ok it's official GAME are A$$clowns

savemejebus

not the staff (i hope) just the stupid ****ING head office

went in to pick up my preordered DS and what response to i get "sorry we can't give it to you unless it's part of a bundle" I mean WHAT THE ****!!!!,i prebooked, stating that I ONLY wanted the console when the manager asked me what games I wanted, manager says yeah thats fine and then I go in there and get this bull****.FFS I am so ****ing pissed off that I had to waste money i cant really spare on a stupid cartridge carry case just so I could get the DS :mad:

I know it's only €3 but what happens when someones unknowing parent goes in to get one and they get conned into picking up a bundle. Pure Bullshít

Add to that someone on the counter couldn't tell the difference between a european plug and an american plug (some poor auld fella was exchangin a SP for a DS for their kid) bleedin twit!

rainbow kirby

Argh.

okidoki987

Are they allowed do that?
Ring Nintendo and kick up stink, tell them you're going to complain to Joe Duffy, if that doesn't put the ***** up them, nothing will!

Maximilian

Gosh, €3 :eek:

super_furry

Surely they can't do that? Forcing you to buy useless tat like their own brand travel cases and the like, just to buy the console?

Dogg Thang

Yeah I would have thought that this might violate some consumer laws. Aside from that, it's bad business practice.

Dogg.

savemejebus

Maximilian wrote:

Gosh, €3 :eek:

they tried to get me to buy other stuff, if i hadn't started complaining loudly i don't think the fella would have pointed that out to me.

even more annoying, the girl who took my preorder (i think she is a manager) was standing beside him and wouldn't even look up to see what was going on

flogen

that's a load of piss, but they're renound for doing it lately, when the ps2s and xboxes were in short supply over Christmas they did the same, it's obvious the DS is going to be the same so they know they can get away with charging a bit extra (just like for the games, I think they're charging €5 extra than the RRP).
I'm not sure if it's against any consumer rights, they'll probably just say that that is the way they're selling the product and you can't buy it on its own. What store was it, by the way?

flogen

savemejebus

Limerick

seamus

flogen wrote:

I'm not sure if it's against any consumer rights, they'll probably just say that that is the way they're selling the product and you can't buy it on its own.

If you didn't put a depost when it was prebooked, then they can turn around and say, "You can either buy it in this format, or not at all". If a deposit was put on a DS only, then they can demand a DS only.

CiDeRmAn

They are a bunch of clowns in there, went in with my mate as he couldn't decide on buying a xbox or ps2, clown behind the counter started comparing specs, honestly he did!
I just pointed at Project Gotham and he bought an xbox. I think the only opinions they have in that store is the one their manager gives them first thing in the morning or the one the promo from the company gives them, what a bunch of dorks!

That and the fact that they are a bunch of corporate stooges being led by a rope tied to the rings in their noses to recommend whatever they have been told to sell lots of.

Shop in Gamestop, they at least hire gameplayers as staff

rabbitinlights

I remember the PS2 launch, I could not find one shop that didnt do some crazy bundle offer, I remember the ESB forcing you to buy:

PS2/stand/ridgeracer/memorycard/extracontroller for about £500. I can only imagine what they are are gonna do for the PSP (or PS3 fo that matter)

okidoki987

Limerick
(I think they're charging €5 extra than the RRP).

That's the charge for the extra security hired to get them into the shop from the delivery truck!

The Brigadier

Can you not do a price match with some over offer elsewhere?

flogen

CiDeRmAn wrote:

They are a bunch of clowns in there, went in with my mate as he couldn't decide on buying a xbox or ps2, clown behind the counter started comparing specs, honestly he did!
I just pointed at Project Gotham and he bought an xbox. I think the only opinions they have in that store is the one their manager gives them first thing in the morning or the one the promo from the company gives them, what a bunch of dorks!

That and the fact that they are a bunch of corporate stooges being led by a rope tied to the rings in their noses to recommend whatever they have been told to sell lots of.

Shop in Gamestop, they at least hire gameplayers as staff

what's wrong with comparing specs? I wouldn't make that the main focus of a decision, but if a customer asked me I'd say the Xbox was more powerful but... depending on what games you're looking for you might prefer a ps2.

flogen

bounty

are you whinging over €3? :rolleyes:

buddy

I think it's a principle thing.

Good job I applied for a job in Gamestop

Retr0gamer

Gamestop are charging a fiver extra on the games as well. And they didn't let me use my 5 euro off vouchers :rolleyes: Bloody ridiculous. It's dvdsoon and playasia all the way for me from now on.

savemejebus

bounty wrote:

are you whinging over €3? :rolleyes:

nope i'm whinging over preordering something, specifying what i wanted, and getting agreement on it, ringing up and being told to collect the stuff, and then going in and having GAME trying to force me to buy extra stuff in order to get the original item

ie; the principal of the thing

Winters

Check with the odca [www.odca.ie] and see if they can actually do it. If you had agreed on the console only, and can prove it (Like written or properly, not just verbal agreement) then they forced you to buy extras then thats bad.

Tbh, should have gone for a psp

Jazzy

GAME need a good smack in the mouth.
They are not a specialist game shop, they are a specialist PS2 shop though.
I emplore people to try find any mechwarrior game for example (on Henry street u might see Mech 4: Mercs in budget rack). notice how they put the official control pads away from the consoles and instead put up their inferior Game ones. The only reason i go there is to c if they have any bargains in the pre-owned rack, even then u may only find one every 2-3 months.

Do ur shopping on amazon to save money and frustration, or else go to HMV where games are 10% cheaper if u have their card

Thorbar

I think jebus is completely right to be pissed off about this thing. Ok it was only 3 euro for him as he picked the cheapest item but I'm sure as he said loads of unsuspected parents got conned into spending loads on game branded **** bundles.

Jazzy

the more i think about them, the more they anger me :mad:

mp3guy

Maximilian wrote:

Gosh, €3 :eek:

i know, that'd take nearly 10 minutes to find on the ground, 10 whole minutes!!!

Maximilian

I have a quicker solution - simply douse some of your old clothes in wee (preferably obtained from an octogenarion) and sit on the street outside Game with a sign reading "will post threads to boards.ie for money". Should do the trick nicely.

evad_lhorg

not being biased in anyway but i think dawson st is the best game shop in dublin. GAME as a company though need to sort out their prices and deals cause even now that they release games at lower prices other shops always go one better. like hmv and game had mgs3 for 50 bills yet hmv said you get the strat guide for 8 euro instead of 15 when you buy it with the game

Jazzy

GAME also go for that "premium pricing" b*lls**t, Driv3r apparantly is worth 70EU at launch !?! my mate got halo 2 there at midnite for 70 bills, he got an out of date PS2 mag for free aswell!! arent game cool?

me thinks that game is probably in league with the Corleone family of gaming..... the evil that is EA!!

in fairness its more a novelty shop then nething else

Dcully

GAME always have been and always will be a bunch of planks.
Do what i done,i havent bought a thing from them the past year after the **** i had with them.

Whats with the guys sneering this chap over 3 euros?
It is not the point ,can you not see that?

evad_lhorg

Jazzy wrote:

GAME also go for that "premium pricing" b*lls**t, Driv3r apparantly is worth 70EU at launch !?! my mate got halo 2 there at midnite for 70 bills, he got an out of date PS2 mag for free aswell!! arent game cool?

me thinks that game is probably in league with the Corleone family of gaming..... the evil that is EA!!

in fairness its more a novelty shop then nething else

he didnt pay 70 for halo 2 he paid for the collectors edition!

sceptre

bounty wrote:

are you whinging over €3? :rolleyes:

Would there be something wrong with that? If it's important enough to GAME to get extra cash from a customer I fail to see why it's suddenly bad if it's important enough to a customer not to pay extra cash. The three euros was important enough to the guy selling the thing. And presumably to the manager standing next to him (I notice the manager in Limerick GAME doesn't like dealing with customers).

Besides, the original poster isn't complaining about three euros per se, he's complaining that after being told when pre-booking that he could get his DS as a standalone product only to be told when picking it up that he had to buy it as part of a bundle (as you're probably aware the bundles are normally larger than DS+crappy_case). He only got away with paying a mere three euros extra because he was willing to make a thing of it.

BlitzKrieg

Are you sure its not just GAME in Dublin?

I always had a terrible time with Game in Dublin but now that i am studying in england i find the GAME here to be alot more helpfull and have a better selection of games. The prices (despite being in sterling) never seem to be insane (30 for half life 2 on release).

Its because in Ireland Games nearest competitor is gamestop and they dont have half as many shops open across the city. While here there are 2 other game shops on the same street (let alone the rest across the city), one which does imports and the other has an amazing 2nd hand policy (and selection) which force GAME to take the buisness and customers a bit more seriouisly.

the_syco

Point1; Your in Ireland.

Point2; Your shopping in Ireland.

Point3; You somehow didn't expect the monkies to try to rip you off?

Dude, I feel your pain, but untill a shop sells something lower than 50, no shop will do it.

This will be the only time you'll see competition and Ireland in the once sentance, when talking about the price of games. Why? Because there is none. Every shop you go to, it's always €50 or €60 per game.

Gileadi

on a sidenote 45 euro for games is ridiculous

i seen in hmv you can get the console and any game for 175 which is 20 quid cheaper than buying it and a 45E game seperate,not bad considering most stores are con merchants

evad_lhorg

eh hmv are charging 55euro for project rub! that is fcukin ridiculous!

rainbow kirby

HMV were always pretty crapulent for handheld prices though. I'm sure half their GBA rack is still that price.

Mimikyu

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the_syco

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SoundCellar is the only place I really buy my music. The price is about €20 or so, but its a damn good selection :cool:

Jazzy

was driv3r a collectors edition??
doesnt matter that the 10 euro worth metal case was included, could still get collectors edition for 60 euro in xtra vision and bout 53eu in HMV, i emplore ppl not to shop at game, unless its a pre owned bargain....

Amazon, HMV are FAR better, game is not a specialised computer game shop... it does have every PS2 game + accessory u need though, they need a smack in the mouth, best way to do that is not to shop there. i havent for 3 years, i got starfox adventures for 15eu about 6 months ago, first business theyve done off me since half life

amp

The word "official" is so abused on boards. That said I tend to just browse in Game and buy in Smyths. Smyths are generally always a fiver cheaper and that's worth the extra legworth.

I don't get pre-ordering. I don't usually buy on the day of release (although World of Warcraft was pretty damn close) but wait until all the really impatient people have gone through all the stress they love to go through and simply walk up to the counter and just buy the damn thing.

Patience reduces stress I find.

Balfa

It's this sort of billox that makes me glad i don't live there anymore Fry's usually take $10-15 off games for the week of their release. I got WE8 (PES4) for $30 and Mario Tennis for $35 a couple of days after their respective releases. A guy I know got Half-life 2 for $20 the day it came out.

This happens with almost every new game. Delicious

jill_valentine

Alright, so here's the thing. GAME only have limited stock of DS's, and likely wouldn't have enough stocked to cover every pre-order if they were collected at once. If you refuse to buy the DS package, they can counter that they give preferential treatment to somebody who will. But they haven't actually refused to sell you the DS - they've simply said that you'll have to wait for every other pre-order to come in, in case they will buy the package.

Smyths on the other hand, are lovely. Especially at the weekend. Especially to Boards.ers.

Q_Ball

I'll be doing my buying in smyths from now on too, unless i can find it online and i can avail of a credit card!

super_furry

I dunno, I think GAME have improved a fair bit recently, well in Tallaght at least. The introduction of Xtra-Game as a nearby competitor has seen them lower their prices pretty much across the board, although their second hand stuff is still overpriced and you still get much, much less for trade-ins.

Boro

Well if you fancy the journey, they had a few left in xtra vision in clonmel when i was in there yesterday. They were just sitting on the shelf there. Its only about an hour from limerick

TwoShedsJackson

If you still buy anything in Game you deserve what you get from them i.e. crap service and ripoff prices - go to play.com for games, ok you have to wait two or three days but they don't charge postage and are generally at least a tenner cheaper on new releases. More sometimes, I got Football Manager 2005 for €28 delivered from them when Game & HMV wanted €54.99 - bollocks to them.

dynamize100

flogen wrote: »

what's wrong with comparing specs? I wouldn't make that the main focus of a decision, but if a customer asked me I'd say the Xbox was more powerful but... depending on what games you're looking for you might prefer a ps2.

flogen

Hi all,
I am aware this is a really old thread but just couldn't resist.

I used to work in that Game around that time.
We used to know about games but used to have competitions selling people stuff they didn't want, we used to have real fun with it. – Admittedly not everyone around Christmas time knew about games (Christmas temps were often as thick as 2 short planks). I have a (and had at the time) a Computer Science degree I was just working there while looking for a programming job (You know fund the Christmas drinks) & I am now a Senior Software Engineer working for a large corporation, I bet you know them (What’s your technical qualification). I was not the only one either at least 2 of the other staff members were working there to fund finishing their Computer Science degrees from UL. You say that we didn’t know anything that we were just corporate sheep but you see it was you guys that were the sheep, we just didn’t care.

Anyway my comment.
There was mention that the Xbox was more powerful than the PS2, well I suppose yeah it is in the same way that a large truck is more powerful than a Ferrari. Lets face it thou given the option we would all take the “shiny red one”.

Justification.
The Xbox is/was a stripped down PC.
The PS2 is just a console.

The Xbox has more layers than an Eskimo to deal with before it can start processing your game so by the time it does all that extra power is gone. The PS2’s machine layer instantly translates your game meaning that its power is all transferred to game processing.

So like my truck & Ferrari example, the Xbox might have more power but that doesn’t mean it’s faster or prettier than the PS2.

Cheers.

Melion

Dear god, a 3 yr old thread. Why bother? Nobody cares about the Xbox vs PS2 anymore

dynamize100

Melion wrote: »

Dear god, a 3 yr old thread. Why bother? Nobody cares about the Xbox vs PS2 anymore

I'm stuck at work waiting for a test to finish & I used to always hear plebs talking like they were similar machines, when infact they are apples & oranges!!!

Dont be at yourself

In summary:

dynamize wasn't clueless, he was, in fact, really cool.
This is an old, worthless thread.

In before lock!

monument

NekkidBibleMan wrote: »

In summary:

dynamize wasn't clueless, he was, in fact, really cool.
This is an old, worthless thread.

In before lock!

I had some vague memory of locking this thread. Maybe I forgot to press confirm etc or something.

In after lock! :pac: