I make it a point never to purchase used games unless they cannot be found otherwise. I only buy games in New condition.
Well, I grab the dummy case that says NEW on it, and take it to the register, the guy takes it, goes through the drawer, pulls out a real one, sticks it in a bag, and rings me up for full price: $54.11. I walk out to my car, and drive off to my mom's house.
Later, I come home, pull the game out to play it a little, and lo and behold, the game is not in factory wrapping, it is in a plastic envelope, and the factory seal is broken.
So tomorrow I have to go back and demand a factory sealed game or my money back. 
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Ever notice how it's very rare to see used copies of the hot games.. even if people beat it in 1 day and trade it back? I was always convinced they take em, re-package em to look like factory wrapped.. and sell em off as new again.
Opened it, no game!
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Lenlalron Flameblaster was listening to Cher while typing:
My bro got Prince of Persia for X-mas. Factory sealed, labelled, etc.Opened it, no game!
You have actions you can take against such errors.
I was charged full price for a used game.
The disc wouldn't boot after I bought it as a used copy, Gikk took it back home with her, did a return on it for what was supposed to be a brand new disc and it had read errors 3/4ths of the way through....
$45 shot in the ass. 
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Hungry Densetsu's unholy Backstreet Boys obsession manifested in:
You have actions you can take against such errors.I was charged full price for a used game.
You have actions you can take agaisnt such errors.
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You have actions you can take agaisnt such errors.
You are correct.
And by God, I am going to take those actions.
Gamestop usually takes 1 out of its case when they get a shipment to make sure its the correct game, and that they work.
edit: I knew this cause I have a friend who works there and he explained it to me when I bought a "new" copy of Splinter Cell, and it was opened already. [ 01-03-2004: Message edited by: Cysa Da Devil ]
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When the babel fish was in place, it was apparent Lenlalron Flameblaster said:
My bro got Prince of Persia for X-mas. Factory sealed, labelled, etc.Opened it, no game!
The same thing happened when I got Wild Arms 3. I was like.. wtf... don't games come with the disc?
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What is this crap that Kalculus Kid or Mathinator or Waisz is spewing?
The same thing happened when I got Wild Arms 3. I was like.. wtf... don't games come with the disc?
This will be the next delay tactic for EQ... accidentally ship an expansion that's not finished and buy time by not including the CD's then promise to send them out and have half of them lost in the mail (of course all the lost ones will be to FoH, Afterlife, Fu, etc).... it would work
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Hungry Densetsu's fortune cookie read:
You have actions you can take against such errors.I was charged full price for a used game.
Yeah, we exercised those and got a real game. ;p
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Cysa Da Devil stopped beating up furries long enough to write:
You know that probably was a floor model.Gamestop usually takes 1 out of its case when they get a shipment to make sure its the correct game, and that they work.
edit: I knew this cause I have a friend who works there and he explained it to me when I bought a "new" copy of Splinter Cell, and it was opened already.
However once that game has been opened , it is no longer new and is now used. If I buy a game new, it danm well better be new, unopened and untouched. If it isn't, you best not be trying to pan it off to me as such and at the full retail price.
Usually, there are four or five guts for big games, two for smaller, one for "Yeah, we have that" factor, and none if it's a sports game (No point, they go out too fast.).
They're all kept behind the counter, usually in an overused plastic baggie with all the stuff inside.. hence "guts".
Btw, what the hell are taxes in your state? 7? 8%? 54.11 is expenisve. Gimme 52.99 anyday.
I'm sure they believed my story... But they replaced it anyways.
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Delphi Aegis had this to say about Cuba:
It probably WAS a floor model. And considering how non-mainstream Disagea was, and it's low production numbers (Compared to, say, FFX-2, or whathaveyou), it likely was the last copy in the store. So they gave you the "gut".Usually, there are four or five guts for big games, two for smaller, one for "Yeah, we have that" factor, and none if it's a sports game (No point, they go out too fast.).
They're all kept behind the counter, usually in an overused plastic baggie with all the stuff inside.. hence "guts".
Btw, what the hell are taxes in your state? 7? 8%? 54.11 is expenisve.
Gimme 52.99 anyday.
When the factory seal if broken, the game ceases to be 'new and unused.' At this point, I will NOT pay full price for a used game.
[ 01-03-2004: Message edited by: Hungry Densetsu ]
[edit: Oh, and an 8.25% sales tax. But we don't have a state income tax here in Texas, so we win.]
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Hungry Densetsu stopped staring at Deedlit long enough to write:
I'm sorry, if you need a clamshell, open one, scan the cover, and get print-outs made, then send that out to your stores. That's what they do for Toys R Us.When the factory seal if broken, the game ceases to be 'new and unused.' At this point, I will NOT pay full price for a used game.
[edit: Oh, and an 8.25% sales tax. But we don't have a state income tax here in Texas, so we win.]
Clamshell.. hahaah! 
Gamestops and EBs work a lot differently from Toys R Us. We don't have massive warehouse-like sales floors like you. Half the time, we can't fit the games in the store, let alone the back room.. let alone people to BUY the games. So we can't have printers and stufflikethatthere just printing out frivolous stuff like those print-outs.
I'll bet you anything that they'll exchange it for a sealed version if you go back and ask, though they'll look at you dubiously and probably mark the sale as final. Of course, if they don't HAVE a sealed version (Which is likely why they gave you the gut), you're SoL, have to return it and ask for your money back.
Either way, doesn't matter what YOU say, it isn't "used" just because the seal is broken at the store, and the guts are stored in the store. It's used the second it leaves the store. And 90% likely they'll resell that same thing you purchased (If you return it) as used.
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Check out the big brain on Hungry Densetsu!
[edit: Oh, and an 8.25% sales tax. But we don't have a state income tax here in Texas, so we win.]
Neither do we and our sales tax is only 7.5. We win more.
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The logic train ran off the tracks when Delphi Aegis said:
Clamshell.. hahaah!Gamestops and EBs work a lot differently from Toys R Us. We don't have massive warehouse-like sales floors like you. Half the time, we can't fit the games in the store, let alone the back room.. let alone people to BUY the games. So we can't have printers and stufflikethatthere just printing out frivolous stuff like those print-outs.
I'll bet you anything that they'll exchange it for a sealed version if you go back and ask, though they'll look at you dubiously and probably mark the sale as final. Of course, if they don't HAVE a sealed version (Which is likely why they gave you the gut), you're SoL, have to return it and ask for your money back.
Either way, doesn't matter what YOU say, it isn't "used" just because the seal is broken at the store, and the guts are stored in the store. It's used the second it leaves the store. And 90% likely they'll resell that same thing you purchased (If you return it) as used.
TRU actually has another company make the clamshells. But that's how it's done. Not like DVD cases and paper and ink are THAT expensive. Irrelevant, anyway.
A game is used the very moment the factory Seal is broken. I'm sorry, but whatever you constitute as used doesn't necessarily apply. Opened=used. Period. this game had been opened. Had I seen it opened right in front of me, then accepted it, this would be different. But since it had been opened prior to my even entering the store, they have absolutely ZERO proof that the game had not, indeed, been played at ANY point in time.
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ACES! Another post by Snoota:
Neither do we and our sales tax is only 7.5. We win more.
Mesquite (which is on the opposite end of Dallas from where Dens is) has only a 7.25%. pwned.
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Delphi Aegis had this to say about Pirotess:
Either way, doesn't matter what YOU say, it isn't "used" just because the seal is broken at the store, and the guts are stored in the store. It's used the second it leaves the store. And 90% likely they'll resell that same thing you purchased (If you return it) as used.
I have to disagree with this. The minute I pop a game into my home system, it's used. But when the store does it.. it's still brand new? Any number of store employee's could have handled it, smudging, scratching, jizzing on it, etc etc..but it's still a "new" game as far as they're concerned? Thats bullshit.
Its the same principle with electronics. Theres a reason floor models, demo models and "open box" items are sold cheaper. They're already used merchandise. Why should games be the exception?
Like Densetsu said, this thing wasnt even wrapped. It was a half ass repack job stuck in a plastic envelope.
