EB Games only hires douchebags -- fact.

[Asher]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi


Man, your ass must be so tight, it's amazing you can even walk.

I don't even know what to say to this, aside from the obvious comments regarding your intelligence.

I've never paid more then 10 bucks for a used game. I don't know where you are getting 49.99 from, but that must be the 'Toronto price'.

The only time they're ever $10 or lower -- in Calgary or Toronto or Waterloo -- is when they're on some special sale and they are a few years old and typically undesirable titles.

If you go in and try to buy, say, Halo 3 used right now you'll see a big yellow $49.99 sticker next to the new $59.99 ones.

[Xorbon]

Originally posted by Felch
I've got a buddy who uses their 7-day return policy on used games to basically play for free all the games he wants. Apparently they'll give full credit on them, but I've never tried it.

He sounds like the kind of guy stores use as an excuse to have draconian return policies.


BTW, thank you DroseDars.

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Japher
Asher got fired from EB games?

Dang,


When I read thread title and starter, I thought Asher finally had a platform to spew Console Communist Manifesto from....................

Then I realized no, they wouldnt hire him with Ming's ok.............................................

[Grandpa Troll]

Originally posted by Xorbon
What? A lurker's not allowed to make an occassional post around here?

no sir you exist as a Lurker merely to poke a finger through the hole, motioning for whose next to producer his membership sticker and then open your mouth a start commenting...

[The Mad Monk]

Asher

http://www.shortpacked.com/d/20050314.html

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by Ben Kenobi
Man, your ass must be so tight, it's amazing you can even walk.

As opposed to yours being so stretched out that we can stick a whole life-sized bleeding, half-naked Jew nailed to a piece of wood* up there? STFUBK

Originally posted by Xorbon
BTW, thank you DroseDars.

Posters don't lurk, lurkers don't post. FACT.



*In context, a very funny line from Family Guy, so chill.

[Pekka]

This kid needs to seriously be fired.

[SpencerH]

Good job Asher.

Depending on my mood I have two answers to the extended warranty. First is, "no thanks". If they shut up that's as far as it goes. The alternative is something like, "dont need it, if this ****in thing doesnt work I'll be back and throw it through the ****in window before coming in here to discuss it with you". They usually get the message and stop yapping at that point

[Unimatrix11]

A protection plan ?! What the hell is that ? Some kind of extended warranty ? For a price ?

Just to do some euro-brag: (I think, someone please correct me if this is wrong) In all of Europe a two-year warranty is obligatory by law - if a product stops functioning without someone breaking it, you can return it for a functioning same. Plus we have a 14-day retreat-from-deal warranty, allowing us to cancel any purchase within a 14-day period, without giving any reason (but for games, it would certainly be wise not to open the package, before you return it refering to the latter one).

So that clerk - i must certainly gotten it wrong - claimed that 75% of the game-copies they sell were broken ? And that, because of this, you need to pay extra, if you want a working copy ?! Don´t you have costumer-protection organizations ? Write them and ask them to send someone down there under cover and write about it. Or maybe a game-magazine ? Seriously: ´3/4 of our cakes are made of bricks, so if you are hungry, you either have to buy 4, to have a reasonable chance to get fed, or you buy our protection plan, which entitles you for a non-brick cake, should you have been not so lucky to get a real one in the first place (which is quite likely).´

His whole point about mass-manufacturing is so BS, anyways. 75% ?! 7.5% would be a high guess in my book. If 75% of all mass-manufactured items were broken... well i dunno... it´s obvious BS... Rigth then and there, either you or the kid should have asked to speak to the superior of the clerk and ask him if indeed 75% of the items displayed in the store were broken, as his subordinate just claimed... and while at it, what about that sign ?

After all, purchasing a game is not taking part in a lottery.

[Pekka]

With 75% failing, I'd think they would be pulling the product off ASAP anyway.

[Elok]

Asher should have offered him a protection plan in return: "There's a 75% chance of a punch to the nuts for you unless you pay me fifty bucks."

[Unimatrix11]

Yeah, he could have mentioned, that he was sorta mass-produced also (lets hope not !) and it may well be (as we all know) that he is defective as well and that his hand might slip on occasion...

[Nikolai]

Never thought I'd say this, but:

Asher

[Unimatrix11]

A simple answer to one of those ´protection plan´ offers would be: ´Protection ? From what exactly do i need protection, when i buy things off of You ?´ - The ensueing frantic search for euphemism and such could be fun to watch, i imagine... And when they are done with it, you counter by dismantling all those euphemism with a plain and simple: ´So, in short, you are saying, i need to buy protection from you, so that i can rest assured that you wont rip me off ? Is that what you are saying(, Sir) ?´

[Ming]

Many retail operations provide incentives to those that sell protection plans. Since they are in many cases more profitable then the actual sale of the product. This creates people like Asher ran into, jerks who will say anything to make the sale.