SenkiDala
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Dunno if you'd count that as "GameStop", but in France we have this video games shop company called "Micromania" and that belongs to GameStop (was purchased long time ago). This is a 40 years old brand in France, they sold the first consoles, 3DO, Jaguar, NeoGeoCD everything you can imagine, anyway.
I've a fucking bad memory with them (well, in fact a lot, but this one is the worst). When the XSX was available to preorder I went there and they had a special offer on the sell in of the One X and One S, and I had 1 One X and 1 One S, so I went there and asked to sell them since the XSX if full backcompat with the One.
Of course they try the consoles on a little tv in the back of the shop, before I went there I erased and factory reseted both consoles, they try my One X, no problem. They try my One S (which was working PERFECTLY WELL 1h before I went to the shop and never had a single issue in the hundreds of hours I used it), and I see the lady testing the consoles struggling to insert the HDMI cable, changing it sides again and again (like it was a fucking USB key) and then "oh sorry your console isn't working", so I was like "wtf? it worked perfectly when I tested it 1 hour ago", she said "sorry but the image keep going on and off and on and off, I dunno why." So I tell her "maybe it is related to you struggling for 10 minutes to insert 1 HDMI cable?" and her "no no it is not that", the boss didn't wanna hear anything. So I went to them with a perfectly functional console and went back home with a dead machine. I searched about how to change the HDMI port and it costs more than the console itself.
I've a fucking bad memory with them (well, in fact a lot, but this one is the worst). When the XSX was available to preorder I went there and they had a special offer on the sell in of the One X and One S, and I had 1 One X and 1 One S, so I went there and asked to sell them since the XSX if full backcompat with the One.
Of course they try the consoles on a little tv in the back of the shop, before I went there I erased and factory reseted both consoles, they try my One X, no problem. They try my One S (which was working PERFECTLY WELL 1h before I went to the shop and never had a single issue in the hundreds of hours I used it), and I see the lady testing the consoles struggling to insert the HDMI cable, changing it sides again and again (like it was a fucking USB key) and then "oh sorry your console isn't working", so I was like "wtf? it worked perfectly when I tested it 1 hour ago", she said "sorry but the image keep going on and off and on and off, I dunno why." So I tell her "maybe it is related to you struggling for 10 minutes to insert 1 HDMI cable?" and her "no no it is not that", the boss didn't wanna hear anything. So I went to them with a perfectly functional console and went back home with a dead machine. I searched about how to change the HDMI port and it costs more than the console itself.
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