9th June 2007, 4:12 PM
Indeed, but that's hardly the point. I wanted a NEW game, not a used game, and they have a self admitted hypocritical policy about it. I just can't support their policy any more. Surely you can understand that. I'm not saying YOU need to have the same standards.
Besides, finding out the game has a problem means I have to go through all the effort of returning to that store, which is a waste of my time, and a waste of gas at that, and then deal with those guys AGAIN, which is an effort in itself. I'd rather they just KEEP the game in the tamper preventing seal and then I can be assured nothing is wrong, that's what it's THERE for.
The fact is, I used to not really care about scams if I wasn't directly affected. Hey, it's not MY money. But, at a certain point I realized that every little scam diminishes us all, and it all adds up. Now, I care about every single phony psychic and manipulative store and completely made up technology that doesn't do what it says and I make my complaints known. Part of a free market is that the customer needs to make a big stink about every single problem they have. That's how you change things, not by ignoring it.
Besides, finding out the game has a problem means I have to go through all the effort of returning to that store, which is a waste of my time, and a waste of gas at that, and then deal with those guys AGAIN, which is an effort in itself. I'd rather they just KEEP the game in the tamper preventing seal and then I can be assured nothing is wrong, that's what it's THERE for.
The fact is, I used to not really care about scams if I wasn't directly affected. Hey, it's not MY money. But, at a certain point I realized that every little scam diminishes us all, and it all adds up. Now, I care about every single phony psychic and manipulative store and completely made up technology that doesn't do what it says and I make my complaints known. Part of a free market is that the customer needs to make a big stink about every single problem they have. That's how you change things, not by ignoring it.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)