So I pick up a copy of Fire Emblem at gamestop on Monday and today i decided I was going to open it. After I did there was no game cart. Has anyone had any experience with that? What did you do? What would you do?
I can't say that I have.
You lose absolutely nothing by doing the obvious thing and going back to where you bought it from. They're not likely to call you a liar I don't think, they can afford to give you what you're owed.
Sounds like they just didn't put the cartridge in box at check out. Does GameStop still do that thing where they don't actually sell sealed games? Even new games are opened and kept in envelopes behind the counter?
In any case, I would go back immediately and complain. I imagine you will have a difficult time though because you left the store with the case. Not that you would have known. š
That is what I am gonna do today. It was a shrink wrapped copy but I do fear they'll think i am a liar lol
That is my fear. It has been 5 days since I bought it and I feel they'll think I am lying to them. It was a shrink wrapped copy so it wasn't the one they open for themselves. Unless they re-wrapped it.
This happens. Starlink copies last year were sold without cards at Best Buy specifically, iirc.That is what I am gonna do today. It was a shrink wrapped copy but I do fear they'll think i am a liar lol
It would be easy to tell, wouldn't it? Actual shrinkwrap, the shitty, cheap kind, is very different from a proper y-seal plastic wrap that usually has that "tear off" part integrated somewhere. You know the proper wrap that you can almost fold out if you get your fingers between the folded bits. Not the shrinkwrap that is a perfect airtight sealed plastic bubble tightly wrapped around it (that's the shitty cheap one I assume you get with a shrink wrapper you can buy).I knew somebody whose family had a shrink wrapper and would return their "unopened" software to stores. Usually department stores. They'd buy the game, take out the disc, then seal the package and return it. It was really scummy. I have wondered if this is why GameStop actually opens so many of their "new" games. Funnily enough, though, they don't seem to have done that here... But I wonder if somebody returned an "unopened" game.
That sucks a lot, I'm sorry that happened.
It would be easy to tell, wouldn't it? Actual shrinkwrap, the shitty, cheap kind, is very different from a proper y-seal plastic wrap that usually has that "tear off" part integrated somewhere. You know the proper wrap that you can almost fold out if you get your fingers between the folded bits. Not the shrinkwrap that is a perfect airtight sealed plastic bubble tightly wrapped around it (that's the shitty cheap one I assume you get with a shrink wrapper you can buy).
That is my fear. It has been 5 days since I bought it and I feel they'll think I am lying to them. It was a shrink wrapped copy so it wasn't the one they open for themselves. Unless they re-wrapped it.
That is what I am gonna do today. It was a shrink wrapped copy but I do fear they'll think i am a liar lol
Okay, now I'm wondering if you even went to a Gamestop. Their games are usually already unwrapped (unless that's changed recently), which is why I don't care to buy from them.
When I worked for GameStop the way we could check is by doing a quick inventory. If someone came in with a receipt and say they bought a game for us and we had an extra copy of that game, that would be logical. However in your situation it's a little weirder. Do you know if it was a factory sealed game or a resealed one?That is what I am gonna do today. It was a shrink wrapped copy but I do fear they'll think i am a liar lol
Shoot, sorry OP. Good luck with customer service though, the few times I've had to call it was over an hour just to get off of hold. Truly some of the worst cs I've experienced.Update:
So I went back to the gamestop I bought my Fire Emblem 3 houses copy from. They told me that since they can't verify my story then they couldn't help me out. They told me to call Nintendo.
I called Nintendo and they told me that my situation is unlikely because they weigh the products to make sure everything is packaged.
Now I'm calling gamestop customer service to see what they have to say. Sigh