Topic: Nintendo retail training video from 1991 unearthed

[AV]

"I don't know what's wrong with it.  What?  It's not supposed to have cockroaches inside of it?"

LOL.

Anyway has anyone actually ever gotten bad customer service from Nintendo. My launch DS had a dead pixel, and replaced within a week. I got My DS Lite fixed twice, once L button stopped working and second the touch screen was off. Nice people over phone and it was 100% free

[UncleBob]

You laugh - it happened one time... Well, without the "It's not supposed to have cockroaches inside of it?" part.  Someone bought a pack of Polaroid instant film and put it in their camera and the prints came out horribly (even more so than usual for this type of film).  When I opened up the camera, all kinds of crap, including roaches, came out.  Gee, no wonder it doesn't work...

Anywhoo, as for "bad" customer service from Nintendo - only once, if you want to call it that.  When the Game Boy Player first came out, I called to see if there was any way to get the Super Game Boy borders from older GB games to appear on the screen.  The guy didn't seem to know what I was talking about, and when I used Link's Awakening DX to describe it, he acted like I was crazy because Link's Awakening DX was a Game Boy Color game and wouldn't work on the Super Game Boy...  We finally agreed to disagree, and I just came to the conclusion myself that there was no way to use the SGB borders with the Game Boy Player...  I kinda felt the guy was being rude to me, but he probably thought I was like the nerdy guy in the video who thought he knew it all.

But, for the record, the DX version of Link's Awakening does, in fact, play in the Super Game Boy.

[EasyCure]

Retail blows. There was a group of women my manager affectionately called the gang of Gypsies, Theives, and Tramps. Its funny because they were all of the above. They'd steal merchandise from one store in the chain and return it to another for merchandise credit, then use the credit to buy what they really wanted (mainly shoes). Why are they tramps? Well once when i was working with just one other employee, they came in and at one point one of the women took her breasts out to show another her nipple peircing, and tried to press it up to the glass display so another one of the women could gauge whether or not the one she liked in the display was the same size or not...



Oh and i've had people try to return things covered in dog hair or other crap on it claiming it was never worn. As for roaches, i never experienced it myself but coworkers told me that someone tried to return a pair of shoes and noticed "at least one dead roach on the bottom of the shoe."

That sorta stuff actually happens man.