Gamestop is Stupid.

[JLaCroix]

I bought some PS2 games from Gamestop, one of them was Zone of the Enders. I heard you guys talking about it, so I decided to get it, it was only about $17 anyway.

I noticed that the case said "2CD" so when I seen the clerk put only one disc in I asked her for the other one. She put the other disc in there, and I left.

When I got home I noticed that the box said the second disc was supposed to be some sort of Metal Gear demo. She gave me two copies of Zone of the Enders.

I don't really know what I'm going to do with the other ZOE cd. I have two of them. I guess I have a backup copy?

[Valkysas]

Re: Gamestop is Stupid.

sell it to gamestop.

[Smurvis]

Re: Gamestop is Stupid.

Well, if Gamestop has the same service EB does, you can turn it back in. If it was preowned ($17 sounds preowned) you can maybe turn it in (EB gives you 14 days) for a full refund. Just make sure you get a different clerk and give them back the case and one of the two discs. If they ask where the second disc is, tell them it was supposed to be some Metal Gear Solid demo that you never got. Which is true. You won't be lying.

[Czechs Mex]

Re: Gamestop is Stupid.

That's easy. You take it back to gamestop for a store credit refund and get something else.

edit: jeez, rapid fire posting. looks like i've been beaten to the punch. twice.

[Magus]

Re: Gamestop is Stupid.

I'd get a refund altogether seeing as how you got ripped off. I've seen ZOE for as low as $5 in the GameStops and EBs around here.

Or just skip ZOE and get ZOE2. 'Tis tres superior.

edit: Heck, Gamestop.com has ZOE for $8.99.

[Ryner]

Re: Gamestop is Stupid.

The MGS demo was better than the full game of ZoE.

[Smurvis]

Re: Gamestop is Stupid.

The MGS demo was better than the full game of ZoE.

Sad thing is, for most of my friends... the MGS demo was LONGER than the full game of ZoE.

Hell, I've been playing MGS2 for about 3 hours. I'm still on the boat. That's right... I'm still on the damn boat. Cause I can't advance? Hell no. I've snapped the necks of at least 100 guards and thrown them off of the side of the deck. That will NEVER grow old... and I don't want to advance the game and no longer have that luxury.

Hmm... I should save on a second file or something so I can start progressing.

[Magus]

Re: Gamestop is Stupid.

Yeahhhh, that too.

[gray]

Re: Gamestop is Stupid.

they also throw away games for systems they no longer support (anything below ps2 basically, excluding gameboys and n64)

[Magus]

Re: Gamestop is Stupid.

My Gamestop must be Avalon or something cuz it still has NES, SNES, Genesis and Dreamcast games and hardware.

[gray]

Re: Gamestop is Stupid.

you lucky bastard

[Magus]

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Yeah, I'm considering plunking down $40 to start my own Dreamcast collection.

edit: ...But that is forty bucks...

[Vonwert]

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My local EB Games have started carrying NES, SNES, DC, N64 games. The sad thing is that ps1 games are hard to find....irony....

[goldgecko4]

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The store where I work at (GameCrazY), that kinda thing happens all the time. I've had three different copies of the Metroid Prime: Hunters DEMO be traded in, by two different employees. Those are the FREE DEMOS. We can't sell those.

And as far as old school games go, that's a HUGE part of our business. No other place in kalamazoo, I've found, has 3 copies of Paper Mario, a Chrono Trigger, Alundra, and Dragon Warrior 7, among others, all at once. If we got rid of those systems, I can honestly say we'd lose about 20% of our customer base. (A lot of people just stop in to see the wierd stuff we get in ,like a NES game we took in called Master Chui and the Drunkard Hu. It's hilarious)

[Valkysas]

Re: Gamestop is Stupid.

no used game store I've been to has ever had an old copy of Shadow Tower for the PS1, and it angers me.