Game Store Clerks / Jerks

[ArchBlade]

Yay! I got the good GameStops! :-D

The game store clerks at my stores are of course, into video games, as they would somewhat have to be to be into their job, and more often than not we get into conversations about whatever game or item I'm buying and it turns into a nice and short common ground conversation.

 

[Deathman101]

It's far from the first time it's happened, the reaction I got at one store after saying I wasn't really interested in Bioshock 2 as I couldn't really get into the first game, finding it kind of clunky despite being awesome to look at with an incredible story line was similar to the reaction one would get wearing a Swastika into a Synagogue.

Cool, so I'm not the only one on earth who thinks it was clunky.

 

[CrysisMcGee]

Because fanboys are everywhere. I am a fanboy myself. If somebody says they hate something, I as why. But you said you are not into 3d shooters. I would have left it alone at that. Apparently some people think they need to make everyone a fanboy.

For the most part, I recomend buying everything from Half.com. Even new stuff. I bought the burning crusade new for 10 dollars less than new in the store, plus 3.25 shipping. So I saved 6.75

 

[SomeUnregPunk]

I have never experience this. Instead....

I have witnessed customers ranting and raving on store clerks not knowing details about the game they sell.


I have seen male customers stare at girl cashiers and talk about nothing b/c they got a hard on for the girl. They buy one thing and walk out while promising to be back tomorrow. Like they either don't understand that most sales personnel have fake smiles and personalities tailored to draw weak people in for a sale. That these people really don't give a crap about you ... they just want you to buy something and go away. Hopefully take a shower in perfumed bleach b/c nothing else would probably get rid of that horrible smell of sweat and jizz.

I have seen customers treat sales people like they just kicked their mother in the nether regions b/c the store isn't selling a game a day earlier.

I have seen customers treat other customers like dirt because they are buying products that they have strong opinions against/for.

I have not see this yet in any place other than automobile lots and 'a' pet hospital.

 

[Daniel Cygnus]

The Gamestop I go to is fine. They don't do anything like that, expect share their opinoin if you ask.

Yeah, I seem to have one of those odd anomalies in my area, too. It helps that it's staffed by awesome people.

 

[Robby Foxfur]

The most recent encounter was two or three weeks ago, roughly around when the new Halo game was coming out, I was EB games on my lunch break, looking over the pre-owned Xbox 360 games, when the PFY (Pimply Faced Youth) manning the store came over to me and asked if I needed anything, a polite "No thank you I'm fine" should of sent him back to his hole, but he must of been new so I got a dissertation on the game I currently had in my hand, and then a question about weather or not I had pre-ordered the new Halo game, my reply of "nahh not really into FPS games" should of shut him down.

But oh no, it was like I had murdered his dog after sleeping with his mother, sister, and girl-friend in his childhood bed.

After a 10 minute rant on how Halo is the best thing to happen to mankind since toilet paper and how FPS games are the pinnacle of modern gaming, I put the game I was going to buy back on the shelf and walked out of the store.

Now don't get me wrong, I don't mind FPS games, I rather enjoyed a few of them, but I'm more a 3rd person action/adventure or RPG gamer that some times indulges in other genres, I'm perfectly happy with people playing whatever they enjoy, but for some reason every time I voice my personal preference I get treated like a leper.

It's far from the first time it's happened, the reaction I got at one store after saying I wasn't really interested in Bioshock 2 as I couldn't really get into the first game, finding it kind of clunky despite being awesome to look at with an incredible story line was similar to the reaction one would get wearing a Swastika into a Synagogue.

Why is it the people working in these stores never seem to grasp that just because they enjoy something it doesn't mean everyone else will enjoy it as well?

Dude if it was legal would you have punched him in the face once to shut him up?
I like all types of games and if that ever happens to me the clerk might just wind up eating a copy of the game.

though a good defense is to just start speaking another language most of the time they'll stop and if they don't, well nothing says shut the fuck up like shouting "I DON"T HAVE YOUR POINT OF VIEW, GOOD DAY SIR!"

 

[McMarbles]

I guess I'm lucky... the clerk at the Planet X near me is as big a JRPG fanboy as I am.

 

[quiet_samurai]

If someone is trying to push a game on me I just tell them I already own it, or I have an illegal copy if it hasn't come out yet. But other then that I have never had any of these things happen to me when I go to a game store.