Circuit City Scruples
Wanna get really mad – really quickly? I can help you out, trigger. Thanks to Kotaku for bringing this absolutely ridiculous corporate scam to our attention. The pic above comes from a Circuit City in Newport Beach, CA, that appears to be (prepare yourselves) charging a mere $28.99 to install backward compatibility on the Xbox 360. I’m not sure what’s more frightening: that some jack*ss thought this idea would fly (let alone sell), or that a small armada of mothers, wives, non-gaming boyfriends and stoned students might actually fall for this insulting piece of horse crap. Cruise to Kotaku for the full list of Circuit City’s ridonkulous claims. Then join me in the solarium for a white wine spritzer and some blood pressure meds.
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Posted to Video Games on 1 September 2006
· Comments (6)
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I don’t want to sound defensive since I work for Circuit City, but this is something that is being done in a district in the company. I work on the east coast and this isn’t anything we offer. At my store we are all gamers and no better than this. And just to point out, that is not an official corporately approved sign. Don’t hate the company, hate people who try to scam gamers!
Yeah, I can back Homotrain up on that claim. I work at the Portland, ME store and we absolutely do not have a sign like that posted. We wouldn’t even think of offering such a ridiculous service. I would love to know the exact location this is being posted in so I could look into it further. As an employee of a company that I am pretty supportive of overall, that’s just insulting. To consumers and the company. Like Homo said, I promise you it’s not something provided from corporate.
it’s really, really cool to see two such similar and supportive comments in such a short span of time. homo, torrey, you give me hope for the future – and make a fair point. maybe the revolution isn’t immenent after all?
And the story just got posted to Joystiq, who wants to count how long it’ll take for corporate to come out with an official statement of apology while holding the head of the manager that caused this to happen?
I found out that the sign was posted in a Newport Beach store- I’m going to give them a little call tomorrow to find out why exactly they are offering this “service.” I’m also planning on faxing this article to Corporate. CC has been good to me over the past few years and I’ll stand behind them. This little stunt just makes us look like demons.
Hey Torrey, let us know what happens, we’ll be sure to post the response you receive.