I'm getting fed up with GameStop's bullcrap.

Yesterday I took an old GameCube to the store to get a few bucks. Well, I didn't have a controller with me, and they couldn't take it without the controller. All right, well, they have all these controllers in individual bags laying around, so why they can't use one of those escapes my inferior consumer mind, but I accept it and move on, despite the fact that this was not always their policy. Today I went back, with a controller. Then they tell me that, since the controller (which is old) is missing a piece of rubber on one of the joysticks, it is therefore "damaged" and, despite the fact that it works perfectly fine, they can't sell it because "they can't sell damaged goods to people who are paying their hard-earned money."

I made a bit more of a fuss over this. I was tempted to say "you have no issue with selling damaged videogames," because I have more than once bought a game that turned out to be damaged, but I know it wasn't the girl's fault and that railing on her was futile and unfair. But I did protest the decision as I have to drive a fair distance to go to this GameStop (I wouldn't go at all if there were any other places in my area), and now I'll have to go back again later.

This is not the only issue I have with them. One thing that happens almost every time I'm there, and this is getting on my nerves, is that I'll go in, trade some games, look around, spend a lot of time in line, get up front, hand them the cases to the games I want, and then they'll hnd one of them back, saying they don't have that game.

Well, why the hell are you advertising games you don't have?

They do this with systems, too. I went in about a week ago to buy my brother an Xbox, and in the front, with a big red sticker that clearly says "NOW IN STOCK!" was a new Xbox360. Cool. I go in, take the box up to them (and this is the ****ing day after Christmas; you have no idea how long I had to wait in line in front of and behind a bunch of screaming bundles of joy who got their gift cards the day before and couldn't wait to piss it all away), and they tell me that they have some in the back. Cool. Then they come back and say "sorry, we don't have any." Thankfully, they had a used 360, and I didn't have to explode.

When I bought Prince of Persia for that same Xbox, I got the game cover for the Collector's Edition, because it looked cool. I handed it to the guy. He scanned it. I paid my money. He handed me a different box; same game, but not the Collector's. I said, "This is the same game, right?" "No, we don't have any more of the Collector's Edition."

So not only were they advertising a game they didn't have; they ****ing waited until after I had paid to tell me this little gem. But I took the game and went on; the Collector's Edition costs the exact same as the regular anyway, so I didn't quite have grounds to sue.

I seriously wish there was another game store somewhere near home.