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Was Anon just being a pedantic dick, or are they profoundly ignorant? Why would they fail to make the obvious assumption that the parent meant Call of Duty? Isn’t helping clueless parents a regular part of the job?
Or am I the ignorant one, and missing the joke entirely?
Anon was being a PoS. Ofc they knew they meant Call of Duty.
If karma is real that guy should have is brake lines checked regularly.
Why? Maybe the mom shouldn't be buying her kids things she doesn't understand.
If so, then OP could have told her than rather than rip her off.
You are the ignorant one, unfortunately. It is a well known fact that GameStop cashiers just want to watch the world burn, and that is exactly what they did to that family Christmas.
They did the little man dirty for the lulz.
Can confirm.
I haven't purchased a game at a GameStop in decades. But I'll never forget the time a cashier was getting yelled at by a shitty teenager because the teenager felt conned having preordered a JRPG thinking it was a First-Person Shooter, and the teenager was throwing empty game boxes around calling the cashier all sorts of 2000's era offensive names.
I don't understand the full story but I think about it often.
Oh well. It happens. It’s just hard for me to imagine ruining a kid’s Christmas on purpose.
It’s funny. The most innocent pranks ever on YouTube happen at GameStop.
LEAVE OR I CALL LAW!
Every time!
Despite the other comments, this has real /thathappened vibes. First of all the OP would have to be a dick, second, why buy 3 copies or have any sort of “buy the same game x3” deal. Nobody does that.
You think someone would do that? Go on the internet and tell lies?
“Everything written on the internet is true.”
-Abraham Lincoln, 1801.
The internet was invented by George Washington, the boy who could not tell a lie. That's why it was designed to be lie-proof.
Abraham Lincoln was born in 1809, making it literally impossible for him, even telepathically, to say that quote.
Boy, I really hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
Yeah, as an ex GS employee - GS does not have the profit margins on new games to do a sale like that on new games. Only used games get put on buy two get one sales, and those can be returned.
So this is definitely a /thathappened moment.
Also like... How old is this post? Even when I worked at GS years ago parents knew what CoD was. The first CoD came out in 2003 it is not the kind of obscure that parents would ask about.
Buy cod for all 3 of your kids so they can play it together, if they're talking about it. Or cousins.
https://lemmy.world/comment/15173069
"A witty quote proves nothing."
-- Mark Twain
Anon was obviously trolling the parent.
Store had a big stock of that game that nobody wanted to buy, and Anon managed to get rid of three copies from that stock.
CEO mindset right there. Anon is going places
Oof.
I several times explained age ratings to grannies looking to get GTA for their grandsons, and I haven't ever worked at a real game store.