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I wouldn't have taken it but I don't blame you. It's one of those things where I wouldn't think less of a person for doing it, I just wouldn't. I wouldn't call you a jerk, just slightly unethical.


Is calling someone slightly unethical ban worthy? If it is then I change my choice of wording to having different ethics than me, but only ever so slightly.



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Gamestop pulls worse shit every hour of every day it their stores. For instance I have a friend who pre-ordered a Deluxe bundle and all they had was the Basic and he was charged the extra $50 for it. :p



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Signalstar said:
Gamestop pulls worse shit every hour of every day it their stores. For instance I have a friend who pre-ordered a Deluxe bundle and all they had was the Basic and he was charged the extra $50 for it. :p


How did they force him to pay and leave the store with the wrong item?



no that was epic!



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Maybe a little unethical, but his fault. Some mom who came in to pick up her son's order and would have had no idea the difference and would have taken it just like you did.



the guy behind the counter messed up not just in picking it up but also in not fully double checking when you asked, that is 2 fuck ups in a single transaction, it is not your fault if someone like that was to lose their job if he can fuck up twice so quickly and not care to check he could turn around tomorrow and cost even more charge someone the price of a wiiu game instead of a console or so. The only thing you did was get lucky and be served by someone who didn't give a toss about the shop he worked at. Gz on the Deluxe ed wiiu



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After thinking about it, I hereby decree I'm not a complete jerk but also not a complete good person.

For the person I inconvenienced, yeah, sucks to be them but they will get their Deluxe set the next time Gamestop gets a shipment. I see it as the same kind of inconvenience when someone rear ends you and you have to deal with the insurance. Sucks for them but they'll be made whole by the person who inconvenienced them-- Gamestop.

I don't really feel bad about taking of the clerks stupidity, in fact, I don't even know how they'll trace it to that specific transaction so he'll probably get off without anything. In the end, it will probably be the manager that gets in hot water and the manager probably deserves it for hiring people that can't tell the difference between the two bundles.

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And I haven't really had a chance to mess with it much yet besides just getting everything set up.  The only thing I can say about it so far is that switching back to the main menu is incredibly slow (like 20-30 seconds).



twesterm said:

After thinking about it, I hereby decree I'm not a complete jerk but also not a complete good person.

For the person I inconvenienced, yeah, sucks to be them but they will get their Deluxe set the next time Gamestop gets a shipment. I see it as the same kind of inconvenience when someone rear ends you and you have to deal with the insurance. Sucks for them but they'll be made whole by the person who inconvenienced them-- Gamestop.

I don't really feel bad about taking of the clerks stupidity, in fact, I don't even know how they'll trace it to that specific transaction so he'll probably get off without anything. In the end, it will probably be the manager that gets in hot water and the manager probably deserves it for hiring people that can't tell the difference between the two bundles.

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And I haven't really had a chance to mess with it much yet besides just getting everything set up.  The only thing I can say about it so far is that switching back to the main menu is incredibly slow (like 20-30 seconds).


You assumed responsibility the moment you admitted you knew it was happening and then you let it happen. Gamestop certainly shares some part in this, but so do you, and your party is larger because you could have stopped it at any time and chose not to.

I could ask someone if you actually bear any ethical or legal responsibility for this, but morally, yes, this is on you more than anyone else. When that person doesn't get the product they ordered, that's on you.

And they'll trace it to that transaction by examining the serial number of the consoles sold versus the recorded serial numbers of their inventory. Standard practice.