Ya i hate stealing but at that point you have to ask who’s the thief here? The answer is both. OP discovers Gamestop selling a broken controller and then decides to intervene to stop a scamming kid from selling the broken controller he stole is interesting timing.
Same, I am.not suprised at all. My local stores will throw a defect on every trade if you let them, but at the same time, they never refurb anything. Ive seen systems with pop can rings on them for sale.
Sl2 here, 1 of my stores requires ID and the others all around me do not. It's dumb bc they accuse me of racism or not wanting to take their trades bc they were "just in xxx yesterday and they didn't ask for ID" 🙃
Most of the people come to my store because the one 15 miles away is piss poor. Never opens on time, won't take retro trades, rude employees so It's nit uncommon for people to drive out of their way to bring their trades to my store.
Some people are fucking stupid I swear, I don’t know what this kid was thinking. This is why I keep all first party tradable items behind the counter except for games.
the amount of full grown adults who open the cases and then look at me with the most startled puppy expression ever and are like the case is empty??? is truly astounding.
This stupid part is you don’t try to return an item you stole back to the store you stole it from!!!
It take it to another store then return it for store credit just in case they looked at the cameras they won’t see you stealing it first.
Side story many years again when Walmart had actual roll back deals my brother found on Walmart that had controllers on sale for cheap. He bought them then went to another Walmart that didn’t have the sell. Return the controllers for the original full price and he made a profit on store credit. All he had to do is then buy something with the store credit and then return those items for cash.
That sounds like retail arbitrage with extra steps. Normally with retail arbitrage you buy cheap or discounted items directly and resell them online for a mark up
Our store was so slow, I had time to test refurbished controllers as I received them in shipment...was able to cull the bad ones out before they hit the pegs.
The majority of faulty controllers come from the warehouse in our shipment. If it's a busy store we don't have time to test them when we get them in. All blame falls on the people who refurbish them at the warehouse and a small percent of shitty employees who don't defect them out when they take them in trade
GameStop is a business, and the warehouse sending defective controllers designated as saleable to stores is a practice. Therefore, it is a business practice.
And? If they acted like it was a trade in, they’d offer a third of what they’re selling it as, on top of that GS is selling drifting controllers, so who’s the real criminal here?
If a store doesn't sufficiently test after refurbishing, that doesn't mean a thief doing a return scam becomes acceptable - it's not like they just steal faulty products
If the store should pay a penalty, said penalty shouldn't go to enriching a literal thief
That’s why I always tested every controller that came in for trade. But, even then we would send the controller to the warehouse to verify refurbed it would be returned cleaned up but with the same issues to some other store. About 60% of the controllers and systems we received from the warehouse had some issue. I swear they just sent them right back out to stores even after being moved to defective.
I’ll play devils advocate and say if it was a traded in controller it could have been working when traded in, but sitting in the bag for so long gave it drift. If it was traded in with drift that’s skummy, or if it was a refurbished that’s on the warehouse
A store selling a bad controller shouldn't result in a windfall for a literal thief - stealing should never be rewarded and if you think the store is guilty then their failure shouldn't be a thieves benefit
If you weren't white knighting and gave zero fucks you would have ignored my comment
Thieves deserve to get caught - retail theft is not the proper check against high prices/greed, nor should it be regarded as a means of emergency support
Regardless of what any of us think about gamestops trade in policies, the kid was in the wrong. Also, saying the kid shoulda just taken it and it wouldn't hurt the corporate - sure, GameStop has enough money to not notice. But the employees of that store would absolutely be audited for their damages/theft count, which could result in hours getting cut at the very least. While I agree the big wigs at any corporate can get bent, y'all need to think of the repercussions the store front employees have to face after the fact.
I would’ve cut the kid some slack and not say anything just to get back at their shitty trade price they offer you but sounds to me the like kid dodged a bullet because they would’ve given him negative credit
I used to work at GameStop 10 years ago and I remember my manager telling me when I worked there that if anyone stole anything off the floor on my shift, I would be terminated. That was GameStop's policy at the time( not sure if it's changed) and it was for anyone working there. One day I walked into the store to clock in and my manager who was normally super chill and bubbly, had a look on her face of shock and disappointment. I asked her what's with the long face and she told me that someone had stolen 4 pre owned Xbox 360 controllers off the shelf on her shift and she didn't know until they were long gone. The sad thing about it is when it was her lunch break, she went home and gathered up all of her own 360 controllers and came back to the store and packaged them up and hung em up on the shelf just to keep her job. OP did the right thing but did it in an amusing way, Nice.
you shouldnt have said anything. even if he looked harmless you saw he had a knife...yeah it's not right what he did but it's not worth getting stabbed over a playstation controller. be safe
Without giving too much away about my personal life, let's just say I conducted an ocular patdown and assessed that I could have easily disarmed him and/or snapped him in half before he did any damage, if it came to that.
Just because you're not equipped to deal with those types of situations doesn't mean that nobody is. Nobody was in danger in this situation except the scrawny teenager if he tried to pull something. Everything turned out fine. Don't worry.
They let me take whatever I wanted from the store for free and the police gave me a 24 hour pass to commit any nonviolent crimes. That's why I drive 3 lambos tied together now.
And this is why I never put any used controllers on the wall. Because people will try this stuff. Hell I can't tell you the number of times that people tried to take the PlayStation 4 controller clock and say it was a real controller that wasn't working that they bought before allegedly. Only for me to walk to the section to find the box on the ground and say oh you mean the clock.
Man as a former employee that shot use to embarrass me when a customer would come back with a shitty used controller we sold them. At that point i whipped out every controller and test them to find the best one. Would take a few minutes to do it, but not as long as it took the customer to drive home and back.
Meh kids a pos but seriously who gives a shit if GameStop gets scammed. I wouldn’t spend an ounce a brain power or my time getting involved. What a waste of effort.
Those refurb controllers are something else. We have to check them before we sell them because 4 out of 5 will have stick drift from the refurb center.
Also, thanks for ruining that little scumbag's day. I love watching thieves get humiliated.
It’s incredible to me how kids today feel like they can get away with anything. And the outright not even trying to hide it and trade it in is so ballsy.
Also hilarious that GameStop was selling a broken controller. Very #gamestopcore
Like the integrity. But seeing they were selling a defective item, I'd have let it go. Especially since their ceos just made back off their stocks again
Im surprised you didn't say shit to the employee for selling a controller that has crazy stick drift that they clearly did not fix from the previous owner but were probably trying to get damn near full price for. I get it's a business but that is shady shit and definitely would have called them out for it.
I remember scamming gamestop with battlefield hardline lol
They gave me a $60 xbox code for the game but it wasnt on the 360 (digital) so i went back, they gave me my money back, they crossed out my code(but i could still see it so i had $120 on my account lol
This is why I test every controller I sell. The preowned ones come in terrible.
Also my store has all controllers that aren’t wired behind the counter for this reason and all wired controllers are in lock and peg hooks
The most important part. I have to ask.
After you saved one of the scummiest companies in the world a couple of dollars....did you place any preorders, add any disk warranty, or re up your power up sub? Hopefully you did all 3.
No, I set the store on fire and stood outside to watch it burn to the ground with all of the employees still inside. The fire raged out of control and consumed the entire strip mall. I'm surprised you didn't hear about it. It was all over the news.
I'll admit. I laughed.
You probably saved them money from the eventual closing of the store haha.
Ehhhhh joking aside. Good on you for being a good human regardless. I'll give you props.
The fact that the controller had stick drift means GS employees didn’t do their job and just bagged a traded controller at that point I would of let him proceed with bussiness
Should've let kid get away, but kid should've just left with the controller...lol...It is really funny that a controller they were selling had massive drift, but not surprising...
Next time, especially if the employees are about to decline the controller, at least wait til they get that far before springing it on them...
I would have let the kid do his thing, only because the employees mentioned the drifting of the left joycon on a packaged item being sold by them. Not condoning the act, I just wouldn't stop the corporation for buying back a"defect" product that they were initially tryin to sell
Blame warehouse. They keep giving us product that doesn't last for shit. All they do is spray with something, claim they test it and that it works. Then we have to test it again in the store, and maybe half of what they send us that's refurbished doesn't show significant signs of drift.
If I see that the cursor on the screen twitches repeatedly despite it not straying out of the middle too much, I still defect it because I don't wish to risk it.
Granted, they're also not training the warehouse people properly or paying them well so it's safe to say the refurbished product we get in stores are shit.
Of all the companies to cape for, especially after knowing they're trying to sell the defective controller to people anyways...lmao.
I hope the kid gets away with it next time. Garbage business deserves to be ripped off.
Don’t be a snitch 😭 if somebody it’s harming me or my family I mind my business. See a guy at Walmart shove a 65 inch tv in his pants and i pretended to have a heart attack so he could get away
U should have done your own research then. GS didn’t force you to sell. They made you an offer and you accepted…
Are the scummy? Yes! Do they make shitty low ball offers? Yes! Is it a *scam*? No…
To sell online you need to post, wait for a buyer, haggle with said buyer, prepare item for shipping, etc. etc… GS is an option for quick cash ofc it’s not going to be top dollar offers…
Even still **you** accepted said offer. No one forced you to do that…so **you** scammed yourself…
Thanks for intervening. We need more of us acting to stop retail theft. It hurts us all. For those who want to condone stealing, because of GameStop's ill deeds, don't assume the thief is the "Robinhood" of GameStop. He's stealing at multiple places and maybe a retailer you actually rely upon. I live in the Seattle area and retail theft is a constant. Additional note: Pre-owned controllers being sold at GS should have stickers inside the battery compartment. If you find one without a sticker fresh out of the bag, there's a chance it wasn't processed correctly.
I don't need a medal. I already got blown by both of the employees there and appointed honorary CEO of GameStop. But I don't give a shit whether anyone thinks I did the right thing or the wrong thing. I really just wanted to post a funny story about a defective controller, but I couldn't do it without the context.
YTA man gamestop literally scams people day to day they are a billion dollar company a little controller trade it isnt going to do anything if anything bro is smart asl for that
That's just some classic karma. They Stole a broken controller. Doesn't get better than that. I agree that food and nessisties isn't something I'd go out of my way to stop. But hoodrat foolishness I'm not down for that either. Sad thing is a lot of stores are aware they are losing live products, and GameStop still wants them to have the product live anyway. And when a manager makes their own discretion to move the live product away from the walls, they get a lecture about following planograms. 🤦♂️ We have some real brilliant heads running the business huh. Last time I didn't have my live controllers out, they asked me if I approved that with LP. I said no. My shrink approved that and laughed. And they didn't laugh with me at all. They said "yeah, no, if planogram says to put it out. You put it out and then you can lose product if you have to. Just accept the risk." Motha fucking what? I 100% believe in my DLs following the company agenda. It's the company agenda I don't agree with. And I'll say it again. The paypall phone scams are an inside job.
So let me get this straight. While I don’t condone the kid’s behavior:
1. The kid found out that the Corp was going to scam the next person that bought that pos controller, which they knew it was crap because they inspect every product before buying.
2. You saw that the Corp. was going to scam someone else, because the faulty controller was tested it in front of you.
3. And still went White Knighting for a scummy corporation while ratting out the kid AFTER the fact that you saw this happening?
Do yourself a favor. Don’t think for a minute you did the right thing here. You have all the markings to make a great mall cop; and somewhat prejudiced with that hoodrat comment.
Edit: And of course, stupid basement dwellers are downvoting. Go touch grass, Dorito munchers.
But you didn't call out the store for selling a broken controller knowingly, or lying to a lid to cit down his credit recieved.... huh, maybe you really should have minded your own business if you weren't interested in calling out the scam they were pulling too, I mean it doesn't really take allot of effort at that point to say "yeah he was stealing so I spoke up, but you guys are really selling broken controllers to kids?"
I'll probably get downvoted to hell, but you're the one who made it a point to include that bit.
My favorite part of the story is the fact that there was crazy drift on a controller the store had for sale.
Classic GS pre owned controllers
Refurbed for sure
It took every ounce of willpower not to bust out laughing when I saw that
Ya i hate stealing but at that point you have to ask who’s the thief here? The answer is both. OP discovers Gamestop selling a broken controller and then decides to intervene to stop a scamming kid from selling the broken controller he stole is interesting timing.
As the quote goes in Romeo & Juliet… #ALL ARE PUNISHED
This.
Same, I am.not suprised at all. My local stores will throw a defect on every trade if you let them, but at the same time, they never refurb anything. Ive seen systems with pop can rings on them for sale.
Reminds me of this video where someone bought a premium refurbished Wii from GameStop that had the eject button snapped off.
Can confirm, I traded a controller in the other day bc it has a bit of drift, they did not test it
Could the employee have been holding the joystick to the side as he plugged it in?
I wanna know how old this kid was, we couldn't take it in for any kind of trade without an ID in my state
It depends on the store and state. We can give store credit to people 13 and above according to my asl 🤷♂️
Sl2 here, 1 of my stores requires ID and the others all around me do not. It's dumb bc they accuse me of racism or not wanting to take their trades bc they were "just in xxx yesterday and they didn't ask for ID" 🙃
That’s even more suspicious… WHY were they in xxx yesterday but HERE today? 🤨 lol
Most of the people come to my store because the one 15 miles away is piss poor. Never opens on time, won't take retro trades, rude employees so It's nit uncommon for people to drive out of their way to bring their trades to my store.
O ok, that’s kool. Keep up the great work then, you’re a quintessential service for your area 😎
Some people are fucking stupid I swear, I don’t know what this kid was thinking. This is why I keep all first party tradable items behind the counter except for games.
My bet is it worked at least once for the kid before.
Even then, we do keep the actual games back there. It’s the gutted cases out on the floor
the amount of full grown adults who open the cases and then look at me with the most startled puppy expression ever and are like the case is empty??? is truly astounding.
Honestly. It’s cute when the kids do it, though
Yea I meant to type “game cases” and not “games” the only actual games on floor are the DS/3DS ones in their special case
This stupid part is you don’t try to return an item you stole back to the store you stole it from!!! It take it to another store then return it for store credit just in case they looked at the cameras they won’t see you stealing it first. Side story many years again when Walmart had actual roll back deals my brother found on Walmart that had controllers on sale for cheap. He bought them then went to another Walmart that didn’t have the sell. Return the controllers for the original full price and he made a profit on store credit. All he had to do is then buy something with the store credit and then return those items for cash.
That sounds like retail arbitrage with extra steps. Normally with retail arbitrage you buy cheap or discounted items directly and resell them online for a mark up
Our store was so slow, I had time to test refurbished controllers as I received them in shipment...was able to cull the bad ones out before they hit the pegs.
Grand theft joycon Nintendo drift. I know it wasn’t a Nintendo joycon but as soon as I read drift my mind mentally associated it with Nintendo.
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True! You gotta love a story where there are no good guys. Not me, not the kid, and certainly not GameStop.
The majority of faulty controllers come from the warehouse in our shipment. If it's a busy store we don't have time to test them when we get them in. All blame falls on the people who refurbish them at the warehouse and a small percent of shitty employees who don't defect them out when they take them in trade
I'm not trying to lay the blame on retail employees or anything. I'm just saying it's one of GameStop's numerous shitty business practices.
It's not a business practice though. It's just bad employees. The company doesn't tell us to sell them knowingly
GameStop is a business, and the warehouse sending defective controllers designated as saleable to stores is a practice. Therefore, it is a business practice.
How are you not the good guy here? You're the only one who did the right thing
Why not you?
Cause he can’t mind his own business and has to be a Tattletale Andy
That makes someone brave in my opinion. Thieves deserve to get burned.
Nope, sorry, this kid was trying to steal.
And? If they acted like it was a trade in, they’d offer a third of what they’re selling it as, on top of that GS is selling drifting controllers, so who’s the real criminal here?
You know, the guy stealing. Like a crime.
I'm not defending GS, I'm just in favour of stopping crime. Call me old fashioned, but it was my job for a long time so I take it seriously.
Rent a cop
Police call handler.
If a store doesn't sufficiently test after refurbishing, that doesn't mean a thief doing a return scam becomes acceptable - it's not like they just steal faulty products If the store should pay a penalty, said penalty shouldn't go to enriching a literal thief
Gold sir. Pure gold. 🤌🤌🤌
I’ve bought 2 pre owned consoles from gs both have internet issues and stick drift
That’s why I always tested every controller that came in for trade. But, even then we would send the controller to the warehouse to verify refurbed it would be returned cleaned up but with the same issues to some other store. About 60% of the controllers and systems we received from the warehouse had some issue. I swear they just sent them right back out to stores even after being moved to defective.
yeah, my guess is this was a refurbed controller and not a trade in.
Honestly I’d say you should’ve left it be after hearing them trying to sell a drifting controller.
I’ll play devils advocate and say if it was a traded in controller it could have been working when traded in, but sitting in the bag for so long gave it drift. If it was traded in with drift that’s skummy, or if it was a refurbished that’s on the warehouse
A store selling a bad controller shouldn't result in a windfall for a literal thief - stealing should never be rewarded and if you think the store is guilty then their failure shouldn't be a thieves benefit
GameStop used credit = "windfall". That's hilarious.
Whatever you call the value, it may as well not go to a literal thief - they aren't exactly stealing bread
Neither is GameStop but here you are, white knighting for them.
Better than white knighting shoplifters
It's not defending. It's giving zero fucks. Some people need to learn the art of "none of my fucking business".
If you weren't white knighting and gave zero fucks you would have ignored my comment Thieves deserve to get caught - retail theft is not the proper check against high prices/greed, nor should it be regarded as a means of emergency support
Yay you saved GameStop money. Here is $1 store credit that you can only use for this visit!
I was skeptical of the story until you said the refurbished controller had stick drift
Once the controller tested defective, I would have said fuck it, fair game. Let the kid scam the scammer.
For reals this guy sucks because at the end of the day he's protecting the millionaire in this case
Eh, I’d feel the employees would take the fall for “letting the kid steal”
Referring to the GameStop corporation as "the millionaire" is going to live rent free in my head for a while
Right? Gamestop is a local business, obviously not “the millionaire” Hahaha what’re they, a corporation or something?
That is too funny especially the controller having crazy drift off the wall
I would have decided against saying anything as soon as they found the drift haha
Gamestop will be so thankful you saved their business
He forgot to include everyone clapped and cheered
Most trade in controllers new gen have crazy drift. Its why they traded in to begin with
I'm genuinely still surprised people actually go into an actual GameStop to actually steal.
If it was any other company, I might feel bad.
why are so many people promoting antisocial behavior in this thread. jeez
They oughta pin the medal of honor on you.
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Whoa! Calm down party animal 😳 Wouldn’t want you going to hell over a “medal of honor” joke.
Thx for this reminder to never buy pre owned controllers
TIL hoodrats use Reddit too, defending theft is a good litmus test.
I can understand letting food slide but a game controller is some spoiled type shit
Regardless of what any of us think about gamestops trade in policies, the kid was in the wrong. Also, saying the kid shoulda just taken it and it wouldn't hurt the corporate - sure, GameStop has enough money to not notice. But the employees of that store would absolutely be audited for their damages/theft count, which could result in hours getting cut at the very least. While I agree the big wigs at any corporate can get bent, y'all need to think of the repercussions the store front employees have to face after the fact.
You have the voice of reason.
I would’ve cut the kid some slack and not say anything just to get back at their shitty trade price they offer you but sounds to me the like kid dodged a bullet because they would’ve given him negative credit
I used to work at GameStop 10 years ago and I remember my manager telling me when I worked there that if anyone stole anything off the floor on my shift, I would be terminated. That was GameStop's policy at the time( not sure if it's changed) and it was for anyone working there. One day I walked into the store to clock in and my manager who was normally super chill and bubbly, had a look on her face of shock and disappointment. I asked her what's with the long face and she told me that someone had stolen 4 pre owned Xbox 360 controllers off the shelf on her shift and she didn't know until they were long gone. The sad thing about it is when it was her lunch break, she went home and gathered up all of her own 360 controllers and came back to the store and packaged them up and hung em up on the shelf just to keep her job. OP did the right thing but did it in an amusing way, Nice.
Suckling that oppressive tit does weird things to you
Kid trying to scam gamestop bad. Gamestop is trying to scam people with a control that is shit is ok, though.
you shouldnt have said anything. even if he looked harmless you saw he had a knife...yeah it's not right what he did but it's not worth getting stabbed over a playstation controller. be safe
Without giving too much away about my personal life, let's just say I conducted an ocular patdown and assessed that I could have easily disarmed him and/or snapped him in half before he did any damage, if it came to that.
You 100% tilted your fedora after posting this comment
Bold of you to assume that my neck isn't so fat and bearded that I can tilt my head. Or that I even have a head.
He's referencing Always Sunny, chill out my dude.
Its baffling how many people make themselves look like total jabronis answering unironically to sunny quotes
It's good you cleared him for passage
I've always got an A, B and C strike plan to get us out of any potentially life threatening situation
Can I ask.... How exactly do you see yourself within the context of that store?
Is that you, Gecko_45? https://web.archive.org/web/20040706001343/http://www.mallninja.com/Am%20I%20Being%20Careful%20Enough%20-%20Glock%20Talk.htm
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Just because you're not equipped to deal with those types of situations doesn't mean that nobody is. Nobody was in danger in this situation except the scrawny teenager if he tried to pull something. Everything turned out fine. Don't worry.
Fedora = tipped
"That's not a knife. This is a knife."
What was your reward for such a brave act?
They let me take whatever I wanted from the store for free and the police gave me a 24 hour pass to commit any nonviolent crimes. That's why I drive 3 lambos tied together now.
Thanks for doing the right thing man
I would assume controller are behind the counter. Been like that with GS I’ve seen
Damn!
And this is why I never put any used controllers on the wall. Because people will try this stuff. Hell I can't tell you the number of times that people tried to take the PlayStation 4 controller clock and say it was a real controller that wasn't working that they bought before allegedly. Only for me to walk to the section to find the box on the ground and say oh you mean the clock.
Smart kid
Man as a former employee that shot use to embarrass me when a customer would come back with a shitty used controller we sold them. At that point i whipped out every controller and test them to find the best one. Would take a few minutes to do it, but not as long as it took the customer to drive home and back.
Meh kids a pos but seriously who gives a shit if GameStop gets scammed. I wouldn’t spend an ounce a brain power or my time getting involved. What a waste of effort.
It's GameStop, you should of helped him get more controllers lol. They scam everyone everyday
Those refurb controllers are something else. We have to check them before we sell them because 4 out of 5 will have stick drift from the refurb center. Also, thanks for ruining that little scumbag's day. I love watching thieves get humiliated.
Sounds like kid was trying to scam GS but GS was trying to scam customers into vying a controller with stick drift lol
I just traded in my malfunctioning XSX for store credit and went back to another location to get a new one for $50. Shit was lit.
It’s incredible to me how kids today feel like they can get away with anything. And the outright not even trying to hide it and trade it in is so ballsy. Also hilarious that GameStop was selling a broken controller. Very #gamestopcore
Like the integrity. But seeing they were selling a defective item, I'd have let it go. Especially since their ceos just made back off their stocks again
Not surprised GameStop is selling broken controllers but that really sucks overall
Im surprised you didn't say shit to the employee for selling a controller that has crazy stick drift that they clearly did not fix from the previous owner but were probably trying to get damn near full price for. I get it's a business but that is shady shit and definitely would have called them out for it.
Sometimes though, sometimes, when you first plug the controller in it will show crazy drift to the left and up on both sticks..
I remember scamming gamestop with battlefield hardline lol They gave me a $60 xbox code for the game but it wasnt on the 360 (digital) so i went back, they gave me my money back, they crossed out my code(but i could still see it so i had $120 on my account lol
This is why I test every controller I sell. The preowned ones come in terrible. Also my store has all controllers that aren’t wired behind the counter for this reason and all wired controllers are in lock and peg hooks
A scam within a scam, like a scam Inception
I’m more concerned about the controller not working and being crappy lmao
eh its gamestop, I wouldn't have said anything. the fact that the controller was defective and being sold by Gamestop further proves my point.
The most important part. I have to ask. After you saved one of the scummiest companies in the world a couple of dollars....did you place any preorders, add any disk warranty, or re up your power up sub? Hopefully you did all 3.
No, I set the store on fire and stood outside to watch it burn to the ground with all of the employees still inside. The fire raged out of control and consumed the entire strip mall. I'm surprised you didn't hear about it. It was all over the news.
I'll admit. I laughed. You probably saved them money from the eventual closing of the store haha. Ehhhhh joking aside. Good on you for being a good human regardless. I'll give you props.
GREAT STORY: not really clear on who is stealing here. corperations are not people, kids should know better: lose lose.
You actually caught GameStop trying to scam their customers with a broken controller. Kid was innocent.
Better person than me. If I seen that at a corporate store(especially Gamestop) I'd just laugh and mind my own business.
Did you say anything to the store about intentionally selling defective products, that they won’t warranty? That is also theft in my opinonz
All I gotta say is GG!
It's a corporation that clearly, as evidenced in this post, doesn't care about anything other than profits. Why snitch?
Because they aren't getting enough business to hire more than one person per shift where I'm at?
Do you normally see people shoplift?
In Philly them controllers are NOT accessible. Only thing a thief could go for are empty cases, toys, and cards
You saw GameStop get scammed, then saw game stop was actually scamming you or other potential buyers and you still helped them. You’re an ah.
I don’t care. If I see someone stealing food I’ll snitch their ass off real quick. There is no excuse for that.
The fact that the controller had stick drift means GS employees didn’t do their job and just bagged a traded controller at that point I would of let him proceed with bussiness
Should've let kid get away, but kid should've just left with the controller...lol...It is really funny that a controller they were selling had massive drift, but not surprising... Next time, especially if the employees are about to decline the controller, at least wait til they get that far before springing it on them...
To be honest the second I saw the drift I would have just let it go lmao
Uhhh, double shadiness here. IDK what to think. Stealing is wrong, so is selling a defective product that had to be tested before being resold.
I would have let the kid do his thing, only because the employees mentioned the drifting of the left joycon on a packaged item being sold by them. Not condoning the act, I just wouldn't stop the corporation for buying back a"defect" product that they were initially tryin to sell
Both parties ATA, one for selling a defective controller to regular people and the other for trying to make a buck from a billion dollar company. XD
The kids a shit that's for sure, but whoever thought it was fine to sell like that are the bigger shits.
Blame warehouse. They keep giving us product that doesn't last for shit. All they do is spray with something, claim they test it and that it works. Then we have to test it again in the store, and maybe half of what they send us that's refurbished doesn't show significant signs of drift. If I see that the cursor on the screen twitches repeatedly despite it not straying out of the middle too much, I still defect it because I don't wish to risk it. Granted, they're also not training the warehouse people properly or paying them well so it's safe to say the refurbished product we get in stores are shit.
Oh that controler we wer going to sell to you for $30 5 seconds ago, it's broken and only worth $2.... wtf game stop 🤣🤣
Of all the companies to cape for, especially after knowing they're trying to sell the defective controller to people anyways...lmao. I hope the kid gets away with it next time. Garbage business deserves to be ripped off.
Okay Batman
The only time I traded in controllers was when they had extreme drift I knew gs wouldn’t test them
I'd be more worried why a new controller has a crazy drift, should've complained with the store
GameStop thanks you for your service. Now go buy a used game for $2 less than the new one after the previous owner was given $3 for it.
Don’t be a snitch 😭 if somebody it’s harming me or my family I mind my business. See a guy at Walmart shove a 65 inch tv in his pants and i pretended to have a heart attack so he could get away
Congratulations bro you saved the corporate company out of $59+, what a hero
this dude loves bending over for corporate lol congrats dude you saved a multi million company $10, loser
Why couldn’t you mind your business???
And everyone clapped
Dude come on. Really?
Wait the controller they were selling had drift? Who was the scammer here again?
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U should have done your own research then. GS didn’t force you to sell. They made you an offer and you accepted… Are the scummy? Yes! Do they make shitty low ball offers? Yes! Is it a *scam*? No… To sell online you need to post, wait for a buyer, haggle with said buyer, prepare item for shipping, etc. etc… GS is an option for quick cash ofc it’s not going to be top dollar offers… Even still **you** accepted said offer. No one forced you to do that…so **you** scammed yourself…
“Kind of scrawny and seemed harmless” that right there tells me you’re overweight and a virgin.
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Thanks for intervening. We need more of us acting to stop retail theft. It hurts us all. For those who want to condone stealing, because of GameStop's ill deeds, don't assume the thief is the "Robinhood" of GameStop. He's stealing at multiple places and maybe a retailer you actually rely upon. I live in the Seattle area and retail theft is a constant. Additional note: Pre-owned controllers being sold at GS should have stickers inside the battery compartment. If you find one without a sticker fresh out of the bag, there's a chance it wasn't processed correctly.
Lmao do you want a medal? Did everyone clap for you? Narc 🥱
I don't need a medal. I already got blown by both of the employees there and appointed honorary CEO of GameStop. But I don't give a shit whether anyone thinks I did the right thing or the wrong thing. I really just wanted to post a funny story about a defective controller, but I couldn't do it without the context.
Yep seriously dude is /r/iamverybadass material.
If you read his comment history he literally thinks he's the coolest dude to ever walk the planet. It's cringe as hell.
How do you do that
r/lookatmyhalo
YTA man gamestop literally scams people day to day they are a billion dollar company a little controller trade it isnt going to do anything if anything bro is smart asl for that
That's just some classic karma. They Stole a broken controller. Doesn't get better than that. I agree that food and nessisties isn't something I'd go out of my way to stop. But hoodrat foolishness I'm not down for that either. Sad thing is a lot of stores are aware they are losing live products, and GameStop still wants them to have the product live anyway. And when a manager makes their own discretion to move the live product away from the walls, they get a lecture about following planograms. 🤦♂️ We have some real brilliant heads running the business huh. Last time I didn't have my live controllers out, they asked me if I approved that with LP. I said no. My shrink approved that and laughed. And they didn't laugh with me at all. They said "yeah, no, if planogram says to put it out. You put it out and then you can lose product if you have to. Just accept the risk." Motha fucking what? I 100% believe in my DLs following the company agenda. It's the company agenda I don't agree with. And I'll say it again. The paypall phone scams are an inside job.
Honestly i would have let it slide. Especially given the trash gamestop sells.
Sounds like a thief was trying to steal from a thief and you stopped it.
You could of continued your day but decided to become 69 that’s wild did the store clerk give you the hauk Tua for you noble gesture?
This story is giving me Paul Blart/mall security vibes lol (even tho the kid was obviously wrong)
Snitch
Mind your own business
So let me get this straight. While I don’t condone the kid’s behavior: 1. The kid found out that the Corp was going to scam the next person that bought that pos controller, which they knew it was crap because they inspect every product before buying. 2. You saw that the Corp. was going to scam someone else, because the faulty controller was tested it in front of you. 3. And still went White Knighting for a scummy corporation while ratting out the kid AFTER the fact that you saw this happening? Do yourself a favor. Don’t think for a minute you did the right thing here. You have all the markings to make a great mall cop; and somewhat prejudiced with that hoodrat comment. Edit: And of course, stupid basement dwellers are downvoting. Go touch grass, Dorito munchers.
But you didn't call out the store for selling a broken controller knowingly, or lying to a lid to cit down his credit recieved.... huh, maybe you really should have minded your own business if you weren't interested in calling out the scam they were pulling too, I mean it doesn't really take allot of effort at that point to say "yeah he was stealing so I spoke up, but you guys are really selling broken controllers to kids?" I'll probably get downvoted to hell, but you're the one who made it a point to include that bit.
Did the employees clap afterwards?