Not a complaint, just a little local game store story.
So I went to a local game shop over the weekend, definitely my favorite local shop because they price well and are pretty cool. I rarely attempt to haggle because the prices are pretty good overall. I'm also used to not haggling because the major game stores in the area are Gamestop clones with corporate policies and such.
They were doing a B2G1 sale and I grabbed a bunch of $1-10 games and then started looking at pricier things. I saw they had a NFR Tetris Attack (one of my all time favorite games) priced at $35. I wanted it, but I didn't want to spend more time in the store trying to find other $35 games and they had 2 $40 games I wanted. So I asked if he would do $35 a piece so they are all the same price. He thought about it for a minute and said no because it claimed to have about $60 in the set and he wouldn't be making much money. We went back and forth for a while chatting while he was pulling discs and stuff. He mentioned that he couldn't find one of the discs so I just wound up not getting the stack of similarly priced games because I didn't want to have to look for another $6 game (it's a weird price for them). Then I figured I'd try again, one of the games is worth over $40, so I was willing to pay $40, but the other game was legitimately worth about $30-35 so I figured I'd see if he'd at least do $35 for the one game. He thought about it for a few seconds and accepted the deal. He started talking like saying "Matter of fact..." and then he kind of got side tracked by something so I don't know if he was going to sweeten the deal or anything but nothing came of that. I had been in there for at least an hour looking around, so I was thirsty so I grabbed probably what was $6 worth of drinks. He rang me up and said not to worry about the drinks.
I get that a lot of times drinks don't actually cost a lot, but I still think it's funny that he wouldn't eat $5 on a game, but he'll eat $6 on drinks.
Also, they had 2 copies of Tiger Woods 99 (PS1) and one copy was the release that has the NSFW South Park Pilot on it. I even had them pop the game into their computer to verify, which was very nice of them. I bought both copies because why not.
I had a fairly busy weekend, so I'll take pictures this evening and post in the pickup thread tomorrow.
Edit: Another fun story about a different local store... the bad one. They had a b1g1 for PS2 games under $10 this weekend. They posted pics online to advertise, but the pics they posted were mostly games priced over $10 but taken in such a shitty manner that you can't see ANY of the price stickers, that way you'll go to the store hoping for a deal and finding nothing but sports games and 30 copies of ATV Offroad Fury.
