I'mjust thinking what that one guy/gal is thinking that just now is visiting the forums for the first time

"Steam hater club"

"Fuck Gamestop"

Mmmh, maybe its time to bumb the sex thread ...

XD

We need a racist troll to complete the set.

Ok - here goes:

I is is obvious that all Asians are bad gamers, they have to short fingers.

You probably should have just gone in and asked for a replacement because of it. If your Gamestop was anything like the one near me, they would have done it an apologized profusely for it. They are always really good to me. Its okay if you don't like Gamestop, but I think you should have given them the opportunity to make it right before making up your mind.

Personally I like Gamestop, but its not like there are any good alternatives to it that I can compare it to. The only other places to buy games locally are either really crummy game stores, or department stores, and they are not good for games. Buying online is an option, but I have had to send too many games back that way because they arrived damaged.

If is illegal to open gameboxes and then sell the game as new then gamestop has been breaking the law in the past as well.

I mean , resently gamestop opened deus ex human revolution boxes to take a promotional offer from a "competitor" in the boxes.

Also, I think they charged me as new when I got a game that was on the shelf which understood they opened to not have the game in the box on the shelf but that still should have had some kind of discounted used price or something. (i may have misremembered this incident though)

You forgot Steam - Bioware / EA - ______

EB games used to give discounts for that, but I think they even stopped doing it before Gamestop bought them out.

I don't think its illegal for them to do it. Gamestop isn't the only store that does that. I frequently come across open packages for things at Walmart for example, and they don't give discounts on them. I asked ;) They don't take them off the shelves either. If you have a problem, you can always take it back. If they don't let you take it back, then there may be a law or something to help you out. Assuming you kept your receipt that is.

Well, I just hope it won't become a new "trend"...

This, unless you live really far away or something just ask, hell, ask by phone and take down the name of the manager that okayed it. The few times I've asked for swaps they've politely said "sure" and I went in, they had it behind the counter waiting for me.

This shit pisses me off, but GameStop continues to this day to open games and sell them as brand new. I haven't shopped their since 2009 when I caught onto this practice of theirs. I wrote in my blog on Gamespot.com about my adventures with GameStop's shittiness which at least helped with some of my nerd rage at the time.

http://www.gamespot.com/users/311Music/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=m-100-25692730

Far as I'm aware opening product packages isn't illegal and many high-value items will be opened before sale. Staff might well have taken the unit out of the box to show to a potential customer, who then decided against the purchase. The seal being replaced simply as a matter of course.


The box might also have been opened as a stock check - the shop checking that stock was correctly packaged (maybe they'd had a report from a customer of missing contents and thus checked their latest batch on order).


Provided that the content is all secure and in place and any registration cards/coupons have not been used you shouldn't have any problems at all - though of course you've the right to return and request a replacement unit.

I think swear words like 'Gamestop' are fine as long as you use it in a civil manner.
...and I got beaten to the punch by Cambrey D:

Any particular reason why you won't take it back? I'd take it back and get one that has not been opened with. Much better to take it back and feel like you didn't get ripped off, than to not take it back and feel ripped off. Nothing wrong with a little negativity. With so many positive and nice people on this site, I don't see threads like this as some kind of tarnish or cancer on the community. We all need to vent sometimes.