Dumbest thing a GameStop rep ever said to you?

lunch said:
I'm so glad I'm not the only who has had this happen. I canceled my Max Payne 3 preorder and was told I shouldn't because it would hurt the store. I didn't realize I was responsible for keeping GameStop afloat.
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But I thought consumers were what kept corporations alive...
 
Me: I bought this game but the disc inside the case is actually in spanish
GS: Yeah but it works
Me: Yes, but it's in spanish I....
GS: You can still play it though
Me: Well no it's an RPG it's pretty much completely worthless in spanish to me
GS: yeah but it works.

I eventually got a refund after much back and forth about how the fact iw was an actual working disc of a game wasnt the be all and end all of the purchase
 
The Mana Legend said:
Seriously, this.

My Gamestop got one copy of Resonance of Fate when it was released. One. Damn. Copy.
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Yeah the more niche stuff they will likely not order any spare copies at all. I remember for some of the PS3 HD collections and Yakuza 3, I was told specifically by the person working there that they were basically only taking preorders for release day copies. Unless people came in to trade them in during the following months, the only chance you would have had of getting those was preordering.
 
Have the manager of my GameStop on PSN and Xbox Live. Such horrible, horrible people they are.

Those guys are really damn cool, I have to say.
 
"Would you like to Pre-order this dlc, in case it sells out?"

My face
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"No thanks, I just want this game."


Other than that, everything else is fine.
 
Actually, when I was a kid. I remember a rep telling me the Sega Saturn was going to slaughter the PSX. He even used technical specs to prove his point. >.>

I am glad he convinced my mother to buy a Sega Saturn, it still is my favorite console of all times. :-)

Still speculating a console delay doesn't seem that bad, just like the dude believing the Saturn would rein supreme. :-P Retrospective it's kind of silly.
 
"pre-order Halo 4, you might not be able to find a copy when it comes out."

The GameStop is down the street from a Target, Wal-Mart and Best Buy.
 
LTWood12 said:
"Wow, looks like we've got one copy left!" Say that every time I buy a game on launch day that I didn't preorder.
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Reminds me of when Mario Galaxy was sold out and I got a lecture on preordering. Then I drove across the street to Best Buy and bought one of their thousand copies.

On topic: I don't remember the exact words, but the cashier made fun of my purchase when I handed him EDF2017.
 
The Faceless Master said:
"it's new, but it's just that it's open"
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This

I went to pick up a pre-ordered DS game. I watched the guy take the game out of a cupboard, put it in the DS case, and slide it across the counter to me. I asked if that was a new game. He answered "Yes, it is. It just came out today."

"So why isn't it still in the shrink wrap?"

"Is that important to you?" he asked.
 
Couple weeks after SFxT came out


GS guy: so who you using?
me: Vega and Hugo
GS guy: ehhh neither of them are good, I use Ryu and Ken
me:

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Kusagari said:
I love when they try this on games like Halo, GTA, Gears, etc.
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My favorite one was when a guy tried to get me to preorder the Legendary Edition of Halo 3 (the one with the helmet). He said it would be worth thousands one day.

5 years later I STILL see unsold Legendary Editions everywhere in every store.
 
Solid warrior said:
@OP

It's true i heard rumors that Nintendo is already having difficulties making enough hardware units for the console's launch this fall. I also heard that the problematic component is the gamepad to be specific.
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Then they'll just have low shipments this year then. They've already sent out the advertising and told investors it would be out this year for over a year now. Nintendo would be slammed so hard and their stock would crash so hard if they missed this year they would rather send out like 500k for the holidays then miss this year.
 
Wasn't to me personally, but when my mom went to pick up WarioWare Touched for me like seven years ago I guess the employee told her she had wasted money buying me a DS and was wasting more money buying me terrible games like WarioWare. She was fuming when I got home from school

Also another Gamestop employee tried to convince me not to buy WarioWare Smooth Moves because I should be preordering Super Paper Mario with my money instead. I realize he was just trying to get a preorder off me but still

I just want to play WarioWare dammit
 
*Buys Brawl two days after release*

GS: "It's the most unique game I've ever played, but you might find it generic at times"

Wat.
 
Go in to buy a copy of Soul Calibur 5...

"This is the last copy we have. The case is open but it's new."

Right behind his head: a case full of unopened copies of the game.

I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE JACKASS
 
I don't know if this is just a coincidence or not but it's happened the last two or three times, and I wouldn't put it past gamestop.When I buy a game day one without a preorder, and they'll make a big deal about how lucky I was because it was the last one they had available that wasn't reserved, and I really should preorder next time.
 
LiK said:
Shoulda asked for his name and beat the shit outta him online :)
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Maybe then he'd stop asking me to pre-order Halo 14 and CoD93


sixghost said:
I don't know if this is just a coincidence or not but it's happened the last two or three times, and I wouldn't put it past gamestop.When I buy a game day one without a preorder, and they'll make a big deal about how lucky I was because it was the last one they had available that wasn't reserved, and I really should preorder next time.
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yea, they say this shit every time. He even said it for DMC HD collection and bitch please, we know that shit ain't selling out.
 
I was buying Street Fighter 4, when the clerk told me that in his opinion "Chun Li isn't a real woman, because her legs are so fat"...

I looked disgusted at him and left the store without a word.
 
Agent Unknown said:
Dumb statements, inaccurate stuff, flat out lies, attempts to rip you off, poor treatment, anything.

Mine happened today. One of our Gamestops here just put out their Wii U promo materials and I decided to make some small talk about while I was pre-ordering NSMB 2. Boy was that a mistake:

Me: "So I see you have the Wii U promo stuff out already."

GS guy says to me with a straight face and a dead serious tone:

"Yeah, I'm still not convinced it's coming out this fall though. I'm thinking more like somewhere between December to March."

Me: "No, actually Nintendo has said a million times it's being released this fall."

GS guy: "I don't think so."

Me: "So you guys are putting out promo stuff for a system that may not release until March 2013?"

GS guy (nods uncomfortably): "Weirder things have happened."

Me: "OK. Do I need to sign for this pre-order slip?"

GS guy: "Nope."

Me (trying not to laugh): "See ya."
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bro he's in the industry I can't believe you'd question his knowledge
 
Or another favorite...

Walk into GameStop to buy Resident Evil 0 on GameCube...

"I heard Nintendo's going out of business later this year."
 
Because no one outside GameStop employment can be ignorant/ biased, opinionated and show fanboism when the discussion is video games. Didn't we all at one point laugh at the taste blockbuster employees had in cinema? They are just like any other people working in retail.

You don't need a doctorate in video game culture to work there.
 
Murrah said:
Also another Gamestop employee tried to convince me not to buy WarioWare Smooth Moves because I should be preordering Super Paper Mario with my money instead. I realize he was just trying to get a preorder off me but still

I just want to play WarioWare dammit
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But you should play both!
 
AkimbO_Arcana said:
I was buying Street Fighter 4, when the clerk told me that in his opinion "Chun Li isn't a real woman, because her legs are so fat"...

I looked disgusted at him and left the store without a word.
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If he said this about Mileena I would have probably had to kill him.
 
I order something, they look at my account with all my transaction history,

"Hey want to preorder (shooter game?)..."

"No."

"Want to preorder (current sports game?)

"No."

... ... ...

*sigh*

All I play is shmups, fighters, and RPGs. I don't know why they keep trying to push games that obviously aren't my thing down my throat.

When I worked at another, smaller chain I'd always memorize the upcoming game list and remember every customer's taste (or at least ask.) So it's kind of insulting just have this incredibly detached customer experience. Well, not so much anymore after I started going to this other local mom/pop game store (more like young 20/30 something's) where the staff could very well be gaffers.
 
Valnen said:
I met one that insisted their guesstimate date was the real release date for Diablo 3 a couple years back and that I should preorder right away if I wanted a copy.

I was also asked why I liked Pokemon because "it's a kids game" and I'm an adult. Followed by a suggestion to play the latest Call of Duty, of course. I told him Pokemon had infinitely more strategy than Call of Duty ever will and to pretty much shut up.
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LMFAO pokemon is a kids game..... COD is a frat level game...... there is no arguement.
 
Generally my experiences with Gamestop have been pretty benign and I never really got into conversations with them and any time they tried to sell me something I didn't want all I had to say was "No thanks."

But several months ago I went to Gamestop to buy Xenoblade without a preorder and the clerk asked me if I wanted to preorder Last Story while I was there. When I said "No thanks" she seemed to get a bit angry and started telling me how we have to send a message to Nintendo of America that we should get these games.

There was another time when I overheard a couple of clerks having a conversation and one of them started going on about how Kingdom Hearts was a crappy kiddy game and the other clerk started correcting him.
 
The Mana Legend said:
Seriously, this.

My Gamestop got one copy of Resonance of Fate when it was released. One. Damn. Copy.
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That's not their fault per se. I worked at GS during the PS2 days and there where alotta games that's we'd order too much of. Which was not only bad for the store but also the publishers who had to buy back a shitton of their unsold games. By having preorders its easier to gauge how many copies of what to get and it helps the publisher gauge how many to print. It also helps with gauging the popularity of a game to the publisher.
 
Oh yeah, I hate the "this is the last copy" thing too. I don't care that the disc is scratch-free; I'm not touching that disgusting case.
 
sixghost said:
I don't know if this is just a coincidence or not but it's happened the last two or three times, and I wouldn't put it past gamestop.When I buy a game day one without a preorder, and they'll make a big deal about how lucky I was because it was the last one they had available that wasn't reserved, and I really should preorder next time.
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I'm sure HQ told every employee to use that line.

FTR, I don't shop at GS unless it has awesome sell like $10 MK Vita!
 
Not quite said anything stupid, but did something stupid. I purchased a used copy of Wild ARMs 3 for a friend's kid, who really wasn't picky. It was only $8. Well, got the game home, gave it to the kid, he put it in the played it... it was the demo.
 
Me (to my cousin): What, they have an NFL Combine game?

GS: Yeah it's actually pretty good... unlike Zumba. *more comments on Zumba and him being all sour that Zumba for the Kinect is popular?*

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Not necessarily dumb, just an odd thing to say.
 
RE5 Gold was cheaper at retail surprisingly and the guy at the store was trying to force vanilla RE5 on me because RE5 Gold was an expansion pack to the original according to him. Once I convinced him to just register the sale he said in a snide tone "you won't be able to return it once you've opened it"
 
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