Community Forums => General Chat => Topic started by: JonLeung on November 10, 2005, 02:22:31 PM
Title: Am I a jerk for pestering the local Blockbuster for not getting Mario Superstar Baseball?
Post by: JonLeung on November 10, 2005, 02:22:31 PM
Ever since the game came out in late August, I've been constantly bugging the local Blockbuster Video to get it. I was surprised that I even have to; the game was the featured GameCube game of September on the Blockbuster web site, and they've always gotten other Mario games which were almost always rented out.
I mean, come on, if you have games for a Nintendo console out, it's only common sense to have, you know, MARIO games! Based on the past rental records of other Mario games, any manager who somehow doesn't know about games should still be able to make a basic enough deduction that it would be a game worth making available.
And it's like nearly mid-November, they still don't have it in, and they keep giving me inconsistent responses as to whether or not they'll ever get any copies. They don't know. They won't. They will. They don't know again. Make up your mind!
They've gotten several copies of new games, like Call Of Duty 2: Big Red One, Gun, etc. This includes new Nintendo-published games like Pokémon XD and Battalion Wars. So it's not like they've given up on the GameCube yet, or even Nintendo games.
So why not Mario Superstar Baseball?
And soon Super Mario Strikers is coming out, and I can see that there's no guarantee that they'll have that either.
It's so frustrating - I rarely buy games because I play them to death when I devote a weekend to a game when renting it, so my game choices are essentially limited to what Blockbuster gets in. They don't get every GameCube game in, but until now it hasn't been an issue, and considering it's a freaking Mario game, I'm surprised I have to even keep asking. I feel I have to now because it will become less reasonable as the game gets older.
I'm probably sounding like a whiner, but am I really being unreasonable? If they once had a whole row on the shelf for Ribbit King, is it so hard to even get ONE copy of a guaranteed hot rental?
Title: RE:Am I a jerk for pestering the local Blockbuster for not getting Mario Superstar Baseball?
Post by: nickmitch on November 10, 2005, 04:12:41 PM
No, you're not; they're the jerks. Seriously, do they live in Pod 6 or what?
Title: RE: Am I a jerk for pestering the local Blockbuster for not getting Mario Superstar Baseball?
Post by: King of Twitch on November 10, 2005, 11:10:25 PM
It's retarded how they keep multiple display boxes of the same game on the shelf, wasting space just to make a certain game stick out.
Title: RE: Am I a jerk for pestering the local Blockbuster for not getting Mario Superstar Baseball?
Post by: couchmonkey on November 11, 2005, 06:18:01 AM
I don't think you're being unreasonable. In fact, that's nice work!
If they never get it in, take a look in the bargain bins in a few months and then sell it back to a store (or better yet, online, if you can).
Title: RE: Am I a jerk for pestering the local Blockbuster for not getting Mario Superstar Baseball?
Post by: stevey on November 11, 2005, 11:21:35 AM
THEY ARE THE JERK!!!! BURN DOWN THE STORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Title: RE: Am I a jerk for pestering the local Blockbuster for not getting Mario Superstar Baseball?
Post by: kirby_killer_dedede on November 11, 2005, 11:23:42 AM
You're not a jerk. You're my hero.
Title: RE:Am I a jerk for pestering the local Blockbuster for not getting Mario Superstar Baseball?
Post by: JonLeung on December 09, 2005, 07:11:32 AM
I FINALLY got some answers from the manager just now. They're not good.
Unfortunately, someone high-up decided that Mario Superstar Baseball wasn't "profitable" and so only 8 copies went out to ALL OF CANADA.
W.T.F. There's a dozen Mario Party 7s in the store alone but only eight of another Mario game across one of the largest countries in the world.
They did assure me that the store nearest my house got some copies of Super Mario Strikers today. That's a relief, I suppose.
But now I have to ask around to borrow Mario Superstar Baseball, or maybe I should check out other rental places that actually have their brains on right. I've been inconvenienced enough; I might as well go to another chain if that's what it takes to get a hold of this game.
Blockbuster is dumb if they think a dozen Ribbit Kings is a smarter choice than even ONE Mario Superstar Baseball per store. Well, I haven't played Ribbit King...but maybe they got those for cheap because they're PROBABLY not that great...but a dozen? >_< And their communication skills need work if it takes this long to get an answer...especially since that one time a girl tried to be helpful and wrote a note to her manager right in front of me. Good job at not losing that.
Title: RE:Am I a jerk for pestering the local Blockbuster for not getting Mario Superstar Baseball?
Post by: JonLeung on December 09, 2005, 02:22:53 PM
As another example of store incompetency I was glad to see that Super Mario Strikers was in today. When I went to rent it one of the women I talked to yesterday was there and recognized me from yesterday. Then she felt really bad when lo and behold, the copies of Super Mario Strikers they had weren't actually "received" properly and so they couldn't rent them out.
WTF man.
It's like an impossibility for me to rent Mario Sports games when I want to.
Okay, I could probably rent Strikers and some later date but it's still an added frustration. Like adding insult to injury.
Makes me wonder about those online rental services. Anyone use those in Canada? Are they any good?
