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Future Shop: Idiots
« on: December 28, 2007, 02:36:16 AM »
So, I've saved a good amount of cash to just blow on a new console, a 360. I was just waiting for the best deal. Future Shop had it, a 360 pro, with Forza 2, Marvel Ultimate Alliance, and the bonus of Two Worlds and Halo 3. I went out to buy it, and here we are, we've got the console. The red shirted kid hands us over... Two Worlds. And out of a basket full of them on top of a sealed box marked with Two Worlds on the side. They "couldn't find" Halo 3. It was apparently lost in some corner of the store in a box. He said that I could get a rain check on it, and so off we went to buy the 360. We get to the register, and it's news to them that the guy's telling people to get rainchecks. We ask for a raincheck, the ywaffle, we grab a flyer and point out Halo 3. So the joker writes down a raincheck for Forza 2. Wtf?

So we head back to the squeaky kid, and he consults with three other kids with red shirts, and then his boss, who's shaved bald and even younger than him, and he says that they're out of stock, no raincheck, that's it. Bullshit. So we take the 360, and head to EB Games to pick up some games for it that didn't suck. I got Halo 3, because that was the game I wanted, Gun, and my brother got some other game. I used Store credit, and we got a play and charge kit, another controller, and those games, all on store credit, so we were out the door laughing.

Still, the idiots screwed me over. They had plenty of Two Worlds, of course, but they conveniently "lost" their Halo 3 games, and just screwed us out of a $59.99 game with no effort to fix their own stupid mistakes, and nothing to satisfy paying customers. Greedy bastards. At least I didn't shell out the extra cash for their bullshit warranty services.

Anyone else get screwed over by Future Shop?
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Re: Future Shop: Idiots
« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2007, 02:51:36 AM »
What's Future Shop?

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Re: Future Shop: Idiots
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2007, 04:01:11 AM »
It's like Best Buy. They sells electronics, TV's videogames and games, movies, keyboards, CD's, and I'm sure they sell refrigerators and washing machines and dryers.


Future Shop is a Canadian business. We used to have them in the USA but they couldn't compete with Circuit City so they all closed down.  We had one near us when we lived in Montana but only by an hour drive away and they shut down and then Bust Buy moved in and opened up. There was one in Portland too and it closed up.

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Re: Future Shop: Idiots
« Reply #3 on: December 28, 2007, 05:06:40 AM »
Best Buy is not a store we have either.

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Re: Future Shop: Idiots
« Reply #4 on: December 28, 2007, 09:50:04 AM »
Best Buy and Circuit City are the main ones here for Electronics, there is no Future Stop.   We have Gamestop (EB games were bought out by them) as well for games.   Did you actually spend money at Future Shop?   If you didn't, then all you were robbed of is your time.   Why not buy your console bundle online?   

I avoid retail at all costs now.   I only go to the store to pick up old pre-orders I made.  I use Gamefly now because they mail games to my house, no going to stores.   2 games at a time, return one if I want another or buy it.   Basically unlimited rentals and I just started it.  My first two games are Halo 3 and Call of Duty 4, coincidentally.  I just need to finish Blue Dragon, as I put it aside for Mass Effect.   Devil May Cry 4 and Lost Odyssey come out next month.
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Re: Future Shop: Idiots
« Reply #5 on: December 28, 2007, 01:18:15 PM »
I spent over $450 after tax. It was a better sell than anywhere else, since nowhere else was selling it with extra games. Of course, they cheaped us out of Halo 3, so the next time I stop by, I'll take my receipt, and ask them to give me a game of equal value. Or they could give me a customer complaint form. :evillaugh:

Spokane Girl, there's a good reason they couldn't compete. :laugh:

Alex, we already bought. It was still the best deal, despite the fact they ripped us off for one of the games they offered. The most annoying part is, they offered it as a package deal. You don't lose or run out of stock of half of the package deal. Seriously.
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Re: Future Shop: Idiots
« Reply #6 on: December 28, 2007, 01:20:44 PM »
When I first saw this I thought you meant shop class like in high school :asthing:
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Re: Future Shop: Idiots
« Reply #7 on: December 28, 2007, 02:36:01 PM »
I thought it was some hypothetical store.

Never heard of it.

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Re: Future Shop: Idiots
« Reply #8 on: December 28, 2007, 08:14:09 PM »
The equivalent store in Aus...Would be maybe Harvey Norman (or any of it's clones, Clive Peeters, Rick Hart etc). But Harvey Norman also sells other stuff.

There's also Dick Smith Electronics or it competitor Tandy (both owned by the same parent company ::) ).


We also have EB Games, and GameTraders, and many other smaller game retailers in various states.