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my friend works at gamecrazy, he told me this story
for the midnight release of Gta4 all the gamecrazy stores had big digital clocks counting down, my friend was standing directly behind this clock and was asked when gta was coming out. He told the kid the release date down to the very second and the kid asked in complete sincereity "how do you know that"
for the midnight release of Gta4 all the gamecrazy stores had big digital clocks counting down, my friend was standing directly behind this clock and was asked when gta was coming out. He told the kid the release date down to the very second and the kid asked in complete sincereity "how do you know that"
My story: Once I was sitting at the painting table at my Local Game Workshop (place you get Warhammer and Warhammer 40k) painting some of my Grey Knights when I go walked in to the store. He started to look at everything on the walls and I mean EVERYTHING. He picked up every box set, every army book, every little model box, hell if the paints where not behind the counter he would have looked at every pot. He even examined every model out on display. This man looked at everything! When he was done examining the store he waited at the counter for a bit and after a while the manager came out from the back of the store and asked him what he wanted. After a bit of a pause the man said "Do you repair broken Play Stations?" Everyone but the staff started laughing at the poor bloke and he left.
This guy spent at least half an hour looking around a shop that clearly had NOTHING to do with videogames, with no videogames anywhere in the store and this guy still thought they could repair broken playstations.
Not as interesting as some of the other stories but I thought it would be good to share.
There was also a kid who tried to pay for $300 dollars worth of models with 2, 1 ,50, 20, 10, and 5 cent coins. Luckily there was a band nearby that gave him some nice 50 dollar notes for his coins.
This guy spent at least half an hour looking around a shop that clearly had NOTHING to do with videogames, with no videogames anywhere in the store and this guy still thought they could repair broken playstations.
Not as interesting as some of the other stories but I thought it would be good to share.
There was also a kid who tried to pay for $300 dollars worth of models with 2, 1 ,50, 20, 10, and 5 cent coins. Luckily there was a band nearby that gave him some nice 50 dollar notes for his coins.
As someone who has worked in the retail sector for eight years and the food-service industry for another four, I must say that I tip my hat to you poor folks. People are stupid enough as it is, but when complex electronics are involved you can practically hear the IQs dropping through the floor.
If you have an intense need to destroy your basic love of humanity, work in retail. That'll do it.
If you have an intense need to destroy your basic love of humanity, work in retail. That'll do it.
Now, I don't work at Gamestop; but I still have a story.
The Tale of the Poor Choice
Alright, I'll admit that I don't always keep up to date on games that I want; so I browse now and then.
About a year ago, I was looking for 'something'; nothing in particular, and a kid walks in with his mom. The kid looks really desperate for a game, and after I come close to them, I realize that he wants some absolutely shitty game. I just could absolutely not stand some poor fool being departed of his money, so I casually intervene, and say that the game isn't worth 1/10th the amount. IMMEDIATELY I have 3 people yelling at me, the mom, the kid, AND the salesman.
?!?!?!
GAH!
I just walked out of the store.
T_T
The Tale of the Poor Choice
Alright, I'll admit that I don't always keep up to date on games that I want; so I browse now and then.
About a year ago, I was looking for 'something'; nothing in particular, and a kid walks in with his mom. The kid looks really desperate for a game, and after I come close to them, I realize that he wants some absolutely shitty game. I just could absolutely not stand some poor fool being departed of his money, so I casually intervene, and say that the game isn't worth 1/10th the amount. IMMEDIATELY I have 3 people yelling at me, the mom, the kid, AND the salesman.
?!?!?!
GAH!
I just walked out of the store.
T_T
Gee, whodathunkit that folks might take offense at being told they have shitty taste - and those salesman sure love people persuading their customers against buying merchandise.Spleeni said:
I'm the type of customer who walks into the store, asks if they have the product, gets the information/product and leaves. I tend not to stick around, but I'm not a stranger to ideal conversation...
So these stories aren't me... honest.
Though, OP, awesome stories. You have to keep going.
So these stories aren't me... honest.
Though, OP, awesome stories. You have to keep going.
Well when I stick around my mum just staffs me and acts like she knows everything which shes usually wrong so going fast is key for me.stompy said:
OK, I have two pretty nice stories.
First off, I don't work at Gamestop, I'm a customer.
Ok, I went to my local gamestop, the one with a couple employees I knew, including the manager, who is totally awesome, but that's on a different tangent. So one of the employee's I was pretty good buddies with is at the counter that day. I ask to pre-order Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, and to my dismay I had gotten the release date wrong (I figured I had just gotten in a day before it came out, since gamestop usually is a day late in my area, but they got this one in on time, which was pretty weird, actually). So I head over to the DS shelves, grab Apollo Justice, and buy it. Right as I'm walking out the door, he yells (and I swear this is true) "heads up!" and I turn around to see an Apollo Justice pre-order keychain flying through the air at me. (in a moment of personal glory, I managed to not cock that up by dropping it).
Next story:
I'm on a band trip, and we manage to take a three hour pit stop at one of those strip malls that happens to have places to eat at all the conceivable entrances/exits too it. Basically, a big rectangle of stores in the back and sides and eateries in the front. After eating some cheap Mexican food, I head over to the Gamestop to do what I always do when I have free time and have to choose between going to a mall and going to gamestop. I go to gamestop. I play the brawl disc they have set up, unfortunatly with the wii-mote (I always play with the wavebird). After a while, the employee asks if I want to play him. I say sure, and he takes out two wavebirds (I had mentioned to him earlier how I hated playing with the wiimote), unlocks the wii display case, and, after a while of setting it up, has it all ready to play. I then spend the next hour and a half playing a random gamestop employee.
On a side note: I'm the ONLY person that I know that actually goes to gamestops on band trips (or any kind of trip) and plays the demos.
First off, I don't work at Gamestop, I'm a customer.
Ok, I went to my local gamestop, the one with a couple employees I knew, including the manager, who is totally awesome, but that's on a different tangent. So one of the employee's I was pretty good buddies with is at the counter that day. I ask to pre-order Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney, and to my dismay I had gotten the release date wrong (I figured I had just gotten in a day before it came out, since gamestop usually is a day late in my area, but they got this one in on time, which was pretty weird, actually). So I head over to the DS shelves, grab Apollo Justice, and buy it. Right as I'm walking out the door, he yells (and I swear this is true) "heads up!" and I turn around to see an Apollo Justice pre-order keychain flying through the air at me. (in a moment of personal glory, I managed to not cock that up by dropping it).
Next story:
I'm on a band trip, and we manage to take a three hour pit stop at one of those strip malls that happens to have places to eat at all the conceivable entrances/exits too it. Basically, a big rectangle of stores in the back and sides and eateries in the front. After eating some cheap Mexican food, I head over to the Gamestop to do what I always do when I have free time and have to choose between going to a mall and going to gamestop. I go to gamestop. I play the brawl disc they have set up, unfortunatly with the wii-mote (I always play with the wavebird). After a while, the employee asks if I want to play him. I say sure, and he takes out two wavebirds (I had mentioned to him earlier how I hated playing with the wiimote), unlocks the wii display case, and, after a while of setting it up, has it all ready to play. I then spend the next hour and a half playing a random gamestop employee.
On a side note: I'm the ONLY person that I know that actually goes to gamestops on band trips (or any kind of trip) and plays the demos.
Also, one time I was buying a game at *gasp* wal mart (ONLY because my mom wouldn't bring me all the way to gamestop but we needed... some sort of food, it isn't important) and, after buying CoD4, the bug eyed, pale, ugly, zit faced guy working the counter (he basically looks like the stereotypical "he sits in his moldy basement and plays WoW all day (probably true)" nerd) starts talking about how stupid CoD4 is and why he plays WoW. I tried to shoot him the look of "shut the hell up, seriously" but it just wouldn't work. He also had the game, still, so it's not like I could leave.
Compare it to the fact that, at a local Play and Trade I went to, the employee was really laid back. He always asked if somebody had a parent with them who would let them play an M rated game (they let you try the games before playing them), but he didn't really care that much. I swear I went in there with a total of two gamer friends, the employee from gamestop in my above post, my real dad, and two of my cousin's who were older (spread out amongst all my trips) and he never batted an eye at how many fathers I had. Maybe he didn't recognize me, but you have to think when a kid shows up and asks to play some of the newer games coming out maybe once every two or three days for about a month, you'd remember him.
Compare it to the fact that, at a local Play and Trade I went to, the employee was really laid back. He always asked if somebody had a parent with them who would let them play an M rated game (they let you try the games before playing them), but he didn't really care that much. I swear I went in there with a total of two gamer friends, the employee from gamestop in my above post, my real dad, and two of my cousin's who were older (spread out amongst all my trips) and he never batted an eye at how many fathers I had. Maybe he didn't recognize me, but you have to think when a kid shows up and asks to play some of the newer games coming out maybe once every two or three days for about a month, you'd remember him.
I don't think any of our stories as employees can top the poor Gamestop in Georgia...
My manager was telling me of a store in Georgia that was robbed a couple weeks ago (I think). The robbers tied the employees up and duct-taped their mouths shut. But when taping the manager, they put the tape over both nose and mouth. I don't know whether they did that on purpose or not, but the manager died from it. It sounds like something someone around here would be dumb enough to do on accident, to be honest. I was horrified. A store in my district, very close to me, was robbed at gunpoint during the Madden 08 opening and I've been scared as hell that it'll happen to us ever since, because my store's a lot bigger than that one and rakes in more money.
Anyways, on a lighter note: Tricking both Game Advisor and Manager
So we had this guy come in one day (this was at my old store, with the total dickwad manager in a tiny college town) who bought Command and Conquer 3 on PC. We explained the delicate return policy with PC games and that he would have to make sure his computer would run it. If not, we could only return it if it was still sealed. He buys the game anyways.
The next day, he returns. The game is still sealed and everything. He explains that he thought he had a better video card than he actually did and asked for his money back, which we gave him without a second thought. About an hour later, a very large (I'm talking WWE-large) older man comes in and asks if we had a Command and Conquer 3 return today. My manager and I look oddly at each other and say "Yes...?"
"Well, I found four of these discs in my son's room. Did you check the case?" He hands us the 4 discs from Command and Conquer 3.
"The case was still perfectly sealed. There's another game store across the street from campus, did you try them?"
Old man leaves, then comes back again.
"Nope, they didn't get one returned today. It has to be you guys,"
My manager unlocks the drawer and pulls out the still-sealed case to look at it. He doesn't see anything wrong, so he hands it to me. It was then I noticed that although the wrapping was still in tact, the sticker that bound the case together was dirty. I take the razor and open the case to find four blank discs.
At this, my manager exclaims, "Holy shit!"
"I'm really sorry about that, we've been having a bit of a problem in my family with these sorts of things recently,"
My manager is too stunned to say anything, so I tell him that there's no harm done since we got the games back.
That kid could've gotten away with it, too, if his dad didn't frequently go through his room.
My manager was telling me of a store in Georgia that was robbed a couple weeks ago (I think). The robbers tied the employees up and duct-taped their mouths shut. But when taping the manager, they put the tape over both nose and mouth. I don't know whether they did that on purpose or not, but the manager died from it. It sounds like something someone around here would be dumb enough to do on accident, to be honest. I was horrified. A store in my district, very close to me, was robbed at gunpoint during the Madden 08 opening and I've been scared as hell that it'll happen to us ever since, because my store's a lot bigger than that one and rakes in more money.
Anyways, on a lighter note: Tricking both Game Advisor and Manager
So we had this guy come in one day (this was at my old store, with the total dickwad manager in a tiny college town) who bought Command and Conquer 3 on PC. We explained the delicate return policy with PC games and that he would have to make sure his computer would run it. If not, we could only return it if it was still sealed. He buys the game anyways.
The next day, he returns. The game is still sealed and everything. He explains that he thought he had a better video card than he actually did and asked for his money back, which we gave him without a second thought. About an hour later, a very large (I'm talking WWE-large) older man comes in and asks if we had a Command and Conquer 3 return today. My manager and I look oddly at each other and say "Yes...?"
"Well, I found four of these discs in my son's room. Did you check the case?" He hands us the 4 discs from Command and Conquer 3.
"The case was still perfectly sealed. There's another game store across the street from campus, did you try them?"
Old man leaves, then comes back again.
"Nope, they didn't get one returned today. It has to be you guys,"
My manager unlocks the drawer and pulls out the still-sealed case to look at it. He doesn't see anything wrong, so he hands it to me. It was then I noticed that although the wrapping was still in tact, the sticker that bound the case together was dirty. I take the razor and open the case to find four blank discs.
At this, my manager exclaims, "Holy shit!"
"I'm really sorry about that, we've been having a bit of a problem in my family with these sorts of things recently,"
My manager is too stunned to say anything, so I tell him that there's no harm done since we got the games back.
That kid could've gotten away with it, too, if his dad didn't frequently go through his room.
Please keep posting stories. I love them, and I made an account to post this one.
I went to sell my Xbox, along with a few games to make some cash. So they plug it in and and it works perfectly, though the only problem is the barcode on the bottom of the system is worn out, so they cannot buy it. Then a real cool guy(about mid twenties) and his girlfriend ask if they could purchase it from me, since he is looking for one. I say sure, but the guy behind the counter says he cannot let you sell it inside the store. We go outside and I exchange the Xbox and controller for forty-two dollars, even though it was only worth twenty.
So I bought a 360 game and had a new Two Dollar Bill.
BTW, Bob where in ohio do you work? I may have come to your gamestop before.
I went to sell my Xbox, along with a few games to make some cash. So they plug it in and and it works perfectly, though the only problem is the barcode on the bottom of the system is worn out, so they cannot buy it. Then a real cool guy(about mid twenties) and his girlfriend ask if they could purchase it from me, since he is looking for one. I say sure, but the guy behind the counter says he cannot let you sell it inside the store. We go outside and I exchange the Xbox and controller for forty-two dollars, even though it was only worth twenty.
So I bought a 360 game and had a new Two Dollar Bill.
BTW, Bob where in ohio do you work? I may have come to your gamestop before.
Great stories guys. Technology must have some sort of secret plague that attacks half of the population, destroying their minds and turning them slowly into zombies. We just don't know yet, but one day... one day...
I like this thread now. I hadn't be bothered to read through it before but their are a load of great stories. Some that are very similar to ones I have.