ARGH!

[trinityvixen]

I had such a nice, productive shopping day yesterday, and then I go to play one of the games I got from Game Stop, and I find it's the XBOX version despite the fact that I have the PlayStation 2 case and that that is what I handed to the stupid woman in the store. And I have to go back to that store to replace it for the proper version. Which means that I have to go all the way back down to Eighth St. in seven days--costing myself $4 on transit fare since I don't have a monthly card--to get the version I fucking paid for.

The real irony is that on the receipt they congratulate me for saving TWO WHOLE DOLLARS (ZOMG!) by buying a used game. Fuckers. This is the insult to injury after I had to wait around for fifteen minutes in the store for them to bring out the copy of the new game I bought, too. Fuckers fuckers fuckers!

Comments

[hslayer.livejournal.com]

...saving TWO WHOLE DOLLARS (ZOMG!) by buying a used game.

It's for that exact reason I almost never buy used games. You almost never save more than $5, for which it's wholeheartedly not worth it. (Sorry, I enjoy misusing that adverb.)

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I'm going to have to hope I can get assistance returning it from my friends who live down there or something. This is fucking ridiculous.

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

Mission accomplished!

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Sweet! I owe you...uh...cookies? Want I should make alky-holic alize-margaritas? Whatever: THANK YOU!

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

It's a little more worth it if you have a Gamestop card and buy a lot of used games, since it gives an additional 10% off. I don't have a membership anymore, but I'm considering it to get the "free" magazine again, now that I have a current game system again and could potentially be looking for some used games soon.

[umeyard.livejournal.com]

True story, when i got the xbox for darryl for christmas i went to game stop to get him a bunch of used games, even got one of those nifty cards. Distracted him and made it out of the store...WHEW! then got home and started to wrap them right away so he would not see the xbox logo, on a fluke i opened a case. No game. Opened all the cases, no games. THEY FORGOT TO GIVE ME THE FUCKING GAMES. I was displeased. Keep in mind this was about 10 games, not one or two... So i went back. I got the games. I bought another one. Again, they sold me an empty case. I yelled at them. returned said empty case for an actual game, and they gave me back the original empty case. I was pissed. Finally got it all straight. I have always checked the games before walking out of a store again after that. Used games are evil. I worked music retail for years and this almost NEVER happened in our store.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

When I worked at Blockbuster, they'd finally figured out that they'd wind up with fewer angry customers by doing the same thing--checking the case. This was doubly effective as it ensured a customer didn't come back irritated (and maybe walk off for life) and that they bring back the box claiming there was nothing in it (thus walking off with the DVD and a free rental).

I'm so thrilled to hear this is probably an endemic problem with that stupid store. I hope you read the Penny Arcade comic/post about this? Basically, Tycho grafted the way GameStop does its business onto another business and it really showed how dumb their store crap is. In this case, I think the lady saw that it said XBOX on the manual (the manual was for XBOX, the outer cover for PS2) and put that disc in. I will check from now on--providing I ever buy a game from them again (really, it's not worth it--for $2, I could have bought the same game when it came out as "best of PS2").

Another problem with their store? They open everything and then tell you anything that's opened can only be returned for that same item. I'm sorry, but you opened it so you could squirrel away the discs in the back room somewhere, where you probably wipe your asses with them before handing them over, so screw you, I want my money back. Bitches.