So I Got Banned from a Game Store
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I tried something once...
I gave my little cousin (he's like 10), a mint English MOTW AES cart and brought it into one of those shops. I told my cousin to ask him how much he would buy it for. The guy looked at his computer for a second (no doubt checking ebay), and literally started drooling. The guy said $10 because it was an old game that no one wants anymore. I then proceeded to go up to him, said "Wow, ripping off a kid, that's pretty low." Took my cousin and left.
Edit: Btw, the guy's face was pretty priceless...cat butt face...
I gave my little cousin (he's like 10), a mint English MOTW AES cart and brought it into one of those shops. I told my cousin to ask him how much he would buy it for. The guy looked at his computer for a second (no doubt checking ebay), and literally started drooling. The guy said $10 because it was an old game that no one wants anymore. I then proceeded to go up to him, said "Wow, ripping off a kid, that's pretty low." Took my cousin and left.
Edit: Btw, the guy's face was pretty priceless...cat butt face...
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Hey, I hear there are some guys who'll give you 50 for that, shipped. I've been through a similar experience at a different store. Thanks to a move, we had an extra good-condition copy of Legend of Mana, at a point when it was still selling for about 50 bucks. Took it to the place, they had tried to give us 12.5 cents for it in trade credit and had marked it as "scratched". It turns out that this place has a few employees who, when they see something they want they just try to mark it as scratched so they can buy it for 25 cents. I was able to trade the game later for a copy of Lunar SSS, thankfully.
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If anyone believes that a B&M used video game store is NOT run by a scammer has to be out of their mind. They have more overhead versus an online retailer so of course the prices are going to be silly, He's looking to run his business and make 2-5x profit at the same time. They also rely on impulse buyers, people that can't wait til the auction ends on ebay or even shipping for that matter. I've even had people message me in ebay within the hour of the auction ending and ask if I had sent it out yet and where is their tracking? You might have the one or two stores that are an anomaly, but otherwise? Profit margin is king and F the customer whether buying or selling. Most are really just an electronics pawn shop.
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Yeah, I don't know how many times I've impulse-bought a game and then checked to find it cheaper online. Maybe I should just go get myself pre-emptively kicked out of every game shop in the state.
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Okay here´s how this would go in my case:
Me: (silently browsing games on store shelf)
Another customer: "Hey, would you like to buy this psp that I have?"
Me: (ignoring another customer, browsing games on store shelf)
Third customer: "Hey, would you like to buy this snes that I have?"
Me: (ignoring third customer, browsing games on store shelf)
fourth customer: "Hey would you like to buy this magnavox cd-i that I have?"
Me: (ignoring fourh customer, taking a Last of Us box and proceeding to cashier)
Me: Hi, I´d like to buy this
Cashier: That´d be 50 euros please
Me: Here you go!
Cashier: And here´s your game, have a nice evening.
Me: Thanks! Oh by the way there´s some really weird freaks there near the ps3 shelf and they´re trying to sell their used crap in your store, I think you´d better throw them out or something.
Cashier: Oh really? Well that´s weird, I will see what I can do!
Me: (silently browsing games on store shelf)
Another customer: "Hey, would you like to buy this psp that I have?"
Me: (ignoring another customer, browsing games on store shelf)
Third customer: "Hey, would you like to buy this snes that I have?"
Me: (ignoring third customer, browsing games on store shelf)
fourth customer: "Hey would you like to buy this magnavox cd-i that I have?"
Me: (ignoring fourh customer, taking a Last of Us box and proceeding to cashier)
Me: Hi, I´d like to buy this
Cashier: That´d be 50 euros please
Me: Here you go!
Cashier: And here´s your game, have a nice evening.
Me: Thanks! Oh by the way there´s some really weird freaks there near the ps3 shelf and they´re trying to sell their used crap in your store, I think you´d better throw them out or something.
Cashier: Oh really? Well that´s weird, I will see what I can do!
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Thats kind of been the normal experience I've had dealing with most little game and hobby shops. Thankfully, most of them don't last very long.
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If the owner wasn't itnerested, then he has no real reason to be pissed.
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There used to be a little used shop around here that I frequented where the owner would do the opposite. He had some old stuff, but dealt mostly with current (at the time) systems like PS2 and Xbox, and I was really the only person that ever bought any of the old stuff.
I was browsing in the store alone, and some college chick called. I only heard one side on the conversation, but it seemed like she was trying to see how much she could get for a CDX, and he said he didn't really have any interest in buying it since Genesis stuff didn't sell. I was gesturing wildly that I would buy it from him if he got it from her (I had already bought a X'Eye and a Model 1 Sega CD for $30 each earlier.) He just handed the phone to me and I gave the girl $30 for it, lol.
I was browsing in the store alone, and some college chick called. I only heard one side on the conversation, but it seemed like she was trying to see how much she could get for a CDX, and he said he didn't really have any interest in buying it since Genesis stuff didn't sell. I was gesturing wildly that I would buy it from him if he got it from her (I had already bought a X'Eye and a Model 1 Sega CD for $30 each earlier.) He just handed the phone to me and I gave the girl $30 for it, lol.
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Eh, he'll be gone and replaced with a nail salon in a year. It sucks that I'll miss his going out of business sale, though.
When the GameXChange first opened in my neighborhood, I went there on opening day and saw a nice selection. Bought a few games for very reasonable prices. The next weekend I went there again and the place has been almost poached clean of anything besides sports titles.
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Perfectly fine from the owner to ban your ass. Personally, I'd have done the same you smelly goblindick.
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So very this...
Your my hero.
I was working at a gamestation when i lived in london, some guy came in to trade a neo home console, a white jap saturn and games for each... When he heard the 'cash' price he walked out of the store. I immediatley told my boss i was going on break, and ran after the dude. As soon as we were off the gamestores property i asked if he would take 200 squid... Deal done, and no one got banned from anywhere.
True story.
Also, op sounds like an annoying kid.
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He is in the business of trying to be voted worst new member of 2013.
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Shroom is the funniest member of this site. He always says shit that makes me laugh my ass off. My wife thought I needed to be sedated after I read this.
Anyway, here's my .02.
I'd have apologized to the store owner for any misunderstanding, told him I had no intention of doing business in the store and will make sure it won't happen again.
There is pride to consider, but there is also respect. I'd have been on his turf, in his store. I'd never go into someone's home, say something that offended someone, even unintentionally, and then not apologized for upsetting them.
And it would have nothing to do with wanting to keep shopping there. It's more about not having the kind of sentiment which later drives me to Neo-Geo.com to post a thread about it. Why carry it around with you?
Maybe I'm a boy scout for thinking like this, or old fashioned, but so be it. I get nothing out of 'being right' in those situations and if people ask me about that store in the future, I recount my experiences to them and end it by saying 'I don't believe I did anything wrong, but I apologized for upsetting the store owner. Anyway, I don't feel comfortable going back to that store but maybe someday I will. It never hurts to check everywhere when you're looking for something obscure that you want.'
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Sadly yea. Running a small business selling video games just isn't going to rake in money if you are trying to sell at a fair price. Make matters worse its pretty difficult to be an independent store selling new games since you won't get pre-order bonuses. The market is pretty fubarred at the moment. Fortunately for music the big chains all collapsed and now there really is ONLY independent music stores where prices are pretty fair and owners and passionate about their product. Not always, but I've met some seriously fun people shopping at record stores.
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Yep, also gotta side with the store owner here, sorry. Even though you didn't actually make a concrete offer to buy the games, asking the guy for his number sure as hell looked like you were about to... If I was that shop owner, i'd be feckin pissed!
Admittedly, the owner does sound like a dick, but still, totally within his own rights...
Admittedly, the owner does sound like a dick, but still, totally within his own rights...
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Yeah, kinda what most people are saying: You are the one in the wrong here.
Sure maybe you never planned on doing business with his customers, but you gotta admit, from his perspective, that's exactly what it looked like. Also as pointed out earlier, there is a lot of overhead involved in owning/running a business. So that's how prices get jacked up.
Sure maybe you never planned on doing business with his customers, but you gotta admit, from his perspective, that's exactly what it looked like. Also as pointed out earlier, there is a lot of overhead involved in owning/running a business. So that's how prices get jacked up.
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you could have at least waited the two minutes for the guy to walk out of the store before trying to lowball the store owner in front of his face.
