Gamestop rant:My least favorite thing about gamestop is the antics they pull to get you to sign up for their rewards card and preorder new stuff.
Today the guy was harassing me about not pre-ordering Assassins Creed 3. I was like, dude, I just put down like 65 bucks on a game, I don't need to buy ANOTHER game today.
He's like "Are you
serious? You buy it later, you're getting a $60 game for $60. You pay for it now, you're getting a $130 game for $60. "
I didn't want to get into it with him. There's no way the little preorder gift or bonus content is going to be worth
more than the game itself. He was starting to get visibly pissed off at me. His tone of voice changed to annoyance, like I'm some moron crapping up his store with my outlandish cheapness.
This happened last Christmas too -- the same guy asked me if I was SURE I didn't want a rewards card about four or five times in a row. "Are you SURE? Really? It doesn't cost you anything. And you're still sure. Okay.

"
Listen man, control of my PI is worth more to me than the five percent discount or whatever. I give it to you, I don't know what's going to happen to it, but it's clearly worth MORE to you than 5% of what I spend here, otherwise rewards cards wouldn't exist. So I'm going to pay the regular market rate and hold onto my data. That's win/win, isn't it?