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[GL2814E]

I have noticed a rather large amount of people complaining that Gamestop ruined their preorder items or what have you.  I am wondering if anyone ran into the issue I have.

Since I lost my job money has been a bit tight and I had to preorder in January with Christmas money.  About two days after I pre-ordered Mass Effect 2 I realized that I would like all of the special features and items I normally pass on in games as I love Mass Effect to a far greater degree.

I was told by the unkempt 30-something hipster that there were only so many editions of the Collector's Edition of the game made and you had to have preordered it sooner to get a copy.  'Fine, I said, that sounds perfectly reasonable.'

I then went home and killed the rest of the month eagerly awaiting Mass Effect 2 to help kill my unemployed time that isn't spent job-hunting.

The glorious Tuesday arrived and I went straight to Gamestop just before it opened.  I waited with the Teenage boys who made me feel far older than I should.  I nodded to an old acquaintance as he went to work himself, (lucky) he knowing right away what I was waiting for.

After having to wait for ten minutes for the clerk to show up to the Gamestop after the listed business hours, we entered the store.  I was first in line and quickly picked up my game.  Of course this was after I forced the clerk to explain to me in detail how the preorder code worked.  (I did this because one particularly bad clerk forced me to return three separate times to get hold of my preorder code.)  As I was verbally beating the clerk while waiting for my copy of Mass Effect 2, I noticed that lining the wall were more than five copies of the ************* Collector's Edition.  In my euphoria at having Mass Effect 2 in my hands and a preorder slip I let it go then.

Sadly this has gnawed at me since that day.  I have seen the Collector's Edition for sale at Wal-Mart, Amazon, Ebay, and of course Gamestop's own website.

Is this typical of Gamestop?  Do they train their employees well, but unfortunately have very poor screening when hiring people?  (Like morons who can't listen...)  Or does Gamestop not care about wasting money on explaining preorder nonsense to morons like myself who clearly should've ordered the edition I wanted at the imaginary limited production run they made up?

I used to like going to Gamestop.  The employees weren't wearing their butts for hats, there was a token eye-candy nerd girl, and I could preorder safe in the knowledge that whatever bonuses Gamestop could secure would be mine.

Anyone else have horror stories?

(This isn't my only one for Gamestop, just the one which has to do with a Bioware game.)

[Stanley Woo]

Sorry, but issues with your retailer are not Xbox360 technical problems with the game.



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