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OK, so I'm at BB, browsing through the PS2 games, not really looking for anything in particular. I think I'm done, but something peculiar catches my eye - a copy of Tokyo Extreme Racer 3, all by its lonesome. You wonder why this grabs my attention? Get this - it has a white label, similar to a Media Play price tag, but the price written on it is "$0.00." I double check to make sure I'm not seeing things, and sure enough, it says what I think it does. It has the game's name, the right barcode - everything. Cool! I take it up to the register, and the guy (some executive, not some newbie cashier) rings it up, but I show him the label, and he agrees with me. He tells me the computer will only let him ring it up as a penny, so I say fine, and I've got myself a brand new PS2 game for a penny!
Fast forward to about three weeks later...
This time I'm checking out the GC games to look for that $2 NASCAR game, but no luck. Once again, I think I'm done, but something catches my eye - this time, it's some ATV game, with the same $0.00 label. This time, though, I get some clueless cashier who has to ask another cashier (one who's been a total jerk before), and he stares at the label for about a minute, as if expecting the price to change before his very eyes, before saying that he'd have to honor the price. He then runs off to some room in the back, supposedly to make a note so it doesn't happen again, but he comes back five minutes later, making me wait the whole time, with a supervisor who tells me that he can't honor the price. Why not? Because, according to him, the white price tag is actually a shipping label, not a price tag. I show him that there is no other marking, either on the game or on the shelf, to indicate any other price, and it's obvious I couldn't have stuck the label on myself because the game was in one of those plastic security cases. I then note that the cashier said he'd have to honor the price, but then the cashier turns around and starts lying, saying he had to check, not honor, the price, and then he accused me of putting words in his mouth!
I have yet to report the guy, for both wasting my time and not honoring a marked price, but I just wanted to let everyone know so you can be on the lookout for these labels. YMMV for both finding the labels and getting BB to honor the price.
Fast forward to about three weeks later...
This time I'm checking out the GC games to look for that $2 NASCAR game, but no luck. Once again, I think I'm done, but something catches my eye - this time, it's some ATV game, with the same $0.00 label. This time, though, I get some clueless cashier who has to ask another cashier (one who's been a total jerk before), and he stares at the label for about a minute, as if expecting the price to change before his very eyes, before saying that he'd have to honor the price. He then runs off to some room in the back, supposedly to make a note so it doesn't happen again, but he comes back five minutes later, making me wait the whole time, with a supervisor who tells me that he can't honor the price. Why not? Because, according to him, the white price tag is actually a shipping label, not a price tag. I show him that there is no other marking, either on the game or on the shelf, to indicate any other price, and it's obvious I couldn't have stuck the label on myself because the game was in one of those plastic security cases. I then note that the cashier said he'd have to honor the price, but then the cashier turns around and starts lying, saying he had to check, not honor, the price, and then he accused me of putting words in his mouth!
I have yet to report the guy, for both wasting my time and not honoring a marked price, but I just wanted to let everyone know so you can be on the lookout for these labels. YMMV for both finding the labels and getting BB to honor the price.
my ban, im "buying" these!
