Hall of Shame inductee: Electronics Boutique, Gulfview Square Mall

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Recently, the EB Games store at the Gulfview Square Mall mistakenly purchased some stolen merchandise. The way it handled the situation has landed that store in the ABC Action News Hall of Shame.

 

[Kelvrick]

WTF is that. FVCK EB. If you didn't have Ninja Gaiden one day before everyone else, I would have never have bought it from you.

Now I remeber why I stopped buying from there in the first place.

 

[ROTC1983]

That is some FVCKED up crap :|

 

[toant103]

that suck

 

[TechnoKid]

man, that is f'd up.

 

[akodi]

jebus, that's piss poor business ethics...not giving her possessions back to her when they broke the law

 

[opticalmace]

Arson. Stat.

 

[peter584]

I'll never shop there again

 

[crystal]

While I understand her situation, but who will cover EB lost? What she should do is proscuted the thief to get her money back, i.e., whatever the value those games cost.

 

[Mill]

Originally posted by: crystal
While I understand her situation, but who will cover EB lost? What she should do is proscuted the thief to get her money back, i.e., whatever the value those games cost.

EB could have sued the thief if they didn't BREAK the fuggin law. Anyway, it was HER property. They have no right to claim it.

 

[95SS]

Originally posted by: crystal
While I understand her situation, but who will cover EB lost? What she should do is proscuted the thief to get her money back, i.e., whatever the value those games cost.

Why should she have to? EB clearly broke the law, they should pony up the $$ and learn from their mistake.

 

[SweetSweetLeroyBrown]

um..wait a minute...why doesn't the police recover the stolen goods? Just because the stolen goods were sold to EB doesn;t mean the police can't still confiscate them.

 

[95SS]

Originally posted by: SweetSweetLeroyBrown
um..wait a minute...why doesn't the police recover the stolen goods? Just because the stolen goods were sold to EB doesn;t mean the police can't still confiscate them.

I wondered that too, with the stuff that EB still had. Some was sold though, and I doubt that EB knows who it was sold to. You'd think that the police would just go to EB and get what they still had, and while they were there, write out a criminal complaint for their trouble.

 

[So]

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that's terrible

It's $87 -- the store probably gets more than that stolen in merchandise in a week.

 

[Atlantean]

that is stupid... thats why I don't often buy stuff from eb. :|

 

[HiTek21]

That is total BS. I hated shopping inside the B&M store but now I think i'm going to boycott Ebgames.com all together.

 

[Sid59]

lol .. dude coudln't come with 83 bucks to pay rent? that's pathetic.

 

[flexy]

i dont think its cool what EB did - but....responsible for her losses is the THIEF and not EB !

Still...dont think its right and legal that EB can sell PROVEN stolen stuff ??? Arent they bound to give it out by law ?

 

[So]

I understand their wanting the theif to give back the base, but EB should sell her a PS2 and the other stuff they sold for the price they paid the theif.

 

[SaturnX]

Ok, wth, I love how this article makes a big deal out of the fact that EB sells back used good at usually about times the price they buy it for. That's freakin' business how else would they make profit on used game/hardware. But this article seems to make it out that it's an outrage, meanwhile it's been like this for years.

Either way, EB isn't responsible for compensating the woman, it's the theif entirely.

--Mark

 

That is some major sh!tty business. I hope they get what's coming to them. :|

 

[mpitts]

Since when does EB Games (or any used video game store) give out CASH for used items.

Didn't it always used to be store credit?

 

[dabuddha]

Originally posted by: SaturnX
Ok, wth, I love how this article makes a big deal out of the fact that EB sells back used good at usually about times the price they buy it for. That's freakin' business how else would they make profit on used game/hardware. But this article seems to make it out that it's an outrage, meanwhile it's been like this for years.

Either way, EB isn't responsible for compensating the woman, it's the theif entirely.

--Mark

Ok then fine them for thousands of dollars for breaking the law. EB is responsible because they already sold some of the merchandise without waiting for 15 days.

 

[Ness]

Originally posted by: mpitts
Since when does EB Games (or any used video game store) give out CASH for used items.

Didn't it always used to be store credit?

No. They offer MORE for store credit, because it is obviously just more cash in their pocket, so they usually fail to say that you can get cash at most locations.

 

[jagr10]

Man, for $87 the company is being that cheap? But why is everyone blaming EB for this? Shouldn't they go after the guy that stole it? Make that little SOB pay!