My Rant about EB Games, What bullshit Options

[Knightsword]

Monday night I get the call saying my preorder of FF VI would be in on Tuesday and held for the 24 to 48 hours. I go in Wednesday afternoon/early evening to pick it up I get told theres none in the store and to quote "not even enough for preorders came in"
Fine I go check Target and they hade none. But the kicker is when I go in to EB today they do have a copy that had already been gutted but they seemed to have "misplaced" the box and manuels and wanted to sell me that alone or with a ad box, I said "no thank you, I'll wait"

The point of this rant is one they did get more then enough copies for preorders and thanks to the gutting policy they lose crap and out right lied to me in the first place about the game being in stock. Bah

[Wiryu]

Allow me to give you some insight on EBGames, having at a time, been an employee of two years. EBGames has a huge risk factor when it comes to pre-orders. With games, they always let the 24-48 hour rule slide for good customers, and close friends, because they're people who most likely hate their job. There is even more of a risk when it comes to systems. Unless you pre-order a system in the top 5 listings, and have the release day off that you can arrive in the morning, don't do it. EBGames higher ups literally CALLS their store employees and manager types up and tells them to disregard the 24-48 hour rule on system release days. They give them a time, which is usually anywhere between 4-6pm on the day of release, before they sell your system off to someone else, otherwise, anywhere above 5 on the list and "your system" somehow didn't make the cut for the shipment! Prepare to hear good news though! "It'll be in next week!" wrong. It can take months, no joke.

If it doesn't have something special to offer with the pre-order offer, wake up during the afternoon, and find it at a bestbuy or something.