give a myriad of other options to fix your "problem".
Then you post this:
The answer to the question posed in the topic title, thus the creation of a topic that poses a specific question. If I ask how to fix my car so I can sell it to my friend in Dallas, I don't want to get answers like "ebay, trade it here, etc". I asked a specific question looking for a specific answer.
Either you can't express yourself well, or you're throwing a temper tantrum. Your specific question was not about "Rewrapping games". If that was your intent, you really need to work on your clarity, if not, you're just getting pissy and throwing a temper tantrum because people aren't enabling your want to be dishonest.
I got several specific answers, but not in regards to my question.
Actually, they were in direct responce to your question. It's not thier fault that your writing is clear enough to elict the specific answers that you want to a question you never formally introduced.
Is this concept really so hard for you to grasp?
You know, we aren't mind readers. You asked a specific question (and it wasn't about rewrapping games. You got answers to that question. If you wanted to ask for specifics about rewrapping games, you should have formally stated that question instead of the one you did. It's not thier fault if your question was vague enough that it could elict those answers you got.
I didn't realize this was a forum full of saints and virgins who have never tried to bend the rules a tad to fix a mistake.
That's mature. What's next, are you going to take your ball and go home?
That would be cool if it made me immortal though...Good idea, but it really isn't that big of a deal. I was just asking a question and all of the dicks here just decided to jump on me for it. No big deal.
If you want a specific answer, ask a very specific, tightly constrained question. If you wanted information about wrapping games, ask specifically about industrial rewrappers and such.
You asked a very nonspecific question, making it a somewhat of a Pandora's Box, where you weren't ready for, or equipt to deal with, the results it provided
Anyways, People aren't going to be kind to the type of shenanigan you're trying to pull, since just in the recent few months people have posted about scumbags switching a Ninja Gaiden game with an AOL CD and a notepad, and then them being stuck with it and out 50 dollars.
Buying a game and then rewrapping it to return it is only a tiny little step away from a practice like that. If you are dishonest enough to buy it an rewrap it to trade it back in, what's to say you wouldn't do the same thing and just steal the game. You don't have the moral authority to stand on anymore.