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"Hahah. GAME."

Me: Hi, do you have Ikaruga in for the GameCube today?
GAME: Do we have Arcadia Skies?
Me: No, Ikaruga. For the GameCube.
GAME: Sorry, I can't tell you, we're a bit short on stock at the moment.

Bah.

Alter Ego wrote:
> I cant say i go to dixons that often, its next to GAME where i live

You don't happen to live in Ayr do you? I go to the GAME in Ayr and there's a Dixon's right next to it.

Goatboy wrote:
> RM18 wrote:
> You got off lucky - I spoke to one employee who was adamant that the
> new Zelda was set 100 years BEFORE Ocarina.
>
> **NEWSFLASH NEWSFLASH**
> Man in computer games shop didn't actually care about the content of a
> game

That would be true if it reflected his product knowledge, but he came over to me looking at the back of the box, then proceeded to try and wow me with his product knowledge. Hence, he did care, but was thick.

AfroJoe wrote:
> Me: Hi, do you have Ikaruga in for the GameCube today?
> GAME: Do we have Arcadia Skies?
> Me: No, Ikaruga. For the GameCube.
> GAME: Sorry, I can't tell you, we're a bit short on stock at the
> moment.
>
> Bah.

You were expecting what? a decent/valid/informative/accurate responce from a Game employee?!? ... Have you been sniffing pants again?

Edgy wrote:
> If I can remember right, it's only the managers who get bonuses for
> greater sales.
>
> When I worked for them, I always gave honest opinions. Nothing to do
> with "So the developer may rethink" crap, but because
> business is business. If you sell a crap game to someone, they're not
> going to want to shop from you again, however, if you advise a
> brilliant game, and they really enjoy it, they'll come back more.

Exactly

cookie monster wrote:
> Cubist wrote:
> They chucked me off an X-Box pod after only 15 minutes!
>
> The humanity.

Indeed, I may never play Buffy again :'(

If I can remember right, it's only the managers who get bonuses for greater sales.

When I worked for them, I always gave honest opinions. Nothing to do with "So the developer may rethink" crap, but because business is business. If you sell a crap game to someone, they're not going to want to shop from you again, however, if you advise a brilliant game, and they really enjoy it, they'll come back more.

Cubist wrote:
> They chucked me off an X-Box pod after only 15 minutes!

The humanity.

Shut up you irritating little girl Crazycol! We can't vote you and even if we could why would we want to?!?! You just fill the forums with 2 line posts with the same message. Pfft go and play with your etch-a-sketch because you shouldn't even be let near your computer.

As for the GAME thing I find the staff there very informative and pleasant even if they do try and sway you to buy a game or two. It's there job to do that kind of thing so you can't blame them for it. If you need some one to tell you whether you would like a game or not then you obviously don't want it that much anyway. If you can just make your own decisions and don't take every word of theirs as fact then you'll never have anybody to blame but yourself and chances are the amount of good games you have will go up.

Yes GAME is a stupid shop, SR is better. One of the many reasons you should vote for me. VOTE CRAZYCOL!

to be fair the staff in my local GAME store are really good, thats whay i like to go there, i always know about the games so they dont try and 'sell' me them, we just discuss them and they tend to know as much as me, alot of them own most of the games because i often drift off into talking about games ive got and they tell me what part they are on or something. True or not i always know what im looking for so i dont need to be 'bought' so to speak