{"id":51,"date":"2004-10-23T22:18:15","date_gmt":"2004-10-23T22:18:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-24T07:19:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T12:19:28","slug":"where-is-the-love-or-why-ebgames-now-sucks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2004\/10\/23\/where-is-the-love-or-why-ebgames-now-sucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Where is the Love (or Why EBGames Now Sucks)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the day I was all about GameStop, but they became increasingly frustrating as I attempted to return a game within the 14-day window, which eventually turned to 10-days, and then 2-days.  Granted, I have no idea what the return policy is today, but should anyone be hassled for trying to return that South Park monstrosity for the N64 after a couple of hours with the game?  \u201cBack to the store!  This turkey sucks!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was not like I was returning games left and right; maybe three a year, which was nothing considering I was buying 2-3 per month.  The twit turnover was much higher than my propensity to purchase games, so I guess I never built up a report with the folks behind the counter.<\/p>\n<p>I eventually gave up on the brick and mortar GameStop stores, and the whole \u201crush to the mall\u201d scene to see if a new game was out an available pretty much sucked as well.  I discovered online shopping, and all was well (eventually).  I no longer had to rush around to get a game; much to my wife\u2019s chagrin, game after game magically appeared at our front door.  Technically is grand!<\/p>\n<p>After a few months of using GameStop (they seemed like the best option at the time) I realized that they too sucked as much donkey you know whats as the standard mall stores.  I guess the same twits that ran the mall stores ran the online business.<\/p>\n<p>I was sick and tired of bad service, high shipping prices, and messed up orders, so I switched to EBGames (at the time known as Electronic Boutique).  I was not familiar with the store, but a nice relationship was born.  I have loved them for years and years and years.  And then some.  I even used to PIMP them all the time when Calvert Games took itself half way seriously.  But no more.  That was then, this is now.<\/p>\n<p>Long story short, EBGames is now charging me GA sales tax, which in my opinion is pretty evil.  So I recently went back to GameStop because their shipping charges are reasonable and they do not charge that nasty GA sales tax. So far so good.  Keeping my fingers crossed that a new relationship is born, but just in case please feel free to post your internet vendor of choice.<\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\nif(wpa2a)wpa2a.script_load();\n\/\/--><\/script>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the day I was all about GameStop, but they became increasingly frustrating as I attempted to return a game within the 14-day window, which eventually turned to 10-days, and then 2-days. Granted, I have no idea what the return policy is today, but should anyone be hassled for trying to return that South &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/2004\/10\/23\/where-is-the-love-or-why-ebgames-now-sucks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Where is the Love (or Why EBGames Now Sucks)?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"addtoany_share_save_container addtoany_content_bottom\"><div class=\"a2a_kit a2a_kit_size_ addtoany_list a2a_target\" id=\"wpa2a_2\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'https:\/\/www.addtoany.com\/share', '');\" class=\"a2a_dd addtoany_share_save\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/add-to-any\/share_save_171_16.png\" width=\"171\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Share\"\/><\/a><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[53],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","tag-n64"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2191,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/2191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.calvertgames.com\/cgblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}