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[Raccoon00]

two weeks ago was a very happy Saturday for me. Since Microsoft is looking to clear the older 360 models off the shelf and dropped the price to $149.99, I decided that the Xbox 360 was finally a purchase I could feel good about. I walked into my local Gamestop smiling, ready to make my purchase of an arcade sku along with a few games that I had missed like Modern Warfare 2 and Final Fantasy XIII. The fact that I had to wait 20 minutes while the father & son in front of me pondered on whether to take the $35.00 in store credit for their trade-in, didn’t diminish my excitement a bit.

Finally my turn in line came. I sauntered up to the counter, slapped down my plastic with the games, and said “I’ll take a 360 arcade my good sir!” Actually, I just asked for a 360 arcade, and in no way sauntered. I could never pull off a good saunter. Anyway, this is the point when the manager of this particular Gamestop opened his mouth to speak and my day went to hell.

“You know that you need to purchase a hard drive to play online, or even connect to Xbox Live, right?” the manager inquired of me. Now being a somewhat savvy consumer I had done a bit of research before heading to Gamestop as I thought this might be an issue. I informed the store manager that the Gamestop website lists the arcade model as having 256mb memory installed, and that it is in fact Xbox Live enabled. As the manager hit me with a “dumb sh*t customer doesn’t know what he is talking about” look, he began to explain to me that there was in fact only 128mb memory installed and that while I would be able to log-in to Xbox Live, I would not be able to access the dashboard, my friendslist, etc…

Of course this witless turd had a solution in mind for me. “Why don’t you purchase one of our used premium models which come with a 20gig harddrive?”

I think it’s important that you understand something here dear reader, this is not my first Xbox 360 purchase. It’s not even my second, or third. It was in fact my fourth purchase of an Xbox 360 console. All previous 360′s I have owned fell to the dreaded RROD. Three of those previous consoles had actually been used models from Gamestop, so you can understand my hesitation when the manager suggested this course of action.

While all of this was going down, my inner bullsh*t detector was registering off the charts. I asked the manager if he was sure that his information was correct, and he confirmed it was. I wasn’t willing to plunk down anymore cash for a console that might come with a gallon of milk’s expiration date, so I told him thank you but no thanks and left the store.

Depressed that I did not have a new 360 in tow, I spent the ride home thinking about what the manager had told me and that his information just didn’t seem right. I hit home and immediately jumped online for some more research. It would not be the first time a Gamestop employee had led me astray with misinformation. After confirming that the store manager in fact did not know what f*ck he was talking about, I printed out the page from Gamestop’s website and drove back to the store. I was fully prepared to confront this douche who tried to pawn a used system off on me by straight lying to my face. The thought never even crossed my mind that the manager just wasn’t that familiar with the products he was peddling.

Upon entering the store, I secured my spot in line to the counter and waited. Gamestop employees are not known for their speed of service as it was another 10 minute wait. In this case the wait only served to push my righteous fury to new heights, and finally my the time came to unleash it. As I approached the counter, once again there was no “saunter”, I put the page I had printed out down on the counter and asked “Dude, this is from your company website and I don’t appreciate being lied to so you can sell more used consoles”.


The manager read the print out, looked up at me, and apologized for not giving me the correct information. He even thanked me for bringing in the print out so that he could make sure his employees weren’t giving other customers the wrong information. The realization dawned on me that this guy didn’t try to screw me, he was just a bit dopey. My rage dissipated and I proceeded to purchase my 360 arcade and the games. While I had planned to make my purchase at Target after giving the manager a piece of my mind, I felt a little guilty about suggesting this clerk was a scam artist, instead of just being retarded.

This entire experience wasted three hours of my Saturday, and seriously cut in to my gaming time. If you take anything away from this post please let it be this, do your research before making a purchase, and never trust anything a Gamestop employee tells you. 9 times out of 10 a monkey flinging his poo is more informed.

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[DarkShadow]

long rant about a shitty console, yay.

[Raccoon00]

I found the rant about gamestop the funny part, because i heard so much stories about how the people that worked in gamestop are f*cking retards from friends

[Snookers]

that guy could have shaved 2 hours off by just buying it on his first trip.

[Killian]

While I was reading this I was thinking "Holy sh*t this is good writing, what kind of BoSS member would do this... oh."

[Black_Lotus]

Holy sh*t, fourth xbox 360? I would've been like whelp, f*ck this...
time to upgrade my PC instead after the first xbox 360 RROD.
Consoles are the devil anyways, but at least he prevailed in the
end lol.

[Sheep]

long rant about a sh*tty console, yay.

AGREED! lol funny sh*t though it knocked out 15 mins of my time readin it...
Yes im a little slow xD

[Killian]

AGREED! lol funny sh*t though it knocked out 15 mins of my time readin it...
Yes im a little slow xD

I was about to say..

[bl1nk2much]

My local Gamestop actually has some decent ppl working in there...

For instance, when MW2 for 360 came out, the store manager started passing out water and amp energy drinks to the people waiting in line till midnight hit. Also, Some people got disorderly because they didnt realize they needed a number. She told them "Either get a number and wait in line or go the f*ck home. It specfically says on your receipt you need a number." to which we all busted out laughing...

I think some regions just hire employees just to put a body behind the counter. While others actually KNOW what they are selling and are into gaming...

[Scroll_Lock88]

sh*t, should have sent me a PM, could send you a jTagged 360 for 100 bucks shipped :P

[MacDaddy_Ham]

Holy sh*t, fourth xbox 360? I would've been like whelp, f*ck this...
time to upgrade my PC instead after the first xbox 360 RROD.
Consoles are the devil anyways, but at least he prevailed in the
end lol.

i know this is an old post but i just stumbled across it, and was laughing my ass off over this comment. that's fuckin hilarious!!!

[Ahkmed]

lol didnt read necro up in this bitch come @ me