Brick and Mortar game stores are worse than auto repair shops in terms of general grossness of the motives the employees have to sell things to customers.
Back around July I was getting ready to go on infant care leave. At that time the new Harry Potter (for the wife I swear), Overlord and The Darkness were released.
I walked into the local GameStop and inquired about Overlord. The employee made a big fuss when told that I had not pre-ordered a copy. I then asked about the second and third title on my list. Same disgust shown that I had not pre-ordered and was literally told I would not be able to purchase them.
I flat out asked "I want to buy three brand new titles and you will not sell them to me?"
So the employee and one of his buddies riffled through the copies of the titles and had some sort of conversation.
Their solution? They would sell me the 3 titles only I pre-ordered another title. It obviously was not an issue with supply and demand.
Kindly saying no thank you I drove 12 minutes to the Target and bought all three. I learned my lesson.
I guess selling pre-owned titles marked up close to retail prices and getting that pre-order down payment so corporate can make money of the interest is more important than letting the customer conveniently buy what they really want.
Which is fine, but I will no longer do business with them.
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I believe a patch for Overlord has been released which addressed a number of game blocking bugs.
Brick and Mortar game stores are worse than auto repair shops in terms of general grossness of the motives the employees have to sell things to customers. Back around July I was getting ready to go on infant care leave. At that time the new Harry Potter (for the wife I swear), Overlord and The Darkness were released. I walked into the local GameStop and inquired about Overlord. The employee made a big fuss when told that I had not pre-ordered a copy. I then asked about the second and third title on my list. Same disgust shown that I had not pre-ordered and was literally told I would not be able to purchase them. I flat out asked "I want to buy three brand new titles and you will not sell them to me?" So the employee and one of his buddies riffled through the copies of the titles and had some sort of conversation. Their solution? They would sell me the 3 titles only I pre-ordered another title. It obviously was not an issue with supply and demand. Kindly saying no thank you I drove 12 minutes to the Target and bought all three. I learned my lesson. I guess selling pre-owned titles marked up close to retail prices and getting that pre-order down payment so corporate can make money of the interest is more important than letting the customer conveniently buy what they really want. Which is fine, but I will no longer do business with them.