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Digikid

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LOL!!

I do not think Paul is that scrawny though. Graham on the other hand....

*hides*
 

Jared

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Seriously lol @ last pane...and even Eternal Sonata on the counter!!!

But, its all so true...
 

BlueHighwind

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If you show the box, you aught to have the game, unless its a "coming soon" kind of deal. Otherwise you're just being evil. (I once couldn't get a used copy of God of War 2 because of this crap.)
 

Canadamus Prime

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Hey, how the hell did you get a picture of me!! (j/k)

Does anyone else think the "Errand Running Girlfriend" looks like Micheal Jackson?
 

TsunamiWombat

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BlueHighwind said:
If you show the box, you aught to have the game, unless its a "coming soon" kind of deal. Otherwise you're just being evil. (I once couldn't get a used copy of God of War 2 because of this crap.)
It's a SHELF holder, not a garuntee of copy. The copy boxes are UNDERNEATH the box, or stored behind the desk.

And all of these stereotypes are 100% accurate. Though the ESRB believer and the hopeless virign seem like the least annoying customers.
 

Graham_LRR

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Leels said:
See how many of these folks you recognize.
Well played!

As someone who used to work at a GameStop, I know all of those. Except... well, us.

I actually had to check that you didn't live IN Victoria, because there are local employees who would have seen us embarrassingly purchasing Eternal Sonata. Nice touch with the Canadian money, too.
 

Snow Fire

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Those last two I recognized almost immediately as Graham and Paul, thou hath given me a smile this day.
 

BlueHighwind

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TsunamiWombat said:
BlueHighwind said:
If you show the box, you aught to have the game, unless its a "coming soon" kind of deal. Otherwise you're just being evil. (I once couldn't get a used copy of God of War 2 because of this crap.)
It's a SHELF holder, not a garuntee of copy. The copy boxes are UNDERNEATH the box, or stored behind the desk.

And all of these stereotypes are 100% accurate. Though the ESRB believer and the hopeless virign seem like the least annoying customers.
Yeah, but those evil bastards wouldn't even let me buy the box. I told them "well, if this box is the only merchandise you have, I'll take the box. I won't have the game, but I'll have the box. That way people can visit me and think that I own the game, when really I don't. See, I like tricking people for no good reason." I even offered five bucks for it. No dice. Unfortunately most game store employees know just about five sentences in total, and half of them are about online surveys.

Also this all happened years after God of War 2 came out. They had no good reason not to have a copy of it in the store.
 

Mysnomer

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You forgot the people who don't look their age and have no need for a driver's license, who can't get M rated games, so they hand the games to their parents and skulk back in the shelves while the transaction takes place.
 

s_glasgow99

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OMG! I worked at an EB Games for a year or two. This is TOTALLY THE TRUTH!!! You forgot the 'Caring but Clueless Mothers' archetype though. Oh, and the Jr. versions of the White Boys with access to parents accounts. The ones that want GTAIV but can't get it due to age restrictions, and the parents that come in angerly afterward asking why their son was so upset.
 

Formica Archonis

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Don't work in a game store but I work in retail and I've seen people similar to these.

"I'm here to buy a wireless." (Pause.) "Well, do you have any?"
I glance at the wall of Bluetooth, cellular, and wireless networking devices. "A wireless what?"
"I don't know, he told me to buy a wireless! Where are they?"

People who know better than company policy is a favorite of mine, much like driving nails into my genitals is a favorite of mine. My personal favorite was the guy who tried to return something with no packaging, missing parts, and no proof of purchase. Then he insisted we should return it anyway (full refund, natch) because I was the one who sold it to him so "I knew him". I reminded him that I was the one who told him NOT TO BUY IT because it didn't do what he was asking. And I still needed the receipt and the rest of the components. Got an interesting stream of profanity out of that one.

And then there was the old woman who basically accused me of molesting her grandkid. What I really did? I said there was no returns on anything physically damaged. The kid bought the wrong thing and broke it (PCI-E vidcard for an AGP computer, used tin snips or something to make it fit). He went running to grandma and made some seriously messed-up accusations.
 

Sir Kemper

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Wait...was that a Canadian five dollar bill I noticed?


Anyway, I've actually seen quite a few of these in my time browsing the local EB games, which is both humorous, and slightly scary.