I finally got this game! ~ My HHD/WalMart Horror Story (I'm dramatic)

[Grumble]

My mom got me HHD for my bday (thanks mom, yes your adult daughter still loses her mind over AC games)

But she got the one with the NFC reader because she wasn't sure if I needed it. I have the new 3DS. She believes in bday presents being a complete surprise so rather than calling me, she just got the more expensive one, knowing I could exchange it for the other and have a few extra dollars. Nice job, mom! I thought that was good thinking.

Until I went to WalMart to exchange it. I didn't have the receipt but my mom said that'd be no big deal since the game is less than $50... you can return things that are less than $50 without a receipt... She made sure... I guess she didn't realize that the $50 had to include tax. So my game, plus taxes was over $50 and in order to return it, I had to get things from the electronics department worth $50 or more.

So I thought, cool, I'll get a couple packs of amiibo cards. Nintendo said cards would be easy to keep in supply. Harharhar.

But of course they were out of Amiibo cards. And the people in electronics thought I was STUPID or something. "No, amiibos are these toys, they ain't cards." FUUU!

So, I tried to get the customer service manager to let me buy some cat litter with the $10. Nope. It had to be electronics, and it had to be over the price of HHD with the NFC reader. I pondered over whether to buy some crappy Eddie Murphy DVD or something else that would get stuffed in a drawer and never used. At this point, any sane person would have just left and said "screw it, I'll just stuff this NFC reader in a drawer." But not me. Not today.

For once in my life I took the approach my mother would have taken.

I never raise hell over customer service things. But I was so exhausted. I went back to customer service and asked for the customer service manager's manager... The comanager on duty (finally someone nice and respectful) agreed to just exchange the game and give me a $10 gift card to use in the store or online. He even asked the manager in customer service why he had to be bothered over a $10 gift card. "If a customer is obviously not trying to exchange something stolen, just bend the rules. This customer is just trying to keep from wasting $10. Don't bother me over $10 again."

Finally, VICTORY!

So now I'm playing and I really like this game. I didn't get it for myself because I thought I wouldn't really care for it. But I'm really happy that my mom got it for me now!

And now I can buy some amiibo cards when WalMart.com restocks them! XD

 

[kayleee]

Yeah this is why I avoid Walmart like the plague

 

[cosmia]

The Walmarts near me (I live in Canada) are usually pretty cool with returning things. I've returned opened makeup before because I "didn't like the colour" and they were like okay cool whatever. They were probably just tired and wanted to go home though hahaha

At least you got the money back :3

I also had a hard time trying to buy amiibo cards from Walmart though. The guy had no idea what I was talking about. They actually had the Game+Reader package listed for $6.95 (the price of amiibo cards) instead of the actual amiibo cards there, and I was nice and told him he should probably fix that. I guess they just saw "amiibo!!!" on the box and assumed that's what it was. Maybe I should have been a little **** and seen if the game + reader rung up as $6.95. That would have been hilarious... and terrible. And then he searched on the Walmart website to see if they were in stock and I was like dude I did this from home tho?? Anyways. Some people working at Walmart have no idea what they're actually doing hahahhh

 

[Grumble]

(I live in Canada) ... They were probably just tired and wanted to go home though hahaha

Oh no. This was like 10am. Shift changes should have happened by then, haha. See, the difference here is YOU LIVE IN CANADA! AKA the most polite place on earth! I live in Florida, and have worked in hospitality. I've seen vacationers from ALL over the globe. French people=rude. Germans=loud. Canadians=sweet and polite and never complain even when they should complain!

Once, a Canadian woman found a used condom under the garbage bin in her hotel room. The maid hadn't actually moved the bin when removing the liner I guess. Anyway the woman apologized for bothering me to come get it. Housekeeping had left for the day, so I went up there to get it, and asked if she wanted a different room, etc...

The woman felt terrible that I had to do someone else's job. LOL!

Obviously, that's an extremely polite case. But still, Canadians have just always been way more patient and polite than American, and even other foreign customers.

I seriously, to this day, have never had a Canadian customer get to me. Even the French Canadians have been ~okay~. Hehehe.

Oh I could go on forever about how much I love my Canadian customers.

I hate to generalize an entire population, but sorry Canadians, you're all sweet.

I mean, even your WalMart employees offer to look inventory up online! The employee here said "Well I don't even know what that is, so... you're on your own."

Hehe!

 

[cosmia]

Awww that's so nice of you <3333 I know a lot of unfriendly Canadians but for the most part I think we're alright :3