Current Ramblings
Friday, July 15, 2005
Man, fuck an EB...
While I was out shopping for a hard drive this morning (Maxtor 120GB, installed as a slave to my 40GB one now, with a 40GB partition for music, a 60GB partition called "Stuff", and 20GB formatted in FAT32 for maybe playing with Linux, $70 plus tax at Staples) I decided to check EB Games in that part of town for this Riviera game Steve-o and I had been looking for. I figured if they had two copies I'd pick them up for both of us. As it turned out they did technically have two copies, but one was used. Well, c'mon, I work at a used book shop, I do not generally shy much away from used things. (You'd think it would make me want used stuff LESS, but I don't learn quickly, apparently.) So I asked about the used one, figuring I could let Steve-o have the new one. The one they had was just the cartridge, which happens a lot with Game Boy stuff. That'd have been okay...IF IT HAD BEEN MORE THAN A THREE DOLLAR PRICE DIFFERENCE. Okay, I know the game's been out, like, two weeks, but seriously. $30 new, and $27 for a copy that came with no book and, more importantly, no guarantee that it had never been in anybody's pants? LAME.
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