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The_Great_Skeeve t1_j21zyiw wrote

Every time I purchase an expensive electronic item at a store, we open it at the register. If I am paying over $500 dollars, I will be damn sure I am not purchasing a brick...

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Veylon t1_j226i7o wrote

It might be worth checking those video games, too. It's possible to get a shrinkwrapped video game case with no video game inside.

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Colonel-KWP t1_j22bwn2 wrote

You got that right! I bought a video game at Best Buy as a Christmas gift for one of my sons. When he opened it on that morning, it was filled with 6 blank CD-R’s instead of the real disks. Best Buy refused to make it right since we had already opened it. That was the last time I bought anything from them. It was over 15 years ago.

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SaltyBarDog t1_j241hh1 wrote

Store employees with access to shrink wrap. We would make a copy of the software but always put original back in the box.

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mdillenbeck t1_j22aw1d wrote

Isn't that the norm now - what you get is usually just a download code and no physical media (and even if you do the 24/7 online even for single player mode and day 1 patch of gigs and gigs will mean a day of downloading anyway).

Sucks to be a kid these days. No open, plug in, and get playing. It's open, plug in, have a parent with a credit card stumble through the registration process then child lock setup, update your system, then the next day start downloading your games, then have Christmastime internet slowdown take you into the new year, then suffer holiday online licensing server overloads block you from playing, and finally get ready to play and hear "time to go to bed, tomorrow is school - you can play more with your present when summer break comes if I don't tell you to play outside instead.

Yeah, I can see why tabletop gaming and mindless mobile gaming is booming.

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_Rand_ t1_j22cz7y wrote

PC games maybe.

Console games come with a disk that has at least a portion of the game on disc. Usually there is an update though, and you have to wait for the game to install as well (its considerably faster than my download speeds though.)

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digitaldigdug t1_j23o5w1 wrote

I once saw someone try to return an Xbox 360 at Walmart. Employee opens the box to check it and there's a binder of paper In it.

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RandomModder05 t1_j2f8pcn wrote

Had a lady sputter excludes at me that the ipad box was full of tiles when she bought it years ago. I proved she rewrapped by pointing out that the top of the box and the bottom of the box had different serial numbers or something like that.

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Sizara42 t1_j297n31 wrote

I do that too for especially for phones/tablets to make sure that it isn't locked or anything like that. Too many stories of people returning the wrong thing on purpose or stolen devices and the buyer being SoL

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