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I need clarification wrote:
Clerk: "How about an extra memory cart? You know you can't save your games without one."
Kid: "It's for GBA."
My favorite was, when buying a GBA game, being asked if I wanted to buy a GBA to gamecube connection cable (this was over a year before Crystal Chronicles, making the cable useless) right after asking if I had a gamecube and answering "no".
Clerk: "Do you want to buy insurance for the game? I mean, this IS a used game, after all. Insurance is only $3 and if ANYTHING goes wrong with it you can bring it back here and get a new one no questions asked! [game itself is only $5 - INC]
They've changed this and now the insurance is only good for something like 10 months (used to be lifetime), but you can go 2 years for a little extra!
Mom: "Don't you check the used games before you sell them?"
Clerk: "Well, yeah..."
Bullshit. They will take anything to stick in their "preplayed" stand. How many have tried to dump dead ps2's on them and met any resistance? They won't even let you look at used PC games discs before you buy them.
The line is always enormous and there is only ever one guy working the registers and asking EVERY SINGLE CUSTOMER these exact same questions.
The thing is there's usually two clerks in the store, but one is always doing something useless like habitually walking back and forth from the back room for no apparent reason, stacking used games while whistling and refusing to look up and acknowledge the huge line, chatting with a friend about Everquest, or anything but opening up the second register that's right there.
A big cause of a lot of ridiculous retail lines is the cashier asking for the customer's phone number then launching into the lengthy explanation of why they want it. What should have been a 30 second purchase for me at Best Buy stretched out to 5 minutes when I didn't want to give my number and address, and the cashier telling me that she had to put something in or it wouldn't let her continue the sale, back to me saying that was ridiculous until finally she offered that I just make something up. So Best Buy got Frank McGuillicutty of 123 Main St. Anytown, USA 12345 into their registry. Then there was the horror of Radioshack's old phone/zipcode policy, with a free cellphone sales pitch built into every purchase! My friend waiting out in the car came in to see how the fuck it was taking over 5 minutes to buy some AV cables.
Do the higher ups honestly think that hassling customers for their home phone number and other personal info is a great way to get people back?
It's fucking ridiculous, it has nothing to do with being salesman and everything to do with running a shitty business.
Upper management's big mistake is trying to make salesmen out of the Senor Barboritos of the world and expecting good results. Your average car salesman is less pushy and obnoxious than the typical EB clerk, as is pretty much any retail worker on commission. I guess Kabuke grew up on a used car lot or timeshare office and is used to this sort of thing, shrugging off customer hostility as (s)he hits redial on her telemarketer headset phone. |
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New patch by FABIO 11/08/2004, 2:15pm PST 
Re: New patch by J&T 11/08/2004, 3:40pm PST
Re: New patch by laudablepuss 11/08/2004, 4:08pm PST
Re: New patch by FABIO 11/08/2004, 6:31pm PST
Re: New patch by J&T 11/08/2004, 9:39pm PST
more problems by FABIO 11/13/2004, 1:08am PST
Re: more problems by J&T 11/13/2004, 9:22pm PST
Newer patch! by laudablepuss 01/03/2005, 1:01pm PST
caps lock NT by gnpaaron 01/03/2005, 4:18pm PST
other wonderful fixes by FABIO 01/03/2005, 4:40pm PST
Newerer patch. by laudablepuss 10/10/2005, 1:57pm PDT
this is the only RTS I've ever played that actually gets worse with every patch by FABIO 10/10/2005, 3:03pm PDT
Im on the final mission in Winter Assault NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 10/10/2005, 8:29pm PDT
=) NT by FABIO 10/11/2005, 1:30am PDT
Just bought this today. by laudablepuss 10/11/2005, 4:19pm PDT
I'm guessing this took place at EB? by FABIO 10/11/2005, 6:28pm PDT
Re: I'm guessing this took place at EB? by laudablepuss 10/11/2005, 6:35pm PDT
Re: I'm guessing this took place at EB? by Kabuke 10/11/2005, 7:11pm PDT
P.S. There is no more EB by Kabuke 10/11/2005, 7:14pm PDT
Re: I'm guessing this took place at EB? by I need clarification 10/11/2005, 8:58pm PDT
Re: I'm guessing this took place at EB? by FABIO 10/12/2005, 12:23am PDT
Re: I'm guessing this took place at EB? by corax 10/12/2005, 3:44am PDT
Best Buy and phone numbers by Fullofkittens 10/12/2005, 7:14am PDT
Re: Best Buy and phone numbers by FABIO 10/12/2005, 7:56am PDT
Re: Best Buy and phone numbers by TAFKAM 10/13/2005, 7:24am PDT
Re: Best Buy and phone numbers by Entropy Stew 10/13/2005, 3:50pm PDT
Re: Best Buy and phone numbers by jeep 10/22/2005, 2:03pm PDT
Non-EB Retail adventure involving Racial Injustice! by Motherhead 10/12/2005, 2:40am PDT
THEY ARE RACISTING MINORITIES RIGHT OUT OF THE WORKFORCE NT by Creexul :( 10/12/2005, 6:25am PDT
You forgot the GRR LATINO RAAAGE staredown NT by Entropy Stew 10/12/2005, 8:34am PDT
Re: Non-EB Retail adventure involving Racial Injustice! by TAFKAM 10/13/2005, 7:29am PDT
Previous title was 'and then there's newegg...' by TAFKAM 10/13/2005, 7:30am PDT
Love newegg, use it all the time. NT by laudablepuss 10/13/2005, 12:27pm PDT
The problem with newegg by Entropy Stew 10/13/2005, 3:44pm PDT
This is no longer true, btw. NT by Zseni 08/12/2007, 7:43pm PDT
Re: This is no longer true, btw. by Jerry Whorebach 08/12/2007, 9:42pm PDT
You just try to hug his neck? I dunno, sounds DUMB NT by Grumah 08/13/2007, 7:14am PDT
The frontpage news box should also link to this post as well. NT by Creexul :( 10/13/2005, 12:24pm PDT
So on top of this they're gonna start selling Gamestop's in-house mag too? NT by Kabuke 10/12/2005, 3:25am PDT
I think anything with a higher profit margin than ga(y)mes. by I need clarification 10/12/2005, 10:17am PDT
They still undercut with used. by Kabuke 10/12/2005, 12:05pm PDT
That, and Valve. NT by casual observer 10/12/2005, 3:51pm PDT
Re: They still undercut with used. by jeep 10/22/2005, 2:15pm PDT
Re: They still undercut with used. by FABIO 10/22/2005, 9:46pm PDT
I'd say this day has arrived, jeep. by Mr. 3000 and his blob 09/02/2015, 8:32pm PDT
Re: I'm guessing this took place at EB? by Mr Gutsy 06/26/2009, 12:21pm PDT
Yes, I was always wierdly insulted when people supposed that Kabuke was me. NT by Zsenitan 06/26/2009, 3:22pm PDT
You just can't get stupider than THQ. by laudablepuss 10/13/2005, 7:28pm PDT
Gettin out me stabby bits NT by Weyoun Voidbringer 10/13/2005, 11:42pm PDT
Damn you, pointy! by laudablepuss 10/13/2005, 11:44pm PDT
Hmm, I guess I shoulda made a new thread. :( NT by laudablepuss 10/13/2005, 11:55pm PDT
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