Anyone work at Game/Gamestation/HMV/CeX?

[sicpuppy]

Anyone work at the above? If so, whats the dumbest/most absurd bit of rubbish you have ever heard from a customers mouth?

[DPrinny]

Not in them but in a inde one

Am working on writing all my experiences down will plonk some on my blog when I get my domain name back
"Do you have Mario 64 on Playstaion"
"No it is owned by Nintendo"
"My mate has it on his"

Urgh

And "That guy"
The one that says that he has a Playstation 2 and a Dreamcast about a few months before the Dreamcast came out

And normal idiocy along the lines of this
Person wants to sell Gran turismo 2 and wants £10 for it (hadn't been out that long)
Case is nackerd, disc has a crack in it, looks like a sander has been taken to it and it stinks of ciggs
Just before I check the disc the person says "Theres two games in there" (Its a two disc game)
Say "I cant take it in this condition"
"It still works"

Urgh

[sicpuppy]

Not in them but in a inde one

Am working on writing all my experiences down will plonk some on my blog when I get my domain name back
"Do you have Mario 64 on Playstaion"
"No it is owned by Nintendo"
"My mate has it on his"

Urgh

And "That guy"
The one that says that he has a Playstation 2 and a Dreamcast about a few months before the Dreamcast came out

And normal idiocy along the lines of this
Person wants to sell Gran turismo 2 and wants £10 for it (hadn't been out that long)
Case is nackerd, disc has a crack in it, looks like a sander has been taken to it and it stinks of ciggs
Just before I check the disc the person says "Theres two games in there" (Its a two disc game)
Say "I cant take it in this condition"
"It still works"

Urgh

Oh dear yes,

Trade-Ins are funny when they say 'I checked them all earlier and they were all fine' - generally, discs are battered and missing manuals.

Mario on Playstation/Xbox always makes me laugh a little inside, followed by 'Thats ridiculous, I dont have a Nintendo Wii/DS'

LOL 'That Guy' who is full of carp, we get a few of those, best just to ignore them

[mainvein]

i used to work in a indy game shop and had loads of idiots come in generally trying to sell stolen stuff. One bloke came in with a new sealed ps3 six axxis pad, sticker still on it from zavvi. We asked for his id and he produced some letter from the police that detailed his recent caution for stealing games and accessories from zavvi!

once had a customer trying to trade in a ps3 game that had a massive bite mark in claiming it still worked.

lots and lots of chavvy mums buying gta for their 4 year olds

also once there was a very stinky family, none of them could string a sentence together either, the grandma was shouting at the kid who was about 14 telling her that 'you need to brush your fu#king teeth! no boy will want you with black teeth!' the girl then told her 'its my mouth, dont have to clean it, fu#k off telling me what to do gran' - It was then i actually began to fear for the future of the country My colleague then proceeded to spray air freshner on one of them when they turned to leave the counter

[sicpuppy]

i used to work in a indy game shop and had loads of idiots come in generally trying to sell stolen stuff. One bloke came in with a new sealed ps3 six axxis pad, sticker still on it from zavvi. We asked for his id and he produced some letter from the police that detailed his recent caution for stealing games and accessories from zavvi!

once had a customer trying to trade in a ps3 game that had a massive bite mark in claiming it still worked.

lots and lots of chavvy mums buying gta for their 4 year olds

also once there was a very stinky family, none of them could string a sentence together either, the grandma was shouting at the kid who was about 14 telling her that 'you need to brush your fu#king teeth! no boy will want you with black teeth!' the girl then told her 'its my mouth, dont have to clean it, fu#k off telling me what to do gran' - It was then i actually began to fear for the future of the country My colleague then proceeded to spray air freshner on one of them when they turned to leave the counter

Smelly customers...oh dear.

I had smelly customers not so long ago - trading in like 100 PS2 games, console, controllers etc towards an Xbox - I almost died from holding my breath.

So much stolen stuff gets traded in, to be honest, most of the time even though I think its robbed, I have no proof, so if they have the right ID I take it.

We had a Red Dead Redemption on PS3 come up to trade in, it has part of the disc missing, no lie, literally snapped off, and the guy claimed it worked. I laughed at him, not because its funny, because I just couldnt take him seriously.

LOL. Chavvy mums. My favorite type of customer. Not. 'This ones a 15/16/18 rated game because of Sex/Drug Use/Violence/Bad Language, are you happy to buy it' - always a yes, their kids are usually about 6.

I once had a customer come in wanting to trade some PS2 games in. Came to 80p. Because it was for cash I needed an ID and Bank Statement/Utility Bill. He went all the way home and got it. For 80p. Amazes me.

The guy you had with the Zavvi thing... its priceless xD

[DPrinny]

Oh we had smelly ones.
One that smoked in the shop, stank of fags then finished one and started another.

Also a funny time was during the PSx era.
"Do you have any PlayStation games?"
"Right behind you"
He really didn't see the wall of games?

Somebody that got a N64 game off us brought it back a few days later saying "Its rubbish" then was shocked at the trade in price we gave him and said "I paid £50 for this and your only giving me £15?" Then I point out the lack of box,
his reply
"I threw them away I never keep boxes"
He came back a few hours later with a crushed, tatty box and only got £20, then went off in a huff over it

Somebody that just didn't understand that PlayStation 2 games will not work on a PlayStation as well

[sicpuppy]

LOL. Recent favorite of mine

'3DS GAMES DONT WORK IN A NORMAL DS?! ITS A MASSIVE CON' etc

Love it.

[Grizzly]

I like the customers who think that age ratings dictate how hard a game is.

[DPrinny]

I like the customers who think that age ratings dictate how hard a game is.

Or ones that think that a 18 rated game is better than something that isnt

These are usually the ones that are to young to play it

[sicpuppy]

I like the customers who think that age ratings dictate how hard a game is.

LOL.

Love how its not just me.

[Megamixer]

Always funny when you see parents asking for 'DSLite games' as if the Lite version is a unique platform with it's own games.

Also once saw a parent angrily tell her young son that he couldn't have Prince of Persia: Warrior Within on the PS2 because he "wasn't allowed to have evil games"

[Scapegoat]

I used to work in a Microbyte game shop back in the late 80's, in the days of 8-bit cassette and 16-bit discs, every Saturday we'd have kids bringing in games they'd bought the previous week that "didn't work" (i.e. were total bobbins but fully working) and were surprised that all they's be offered in exchange was a new copy. It was fun dealing with the aggressive mothers who frequently end up demanding a refund because the kid doesn't like the game only to be told that we don't offer refunds for crappy games.

We frequently got asked if C64 games would run on Amigas, when we patiently say no and point to the same title on the Amiga shelves the usual reply was "yeah, but that one is more expensive"...

We'd sometimes get people lugging a heavy box into the shop asking if we bought second hand computers. We didn't.
The look of shame on their faces when I suggest that they phone ahead to find a shop that would take it next time rather than lugging all of their stuff across town on a bus usually made my day.

We didn't usually get the excessively smelly types, they tended to hang around Games Workshop.

[sicpuppy]

I used to work in a Microbyte game shop back in the late 80's, in the days of 8-bit cassette and 16-bit discs, every Saturday we'd have kids bringing in games they'd bought the previous week that "didn't work" (i.e. were total bobbins but fully working) and were surprised that all they's be offered in exchange was a new copy. It was fun dealing with the aggressive mothers who frequently end up demanding a refund because the kid doesn't like the game only to be told that we don't offer refunds for crappy games.

We frequently got asked if C64 games would run on Amigas, when we patiently say no and point to the same title on the Amiga shelves the usual reply was "yeah, but that one is more expensive"...

We'd sometimes get people lugging a heavy box into the shop asking if we bought second hand computers. We didn't.
The look of shame on their faces when I suggest that they phone ahead to find a shop that would take it next time rather than lugging all of their stuff across town on a bus usually made my day.

We didn't usually get the excessively smelly types, they tended to hang around Games Workshop.

Usually tell them they got the wrong shop, they want Blockbuster.

[DPrinny]

"Do you have any cheats for..........................."
What am I Gamesmaster?

Also had a staff member in once that thought that he only good game was Tomb Raider.
He was a bit simple and a bit of a tosser

Also one stoner that kept trying to get his money back on a game as every game he got "Cashes half way threw"
This was on the N64
(even on new ones)

[Smraedis]

I remember hearing lots of bad stories, but what has been said so far has been great