stupid customer lulz

[xnikki118x]

I thought this was better suited to REAL TALK, but if it's actually Gaming Forum material, I apologize in advance.

So I'm in this LJ community where people post about stupid customers. This particular post had me in stitches so I needed to share it with you guys.




Sometimes, names are confusing. I don't expect everyone who comes in to my store to be able to pronounce Daisenryaku, or even Suikoden. I do, however, expect them to TRY get it right, and if I smile pleasantly and pronounce it slowly and clearly for them, to listen to me. Because when you ask for 'Uh, that game, you know, Call of Modern War 4' and I say back very slowly 'Do you mean, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare?' I don't appreciate it when you roll your eyes at me and say in that tone that means I'm stupid, 'Yeah, that's what I said, Call of Modern War 4! DUH!'

So, dear customer, These are some things we do not sell.

Wee-station
Why-3
Wee-3 [Where the fuck do people get '3' out of 'Wii'?]
Nintendo WiYi
Wiyiyi
A Nintendo [As in, 'Can I get A Nintendo?']

Nor do I sell these items.

P Two P
PSB
Play 3 Station
Sony Three Station
Pee-Three's

Or even,

x Three Sixty
Three Box
xBox Three
X Three

I also don't stock

Nintendo XP's
DSX's
DSP's

And for those systems, I most certainly don't carry

Guitars 3
Hero of Guitar
Rock Guitar
Guitars Hero
X Guitar Sixty
Wii Three Guitars

We also seem to be currently out of stock on

Dancing Revolution
Dance Dance Game
Revolution Dance
Wii Dance
Dance Three Sixty

So when you come up to my register and ask me for any of those things, please be patient with me. It takes me a few minutes for my brain to register those random syllables and words you've yelled at me, and put them in the order of something resembling an actual product. I understand that we have a lot of games and words are hard to remember. But you need to understand that when you insist that a game is called 'Pop Star Academy', that I'm going to be looking for 'Pop Star Academy' even though I don't think it exists, and not 'Sing Star: Pop'.

Thanks,
Your local Video Game Monkey

PS: We're also out of

Assassination Squad
Assassination Crew
Assimilation Cree
Creed of Assassination

[Note: I realize some of these may be minor or trivial, but sometimes even one or two words can mean the difference between two entirely different products. I have dealt with customers who have gotten super frustrated because I can not find the game they're looking for, only to realize far too late that what they've asked for in no way resembles the actual title of what they want.]

[bagofeyes]

lol regular people

[xnikki118x]

Fans of video games or not, how can you avoid hearing the name "Nintendo Wii" ever for the past two years? Hah.

The "Nintendo XP" one had me picturing a DS running on a Windows OS.

[Mupepe]

Fans of video games or not, how can you avoid hearing the name "Nintendo Wii" ever for the past two years? Hah.

The "Nintendo XP" one had me picturing a DS running on a Windows OS.

I'm quoting this post as proof to how nerdy you really are

[Powerslave]

mupepe are you permabanned from gaf?

[bork]

Sometimes, names are confusing. I don't expect everyone who comes in to my store to be able to pronounce Daisenryaku, or even Suikoden. I do, however, expect them to TRY get it right, and if I smile pleasantly and pronounce it slowly and clearly for them, to listen to me. Because when you ask for 'Uh, that game, you know, Call of Modern War 4' and I say back very slowly 'Do you mean, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare?' I don't appreciate it when you roll your eyes at me and say in that tone that means I'm stupid, 'Yeah, that's what I said, Call of Modern War 4! DUH!'

I know what this person is going through; I had all the messed up names asked of me too, like "Residential Evil," "Parasital Evil," "Capcom Versus Sink," "Gran Theftal Auto," and plenty, plenty more requests for the "Game Station," "Nintendo Box," and more.

But now that I'm out of the (awful) video game retail business, I'm also going to say that anyone who actually corrects someone for asking for "Call of Modern War 4" instead of just getting them the game, ringing them up, and sending them on their way deserves to be mocked or have the customer roll their eyes at, no matter how stupid these people are.

[xnikki118x]

I know what this person is going through; I had all the messed up names asked of me too, like "Residential Evil," "Parasital Evil," "Capcom Versus Sink," "Gran Theftal Auto," and plenty, plenty more requests for the "Game Station," "Nintendo Box," and more.

But now that I'm out of the (awful) video game retail business, I'm also going to say that anyone who actually corrects someone for asking for "Call of Modern War 4" instead of just getting them the game, ringing them up, and sending them on their way deserves to be mocked or have the customer roll their eyes at, no matter how stupid these people are.

I agree to a point, but I think you have to correct them somehow if the title they're asking for is at all ambiguous/easily mistaken for another. Like "Mario Sports" can mean Wii Sports or Mario Tennis (do they make Mario Tennis for Wii?), stuff like that. Because if someone asked for "Mario Sports", meaning Mario Tennis, and an associate handed them Wii Sports, the customer would get pissed because the associate couldn't read his/her mind. Because psychic powers are a requirement of retail work, dontchaknow!

[Mupepe]

mupepe are you permabanned from gaf?

yessum

[Powerslave]

That's really fucked up. I liked your way of posting there. Which is not the same here, but it's also not fitted for this place, so that's understandable.
So it's really all because of that incest thread of yours?

[Mupepe]

That's really fucked up. I liked your way of posting there. Which is not the same here, but it's also not fitted for this place, so that's understandable.
So it's really all because of that incest thread of yours?

well i was already previously banned under Mupepe, and then I made AlanHemberger.  And it was a string of posts consistent with the incest thread style.  It's all good.  Most of the people I really liked have come here or I talk to them outside of GAF.

[Powerslave]

THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOU ITS ALL FOR THE LULZ taco

[Kyle]

my friend calls Xbox 360 a "GAMEBOX three hundred and 60" 

[Barry Egan]

THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOU ITS ALL FOR THE LULZ taco

You don't even really care about Mupepe's well-being you asshole!

[Trent Dole]

Somebody asked me for a 'Wiistation' the other day. I laughed at them.

[Van Cruncheon]

a customer asked me to wii in his mouth the other day

then i remembered that i don't even work retail

[Mupepe]

THIS IS NOT ABOUT YOU ITS ALL FOR THE LULZ taco

You don't even really care about Mupepe's well-being you asshole!

My hero...

[Powerslave]

People gotta learn to look at the bigger picture..

[Mupepe]

i love big pictures.  they distract from a hole in my wall

[Powerslave]

holefucker

[cloudwalking]

my mom used to call the gamecube the "xbox" because it "looks like a box"

yes mom, but it also looks like a CUBE

[brawndolicious]

I agree to a point, but I think you have to correct them somehow if the title they're asking for is at all ambiguous/easily mistaken for another. Like "Mario Sports" can mean Wii Sports or Mario Tennis (do they make Mario Tennis for Wii?), stuff like that. Because if someone asked for "Mario Sports", meaning Mario Tennis, and an associate handed them Wii Sports, the customer would get pissed because the associate couldn't read his/her mind. Because psychic powers are a requirement of retail work, dontchaknow!

for sports games it would be a big headache to remember all the slightly different names so as long as you remember what athlete is on the cover that year of that particular sports game and can explain to the customer all the differences between the different versions to see which one he was looking for, you could easily find the right game.  It'd be much more of a headache to find out somebody's looking for when a new game and they pronounce things like Creed of Assassin's.

[Mupepe]

My mom always knew what each were called.  i made her listen to me talk about them and the differences. 

[The Sceneman]

I need a wee-station. I guess my toilet could do the trick

[max_cool]

You mean to tell me the "We-Three" I bought by brother isn't real!?!?!?

[bagofeyes]

You mean to tell me the "We-Three" I bought by brother isn't real!?!?!?

Yup, you just had your penis in his mouth.