I had a guy take all my games and started scanning them willy nilly. I told him you have to scan them in groups of 3. He started arguing with me that the system just marks off the cheapest games, working up. I had like three $45 games and three $20s and would have wound up paying $20 more. I was about to tell him he was a moron when the manager turned around and said, "No, hes right, its every third game free." He just went ...oh... and started scanning them in the order I laid them out.
Also, the last GS I went to, they had no problem letting me group them. But then I had 4 piles... :lol:
[quote name='STATIC3D']Speaking of condition, ALWAYS check the condition of the game either before you purchase it, or, AT THE LEAST, before you leave the store/parking lot. I had a group of games I was purchasing and looked at them to discover 2 looked like someone had put the disc on the ground, stepped on em and spun around. Another customer commented that he didn't know they even took (in trade) discs in that bad of condition. Lucky for me, they had more copies and could trade out for a better one.
*Side note...
I've heard mention on here of some GS/EB stores not liking people to group games during the B2G1Free sales. For those that don't know, here's an example. Say you were purchasing 6 games (buying 4, getting 2 free) of various price differences. If you throw them all into one bunch, it's going to be the cheapest 2 games that are free. Say 3 of the games are $9.99 and the others are cheaper than that. This means you are paying for all 3 of the $9.99 games (plus 1 of the cheaper ones) and getting the 2 cheapest ones free. However, if purchase the games as two groups of 3, then one of $9.99 games would be free and the cheapest of the cheaper games would be free. Why pay for a $9.99 game when you could get it free, right? I mean, we are CAG's after all. :}
As I mentioned before, some people here on CAG forums have said that the EB/GS stores they go to don't like (or sometimes allow) people to group games together. Unless you are buying a TON of stuff and trying to make up lots of groups, there is a way to buy just a couple of groups of games/DVDs as separate without much, if any, hassle. Figure out how you want to group the games before going to the counter and set them on the counter as two groups. Let the clerk know you want to purchase the groups separately as one group is for you and another is for a friend. Pay for one group with a credit/debit card (your group). Pay for the other group (your friend's) with cash. It can help if you have your card and cash with each group as you set them on the counter too.
Even if they don't want to allow the separate grouping based upon you purchasing for you and your friend, the separate payment methods (and need for separate receipts) helps to show it's separate transactions (and not just "grouping" for the best deal).[/quote]