d00ds. the best buy in san bernardino, california is player hating!
i brought the c&c:ra2 to the counter and showed the coupon, and the girl is like, "uhm, i have to get info on this." she goes and talks to some other employees and they're all staring at it, then says she doesn't think it's valid. i explain to her where i got it from (i even wrote the site down on the paper), so she asks one of the higher up employees i guess.
her: can he use this?
him: (without looking) no.
my friend: aw man, you didn't even look at that sh*t man.
him: (trying to be all gangster) what did you say?
friend: nothing man... nothing
i then explain to him again where i got it and how i had to print it out, and he's like "you need the original?"
short of going to whereever the webserver is physically located and stealing and bringing to the guy for proof of the coupon, i couldn't do sh*t, so i just was like, i'll pay for it, but i want to talk to the manager.
manager comes over after i pay and starts asking me the 411, then tells me they have no way of verifying this web promo and all this crap... yada yada yada. so i ask her if they have a internet connection to check the site out but she doesn't answer and keeps going on about how this is technically a copy.
so i'm like, whatever, i got stuff to do (in a non-violent way of course -- don't want any felonies or no more guns for me).
so i end up calling 1-888-bestbuy on the way home on my mobile while my friend drove my car, and i get on the phone with a rep (who sounded cute as hell!) and she asked for the site and i gave it to her and THE SITE WAS DOWN! CONSPIRACY!
so she was taking down my statement of the situation and all that and i told her what bb and who the manager was and she calls them up and talks to her supervisor, and basically, unless the site is up, they can't do anything about it.
cock-blockers! anyway, i ask the rep for the event number for my phone call so i can call back when the site is actually up and i took it down and that was it.
so i'm basically waiting till the site is back up so i can call back and get my 20% off.
note: this is not about 20% off. this is a lot of trouble to go through to get a few bucks off a pc game. to me, this is about principles. i feel like i got assed out by the bestbuy in san bernardino, california. there should be a list of the various online coupons available so they know that it's legit. i just hate that feeling of looking stupid when i tried to redeem a legitimate (assuming it is legitimate like everyone says it is) coupon.
anyway, when the site gets back up, and i call bbuy toll free, i'll post the results of the call.