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twesterm said:

And just some reasoning rather than some snarky reply--

  1. As Onyx said, it's impossible.  One of you might have misunderstood the other or someone might have just said the wrong word but you reserved it for the 360.  You can only reserve it for the 360.
  2. Gamestop doesn't give a fuck about scratched disc.  As long as the disc is in one piece they will take it since it cost them pennies to clean horrible discs.  Them actually saying no just doesn't make sense.
  3. It could happen and as long as you can prove you had the preorder you can probably raise a stink at corporate level and get the manager in trouble, but that's about it.

So yeah, sorry, but I'm calling bullshit.

I so agree with #2//I traded in Call of Duty 4 (Xbox 360) and got $20 for it. The game wasn't letting me get past one level so I got fed up with it and decided to give it to Gamestop cause the disc didn't have that many scratches//look behold Gamestop took my game and gave me the trade-in value and I moved on and bought another game//but deep down in the contents they have bought a defect disc. I look at it not being cruel but look at it as their own fault for not looking at the disc or valuing the disc themselves.



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dsister44 said:
twesterm said:
makingmusic476 said:

#1 is literally impossible.

#2 is is actually possible, and totally BS. The game isn't technically used, but it has been opened. They open one copy of each game and put the case on the wall so people will know they have the game but nobody will be able to steal the contents of each game. If there's only one left, that's the one you get, no matter how fucked up the case might be. It sucks.

Personally, I always make people aware that we only have the shelf copy available before they buy it.  Some choose not to (I never do myself), but most just go, "Hey, if it works..."

#3 shouldn't happen, but it does because of selfish employees. However, I don't remember getting any Banjo pre-order bonuses at our store...

 

Yeah, pretty much this.

I'm not calling you a liar, but for one and two I just don't believe you.  And if one and two do happen to be true and then three (the only semi-likely one) happens to be true, well, you probably just shouldn't play the lottery or walk outside in a storm.

 

 

im not lieing read some of my previous posts i explain one and two pretty,well especially 2

Well actually #1 never made any sense at all. Were you asking for a Halo Wars preorder for the PS3 because you didn't know it was exclusive? That would be the only way Gamestop could have made a mistake is to let you believe you had a PS3 preorder, because no matter what they told you, and then told you over the phone, they obviously only could have entered your preorder under 360, since there are no other options on their computer and your predorder was always for the 360 in the first place. They could have told you it was for the Dreamcast or Super Nintendo and it would still be there under their 360 listing.

 



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dsister44 said:
twesterm said:
makingmusic476 said:

#1 is literally impossible.

#2 is is actually possible, and totally BS. The game isn't technically used, but it has been opened. They open one copy of each game and put the case on the wall so people will know they have the game but nobody will be able to steal the contents of each game. If there's only one left, that's the one you get, no matter how fucked up the case might be. It sucks.

Personally, I always make people aware that we only have the shelf copy available before they buy it.  Some choose not to (I never do myself), but most just go, "Hey, if it works..."

#3 shouldn't happen, but it does because of selfish employees. However, I don't remember getting any Banjo pre-order bonuses at our store...

 

Yeah, pretty much this.

I'm not calling you a liar, but for one and two I just don't believe you.  And if one and two do happen to be true and then three (the only semi-likely one) happens to be true, well, you probably just shouldn't play the lottery or walk outside in a storm.

 

 

im not lieing read some of my previous posts i explain one and two pretty,well especially 2

I saw what you wrote and I just don't believe everything you said about #2. 

As for #1, I'm guessing you heard him wrong or you said PS3 and he just assumed you knew it was for the 360.  Either way, you reserved it for the 360 because you cannot reserve it for anything else.

 



I don't mind GS/EB, though they're never my first choice if I can help it. I just hate those damn stickers they put on the front and back of the cases.



no i was preordering it for the xbox then she asked wat platform i wanted it for and i jokingly said ps3 and she said ok.i started to laugh she didnt even notice then she took my money and started to help the next customer.the next day my friend called me and told me they changed my preorder had been changed to halo wars for the 360 lol.it was supposedly on a completely different game.but as i said in my original post that i just thought it was kind of funny



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dsister44 said:
no i was preordering it for the xbox then she asked wat platform i wanted it for and i jokingly said ps3 and she said ok.i started to laugh she didnt even notice then she took my money and started to help the next customer.the next day my friend called me and told me they changed my preorder had been changed to halo wars for the 360 lol.it was supposedly on a completely different game.but as i said in my original post that i just thought it was kind of funny

So one of your reasons that you're tired of Gamestop is because you tried to trick a sales associate into making a mistake on purpose? Your original points are making less and less sense as time goes on.

 



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Onyxmeth said:
dsister44 said:
no i was preordering it for the xbox then she asked wat platform i wanted it for and i jokingly said ps3 and she said ok.i started to laugh she didnt even notice then she took my money and started to help the next customer.the next day my friend called me and told me they changed my preorder had been changed to halo wars for the 360 lol.it was supposedly on a completely different game.but as i said in my original post that i just thought it was kind of funny

So one of your reasons that you're tired of Gamestop is because you tried to trick a sales associate into making a mistake on purpose? Your original points are making less and less sense as time goes on.

 

 

 

number one was more about the bad customer support u would think that somebody that would worked at a game store would know to tell me that a game wasnt for a system.especially if she took my money.if u were in her shoes would u not tell them that the game doesnt come out for a system or would u put there money on another game



dsister44 said:
Onyxmeth said:
dsister44 said:
no i was preordering it for the xbox then she asked wat platform i wanted it for and i jokingly said ps3 and she said ok.i started to laugh she didnt even notice then she took my money and started to help the next customer.the next day my friend called me and told me they changed my preorder had been changed to halo wars for the 360 lol.it was supposedly on a completely different game.but as i said in my original post that i just thought it was kind of funny

So one of your reasons that you're tired of Gamestop is because you tried to trick a sales associate into making a mistake on purpose? Your original points are making less and less sense as time goes on.

 

 

 

number one was more about the bad customer support u would think that somebody that would worked at a game store would know to tell me that a game wasnt for a system.especially if she took my money.if u were in her shoes would u not tell them that the game doesnt come out for a system or would u put there money on another game

She probably just didn't know. How much proficiency do you think you're going to get out of anybody working anywhere that is getting paid $7 an hour? It's not like she's required to go to videogame knowledge courses to get the job.

My issue is that you have a problem with something your purposely tried to have happen. If your friend hadn't caught it, you'd be cursing Gamestop come release for their mistake when ultimately you caused it to happen.

Out of your three reasons, I've come to feel that 1.5 of your 3 reasons are your own fault, so basically you're as bad of a customer as Gamestop is a store.

 



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Onyxmeth said:
dsister44 said:
Onyxmeth said:
dsister44 said:
no i was preordering it for the xbox then she asked wat platform i wanted it for and i jokingly said ps3 and she said ok.i started to laugh she didnt even notice then she took my money and started to help the next customer.the next day my friend called me and told me they changed my preorder had been changed to halo wars for the 360 lol.it was supposedly on a completely different game.but as i said in my original post that i just thought it was kind of funny

So one of your reasons that you're tired of Gamestop is because you tried to trick a sales associate into making a mistake on purpose? Your original points are making less and less sense as time goes on.

 

 

 

number one was more about the bad customer support u would think that somebody that would worked at a game store would know to tell me that a game wasnt for a system.especially if she took my money.if u were in her shoes would u not tell them that the game doesnt come out for a system or would u put there money on another game

She probably just didn't know. How much proficiency do you think you're going to get out of anybody working anywhere that is getting paid $7 an hour? It's not like she's required to go to videogame knowledge courses to get the job.

My issue is that you have a problem with something your purposely tried to have happen. If your friend hadn't caught it, you'd be cursing Gamestop come release for their mistake when ultimately you caused it to happen.

Out of your three reasons, I've come to feel that 1.5 of your 3 reasons are your own fault, so basically you're as bad of a customer as Gamestop is a store.

 

 

 

ok first off i was never trying to get in a huge argument.and on #1 i would have noticed because i gradually pay off my preorder that night i put down $20 on it which i believe is the minimum(it was the $80 ce version)

2.they should have taken the game back(again i had the receipt)and they should not have accused me of swapping the discs

3.i know im not the only one who has suffered this fate but the original banjo is expensive and a deserved that code

and u never answered my question