fuckin gamestop

so i go to gamestop to buy a ps2 so i can play sf anniversary, and the couple other games i missed over the last year (r-type final) to save a few bucks, i just buy a used one. i didn't really look at it at the store, but when i got home and opened their shitty shrinkwrap, i noticed the thing is FUCKING COVERED IN DUST. i mean, truly disgusting amounts of dirt and dust. i bust out the air duster, and that helps a little, but it still fucking nasty. on top of that they give me a fucking rf adapter instead of an av cable. what is this, 1986?

fuck this shit, i'm returning it and paying the extra cash for a new ps2.

Shit in the drive and wrap it all back up just as it was when you got it. Hopefully they won't check it while you're there and will have a little surprise when they go to check it out.

I'd never buy a used PS2 as I'd be afraid someone was off loading their DRE PS2 while it still worked somewhat.

Yah, don't buy a used PS2, they are as reliable as Internet scammers.... Just buy a new one, it is cheap now anyway. Good luck with your purchase! Don't forget to buy Rez when it gets a rerelease later this year.

Yeah the pelican stick I bought has sticky buttons . I never took it back since I thought I would replace the buttons but you know I'm fat and lazy so thats yet to take place . That and the fact I put a world heros perfect sticker on it .

You should see what 90% of the last copy of a brand new game, that is gutted to use the box for a demo looks like. I think you're insane for buying ANYTHING "used" as most people don't know that games are to be put back in the jewel cases/DVD boxes and handled like it was plutonium... but see the looks on the faces of people when you're buying BRAND NEW, and they go and pull out the game from not even a jewel case but a cardboard holder for the disc and put it back into the box, re-shrink wrap the box and say it's NEW, and you're like "Naaah forget it call one of your other stores to see if anyone still has any NEW games factory sealed."

They get all pissy with you saying: "It's new sir!" *Well I worked for GAMESTOP for awhile and that's bullshit. NEW means never-been-opened period. The last game on the shelf that's been gutted is not new. The game disc itself usually is scratched all to hell and even has finger prints on the surfaces of the respective game. I usually show them a USED Sega SATURN game I've had since the Saturn came out and say: "This sir IS a used game... THIS {holding up their gutted NEW game} is fuckin' used." to which everyone's generally amazed that a used game from 1996 might well have never been played. THE MORAL OF THIS STORY... DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND NEVER BUY USED, GO WITH BRAND NEW, BUT ONLY IF IT'S STILL FACTORY SEALED. The headaches you get with trying to save a buck just aren't worth it. *It's real easy for their stupid boxes, I remember arguing this with my boss when I had season work at GameStop. Just like they make 20-something mock up boxes for a "Upcoming Game", corporate H.Q. should send color xeroxed copies of the actual box of a game and that is the one that gets put on the floor, and never again is a brand new game fucked with.

MERCENARY X99

I use to fuck this chick that worked at Gamestop. I was hoping this thread would be about her, but oh well.

PS- I buy all my PS2 and GC games used. But I demand to see the disc first to check out it's condition.

I totally agree with Mercenary.
I refuse to buy so-called "brand new" game if it's been openned even though the clerk claims it's new.

It happens to me a lot at gamestop. Those people know me very well and they'll tell me in advance if they don't have "brand new factory-sealed" copy in stock.

It helps when you know someone who works there, they hook you up with the good stuff.

I donno what I'm gonna do when they get out of college though.

It's funny, my friend has worked at Gamestop for two days, and he's ready to quit. He says the only customers that come in are itchy hobos (not the friendly kind with a sack on the end of a stick) selling stolen broken shit for crack. The manager is a stupid bitch, and has only been there for three weeks because the previous manager was shot in the neck.

Anyway, he said someone brought in a PS2 that didn't even work until like the fifth try, and even then the drive door was acting sticky as fuck. The manager made him buy it from him anyway. This isn't how it is at all Gamestops, but it sounds like you should've gone to EB as well.

Shirt in a Can said:

It's funny, my friend has worked at Gamestop for two days, and he's ready to quit. He says the only customers that come in are itchy hobos (not the friendly kind with a sack on the end of a stick) selling stolen broken shit for crack. The manager is a stupid bitch, and has only been there for three weeks because the previous manager was shot in the neck.

Anyway, he said someone brought in a PS2 that didn't even work until like the fifth try, and even then the drive door was acting sticky as fuck. The manager made him buy it from him anyway. This isn't how it is at all Gamestops, but it sounds like you should've gone to EB as well.

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EB isn't all that much better.

JHendrix said:

It helps when you know someone who works there, they hook you up with the good stuff.

I donno what I'm gonna do when they get out of college though.

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Wait to see if they can find a job after graduation before you panic.

Ok, sort of related to this.

I need to get a new PS2, whats the newest model out and what are ones that are prone to DRE's and breakage.

Nesagwa said:

Ok, sort of related to this.

I need to get a new PS2, whats the newest model out and what are ones that are prone to DRE's and breakage.

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I don't know but my question is why mine has not broken yet? I bought mine on the release date , I waited my stank ass in line at circuit city to get one . Were all the 1st run ones ass and I just got lucky ?

FatGuy said:

I don't know but my question is why mine has not broken yet? I bought mine on the release date , I waited my stank ass in line at circuit city to get one . Were all the 1st run ones ass and I just got lucky ?

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Like you don't know.


Go ahead and play dumb, you're good at that.

FatGuy said:

I don't know but my question is why mine has not broken yet? I bought mine on the release date , I waited my stank ass in line at circuit city to get one . Were all the 1st run ones ass and I just got lucky ?

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Because the ones with the shitty lasers were v3-v4 and most people jumped in 6-12 months later and wound up buying those. The lasers broke on those shitty units and everyone I know that had one of those rev's has long since replaced it.

I've got a launch PS2 as well and it works absolutely perfect.

lolz

so i go to return it, tell the dude i want to pay the extra for a new one. i tell him some games were givin me a disc read error, he says he has to test it asks which game. i tell him a game that it's possible he doesn't have, cvs2. well turns out he has the game, puts it in to test it, and low and behold, disc read error. hahaha.

btw, my original ps2 i got 2 months after launch and i never had a problem with it. even dropped it once.

I got my first PS2 on launch from EB. 3 months later of treating it like gold, fucking DREs. I called Sony and they were like 'it probably needs to be cleaned. That'll be $90.' I told the guy fuck off, I'll take it back to EB because I have an extended warranty on it. I've gone through 5 PS2s total, all within the first 2 yrs of buing it at launch. All of them, minus my current system, were kept clean and dust free at all times. The one I have now? I treat it like a sorry sack of shit, because it is, and it seems like it would read a disc even if I wiped my ass with it.

So what's the moral of this story? Treat your Sony equipment like the shit it is and you won't have problems.

Fuck Sony hard in the ass then give them a dirty sanchez.

buttasuperb said:

lolz

so i go to return it, tell the dude i want to pay the extra for a new one. i tell him some games were givin me a disc read error, he says he has to test it asks which game. i tell him a game that it's possible he doesn't have, cvs2. well turns out he has the game, puts it in to test it, and low and behold, disc read error. hahaha.

btw, my original ps2 i got 2 months after launch and i never had a problem with it. even dropped it once.

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It's official, anybody employed by Game Stop sucks at life.

It's the only reason I can come up with that explains why anybody would
work there.

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shir0

shir0 said:

It's official, anybody employed by Game Stop sucks at life.

It's the only reason I can come up with that explains why anybody would
work there.

Later

shir0

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What a dumb post.

ever think that people may need money to pay for bills, food, etc?

Aren't Xboxes just as shitty as PS2s? At least the first run Thompson drive ones? I'm curious as to which has more problems overall.

shir0 said:

It's official, anybody employed by Game Stop sucks at life.

It's the only reason I can come up with that explains why anybody would
work there.

Later

shir0

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Well I worked there last XMAS season for employee discount {which sucked compared to what I had at age 18 working for the Pre-EB GAME WORLD} and to just chill out with some "Die-Hard" gamers who actually know games at the one store I was at. I admit though most of the people who normally work in those stores suck donkey balls and don't know anything past PS2 and what's trendy now. I did however like working with some of these fine ass skeezers that horny managers like to hire. They don't know shit about games but they're great to talk shit to and stare at.

MERC X99

Shirt in a Can said:

Aren't Xboxes just as shitty as PS2s? At least the first run Thompson drive ones? I'm curious as to which has more problems overall.

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yar i hear thompson drives are shitty. my modded xbox has a phillips i think, and it refuses to read cvs2. my halo xbox also has a phillips and so far that is working just fine.

My X-Box purrs like a kitten every time I touch its buttons.

abdul said:

What a dumb post.

ever think that people may need money to pay for bills, food, etc?

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Yeah, I did.

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abdul said:

What a dumb post.

ever think that people may need money to pay for bills, food, etc?

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Gamestop or EB Games or any video game store in general is not a job you work at to make serious money and to pay bills. You don't get paid shit for the amount of work you have to do, and dealing with the people will slowly turn you into a blithering idiot. Don't believe me? Here's a typical scenario from the game store I worked at from any given day:

(I am shirking my responsibilities as a supervisor, playing Ikaruga on the demo Gamecube while my sorry underlings toil away for minimum wage. A white trash couple is checking out, and the male notices the game I am playing.)

White Trash Male (to female): What game is that?
White Trash Female: I don't know.
(She squints and reads the cover of the game's case, seemingly exerting all of her mental capacity to do so.)
WTF (to male, obviously proud to be "enlightening" him): It's called Ickagooga.
WTM (to female, obviously impressed by her "knowledge" of games): Sweet.

Seriously, if you want to make money, you don't work at a video game store. It's a nice job to have if you are interested in games and you live at home with your parents and have no bills to worry about, but other than that, forget about it. Go get a job at UPS: they hire at $8.50 and all you have to do is lift boxes. My two cents.