I picked one up this morning when CompUSA opened at 11am at Puente Hills... I headed over to the game section, and it was no where to be seen. I saw the SALE tag up on the glass cabinet that was advertising the GT4 for $37.99... I asked 2 guys from that department if they had GT4 and they both said, 'No we don't have it...' I knew they were BSing me because I checked online inventory and called in and said 'it's in stock'. I had to go to Customer Service to get someone to help me out. A nice young lady was nice enough to check the inventory on the computer and then grabbed the game out of the storage room somewhere...
Finally got the game and left... Thank goodness I wasn't in a hurry to buy it on the released date.
But I think this CompUSA is notorious for employees claiming stuff is 'Out of Stock' or refusing to check in storage. This is probably the 3rd time something like this happened. I think the manager is shady too, cuz my friend tried to buy 2 of those Maxtor Ultra16 250GB HD w/ 16MB buffer... Called in and checked online, both reported 'In-stock'... They went there and a manager said that they didn't have those, and also a shady tech that said they didn't have any either. They went to customer service to check, and behold the hard drives were actually in-stock, hiding somewhere in storage 4 of them. My friend gave the shady employees an evil look.