Midnight CRAPness?
About a month ago, I reserved and fully paid for my collector's edition copy of Halo 2 at my local EB Games store.
Little did I expect the entire EB Games company and Microsoft to do something like "Midnight Madness" allowing the EB Games stores to open up at midnight to sell copies of Halo 2 so everyone 'can get it before anyone else'.
Finding out about the "Midnight Madness" (which will now be referred to as "MM") through the website, I decided that it would be kind of fun to go and pick up my copy at midnight, chat with the people who I know work there, then be on my merry way home with my brand new copy of Halo 2.
So.....
Did I get my copy?
NOPE. At least not at midnight.
Although, I will be picking it up later today, when the store is actually open for business.
Anyhow, the reason why I didn't pick it up was because the store I reserved it at was CLOSED. That's right..... CLOSED.
Even though the EB Games website had a FULL LIST of stores that WOULD BE PARTICIPATING in the event, only two stores in the San Francisco area were open at midnight.
Talk about false advertising.
Someone at EB Games is going to compensate me for the 1 hour I waited, at night, in a somewhat dangerous neighborhood, in the rain, at a location which was never opened up at midnight even though it was advertised on the EB Games website.
That kind of information is not just incorrect, it's just damned unfair. I wasn't the only one at that particular store who waited. I was one of approximately 20-25 people that waited outside the 23rd/Mission St. store in the early morning hours.
Did this happen to anyone else? Regardless of location? If so, post your story of plight here and feel free to rant.
(Although the information is now gone from the website, I did manage to do a screen capture of the listed stores that would be 'open' for "MM".)
Gee..... what do I demand from EB Games now? I'd say that 50% off my Halo 2 would suffice. What else do you think would be good compensation if this happened to you?
GunPanther