The Stupidest Thing That Has Been Said When You Have Bought Something at a Games Store.

[Drasur]

when I asked about a game that i'd never heard of and looked pretty good so I thought and asked, "I might buy it. but whats the storyline like." and he took 5 mins of my time telling me about it. only, every detail about it. Including the ending, with not much left to play for I put it back and bought something else.

 

[Agent Larkin]

Alright, I'm looking at the wall of used shit, when this HUUUUUUGE black guy with a tatoo on his face walks in. If you've ever seen "Dodgeball" he looked a lot like me shell. So anyways this guy walks up to the counter and asks in a half angry voice "you got a my little pony videogame?"

That was bloody brilliant i laughed my ass off when i read that.

OT:

I was in Game a few years ago wearing my favourite t-shirt when a father and son were looking for games for the PS2:

Son: I want a shooting game dad
Dad: I dont know i dont want you playing one that is too violent.
Me: Excuse me but if your looking for one that isn't too violent COD2: Big Red One will do it is shooter but it isn't overly violent.
Dad: Ah thanks.

They proceed to buy the game just then the manager comes over and tells me to go to the back room to sort boxes. My t-shirt was the same colour and design as that of an employee. I decided to play along for a laugh. I went into the back sorted out the shelves then got put on the register. A customer came over:

Customer: I would like to buy this (shows me the game)
Me: Listen I don't work here I don't know how to operate this register.
Customer (very smarmy git): Yeah right then i want to see the manager.
Me: Fair enough.
(Manager comes over)
Customer: This employee is refusing to sell me this game.
Manager (to me): Why?
Me (Im getting annoyed now): Because I dont know how to operate the register you pillock.
Manager: Thats it consider this your notice.
Me: I dont work here you eejet i came here to buy bloody Medieval Total War and you roped me into stacking shelves.
My parents came in then and my Dad saw me behind the counter with a very confused Manager and customer and started breaking his arse laughing.

 

[XJ-0461]

I shop at Wal-Mart, don't speak to anyone or anything, buy my shit and go.

Thank god for those self-checkout things.

Same here. After buying a game I wanna get home and play said game, not have a chat with whoever's behind the counter.

 

[scotth266]

It's not really stupid as much as it is bizzare:

I was in a Wal-Mart, and talking with my brother right next to me about the latest releases. Some guy came up, and asked me what system I'd recommend for his kid.

I gave him what was the rundown back then:

1) If preteen or younger, get a Gamecube.
2) If teen, get a PS2.
3) If he's 16 and you'll let him play Mature-rated games? Get a Xbox.

Funny how well-split the lines were back then...

 

[Chris^^]

go into Game in Lincoln to buy Endwar, bearing in mind I'm 16 at the
Guy - 'This game is a 15, you got I.D.?'
Me - 'no'
Guy - then you can't have it'
Me - 'aww come on, I've almost finished my GCSEs, i need a new game to relax'
Guy - 'I guess you should get home and study then.'
Me - 'so you believe that i actually am 16 - my real age'
Guy - 'yes'
Me - 'so sell me the goddamn game then'
Guy - 'no, no ID, no game its store policy, we could get in trouble if people see it'
Me - 'its half seven at night and i'm the only customer!'
Guy - 'I don't care'
*i storm out*

i subsequently sent a 20 year old friend of mine, who had ID in there to buy the game for me, they refused to serve him either because it was the last refused purchase

enraged, i have never shopped there

another funny candidate

buying some 18 certified crap second hand from CEX

Guy - 'You 18?'
Me - 'yeah'
Guy - 'ok then'

i shop there far more often now =)

 

[Tarmon'gaidin]

"Hmm, it says 18 on the box and you're only 10..."
"But mum! I reeeaaally want it!"
"Oh ok then."

-The 10 year old getting GTA IV

I was queueing up at the time, resisting the urge to yell at the stupid woman.

Whahaha remembers me of when I was 12 or 13 and buying gta Vice city the guy behind the counter says to me; "wait a sec you're not old enough for this game" to wich I reply; "what do you care" and the pantsonheadretarded idiot sells me gta.

 

[Chris^^]

I once waited 15 minuets in line behind a guy who kept demanding Battletoads. He eventually got kicked out of the store.

fear the influence of 4chan on civilised communities!

 

[Stegofreak]

It's not something that was said but I once traded a few games in GameStop and was handed the reciept to sign. When I finished I looked and it and to my astonishment had actually signed it Stegofreak. How we laughed.

 

[TheBarefootBandit]

Clerk "This Games epic..."
ME "Oh so you play WOW to huh?"
Clerk "Yeah who doesn't?"
ME "Errr... Well me considering I've not left the shop yet and installed it."
Smiles all around.

 

[Lukeje]

I don't get things like this but I have to stop myself being annoyed when little kids choose bad games. I saw someone browsing 2 for £20 Wii games and they put back Mario and Sonic (!)
They did buy Dewy's Adventure though, I think. As long as the kid wasn't take in by Ninjabread Man and his Popcorn Arcade friends...

Hmm... that was the last time I got ID'd for anything (well, sort of. Keep reading...). I was buying Dewy's Adventure for the Wii, and Bioshock for the PC (because they were both cheap). This selection of games apparently confused the cashier who then asked if I was 18. I then stated somewhat bemusedly that I was nineteen, and she just let me buy the game without actually needing to see my ID. Bear in mind I haven't looked underage since I was about 15 (just one of the benefits of being able to grow a full beard at that age I suppose). 'Twas very strange...

 

[Bat Vader]

"Hmm, it says 18 on the box and you're only 10..."
"But mum! I reeeaaally want it!"
"Oh ok then."

-The 10 year old getting GTA IV

I was queueing up at the time, resisting the urge to yell at the stupid woman.

Gah poo stupid. I wouldn't even let me play it if I was my own mother and she gives it to a 10 year old. People these days...

I bought Indianna Jones LEGO for the PS3 and the guy at EB games who served me said, "This game is really mega fun". I just smiled and walked out. Who says "really mega fun"?

Apparently that clerk does.

 

[Stegofreak]

In January

Me: I was just wondering if you have any Warhammer Online Pre-Pay cards in stock.
Employee: Yeah, I think so. Just let me check.
*Goes into storeroom for two minutes*
Employee: No, sorry, they were the things we gave out with the pre-orders.

Last Week

Me: So, did you ever get those WAR pre-pay cards in? I'm still looking to pick one up.
Employee: Yeah, I'm sure I've seen them out the back.
Me: Are you sure they aren't the pre-order gifts 'cause that's what they were last time.
Employee: Oh yeah! And I think it was the Lord of the Rings ones I seen anyay.

Still haven't gotten any Pre-Pay WAR cards.

 

[soaringbiscuit]

Shopper in front of me: I'd like to buy Viva Pinata 2.
Clerk: It's not out yet.
Shopper: Oh.
Clerk: Would you like to pre-order it?
Shopper: What game?

Another time was when someone in front of me pre-ordered a game and handed the clerk 60 dollars.

 

[HobbesMkii]

When I bought HL2:EP2 from GameStop, the guy asked me if I was interested in reserving a copy of some new movie game (Iron Man, perhaps. I guess he was required to ask). I replied "No, movie games suck" which caught him off guard. He then went "Yah... not Spider-man though" to which I said "What's that? Like 1 in 100? But I never played that." Seeing an out, he asked what kinds of games I played. I held up the box I had just purchased and went "You know, FPS, RTS..." Hearing RTS he asked if I was a StarCraft fan, and I said that I had bought the first one back in the late 90s when it came out. He then preceded to inform me about the upcoming StarCraft II, except I cut him off. So he went "You gonna buy it here when it comes out?" (Because, of course, he has undoubtedly charmed me with inane and unobservant chatter) to which I said "No, I'll be in another state at college" and left.

 

[PedroSteckecilo]

I found a copy of Bangai-O Spirits for the DS at EB, it's not common but not extremely rare, when I went to the till to pay, they asked me if I wanted the disc protection warranty, and my response was "for a Cartridge?" and he responds with "You could step on it or something" to which I reply "Not very likely, I think you could submerge these things and they'd be fine."

He looked so crestfallen when I left.

 

[Spudgun Man]

Probably when i buy an expansion pack and the 'helpful' moron behind the counter asks, 'do you realise that you need the original game?'

 

[Kushin]

Alright, I'm looking at the wall of used shit, when this HUUUUUUGE black guy with a tatoo on his face walks in. If you've ever seen "Dodgeball" he looked a lot like me shell. So anyways this guy walks up to the counter and asks in a half angry voice "you got a my little pony videogame?"

That was bloody brilliant i laughed my ass off when i read that.

OT:

I was in Game a few years ago wearing my favourite t-shirt when a father and son were looking for games for the PS2:

Son: I want a shooting game dad
Dad: I dont know i dont want you playing one that is too violent.
Me: Excuse me but if your looking for one that isn't too violent COD2: Big Red One will do it is shooter but it isn't overly violent.
Dad: Ah thanks.

They proceed to buy the game just then the manager comes over and tells me to go to the back room to sort boxes. My t-shirt was the same colour and design as that of an employee. I decided to play along for a laugh. I went into the back sorted out the shelves then got put on the register. A customer came over:

Customer: I would like to buy this (shows me the game)
Me: Listen I don't work here I don't know how to operate this register.
Customer (very smarmy git): Yeah right then i want to see the manager.
Me: Fair enough.
(Manager comes over)
Customer: This employee is refusing to sell me this game.
Manager (to me): Why?
Me (Im getting annoyed now): Because I dont know how to operate the register you pillock.
Manager: Thats it consider this your notice.
Me: I dont work here you eejet i came here to buy bloody Medieval Total War and you roped me into stacking shelves.
My parents came in then and my Dad saw me behind the counter with a very confused Manager and customer and started breaking his arse laughing.

That story contains the fantasy I used to have since I was 8 years old... You sir, are Awesome

 

[Bat Vader]

A lot of you people are assholes to clerks.. fucking man up.

If the clerks would think before they spoke we would not be assholes. Why do you care how we treat other people?

 

[Nifty]

go into Game in Lincoln to buy Endwar, bearing in mind I'm 16 at the
Guy - 'This game is a 15, you got I.D.?'
Me - 'no'
Guy - then you can't have it'
Me - 'aww come on, I've almost finished my GCSEs, i need a new game to relax'
Guy - 'I guess you should get home and study then.'
Me - 'so you believe that i actually am 16 - my real age'
Guy - 'yes'
Me - 'so sell me the goddamn game then'
Guy - 'no, no ID, no game its store policy, we could get in trouble if people see it'
Me - 'its half seven at night and i'm the only customer!'
Guy - 'I don't care'
*i storm out*

i subsequently sent a 20 year old friend of mine, who had ID in there to buy the game for me, they refused to serve him either because it was the last refused purchase

enraged, i have never shopped there

I don't get what's stupid about that. He asked you for ID, you couldn't produce any. Tough shit, man.

 

[Podunk]

Another time was when someone in front of me pre-ordered a game and handed the clerk 60 dollars.

I don't know what store it was, but several places I've been you can put down up to the full value of the game... So if they don't get in enough copies or something, you get first dibs. Also the reason I sometimes do it is so I don't forget about the pre-order and spend my 45 'extra' dollars before the game comes out.