The Gamer's Quarter

[J.Goodwin]

[dhex]

uh, that doesn't answer my question.

why would you even begin to argue? just say "no" in a firm voice.

my per/hour is far lower than yours, but i've got a very good "no." i learned the importance of a good no from my dad and william s. burroughs, respectively. no emotional trauma required.

then again, my one and only run-in at a game stop was with a kid who wanted me to sign up for their whatever 10% off thing but i was unemployed and running around malls interstate commerced out of my gourd at the time and i just was not interested in it. i also wasn't interested in explaining how mailing lists work and why i don't like enriching companies with their marketing work without some sort of compensation, so i just said "nah, thanks." the kid - who was maybe 18? - got all huffy and said "i guess you don't like saving money then." so of course i'm an asshole and go "no, i hate it." and he said "i bet" and i said "yes" and he said "ok" and i said "thanks again" and i left without making a crack about GEDs, teenage dads or explaining how direct mail marketing works. i presume i fucked him over on some sort of kickback or something by not signing up but i am disinclined to engage in tangling alliances thanks to some words once said by a mr. washington.
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[J.Goodwin]

[dhex]

[Gunshinji]

So we can keep our jobs! Those of us who work for the "enemy" have to put in a certain number of subscriptions and reservations each shift we work. If those numbers are good: PRAISE! If they are bad: turn in your badge and take the walk of shame!

Seriously, I hate forcing people to preorder crap that they usually do not pick up anyway, but a paycheck is a paycheck so, I'm fucked.

Oh yeah, people preorder so they can get the "special" little items that the companies send us to give away... usually we have nowhere near the amount of nicknacks we should get. People get pissed and corporate laughs.

[dhex]

ahh, so preorders are tied to performance. ok. i guess that makes sense.

note, i don't blame the kid for being a dick, i was probably visibly...altered...and i may have considered a hard sell approach in his shoes. well, not me personally, but if i were him and i was me as well but not me at that time, you see. but hard sells only work on certain kinds of people in certain places, and generally speaking, they're counterproductive. as we've seen with the examples above, the stores probably lost more business due to hard sells, even if they got some preorders initially from it.
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[Lackey]

This is so strange to me. I've never had any confrontation in a store, ever. In EB usually I just share a few polite words and complete my purchases without any hassle on either end.

As for pre-ordering, my friend once got a Splinter Cell "multi-tool" for ordering something just because they had extras. It was basically a jagged piece of metal with knife blades on it, which I guess is kind of cool.
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[J.Goodwin]

[Lackey]

I don't get that though, they ask you to preorder stuff you didn't express interest in? Or is it like, you ask if a game is in and they ask if you want to preorder it?
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[Gunshinji]

Well, it depends on who's asking. Some people will throw whatever they can out there to get you to reserve a game. Most of the time however, we usually try to find out what kinds of games the person likes and suggest a future release along the same lines of their interest.

[J.Goodwin]