do any stores let you get credit for unopened games?

[dethman]

Originally posted by: PoPPeR

Originally posted by: quakefiend420

Originally posted by: Aimster

Originally posted by: DJFuji
I umm..."have a friend" who was sent a retail, shrinkwrapped copy of MS Office 2003 Pro from MS as part of some prize from a MS sweepstakes. Anyhow, this "friend" returned it to BB and got a gift card for the full amount of the purchase. In this case, that's a gift card worth about $550. Sweet!

Well this was posted at night. If this was posted during the day people would jump all over you for this.

I for one don't care. I wouldn't do it but who I am to tell you what to do. I'm not your mother.

So what did "your friend" buy?

i don't see why...the store is going to resell it and make their money back...its not like they're getting robbed...just breaking even...

stores aren't out there to break even. What's going to happen is this (if you try the whole fraud thing). Lets say you go to Target or Wal-Mart and get a bunch of games cheap. You return them all to BestBuy. They take down your information, including drivers license, and give you a gift card for all the games returned. At the end of the month, there will most likely be a discrepency in their inventory , and if its a big enough deal to them they may just check cameras for employee theft, or if they have too many, they'll be checking returns. And then they'll notice that you returned a bunch of games, which just happen to be the ones that are being miscounted, without a receipt.

Of course there's nothing they can do to you except ban you from returning things without a receipt in the future, and maybe that type of stuff is just paranoia speaking, but it makes sense at least.

inventory miscount? what are you talking about? i'm sure they would have sold at least 20+ of those games each month, and not all will be returned. so if you returned 1 of each games, they will have no way of knowing whether your returned games were purchased from that store or not. you're way too paranoid.

 

[PoPPeR]

well some people are talking about scams, which involved a lot of returns, i'm just saying theoretically "this is the conclusion they could come to". But in the end of course, all they could do is ban you from returning anything else. Everything would be circumstancial, but its not a murder trial they dont need hardcore evidence to come to the conclusion that you're returning goods not purchased from there.

 

[Eminem2k1]

Walmart?

 

[StageLeft]

Go to walmart and be done with it.

 

[nageov3t]

I've had good experiences with this at Software Etc in the past.