do any stores let you get credit for unopened games?

[RichieZ]

I recieved multiple copies of resident evil 4 as a belated xmas present. Obviously I only need 1, are there any stores that will give me store credit for them? Its still sealed in the shrink wrap

 

[PoPPeR]

if you mean "if i want to say i lost the receipt, what stores should i go to," then BestBuy would be my first choice. Circuit City and CompUSA seem to be YMMV in my experience

 

[Meractik]

lots of stores give you instore credit if you don't have proof that you purchased the item there at least when my mom goes to return things all the time she is able to at least get instore credit. they should do it for you b/c if the items are unopened if they already carry the item they could place it on the shelf and resell it anyways so there'd be no loss on their part.

 

[Aimster]

They will scan to see if you even purchased it in their store, right?

 

[Meractik]

they might.... im not sure about that one. never worked at a department store.

 

[Wanescotting]

*cough* AT FS/FT *cough*

 

[TechnoKid]

Originally posted by: Aimster
They will scan to see if you even purchased it in their store, right?

How are they going to know if you paid cash or it was a gift and there is no receipt? The only way they would be able to tell is to do an inventory count, they would not be able to pull up an individual sale in this particular situation because the UPC symbol on the game is the same at every store. Unless this was a club type of store like costco that logs your purchases, or circuit city that take your name and phone number in case of situations like lost reciepts.

 

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: Aimster
They will scan to see if you even purchased it in their store, right?

they can't scan it really...its not high dollar enough to have a unique serial..at leat i dont think it would have a serial...anyone else know about his?

 

[Aimster]

Originally posted by: TechnoKid

Originally posted by: Aimster
They will scan to see if you even purchased it in their store, right?

How are they going to know if you paid cash or it was a gift and there is no receipt? The only way they would be able to tell is to do an inventory count, they would not be able to pull up an individual sale in this particular situation because the UPC symbol on the game is the same at every store. Unless this was a club type of store like costco that logs your purchases, or circuit city that take your name and phone number in case of situations like lost reciepts.

The barcode is in their system? If it is like this then what is to stop someone from going out on a hot deal buying 50 video games for $39 at store 1 and going to store 2 and saying they got it there for $49 and getting a bunch of extra cash/store credit.

 

[quakefiend420]

each barcode is unique? i thought it just told the POS what the item was so it could ring up a price...

 

[Aimster]

This is interesting. Walmart sells everything cheap. Someone who wants something from Sears can just go stack up on things from Walmart and return it to Sears and buy whatever they wanted with their "fraud" discount.

 

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: Aimster
This is interesting. Walmart sells everything cheap. Someone who wants something from Sears can just go stack up on things from Walmart and return it to Sears and buy whatever they wanted with their "fraud" discount.

hmm...<lightbulb>

we need a lightbulb smiley

 

[Wanescotting]

Originally posted by: Aimster
This is interesting. Walmart sells everything cheap. Someone who wants something from Sears can just go stack up on things from Walmart and return it to Sears and buy whatever they wanted with their "fraud" discount.

Hmmmm...........nah, they would probaly catch on after a while. I would imagine they track returns over $100. Do it enough times, and you will be friends with the FBI I would imagine.

 

[DJFuji]

I umm..."have a friend" who was sent a retail, shrinkwrapped copy of MS Office 2003 Pro from MS as part of some prize from a MS sweepstakes. Anyhow, this "friend" returned it to BB and got a gift card for the full amount of the purchase. In this case, that's a gift card worth about $550. Sweet!

 

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: DJFuji
I umm..."have a friend" who was sent a retail, shrinkwrapped copy of MS Office 2003 Pro from MS as part of some prize from a MS sweepstakes. Anyhow, this "friend" returned it to BB and got a gift card for the full amount of the purchase. In this case, that's a gift card worth about $550. Sweet!

nice

 

[TechnoKid]

Originally posted by: Aimster

Originally posted by: TechnoKid

Originally posted by: Aimster
They will scan to see if you even purchased it in their store, right?

How are they going to know if you paid cash or it was a gift and there is no receipt? The only way they would be able to tell is to do an inventory count, they would not be able to pull up an individual sale in this particular situation because the UPC symbol on the game is the same at every store. Unless this was a club type of store like costco that logs your purchases, or circuit city that take your name and phone number in case of situations like lost reciepts.

The barcode is in their system? If it is like this then what is to stop someone from going out on a hot deal buying 50 video games for $39 at store 1 and going to store 2 and saying they got it there for $49 and getting a bunch of extra cash/store credit.

Its called inventory control and all aspects thereof. And since I do not know the full scope of it, i'd need to do more research about it, but suffice it to say that it could take up a lot of space to fully explain.

Macy's for example, adds a little return tag barcode to everyitem you buy now.

 

[Aimster]

Originally posted by: DJFuji
I umm..."have a friend" who was sent a retail, shrinkwrapped copy of MS Office 2003 Pro from MS as part of some prize from a MS sweepstakes. Anyhow, this "friend" returned it to BB and got a gift card for the full amount of the purchase. In this case, that's a gift card worth about $550. Sweet!

Well this was posted at night. If this was posted during the day people would jump all over you for this.

I for one don't care. I wouldn't do it but who I am to tell you what to do. I'm not your mother.

So what did "your friend" buy?

 

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: Aimster

Originally posted by: DJFuji
I umm..."have a friend" who was sent a retail, shrinkwrapped copy of MS Office 2003 Pro from MS as part of some prize from a MS sweepstakes. Anyhow, this "friend" returned it to BB and got a gift card for the full amount of the purchase. In this case, that's a gift card worth about $550. Sweet!

Well this was posted at night. If this was posted during the day people would jump all over you for this.

I for one don't care. I wouldn't do it but who I am to tell you what to do. I'm not your mother.

So what did "your friend" buy?

i don't see why...the store is going to resell it and make their money back...its not like they're getting robbed...just breaking even...

 

[Aimster]

Originally posted by: quakefiend420

Originally posted by: Aimster

Originally posted by: DJFuji
I umm..."have a friend" who was sent a retail, shrinkwrapped copy of MS Office 2003 Pro from MS as part of some prize from a MS sweepstakes. Anyhow, this "friend" returned it to BB and got a gift card for the full amount of the purchase. In this case, that's a gift card worth about $550. Sweet!

Well this was posted at night. If this was posted during the day people would jump all over you for this.

I for one don't care. I wouldn't do it but who I am to tell you what to do. I'm not your mother.

So what did "your friend" buy?

i don't see why...the store is going to resell it and make their money back...its not like they're getting robbed...just breaking even...

What if they never sell it? Not everything is sold in stores.

 

[DJFuji]

Originally posted by: Aimster

Originally posted by: DJFuji
I umm..."have a friend" who was sent a retail, shrinkwrapped copy of MS Office 2003 Pro from MS as part of some prize from a MS sweepstakes. Anyhow, this "friend" returned it to BB and got a gift card for the full amount of the purchase. In this case, that's a gift card worth about $550. Sweet!

Well this was posted at night. If this was posted during the day people would jump all over you for this.

I for one don't care. I wouldn't do it but who I am to tell you what to do. I'm not your mother.

So what did "your friend" buy?

Well what's funny is that "my friend" posted a thread about this on ATOT asking if he should ebay it or return it to a store. Someone said that a store might give a hassle about returning without a receipt but BB took it without a problem.

My friend ended up buying a car stereo, bluetooth headsset, MX1000 mouse (which is getting returned btw), and whatever else I, err "he" can think of.

I don't see this as any more "immoral" than getting something as a gift from office depot and then returning it to best buy because you don't want store credit from OD. The software is totally legit so it's simply a matter of returned mechandise. Just because i didn't pay for it doesnt mean it's wrong.

 

[vegetation]

Originally posted by: Wanescotting

Originally posted by: Aimster
This is interesting. Walmart sells everything cheap. Someone who wants something from Sears can just go stack up on things from Walmart and return it to Sears and buy whatever they wanted with their "fraud" discount.

Hmmmm...........nah, they would probaly catch on after a while. I would imagine they track returns over $100. Do it enough times, and you will be friends with the FBI I would imagine.

Uh, no. There is nothing illegal about that unless you're dealing with stolen merchandise.

 

[quakefiend420]

Originally posted by: vegetation

Originally posted by: Wanescotting

Originally posted by: Aimster
This is interesting. Walmart sells everything cheap. Someone who wants something from Sears can just go stack up on things from Walmart and return it to Sears and buy whatever they wanted with their "fraud" discount.

Hmmmm...........nah, they would probaly catch on after a while. I would imagine they track returns over $100. Do it enough times, and you will be friends with the FBI I would imagine.

Uh, no. There is nothing illegal about that unless you're dealing with stolen merchandise.

its gotta be misrepresentation or something like that...i mean if you are telling them you purchased it from them then you are misrepresenting the product...or something like that

 

[RichieZ]

o well, i got it done at worst buy, thnx guys

 

[PoPPeR]

Originally posted by: quakefiend420

Originally posted by: Aimster

Originally posted by: DJFuji
I umm..."have a friend" who was sent a retail, shrinkwrapped copy of MS Office 2003 Pro from MS as part of some prize from a MS sweepstakes. Anyhow, this "friend" returned it to BB and got a gift card for the full amount of the purchase. In this case, that's a gift card worth about $550. Sweet!

Well this was posted at night. If this was posted during the day people would jump all over you for this.

I for one don't care. I wouldn't do it but who I am to tell you what to do. I'm not your mother.

So what did "your friend" buy?

i don't see why...the store is going to resell it and make their money back...its not like they're getting robbed...just breaking even...

stores aren't out there to break even. What's going to happen is this (if you try the whole fraud thing). Lets say you go to Target or Wal-Mart and get a bunch of games cheap. You return them all to BestBuy. They take down your information, including drivers license, and give you a gift card for all the games returned. At the end of the month, there will most likely be a discrepency in their inventory , and if its a big enough deal to them they may just check cameras for employee theft, or if they have too many, they'll be checking returns. And then they'll notice that you returned a bunch of games, which just happen to be the ones that are being miscounted, without a receipt.

Of course there's nothing they can do to you except ban you from returning things without a receipt in the future, and maybe that type of stuff is just paranoia speaking, but it makes sense at least.

 

[PoPPeR]

Originally posted by: quakefiend420

Originally posted by: vegetation

Originally posted by: Wanescotting

Originally posted by: Aimster
This is interesting. Walmart sells everything cheap. Someone who wants something from Sears can just go stack up on things from Walmart and return it to Sears and buy whatever they wanted with their "fraud" discount.

Hmmmm...........nah, they would probaly catch on after a while. I would imagine they track returns over $100. Do it enough times, and you will be friends with the FBI I would imagine.

Uh, no. There is nothing illegal about that unless you're dealing with stolen merchandise.

its gotta be misrepresentation or something like that...i mean if you are telling them you purchased it from them then you are misrepresenting the product...or something like that

well first off I dont think they'd really care too much to get authorities involved. The only reason for that would be if it was a lot of stinkin money, and you most likley wouldn't be able to return 5 plasma TV's without receipts in the first place. Do you really think they would call the FBI if you "misintrepreted" $1000 worth of items.

And FYI: BestBuy has a limit on times you can return things without a receipt within a year. After 3 times (and they can track this by your drivers license), you are no longer allowed to do it