I also had trouble with Toys R' Us yesterday. I went to the store at 3:30 to find about 15 people waiting in line for Mario. After about an hour of waiting an employee tells us that there is a possibility the truck with Mario Galaxy won't make it to the store today. Apparently he called a bunch of other Toys R' Us stores West of his store and verified that they as well did not receive Mario Galaxy yet either. At this point I was rather annoyed. Huge company such as Toys R' Us, they put an ad in the paper stating they will have the game by 5PM, and then we hear about all these other locations not having it either. He gives us all pre-order coupons and we all cough up the $5 to guarantee a copy and the $25 gift card. We walk away empty handed, they get our $5. Great.
I head over to Best Buy just to see if they have copies on the shelf and sure enough, they do. That aggravated me further. So, I can either pay full price at Best Buy or get the game half-off at Toys R' Us (effectively half-off considering the $25 gift card). The problem is, I don't know if Toys R' Us will even have the game today. Being a huge Mario fan since the first game, I MUST have this game today. Defeated, I go home.
I wait 4 hours and head up to the store again to see if the truck finally came. Yeah, I could have called first, but how many times do you get someone on the phone that knows what the hell is going on? Exactly, so I drive to the store. Now I find out that they still don't have it and that they were supposed to receive two DHL deliveries today but for some reason only the first delivery was made.
If the game isn't in-store by the time I get there after work, screw Toys R' Us, I'm getting my $5 back and I'm going elsewhere. Okay, so maybe it's only a day or two extra I would have to wait but I'm a huge Mario fan and I don't wait for Mario games. :)
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