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I don't think the old lady was a secret Sony employee...I think a lot of people just don't know shit.

Also it pains me to see parents easily throwing down $600 for a videogame system....the kid should earn it.



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Alacrist said:

My favorite VG conversation........

Man: Excuse my son wants to get the new Nintendo system I can't remember the name.

Old Lady Clerk: It's right over here and the name of it is the Playstation 3.

Man: Ok, this is the one where you shake the controller right.

Old Lady Clerk: Yes, and it's $600.

Man: He told me it was $250, he going to have to work for this (while laughing with the old lady)

Old Lady Clerk:Here you go it's heavy.

Man: Thanks can I also have a copy of that Zelda for this.

Old Lady Clerk: Ok one second................

After waiting for about a minute I intervened and got everything right for him, he thanked me and went on his way (there was no Wii's there), I was waiting on the lady to give me Resident Evil out of the Wii case so I had to do something.


WOW, this had to be wally world, was it? Definitely good that you helped him though, it would've just been returned anyways. How weird???

 @cdude1034

"A little something about working at Gamestop:

-You start off at minimum wage (5.15, currently). After working for 7 months, my pay has gone up to a whole 5.25.
-There really isn't much "fun" involved. It's mainly putting up marketing kits and stocking/organizing games.
-There are no incentives to sell anything except reservations and subscriptions, and even then, if you do well you get nothing more than a pat on the back.
-Every manager gets the power to run his/her store as they think, meaning that if they're cool, it's a better place to work, but if all they care about is store performance, then it's gonna suck.

I still work there because I think my manager is awesome, and as a second job, I must say it's more fun than most other jobs I've had, but only when the store is dead."

That really sucks ass, damn I made better money when I worked at Subway when I was 15(1994) they started me at $6.50 an that was more than a decade ago.... I don't think most retail pays this poorly, but it does prove (as far as employees that don't give a damn) "you get what you pay for"



5.15 minimum wage? Here in Oregon minimum wage is $7.80 and is gonna go up to $8.05



cdude1034 said:

-You start off at minimum wage (5.15, currently). After working for 7 months, my pay has gone up to a whole 5.25.
-There really isn't much "fun" involved. It's mainly putting up marketing kits and stocking/organizing games.
-There are no incentives to sell anything except reservations and subscriptions, and even then, if you do well you get nothing more than a pat on the back.
-Every manager gets the power to run his/her store as they think, meaning that if they're cool, it's a better place to work, but if all they care about is store performance, then it's gonna suck.

I still work there because I think my manager is awesome, and as a second job, I must say it's more fun than most other jobs I've had, but only when the store is dead.


The act raises the federal minimum wage in 3 increments: to $5.85 per hour 60 days after enactment (July 24, 2007), to $6.55 per hour 12 months after that (July 24, 2008), and finally to $7.25 per hour 12 months after that (July 24, 2009). The bill also contains almost $5 billion in tax cuts for small businesses

Prepare for a $0.60 raise in about 24 days!!



Diomedes1976 said:
There are many people who want a PS3 but then when they hear the price decide to wait until buying one .

The strange thing is the seller not jumping over him and trying to sell him a X360 .
Not to derail this thread, but this is my serious thought on the current average console sales slump (aside from the Wii.)  This is why I think Christmas will be very interesting.  People tend to open the wallet more.

 



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There's one idea in selling PS3 over 360, which is that store has invested more in every PS3 and they want to get their money back from their investments. And selling 360 over PS3, is that if customer uses more than 700 on games and consoles, customer might buy more games along, or he propably comes sooner back to buy more games.

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