madstork91
The One, The Only...
I will start by using what will hopefully be my only explicative in this post... but i doubt it.
**** Gamestop!
Well, maybe not entirely. I have made some friends with the people who worked there over the years in this town, a place that has adopted me sort of over the last 3 years.
The good: Some of the people who work there know their product.
Seriously. Gamers all want to work there to some extent. Unfortunately they seem to have a practice of not hiring exclusively gamers, and they do not seem to be to into the idea of hiring a wide range of genre players. Sometimes you will go in for a year and find nothing but madden fanbois and sometimes all you will find are the rpg'ers. Both have their positives and minuses... but when they hire someone who doesn't know dick shit about their own product things can get ugly. Today was one of those days.
The Bad: They are basically a lease to own place, just without the contracts and over time paying. They make some bank off of the previously owned stuff, and rightly so. Who really minds though? They get money, and you get games a discount on occasion. Limited prints may also very well be in and on the used shelves, this is a good thing.
The Ugly: Gamestop has become, for the most part, a mindless being trying to meet is bottom line at all costs. This means that they wish to keep as few people on staff as possible, give as little discount on anything they can, push their own products, and give up some on the customer care.
Now don't get me wrong, the guy at my local game stop ROX!11!! The problem with this statement is that he recently got promoted, and he no longer works at my local Gamestop. So what am I left with?
I wanted to buy a copy of the all in one copy of the current FFXI. (I am getting in a lil late on this) So I called up my local game stop and was surprised to hear a woman answer the phone. I asked her if she had a copy of the current FFXI release and after a few moments of silence she asked "FFXI?" to which i replied "yes." She then proceeded to tell me that it did not come out until Dec 4th...
Lets review shall we? FFXI is not coming out until Dec 4th. ... ... ... ...
She's a ****ing idiot I think to myself, but nonetheless I mention to her that it has been out for quite some time. She then tells me "I am sorry but that is what our system says"
-You remember earlier when i mentioned that gamestop occasionally hires people who simply do not know what they are talking about, and that they are caring less about customer care?-
I then tell her specifically which expansion I am looking for and she once again apologizes and says that she cannot help me. I asked for my "guy" and she tells me that he is not there.
... So i bitched to rob for a few in irc... Then went up there and picked out the game from the shelf, then showed it to her. Both the guy (not my guy) and her looked at me like I was being an asshole. A customer then proceeded to tell me that it was not her fault and asked me "why if you knew that the game was out did i call up here to see if they had it???"
So to review again: gamestop was full of ****ing idiots today (save me on days when I appear enlightened like today), and the game that was not supposed to be out until dec 4th was miraculously on the shelf, and I am now viewed by 2 employees up there as an asshole.
I was then informed that gamestop's website had a search feature that let me search every gamestop's inventory within 250 miles and that next time I should look up something there instead of calling.
I then bought my game and left.
Questions? Comments? Similar Exp? (exp = experience. Figured I'd mention that for any Gamestop employee reading this.)
-stork out... And hopefully enjoying my new game.
**** Gamestop!
Well, maybe not entirely. I have made some friends with the people who worked there over the years in this town, a place that has adopted me sort of over the last 3 years.
The good: Some of the people who work there know their product.
Seriously. Gamers all want to work there to some extent. Unfortunately they seem to have a practice of not hiring exclusively gamers, and they do not seem to be to into the idea of hiring a wide range of genre players. Sometimes you will go in for a year and find nothing but madden fanbois and sometimes all you will find are the rpg'ers. Both have their positives and minuses... but when they hire someone who doesn't know dick shit about their own product things can get ugly. Today was one of those days.
The Bad: They are basically a lease to own place, just without the contracts and over time paying. They make some bank off of the previously owned stuff, and rightly so. Who really minds though? They get money, and you get games a discount on occasion. Limited prints may also very well be in and on the used shelves, this is a good thing.
The Ugly: Gamestop has become, for the most part, a mindless being trying to meet is bottom line at all costs. This means that they wish to keep as few people on staff as possible, give as little discount on anything they can, push their own products, and give up some on the customer care.
Now don't get me wrong, the guy at my local game stop ROX!11!! The problem with this statement is that he recently got promoted, and he no longer works at my local Gamestop. So what am I left with?
I wanted to buy a copy of the all in one copy of the current FFXI. (I am getting in a lil late on this) So I called up my local game stop and was surprised to hear a woman answer the phone. I asked her if she had a copy of the current FFXI release and after a few moments of silence she asked "FFXI?" to which i replied "yes." She then proceeded to tell me that it did not come out until Dec 4th...
Lets review shall we? FFXI is not coming out until Dec 4th. ... ... ... ...
She's a ****ing idiot I think to myself, but nonetheless I mention to her that it has been out for quite some time. She then tells me "I am sorry but that is what our system says"
-You remember earlier when i mentioned that gamestop occasionally hires people who simply do not know what they are talking about, and that they are caring less about customer care?-
I then tell her specifically which expansion I am looking for and she once again apologizes and says that she cannot help me. I asked for my "guy" and she tells me that he is not there.
... So i bitched to rob for a few in irc... Then went up there and picked out the game from the shelf, then showed it to her. Both the guy (not my guy) and her looked at me like I was being an asshole. A customer then proceeded to tell me that it was not her fault and asked me "why if you knew that the game was out did i call up here to see if they had it???"
So to review again: gamestop was full of ****ing idiots today (save me on days when I appear enlightened like today), and the game that was not supposed to be out until dec 4th was miraculously on the shelf, and I am now viewed by 2 employees up there as an asshole.
I was then informed that gamestop's website had a search feature that let me search every gamestop's inventory within 250 miles and that next time I should look up something there instead of calling.
I then bought my game and left.
Questions? Comments? Similar Exp? (exp = experience. Figured I'd mention that for any Gamestop employee reading this.)
-stork out... And hopefully enjoying my new game.
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