I am the law! Now let me return this!
Category: Industry, Posted: 10/10/2007 at 05:44PM EDT by Kelly Ng, Contributor
I know return policies suck. Maybe you didn't do your research before buying a loser game. Maybe you got fooled by hype, but I think all of us have wanted to take things into our own hands and force them to take their crap back.
Last year Steven Sather, 46, decided to go vigilante and take law into his own hands. After buying Cars, he was unable to install it on any of his computers. Pissed off and fed up, he brought his building code inspector badge and went to Target.
After being rejected, as expected, by the manager due to store policy, Sather whipped out his badge and began creating a scene. Posing as an off duty cop, he demanded a refund and threatened arrest. Nice try.
The ploy didn't work. Sather was facing a possible trial for impersonating a police officer. All over Cars. CARS...the GAME. He deserved to be arrested just for that.
Fast forward to now. The case has resulted in a hung jury, and now the DA's office is deciding whether or not they want to attempt further trial, or cut some sort of a deal with Sather.
Keep Sather in mind the next time you contemplate buying a movie tie-in game. Think of the possible consequences.
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I'm with this dude. Sure, he bought a POS game, and of course, he went off on an odd tangent over this, but he's thinking the way we all are thinking. Return policies need to be amended to let us return this stuff. I don't know why exactly they omitted this from so many store policies don't bother telling me why if you do know, because I really don't care), but it needs to be brought back for, at the least, special cases.
I'm going to tell you anyhow. It's to stop people buying a game, getting a crack and taking it back. Essentially getting a game for free.
Also if it has a cd-key that needs to be registered it'll be useless when the next person buys it.
Demos are made for a reason people.
Quite right Kester. What does annoy me is when I see copies of Steam games in the pre-owned section in game station when someone has traded them in for store credit.
At least he didn't buy Shrek 3 for Wii........
Whoa ... the rules actually apply to everyone. Maybe is he posed as a celebrity like Paris or Russell Crowe instead of a cop he might have been helped. It seems like they get away with everything LOL!