Gamestop!

[Absentia]

Re: Gamestop!

On what planet do store employees go out of their way to damage a case?

That likely happened in shipping, which sometimes can't be helped - especially now that Nintendo and MS both make "recyclable" cases that are easily damaged. I'd say if I had to pick something to be the display case, the damaged one would be a candidate for display.

More importantly, why did you buy an open and damaged copy anyway? Seems a bit stupid to me and this is where you forfeit your right to complain, as it seems like you bought the game anyway.

This clearly bothered you enough to come and QQ about it here, but not enough so long as you got the game you were looking for.

This is what I hate about gamers these days - they're spineless. They'll let publishers, developers and retailers dictate how they get their content and while they'll complain about it, they won't do anything to stand up to it. They just go cry on their favorite forum and that changes nothing.

Why should anyone care if you're not going to show an ounce of initiative or backbone?

You're 100% correct. I didn't have a backbone. I did ask if he had another case, and he said the only one was the display case. I guess it was when he decided to come around the counter to show me the case that I felt like the sale was already going on, and I didn't want to decline then. I suppose it didn't really hit me until after I got home and I wondered why I even bothered.

I guess I just wanted to avoid any conflict at the time, which is -- as you say -- spineless. I did go back the next day and return said game for a refund. I can definitely see where it was stupid on my part, no question about it. /equip flamesuit


@BBQ I also never mentioned that the employee went out of his way to damage anything, so why would you even bring that up?

[Omgwtfbbqkitten]

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So, you can take a new game, unwrap it and damage it and sell it for a full price but not take a full refund because someone removed the game from your STORE'S wrapper?

On what planet do store employees go out of their way to damage a case?

That likely happened in shipping, which sometimes can't be helped - especially now that Nintendo and MS both make "recyclable" cases that are easily damaged. I'd say if I had to pick something to be the display case, the damaged one would be a candidate for display.

More importantly, why did you buy an open and damaged copy anyway? Seems a bit stupid to me and this is where you forfeit your right to complain, as it seems like you bought the game anyway.

This clearly bothered you enough to come and QQ about it here, but not enough so long as you got the game you were looking for.

This is what I hate about gamers these days - they're spineless. They'll let publishers, developers and retailers dictate how they get their content and while they'll complain about it, they won't do anything to stand up to it. They just go cry on their favorite forum and that changes nothing.

Why should anyone care if you're not going to show an ounce of initiative or backbone?

[Tickmeoff]

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Why, when I ask for a new copy of a game, you grab a game case from your glass display behind the counter that has clearly been opened and has a hole in the top of the case?

How can you charge full price for a damaged product?

Better question: why are you paying full price for it? If you want a brand new, sealed copy of the game you should probably be going to Best Buy, Fry's Electronics or whatever similar electronics store you have.

[Absentia]

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They get away with it because they really don't have any competing video game store chains.

Apparently for 'new' games, they're now putting them in plastic sleeves after your purchase them, a la comic books. You can return the game for a full refund as long as you don't open the sleeve, but if you do they can only give you trade-in value.

So, you can take a new game, unwrap it and damage it and sell it for a full price but not take a full refund because someone removed the game from your STORE'S wrapper?

[cidbahamut]

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They get away with it because they really don't have any competing video game store chains.

[Absentia]

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you know you could have asked for a different one, and yes they should have given you the shop warn discount if it was broken.

When Dragon Age 2 came out, we got a copy in that was sealed, but the case was completely smashed, everything else was ok on it though, so we took it out, replaced the case with one we had sitting around, and used it as a display copy.

That was the only case they had besides one display case.

[Kailea]

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you know you could have asked for a different one, and yes they should have given you the shop warn discount if it was broken.

When Dragon Age 2 came out, we got a copy in that was sealed, but the case was completely smashed, everything else was ok on it though, so we took it out, replaced the case with one we had sitting around, and used it as a display copy.

[Absentia]

Why, when I ask for a new copy of a game, you grab a game case from your glass display behind the counter that has clearly been opened and has a hole in the top of the case?

How can you charge full price for a damaged product?