Comments on: Beating the System

By: Sora

Sora — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 02:20:32 +0000

Once I bought the Collector’s Edition of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood for $100. Came home, opened the box (but not the sealed game) and realized I didn’t need any of that stuff. So I put everything up in the box the way it was arranged and took it back to the GS where I had bought it.

The asshole behind the counter said they couldn’t take it because the outer box had been opened. So I went down the street (literally not even a mile away since it used to be an EB Games, but was now a GS) to the other GS and amazingly, the lady behind the counter took all the tape off and basically just opened everything up and then returned all my money. I still have a grudge against that asshole at the first GS though.

By: Phaelin

Phaelin — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 09:28:29 +0000

A bit to the reverse of this, I won Project Gotham Racing 4 in a raffle and tried to sell it, but they would not take it due to shrinkwrap. So I yanked it off, and magically, they took it!

By: Irrrrrrrrr

Irrrrrrrrr — Sun, 16 Oct 2011 04:01:52 +0000

They wouldn’t just let you get 7 $9.50 gift cards and a $8.50 gift card?

Wish my state had that law, I have a 42 cent Blockbuster card, a ton of $10 starbucks cards, , $6 Bestbuy cards, at one point I had my $7 Target card split into 7 $1 gift card just because the customer service girl was really rude, but then I was stuck with some $1 gift cards.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 15:55:40 +0000

So I’ve seen this work but only once and a long time ago. My dad got me Mario Is Missing for Christmas the year it came out (my folks wouldn’t let me get an SNES and this is the closest I had seen to SNES graphics on the NES and hey it had Mario, how could I go wrong??). After I beat the game that afternoon, my dad was furious that such an expensive game could be beaten so easily. So he took it back to Wal-Mart and tried to explain the issue. All they could offer him was another copy of the same game so he reluctantly took the deal. We then headed to the next Wal-Mart an hour away. He gave them the game, explained he lost the receipt and was able to get them to give him store credit. He then sent me to find a game I would like. I went home with a copy of Zelda II (one of my favorite games ever) and I think another toy of some sort since there was money left from exchange.

By: Lemiwinks

Lemiwinks — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 07:26:42 +0000

A lot. Honestly it was the corporates own fault since they will not allow a cash out greater than $9.99 for a gift card. The only reason that is in the system even is because it’s law. Stores HATE giving you your money back for any reason.