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I don't know, you should probably PM a mod or post in the Monkey Den. It's probably another "New people are scared of anything larger than 51!"
i guess the other option is like a white dress shirt and blue tie.
pretty lame overall, see, that means i have to carry clothes in addition to a big bag to carry my Wii to my girlfriends, so's i can get up to go sell it later on sunday.
Fuck.
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Now I don't fell so bad...still gonna suck balls. I know someone is gonna come in and either lie and say we called him and we didn't or some other fucker will freak the fuck out when we don't have a PS3 for him.
Beucase you know, he put in his pre-order Monday which means he should get one.
My condolences, guys.
I'm working *right now*.
Well, not working, but I'm at work.
Customer: Hi how do I get to your place from Shithole Town or Sidestreet?
Me: I dont know how exactly from there, but if you get onto King St (major arterial road through the entire city) we're just one light off of that. *explains how once on King St*
Customer: I dont know how to get to King from *insert obscure location*. Cant you tell me?
Me: No sorry I've never been to Shithole Town or Sidestreet.
Customer: *sarcastic tone* Well I guess since you cant help me you are going to lose my business
Me:
Forsake, Warlock of Stonemaul
I'll do you one better. People used to call me at Gamestop, to ask me questions about the store next door. "What time do they open?" "Do you know what their phone number is?" "Do they carry _____?"
What the fuck? Who does that?
My response?
"That sounds like a personal problem to me." *click*
Whenever someone asked me for directions, I sent them right back to the operator and let whoever thought they knew pick it up. I'm usually only able to find my way either by pure luck or by landmarks; street names rarely mean anything to me. I absolutely hate when people pull that you're going to lose my business bullcrap, though. Oh no, I'm not going to get paid this week because you didn't come here and spend $20 on random crap! Oh wait, yes I will and if you really want to find out how to get here, mapquest us, bitch.
So I worked the launch today, came in around 7:15am with breakfast in hand, glancing at the cold, grumpy, impatient campers waiting for their PS3. Launch time was at 8:00am sharp, and my job was to stand there, spout our geek squad service offerings to the grumpy, impatient campers as they zoomed by to get their systems and get out. We went through our 40 allocated units in about 15 minutes.
Not one HDMI cable was sold, which I guess is my fault, as I made sure to warn customers that HDMI connections would require an HDCP compliant TV (and receiver if an A/V receiver is involved). I could of course be wrong but I wanted to keep R/E rate to a minimum (that's return/exchange for you non-retail folks).
We sold about 20 games total (one guy bought 1 of each launch title, rather hastily. I can only imagine he's going to use that as his "edge" in his Ebay auction). A few bought PRP's and extra controllers, so we can only assume that they MAY be the ones that actually keep theirs. One lady that camped out was getting it for her husband, and had told him she'd be away on a business trip so he wouldn't wonder why she was gone for 3-4 days in a row.
Other then that, today was a slow day, lots of calls asking if we had any PS3's left (at that point, we amended our phone answer to include "-where we are sold out of PS3's!"). I'm not sure where people get the mentality that they can actually find a retail outlet that will have a PS3 in stock. When asked where they may be able to find one, I simply say "Ebay, be thou warned of price gouging".
Wii's less then 48 hours away, and although I don't see any campers waiting for the wii, which is fine by me, as I work at noon that day and I'd like to just walk in and grab my Wii without any hastle. Our store's been allocated a fair amount, and has more on order, so I don't think finding one will be nearly as hard as a PS3.
Wait, this isn't Blizzard's WoW forums...
Anyways, I feel for you guys. The raw quantity and quality of assholes you're going to meet today will surely be astounding.
And then Black Friday is next week, right?
And then that hellish retail period known as "December"?
... we're going to see multiple suicides before we hit page 51, aren't we?
Best buy.ca had 80 - with 10 per hour over 8 hours.
We had boxing day level traffic on the servers, which - not being prepared with boxing day scalability, were omgwtfpwned.
I don't think we'll try that again.
On the upside, the Xbox 360 bundle on future shop is selling like hotcakes. Assuming hotcakes sell at a ridiculous pace.
I got the email on the Gears/Graw/RR/Live + premium bundle for $450, I assumed it had to be as mistake, because the bundle is $599 not on sale, and the email said it was only actually $50 off.
First time I've ever walked away from a customer.
You did the right thing mah boi, the right thing.
We do have a recorded message that it tells you how to get here from most parts of the city, and usually whenever someone asks I just transfer them there. It really is quite good, but a lot of people are cuntnozzles and would rather "talk to a human" about it. The other day some guy came to pick up his shit and chewed me out in front of like three customers and the manager for being "very rude" and a "smartass" because I transferred him to the directions. I don't live in Burnaby, nor do I happen to know where the fuck Burlington Ave is, nor do I feel particularly inclined to fire up Google Maps and find it when I have three other customers waiting on hold.
One day only - $450.
They also had a bundle with a controller, Ridge Racer 6, Some other damn game and the system for $450. I think it might still be up.
Yup, It's still up. Stock on both bundles. Save $140. - This bundles is web only - the other one is in store only I believe.
Oh, if you checked the email when you got it (yesterday) it would have been yesterday's price. You have to check on the day to see the sale price.
Nope. I'm on salary... no OT for me. I get paid enough that I bought Guitar Hero II, Gears of War, & FFXII in the last two weeks, and I could buy a Wii if I wanted to charge it, but I won't have PS3 cash for a while.
edit - I like being part of a community where I can describe my salary in terms of what games I can afford to buy.
Ah, I love teaching in high school.
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If I'm not sure where someplace is, I'll just phone them up and ask them what their major crossroads are
You'd think it be that easy, but there's this lady that comes in to my bar that is fucking psychotic when it comes to the internet. She's older, and generally just a negative person. She's asked me to look up the stock of her former employer in the newspaper to see how it's doing. I didn't see it but I pointed out that there is both a phone number and a website. Boy did she ream me a new one about the internet.
"I DON'T KNOW HOW TO USE THE INTERNET. I DON'T HAVE A COMPUTER. I DON'T HAVE THE INTERNET. WHAT IS THE INTERNET? WHY DO PEOPLE ASSUME I KNOW HOW TO DO THIS INTERNET THING?"
I understood her point the first time because not everyone has a computer or internet access. But every time the internet is mentioned around her she goes through the same speech. Hell, every time you mention anything she goes in to some crazy rant.
Jewelry stores never have money, and almost every one has extensive security measures, not to mention armed guards and direct means of getting more guards and cops on the scene within minutes. Most jewelry is indexed, and when you get to precious stones, every one has serial numbers with descriptions of cut, flaws, and setting, and most experts can pick out any stolen stone (well, once you get past the worthless stones they sell to the unwashed masses), making a paper trail where reselling stolen goods is really hard to pawn off with the seller quite easy to track down.
Compare that to a group of unarmed nerds sleeping out on the street in the middle of the night with extensive amounts of cash, credit cards, and expensive toys with absolutely no security whatsoever. Even Big Brotha Willie will back down from a couple of guys with guns.
Hmmmm, I wonder which situation would have a higher payoff by spending a couple of minutes of waving a gun around while looking menacing.
EDIT: me kant speel
i dunno i wasnt being entirely serious, but it DOES seem like there would be easier opportunities out there or more profitable ones if these crooks are laready going to some of the lengths they are.
maybe if they applied themselves to white collar crime they could make MILLIONSSS!!!s11
Oh.
Honestly though, any of the "easy" targets for looting have already had their eras of heavy robbery, and have evolved to compensate.
As far as I've seen, most video game stores really aren't on the prime robbery places list, and I'm assuming they don't have the level of security in place that most other places have.
Wow, I haven't really thought about it, but video game stores really have a high value vs. security ratio. I'm guessing a few more break-ins or robberies might change all that. PS3s might actually have a use after all, since they've got tramplings and robberies in the news, so maybe EBstops will figure that it might be worth it to spring for security.
A.) They are all online.
B.) All video game systems are traced by serial number real easily.
Combine the two and it would be fairy easy to track back to the source.
Heh, what if someone holds up an EBstop, puts them up on Ebay using a quick reciept photoshop, and Cap'n Fancypants spends a few grand to get one of these PS3s for his little Jimmy?
Can you imagine little Jimmy's face when he gets it for Xmas, sets it all up, and the first thing he sees when he connects to the internet is:
THIS SERIAL NUMBER IS INVALID. THE POLICE HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED, AND THIS PS3 WILL EXPLODE IN TEN SECONDS. INTENTIONALLY, WE SWEAR.
Entirely possible. Some people even think that the Wii knows what you are doing and transmits the data back to Nintendo, an Orwellian move that frankly I couldn't be happier about.
I love Big Brother Nintendo.
We have three Wiis to spare. Can I expect calm, or chaos? No word of camping yet that I know of...
I, for one, welcome our Hyrulian overlords.
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