Small Tesco PS3 game vent and question

eschaton

will.i.amnt wrote: »

So are morons, it would seem :rotfl:



So wanting something new equates to having your head up your behind? Wow. Best start shopping in Oxfam.

As for New/Sealed. Of course, I meant New & Sealed as many listings appear on ebay. A simple linguistic device indeed. So simple, in fact, that it appears to have confused you:
""new/sealed" can mean one of two things, that it is new AND sealed or new OR sealed."
For the first part, I agree that it does indeed mean both new&sealed.
The second part makes no sense. "or new OR sealed". Eh? It can't either or. It needs to be both, otherwise they're falsely advertising. Maybe the oblique put you off?

Anyway, we're digressing. Honeydog makes another valid point about the display case getting mishandled, dropped and pawed by grubby toddlers. None of which equate to new.

Still, you won't ever admit you're wrong (and I'm willing to bet you work for GAME, HMV etc who perform this shoddy practice) and as such cannot see past your paymasters' methods. I wonder how you'd feel if the next time you went to Tesco to buy a bottle of vodka, you had to take an empty bottle to the checkout and they poured it back into the bottle after you'd purchased it. :rotfl:

But that's different, right? Right!?!?!


Honeydog - the answer is shopto.net . Put these masterbaggers out of business!

Some further reading:

http://www.hotukdeals.com/misc/warning-lovefilm-retail-sell-used-games-260040
http://www.hotukdeals.com/misc/game-sells-ex-display-stock-as-new-656778?page=2
http://www.bitterwallet.com/selling-used-stock-as-new-is-it-really-fair-game/23867

Are the schools on holiday AGAIN?

Honeydog

Today's email. I asked her if the manager would get back to me with the results of his investigation into why games are being gutted before they are sold. This is the response I got.

Dear Honeydog

Thank you for your response and I apologise for the delay in my reply.

I would like to inform you that I’m personally looking into the query that you’ve raised. Please allow me up to 7 days to do this and I will get back to you with a response.

Thank you again for your patience.

Kind regards

KMcG
Tesco Customer Service

How long can it take one Tesco manager to walk to the games aisle and have a look at his stock????? Beggars belief!

bluenoseam

In a store which will probably do close to £1m of sales in a day, do you think his biggest priority is to walk to the games aisle to see how his merchandise is displayed there? I don't think 7 days is unreasonable, especially given the amount of work the store manager will be up to their eyeballs in at the minute.

eschaton

bluenoseam wrote: »

In a store which will probably do close to £1m of sales in a day, do you think his biggest priority is to walk to the games aisle to see how his merchandise is displayed there? I don't think 7 days is unreasonable, especially given the amount of work the store manager will be up to their eyeballs in at the minute.

TBH a good Store Manager should know how they are selling a product like games without the need to go and check.

vyle

eschaton wrote: »

TBH a good Store Manager should know how they are selling a product like games without the need to go and check.

Somewhere like Tesco must sell a few hundred thousand, to a million different product lines... to know off the top of their head how the individual staff have chosen to display one type of item is a big ask ask, especially when store managers of large branches like that probably spend more time in meetings and doing paper-work than patrolling the floor.

StrongWork

eschaton wrote: »

Are the schools on holiday AGAIN?

I'm assuming so. Only a child would get so excited about computer games right? :huh:

fozmcfc

StrongWork wrote: »

I'm assuming so. Only a child would get so excited about computer games right? :huh:

Get with the times it's not the 80's anymore, the video game industry is massive.

http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Video_game_industry

Honeydog

So one of this manager (Paul's) employees is deliberately contravening company policy in the way he is selling these games and you don't think the manager is already aware of it??? What kind of a mickey mouse outfit is that Tesco?

Surely in one of those many meetings they've discussed what to do about the thefts and someone has suggested gutting the games and selling them that way? Manager's said - "top idea mate go for it"

Or are you saying that the chap/woman who restocks the games shelf has chosen to do it off their own bat?

I replied to KMcG yeserday and suggested that as she hadn't actually been much help so far that she let me have the manager's email and I'd liaise with him myself. She hasn't bothered to reply today.

It has actually become immaterial now since I have a £10 gift card from Sainsbury's after reporting a dodgy pack of chicken breasts. I will mostly be getting it from them now as £10 off will make them the cheapest 'store' I could go to on launch day..... I wonder if it will be sealed?

eschaton

Honeydog wrote: »

So one of this manager (Paul's) employees is deliberately contravening company policy in the way he is selling these games and you don't think the manager is already aware of it??? What kind of a mickey mouse outfit is that Tesco?

Surely in one of those many meetings they've discussed what to do about the thefts and someone has suggested gutting the games and selling them that way? Manager's said - "top idea mate go for it"

Or are you saying that the chap/woman who restocks the games shelf has chosen to do it off their own bat?

I replied to KMcG yeserday and suggested that as she hadn't actually been much help so far that she let me have the manager's email and I'd liaise with him myself. She hasn't bothered to reply today.

It has actually become immaterial now since I have a £10 gift card from Sainsbury's after reporting a dodgy pack of chicken breasts. I will mostly be getting it from them now as £10 off will make them the cheapest 'store' I could go to on launch day..... I wonder if it will be sealed?

As much as I am not in agreement with you about master bagging, I do totally agree with your view on what the Store Manager should be aware of.

Master bagging will be due to theft issues as they are not going to do a time consuming job without a good reason. But doing it is an implemented process. For a Store Manager not to know that this process takes place is unthinkable.

I do not rate Tesco CS which is why I rarely shop there anymore.

Carer

My family are big gamers, probably spend thousands a year on them and I buy from many different sources, but I ALWAYS ask for a sealed copy and if one is not available I will not buy.

You cannot give (or at least I can't) an unsealed game as a gift, as to me it automatically looks 2nd hand, and I am firmly in the camp of new=sealed, open=2nd hand.