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So I went and bought Cataclysm yesterday...
15 years ago
I went to Walmart to get dogfood late last night, and decided while I was there, I would get Cataclysm. There were two copies left; the first in the line had obviously been torn into, with the tape mostly ripped off. So I reach behind it and grab the other, not thinking to check it too.
I get home with it (the drive being 20 minutes to my home from town), set up my laptop, sit down at the computer, grab my pocketknife and go to cut open the tape. But then I notice it's already been cut. I open it, and woe and behold, there's nothing inside but a few trial cards; game and manual both missing.
I call Walmart, go from first responder, to electronics, to the night manager, and he tells me to bring it back and they'll exchange it. This I did earlier today. After shopping for groceries at another store for over an hour, I go to Walmart. I'm tired and just want to get my game and go home at this point, but of course that is too simple.
At the exchange counter I tell them what happened; the clerk is skeptical of my story of course, and calls over the daytime manager. They obviously think I'm trying to rip them off; I can hear them talking since they're only a few feet away, and the manager tells the clerk that they have to follow store policy and exchange for another copy. They of course make me go to the back of the store and get another one myself.
Of course when I get back there, the only copy left is the self-same one from the night before, with the torn tape. I take this back to the exchange counter and give it to the clerk. She opens it and looks dumbfounded at the SECOND empty box. She calls over the manager again, he calls over another clerk and has her call electronics. But of course there's no one back there to answer, as there almost never is. Finally after five minutes of them trying to find someone they finally returned my money.
So now I have to go to the only other place nearby that would have a copy, Gamestop, which is in a city forty minutes away. That, or risk trying to download it on an internet connection that is sketchy at best.
I get home with it (the drive being 20 minutes to my home from town), set up my laptop, sit down at the computer, grab my pocketknife and go to cut open the tape. But then I notice it's already been cut. I open it, and woe and behold, there's nothing inside but a few trial cards; game and manual both missing.
I call Walmart, go from first responder, to electronics, to the night manager, and he tells me to bring it back and they'll exchange it. This I did earlier today. After shopping for groceries at another store for over an hour, I go to Walmart. I'm tired and just want to get my game and go home at this point, but of course that is too simple.
At the exchange counter I tell them what happened; the clerk is skeptical of my story of course, and calls over the daytime manager. They obviously think I'm trying to rip them off; I can hear them talking since they're only a few feet away, and the manager tells the clerk that they have to follow store policy and exchange for another copy. They of course make me go to the back of the store and get another one myself.
Of course when I get back there, the only copy left is the self-same one from the night before, with the torn tape. I take this back to the exchange counter and give it to the clerk. She opens it and looks dumbfounded at the SECOND empty box. She calls over the manager again, he calls over another clerk and has her call electronics. But of course there's no one back there to answer, as there almost never is. Finally after five minutes of them trying to find someone they finally returned my money.
So now I have to go to the only other place nearby that would have a copy, Gamestop, which is in a city forty minutes away. That, or risk trying to download it on an internet connection that is sketchy at best.
But honestly, that sucks. Maybe Walmart will have another shipment coming in soon?
But they kept telling me it looked fine....I simply turned the bike on its seat and handlebars and said spin the wheel as hard as you can, he did and rolled his eyes at me. Well the whel made about two rotations before haulting. Yeah, not bent my ass. if it wasn't it would have spun around for quite some time....I got my money back and left.