Post by Mark Caringer on Nov 25, 2006 23:35:55 GMT -5
If you didn't know Black Friday is the Friday after Thanksgiving, because everyone goes nuts to buy things and thats because stores usually put out there best sales on this Friday and end them on Saturday, others only last a few hours. Any way here is my story of getting Battlefield 2142.
I arrived home at 4:00pm from work and was not filling to well, in fact i was sick, so to feel better i took a shower and had a 7up, but to my surprise i found myself throwing it up in the showing, which was fine because i felt better after. I layed in my bed for my wife to come home and before i knew it I was sleeping. My wife arrived home just in time for me to begin throwing up again
. but then my friend called and told me that there was alot of PC games on sale, so I got on the Internet and found Battlefield 2142 for 24 bucks at best buy. I had to get it. So we got ready and went out to do our shopping.
I ended up at a Comp USA and since I was not feeling up to going to Best buy asked if they could do a price match on Battlefield 2142, but the man told me that Best Buy had not received there copies and so no they would not price match, I told him that i would go get a rain check, the man told me that they do not do rain checks on that item, I reassured him that they would have to since they were offering an item on sale that they had not received because that would be false advertisement. I was left with no choice but to go to Best Buy and find out what the deal was.
At Best buy I searched the shelfs for the game and was not able to find it, so I trapped a lady and ask for her to look up the game, she was not able to find the game in the system, so the guy at Comp USA might be right, if the game is not even showing in the system then the must not have it. The lady then ask a man and the man said they has sold out and I asked the man "how can you sell out of the game if its not in the store system and Comp USA said you had not received your shipment. The man replied that they did not have any so whats the point. I told him to give me a rain check to i could come back when they received there shipment, He replied that that item was not able to be rain check, because the price was to good. So i told him that what there were doing is falsely advertising a game they did not have and for a price they were not willing to sell it for and ask to see his manager, he refereed me to customer service.
I arrived at customer service and a lady ask what I needed help with and I repeated the hole story to her and she replied with the same classic answers, but when i got to telling her that it was false advertising, she told me that she thinks she might have one for me
So I followed her into the music section of the store where she opens a cabinet full of the game, there were easily 30 copied of the game, she then told me to follow her back to Customer service, where she scanned the item into the computer and then handed it to me and said that i would be able to purchase it and just take it up to the register 
I was so happy, but at the same time so appalled at they way business is handled, I wondered how many people lost there opportunity to get the game at that price, because of the strategic obstacles put in the way. I things the stores do to get people in the door and Best Buy is not the only one. I wanted to dance with the game in had in front of the guy at COMPUSA and the first lady and guy at BEST BUY, but i took my game and left.
oh and the game is great i played it all day today ;D
I arrived home at 4:00pm from work and was not filling to well, in fact i was sick, so to feel better i took a shower and had a 7up, but to my surprise i found myself throwing it up in the showing, which was fine because i felt better after. I layed in my bed for my wife to come home and before i knew it I was sleeping. My wife arrived home just in time for me to begin throwing up again
. but then my friend called and told me that there was alot of PC games on sale, so I got on the Internet and found Battlefield 2142 for 24 bucks at best buy. I had to get it. So we got ready and went out to do our shopping.I ended up at a Comp USA and since I was not feeling up to going to Best buy asked if they could do a price match on Battlefield 2142, but the man told me that Best Buy had not received there copies and so no they would not price match, I told him that i would go get a rain check, the man told me that they do not do rain checks on that item, I reassured him that they would have to since they were offering an item on sale that they had not received because that would be false advertisement. I was left with no choice but to go to Best Buy and find out what the deal was.
At Best buy I searched the shelfs for the game and was not able to find it, so I trapped a lady and ask for her to look up the game, she was not able to find the game in the system, so the guy at Comp USA might be right, if the game is not even showing in the system then the must not have it. The lady then ask a man and the man said they has sold out and I asked the man "how can you sell out of the game if its not in the store system and Comp USA said you had not received your shipment. The man replied that they did not have any so whats the point. I told him to give me a rain check to i could come back when they received there shipment, He replied that that item was not able to be rain check, because the price was to good. So i told him that what there were doing is falsely advertising a game they did not have and for a price they were not willing to sell it for and ask to see his manager, he refereed me to customer service.
I arrived at customer service and a lady ask what I needed help with and I repeated the hole story to her and she replied with the same classic answers, but when i got to telling her that it was false advertising, she told me that she thinks she might have one for me
So I followed her into the music section of the store where she opens a cabinet full of the game, there were easily 30 copied of the game, she then told me to follow her back to Customer service, where she scanned the item into the computer and then handed it to me and said that i would be able to purchase it and just take it up to the register 
I was so happy, but at the same time so appalled at they way business is handled, I wondered how many people lost there opportunity to get the game at that price, because of the strategic obstacles put in the way. I things the stores do to get people in the door and Best Buy is not the only one. I wanted to dance with the game in had in front of the guy at COMPUSA and the first lady and guy at BEST BUY, but i took my game and left.
oh and the game is great i played it all day today ;D