Played on a DS today for the first time ever. Wario Ware immediately sold the concept to me (whore that I am).
Went back to check for deals online, nothing fantastic and I wanted to play it on the train tomorrow. So I went into Oxford centre to GAME to buy a DS and a copy of Super Mario 64 (and a copy of Polarium if they had any).
They had a fair few DS's in the cabinet alone and a few copies of Mario 64 DS remaining.
Me: Hello, I'd like to buy a Nintendo DS. And a copy of Mario 64, and a copy of Polarium if you have any please.
Staff: We don't have any copies of Polarium left. Have you pre-ordered?
Me: No.
Staff: We can't sell you those copies of Mario 64 as they're reserved.
Me: Ok, fair enough, could I have just the DS then please.
Staff: We can only sell it you if you buy a game with it, or two games if you haven't preordered. So that would be the ?130 bundle or the ?160 bundle.
Me: Oh, well. Bye then.
First off, I'm not angry at the shop staff. It's not their fault and they were polite enough. However that really gets my goat-up. That is just designed to screw over people who pop in wanting to get a DS. If you want a DS without preordering, there is a good chance you'd have to buy it with one or two **** games, since the most popular sell out first. It just smacks of opportunistic money-making. Forcing people into buying stuff like the Urbz etc. And making it difficult for people to merely shop around to get the stuff they want (I could have gone into gamestation and got the titles for example).
I'm personally disgusted with that policy. I shall be avoiding shopping there in future, as with their pre-ordering mentality inherited from their American parent company, they've killed one of the few advantages and joys that real shops have over online shops:
IMPULSE PURCHASING YOU MORONS!!!!! The joy of buying a game, just because you can and taking it home then and there and being delighted by it. They're turning the art of purchasing into a boring science.
I got a DS and Mario 64 in the end from Dixons (GameStation were sold out, fair enough). Had to put up with their retarded stockroom release system (they need the item to be rung through the system to release it onto the shop floor first. But there was no product codes for the DS on the shop floor), but apart from that it was ok.
According to them, I was their first purchaser of the DS in Dixons, Oxford. \o/
Pre-ordering - the best way to piss off your customers. It's a self-enforcing system. You have to pre-order, since they won't sell it to you otherwise. Bastards.
Went back to check for deals online, nothing fantastic and I wanted to play it on the train tomorrow. So I went into Oxford centre to GAME to buy a DS and a copy of Super Mario 64 (and a copy of Polarium if they had any).
They had a fair few DS's in the cabinet alone and a few copies of Mario 64 DS remaining.
Me: Hello, I'd like to buy a Nintendo DS. And a copy of Mario 64, and a copy of Polarium if you have any please.
Staff: We don't have any copies of Polarium left. Have you pre-ordered?
Me: No.
Staff: We can't sell you those copies of Mario 64 as they're reserved.
Me: Ok, fair enough, could I have just the DS then please.
Staff: We can only sell it you if you buy a game with it, or two games if you haven't preordered. So that would be the ?130 bundle or the ?160 bundle.
Me: Oh, well. Bye then.
First off, I'm not angry at the shop staff. It's not their fault and they were polite enough. However that really gets my goat-up. That is just designed to screw over people who pop in wanting to get a DS. If you want a DS without preordering, there is a good chance you'd have to buy it with one or two **** games, since the most popular sell out first. It just smacks of opportunistic money-making. Forcing people into buying stuff like the Urbz etc. And making it difficult for people to merely shop around to get the stuff they want (I could have gone into gamestation and got the titles for example).
I'm personally disgusted with that policy. I shall be avoiding shopping there in future, as with their pre-ordering mentality inherited from their American parent company, they've killed one of the few advantages and joys that real shops have over online shops:
IMPULSE PURCHASING YOU MORONS!!!!! The joy of buying a game, just because you can and taking it home then and there and being delighted by it. They're turning the art of purchasing into a boring science.
I got a DS and Mario 64 in the end from Dixons (GameStation were sold out, fair enough). Had to put up with their retarded stockroom release system (they need the item to be rung through the system to release it onto the shop floor first. But there was no product codes for the DS on the shop floor), but apart from that it was ok.
According to them, I was their first purchaser of the DS in Dixons, Oxford. \o/
Pre-ordering - the best way to piss off your customers. It's a self-enforcing system. You have to pre-order, since they won't sell it to you otherwise. Bastards.
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