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This story happened last night, in fact, both of them did.
Signing for Money
This one I got just as the store closed. A woman with two children comes in, looks around, picks up two games. No biggie, pays in cash. I ring her out and hand her her purchase. She starts to walk away from the counter, then turns to ask, "Did I need to sign something?"
Huzzah-wha? "Uh, no, you paid with cash."
"Oh."
Can you call thirty stores in five minutes?
This group was a mother, a grandmother, and a son. Interestingly enough, the only one of them who didn't speak English was the son. Mom had to translate everything I said for him.
Mom asked me tons of questions, like, "How much is the DS? What's the difference between a DS original, and a DS Lite? How much is this game used (particularly when I didn't have any of that game used)? Is there a store at *these crossroads*? Is the PSP or DS better?"
In order, my answers were: $129.99 new, or $119.99 used; the DS Lite is thinner, on newer hardware; I don't know that information without having one to show you; I only know of a handful of stores, and those roads are in places I've never been; I prefer the DS, because you have to buy all-new games for the PSP (only runs UMDs, whereas the DS can play Gameboy Advance games), and, though you CAN play movies on the PSP, you have to re-buy them."
Grandmother started walking up to the counter while Mom & Son were perusing the DS games (roughly, as far from the registers as you can get in the store), and would ask me if *this store* or *that store* had Naruto for the DS, used. I called a few myself, and could only find stores with new copies, none used. But the new games were $34 something, and that was just too much.
Signing for Money
This one I got just as the store closed. A woman with two children comes in, looks around, picks up two games. No biggie, pays in cash. I ring her out and hand her her purchase. She starts to walk away from the counter, then turns to ask, "Did I need to sign something?"
Huzzah-wha? "Uh, no, you paid with cash."
"Oh."
Can you call thirty stores in five minutes?
This group was a mother, a grandmother, and a son. Interestingly enough, the only one of them who didn't speak English was the son. Mom had to translate everything I said for him.
Mom asked me tons of questions, like, "How much is the DS? What's the difference between a DS original, and a DS Lite? How much is this game used (particularly when I didn't have any of that game used)? Is there a store at *these crossroads*? Is the PSP or DS better?"
In order, my answers were: $129.99 new, or $119.99 used; the DS Lite is thinner, on newer hardware; I don't know that information without having one to show you; I only know of a handful of stores, and those roads are in places I've never been; I prefer the DS, because you have to buy all-new games for the PSP (only runs UMDs, whereas the DS can play Gameboy Advance games), and, though you CAN play movies on the PSP, you have to re-buy them."
Grandmother started walking up to the counter while Mom & Son were perusing the DS games (roughly, as far from the registers as you can get in the store), and would ask me if *this store* or *that store* had Naruto for the DS, used. I called a few myself, and could only find stores with new copies, none used. But the new games were $34 something, and that was just too much.
However, when they ask me to call stores that aren't on my handy little list of numbers, and I tell them, "I can't call that store, as I've no idea where it is, and have no phone number with which to call them," and they just repeat themselves, "Well, it's on Cheerios Lane, and Froot Loops Boulevard."
"I'm sorry, they don't ship merchandise. If you want the item, you need to go there to pick it up.
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