So everyone's heard of this Monopoly card right? "Bank Error in your favor. Collect $200". Apparently Gamestop has done that to me, twice.

So I go to my local Gamestop yesterday to pick up a copy of the Eternal Sonata strategy guide. Strategy guides aren't a normal purchase for me. The last one I bought was Devil Summoner: Kuzunoha Raidou vs. the Soulless Army nearly a year ago. The reviews aren't even making out Eternal Sonata out to have extras that I'd miss out on without a guide. I'm just getting it for the pretty pictures. I've been known to pull out the Chrono Cross strategy guide on occasion to marvel at the art or re-examine the plot progression. Regardless, the clerk gives me one of the faceplates that were supposed to be given out with pre-orders for the game, not the strategy guide. I thought about protesting, but it's two days after release. If you haven't picked up your pre-order by then, Gamestop policy won't hold it for you anymore. I learned that bit of fine print the hard way with Xenosaga III. Thus, all of my pre-orders are now done online.

Online brings me to my other fortune. I found not one but two packages waiting for me when I got home from work, both from Gamestop.com. I opened them to find two copies of Eternal Sonata even though I only ordered one. I checked my orders page on their site and only found the one. I checked my credit card bill online and only found the one charge. I'm a little hesitant on what to do, but it looks like I have a free second copy of Eternal Sonata! Too bad I don't know anyone (not including online friends) who has a 360 and would enjoy the game.