So as I was in a local GameStop today I was forced to look deep inside and ask "Am I a dishonest person?" I think I have reasoned my way out of this one...you be the judge.
I decided that since my husband has been gone for five days that it is about time I start selling some of his stuff. HA! That sounded a lot worse than it was!! Really I took all of the X-Box games that he no longer can play, because he does not even have a functioning X-Box, to GameStop to hopefully sell them back. In my mind I figured I would get about $50 for the 12 games that I was selling back. Knowing that this is about $300 worth of games, I thought $50 was a fair trade for things attracting dust in my CD case. Well, wasn't I surprised when I met the "Associate of the Month" for what I am sure is not the first time. He agrees that he can buy back these games and proceeds to type the titles in the computer. About 3 games down my stack he pulls two out and gives them to me. I look puzzled, and he says I can not take duplicate games and they can not be in a sealed package. ENTER DISHONESTY!
HUH? I reply, to which he informs me that their policy is that they can not buy back games when more than one of the same game is brought in. Ok, so I take one away and say here now there is only one! (always trying to buck the system) He says No mam' I can not take them in the sealed package. Just a side bar, this game is Simpson's Road Rage, we have two one is still in the package. I am thinking this is a better deal because you know it is not scratched, better resale. OH NO! Not in the gaming industry!
Ok back to the Associate of the Month... Again I am looking puzzled and he repeats I can not take a game that is in the original packaging. In my mind I am so confused because clothes with the original tags go for even more at a resale shop. Very confused I take the other opened Road Rage and switch it out, I say ok then take this one. SAME GAME! Now he starts to get upset and says, "Our policy is not to take either game when two are brought in." Right now imagine my most confused face ever and I am sure I made some noise that went right along with my expression. I am now feeling like I am in a Seinfeld episode and Kramer is about to bust in! I finally grasp the situation and say, "Ok, so I will walk out and come back in with one Road Rage game and sell it to you." I am not taking this game back home! "Oh-that will be against policy I will still know it is you and that you have two!" he replies.
"What!?!?"
He then says "I will not break policy for you or anyone!"
OH-SLAP! I decided to shut up at that point and take my $8.40, yes that is correct 10 games resale for $8.40, and I went to lunch.
The whole time I drove I thought...Am I a terrible person for expecting people to break the rules for me. I guess I admire him for sticking to his guns, but PLLLEEEASE. so my question for all my readers is... what would you expect? Are you sitting there saying OMG just take the stupid game? Or are you saying Jennifer, rules are rules why would you think he would break them for you? Do we expect people to bend/break the rules to suit our needs? Am I that self-centered that I think those rules would not apply to me?
Please reply!
Good Night Good Friends!
I decided that since my husband has been gone for five days that it is about time I start selling some of his stuff. HA! That sounded a lot worse than it was!! Really I took all of the X-Box games that he no longer can play, because he does not even have a functioning X-Box, to GameStop to hopefully sell them back. In my mind I figured I would get about $50 for the 12 games that I was selling back. Knowing that this is about $300 worth of games, I thought $50 was a fair trade for things attracting dust in my CD case. Well, wasn't I surprised when I met the "Associate of the Month" for what I am sure is not the first time. He agrees that he can buy back these games and proceeds to type the titles in the computer. About 3 games down my stack he pulls two out and gives them to me. I look puzzled, and he says I can not take duplicate games and they can not be in a sealed package. ENTER DISHONESTY!
HUH? I reply, to which he informs me that their policy is that they can not buy back games when more than one of the same game is brought in. Ok, so I take one away and say here now there is only one! (always trying to buck the system) He says No mam' I can not take them in the sealed package. Just a side bar, this game is Simpson's Road Rage, we have two one is still in the package. I am thinking this is a better deal because you know it is not scratched, better resale. OH NO! Not in the gaming industry!
Ok back to the Associate of the Month... Again I am looking puzzled and he repeats I can not take a game that is in the original packaging. In my mind I am so confused because clothes with the original tags go for even more at a resale shop. Very confused I take the other opened Road Rage and switch it out, I say ok then take this one. SAME GAME! Now he starts to get upset and says, "Our policy is not to take either game when two are brought in." Right now imagine my most confused face ever and I am sure I made some noise that went right along with my expression. I am now feeling like I am in a Seinfeld episode and Kramer is about to bust in! I finally grasp the situation and say, "Ok, so I will walk out and come back in with one Road Rage game and sell it to you." I am not taking this game back home! "Oh-that will be against policy I will still know it is you and that you have two!" he replies.
"What!?!?"
He then says "I will not break policy for you or anyone!"
OH-SLAP! I decided to shut up at that point and take my $8.40, yes that is correct 10 games resale for $8.40, and I went to lunch.
The whole time I drove I thought...Am I a terrible person for expecting people to break the rules for me. I guess I admire him for sticking to his guns, but PLLLEEEASE. so my question for all my readers is... what would you expect? Are you sitting there saying OMG just take the stupid game? Or are you saying Jennifer, rules are rules why would you think he would break them for you? Do we expect people to bend/break the rules to suit our needs? Am I that self-centered that I think those rules would not apply to me?
Please reply!
Good Night Good Friends!
3 comments:
That is hillarious! You remind me of Carrie when she is doing her article on "Sex in the City"! I could just hear you with that Associate of the Month!!!! LOL
Sleep well...Dad comes home in one
more day! Hugs, Mom
What's dishonest is only getting 8.40 for 10 games!!
That same thing happened to me at Babies R Us... I had a receipt for something that was over their 60 day return policy so they wouldn't take it back...but were willing to take something back that I had NO receipt for. HUH??!!! So, I said, so you are telling me I can come back in w/ these same items w/ out a receipt and you'll return them?? She said "Well, not now because I know it is over 60 days old" UGH!! Thus began my 6 mo. ban on that particular Babies R Us...
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