Originally posted by: bodybag
Originally posted by: Tanna Tanna
or is it at retail (e.g. Game) where one can actually look at the boxes and refuse to buy if its an old one. Hrm...
My best bet would to to visit Game/Gamestation....the big retailers and inspect their stock.
Don't got to Game/Gamestation, they are the most unaccommodating swines I have come across.
I have went to town today and went to the main Game store, and spoke to the deputy manager.
He said that none of the Game/Gamestations stores have the consoles on the shop floor, for fear of people stealing them.
He also point blank refused for anyone to look through them as they have 400 consoles in the back and it would take too long to look through them all.
I then went to the other smaller Game store, they have 50 consoles in the back, and again point blank refused to look at them as the only way to tell the difference is through the window at the back of the box to the console which it was claimed if they open the flap will damage the box.
I then went to Gamestation, who had 15 consoles in the back, again refused to look because it would damage the flap on the console box's window.
They said there is no way to guarantee what stock they have even with the latest ones in stock, as new deliveries do come in frequently however the consoles possibly will have been sitting in their warehouse's for months (not a very good admission for them to have made there IMHO).
Same goes for Gamestation as Game's warehouses supply Gamestation stores now too.
Also to add, not one of the people I spoke to in the three separate Game/Gamestation stores had the slightest clue when I said I wanted the new Xbox360 Jasper, one of them even tried to explain to me that I was mistaken and really meaning to say I wanted an Elite, which I had to correct him and say, no I was not!.
How can Game stores know nothing about what they are actually selling. If I worked in a PC store I would be expected to know about new CPU's from Intel and AMD and such, but it seems Game stores are different.