Recently I went to Walmart with some friends and family to try and tie up any lose ends for the holiday season. Of course being a gamer I give the gift of games to my younger family members. However, when I bought said games and brought them home to wrap and put away until the […]
Will Thompson·December 12, 2008
Recently I went to Walmart with some friends and family to try and tie up any lose ends for the holiday season. Of course being a gamer I give the gift of games to my younger family members. However, when I bought said games and brought them home to wrap and put away until the holidays, I noticed that one of the games was opened and that the game wasn’t there. The seal was cracked in such a way that you could easily open the game case and remove the game while keeping the plastic on it.
I thought it was suspicious at the time when the store clerk brought the games directly to the cashier in the electronics department, but then again it’s around the holidays so theft does happen a lot. Just a word of advice, if any Infendo readers are still doing holiday shopping, be sure to check the games you buy before you actually purchase them.
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This happened to me too for a DS game: Final Fantasy III I think. I brought the case back and had to convince the clerk that I hadn't just opened it myself and taken the game out :/ He almost didn't exchange it for me.
Wow, that would suck on Christmas morning! I've never heard of this happening before, but will be watching from now on. Hope you don't have any problems exchanging the game, Will.
(Hmm… was it the store clerk, or did some thieving customer buy them and then return/exchange the empty cases? No way to tell.)
it happens at other places too. i was at costco and bought a whole box set of one of the family guy seasons. the guy boxing the groceries, etc was in his early 20's and put his arm on my shoulder and turned me as i was walking to the cart and started telling me how he loved family guy too. i thought it was weird especially a dude putting his arm around me and we just met in a transaction scenerio (not like he was my buddy or family), but i paid no more attention and left. i'm pretty sure since there was no one in line behind me the cashier (about the same age) scanned it and never put it in any of my boxes. i loaded everything up and i didn't notice it was missing until i got home. i went straight back and told them my movies were missing and showed them my receipt and they treated me like i was lying and trying to get another box set. the two guys claimed not to remember me. i cancelled my membership and never went back. sorry to vent, but reading this sparked my memory and anger over the issue.
If someone did that to me, they would be getting more than the cost of a game, right back at them when I returned. I hate dishonest stuff like that, so much that I really make people pay for such acts, if I can catch them that is.
Similar thing happened to my bud. He bought Dr. Mario on GBA at Fry's and when he got home he noticed the plastic had been sliced along the box opening and there was no game inside. Fry's didn't believe him and he got shafted.
It's depressing that stuff like this even happens. I wouldn't want to be the one on the receiving end of a stolen game. It really sucks if you try to return it and no one believes you either.
Never had this happen to me, thankfully, but it annoys the hell out of me when Gamestop tries to sell me an opened game as new when it is obvious that one of the clerks took it home and played it… And it happens all the damn time.
This has never happened to me, or even occurred it could happen. Any of the said scenarios. Thieving workers eh? At least now I have the heads up, never realized that could happen.
Oh yeah, and **** those people. There's no reason to ruin someone buying something with their hard earned money with that kind of trickery.
I never let the clerks handle my objects during the time it takes me to finish my shopping.
This happened to me too for a DS game: Final Fantasy III I think. I brought the case back and had to convince the clerk that I hadn't just opened it myself and taken the game out :/ He almost didn't exchange it for me.
Wow, that would suck on Christmas morning! I've never heard of this happening before, but will be watching from now on. Hope you don't have any problems exchanging the game, Will.
(Hmm… was it the store clerk, or did some thieving customer buy them and then return/exchange the empty cases? No way to tell.)
it happens at other places too. i was at costco and bought a whole box set of one of the family guy seasons. the guy boxing the groceries, etc was in his early 20's and put his arm on my shoulder and turned me as i was walking to the cart and started telling me how he loved family guy too. i thought it was weird especially a dude putting his arm around me and we just met in a transaction scenerio (not like he was my buddy or family), but i paid no more attention and left. i'm pretty sure since there was no one in line behind me the cashier (about the same age) scanned it and never put it in any of my boxes. i loaded everything up and i didn't notice it was missing until i got home. i went straight back and told them my movies were missing and showed them my receipt and they treated me like i was lying and trying to get another box set. the two guys claimed not to remember me. i cancelled my membership and never went back. sorry to vent, but reading this sparked my memory and anger over the issue.
If someone did that to me, they would be getting more than the cost of a game, right back at them when I returned. I hate dishonest stuff like that, so much that I really make people pay for such acts, if I can catch them that is.
Similar thing happened to my bud. He bought Dr. Mario on GBA at Fry's and when he got home he noticed the plastic had been sliced along the box opening and there was no game inside. Fry's didn't believe him and he got shafted.
It's depressing that stuff like this even happens. I wouldn't want to be the one on the receiving end of a stolen game. It really sucks if you try to return it and no one believes you either.
Never had this happen to me, thankfully, but it annoys the hell out of me when Gamestop tries to sell me an opened game as new when it is obvious that one of the clerks took it home and played it… And it happens all the damn time.
This has never happened to me, or even occurred it could happen. Any of the said scenarios. Thieving workers eh? At least now I have the heads up, never realized that could happen.
Oh yeah, and **** those people. There's no reason to ruin someone buying something with their hard earned money with that kind of trickery.
I never let the clerks handle my objects during the time it takes me to finish my shopping.