It pays to be polite!

[South Texan]

This year I joined the masses looking for a Wii. Of course, every store in our area is sold out.

Friday, I went into a game store in hopes that they had received a new shipment as had been told me might happen that day around noon. Three people were in line to get to the counter where a haggard looking employee was ringing up purchases. I got in line.

Before the next person had been rung up, a woman with ultra-glamour makeup and very expensive looking clothing stormed in and made a bee line for the counter.

While tapping her keys in an impatient way on the glass counter, she blurted out, “I need a Wii. Where are they?”

The employee did not even look up from the transaction he was in the middle of. “We are sold out,” was all he said.

The woman threw her hands up in the air and began swearing as she pushed me out of the way on her trek back to the door.

When it was my turn in line, I smiled sheepishly at the employee and said in the friendliest possible voice that I also was looking for a Wii and had heard a rumor of there being some coming in today, so could I just wait quietly in the store until the shipment arrived. The employee smiled and said that every console they got in their last shipment was gone within the span of ninety minutes, BUT the UPS truck was unloading at that moment and since I had asked nicely...

I walked out with a Wii!

[Nyoibo]

As to this Wii shortage some places seem to be having, a largeish chain here recently had a promotion that if you buy or rent a certain brand of TV you get a free Wii.

[Belari]

Oh that just makes me happy down to the deepest darkest depths of my embittered soul.

[Imogene]

I walked into two stores in the space of a month, and both of them had Wiis in stock. The first one, I had no money, so no luck there. The second, they had only one in stock, so I splurged, and hid it until I moved to Fort Worth. And subsequently had to sell it to make rent one month, because my roommate didn't have her half of the rent.

[Golden Phoenix]

*has warm fuzzies*

Pwned ^^ Eeee!

[earl colby pottinger]

So all she had to do

Be pleasant and he would had told to wait as they were unloading now.

I can already see the clerk's thought processes. This was not even a little revenge action on her behavior to that point, rather he probably knew how much hell he would have to deal with for the next ten to fifteen minutes as she complains and wails because of the needed paper work for any delivery that needs to be done first.

[Nurian]

Beautiful. I applaud you.

[One-Fang]

Well done - congrats on your wii (man that sounds weird!)

[Belari]

Well done - congrats on your wii (man that sounds weird!)

Sounds like you should be doing the potty dance and handing out suckers to the big boys who didn't soil their diapers

[wagegoth]

they had only one in stock, so I splurged, and hid it until I moved to Fort Worth. And subsequently had to sell it to make rent one month, because my roommate didn't have her half of the rent.

I'm so sorry to hear that. Have you been able to get another?

[Alpha Strike]

OP: Glad to hear you were able to find a Wii! And nice to see a SC get denied, even if she doesn't know it

Be pleasant and he would had told to wait as they were unloading now.

I can already see the clerk's thought processes. This was not even a little revenge action on her behavior to that point, rather he probably knew how much hell he would have to deal with for the next ten to fifteen minutes as she complains and wails because of the needed paper work for any delivery that needs to be done first.

When I worked at EB (Gamestop) and did shipment, all the paperwork was signed when the delivery was made - that is, when the boxes were brought into the store itself by the UPS or FedEx guys. When we unloaded the boxes, we had to check the items off against a master checklist but a single item would be easy to do.

I'm pretty sure the clerk didn't cooperate because the woman was one of those typical aholes that we all hate. And technically, if pressed on the issue, he could truthfully say that the consoles weren't IN the store, just being unloaded.

Maybe it makes me petty, but I would have done the exact same thing.

I'm so sorry to hear that. Have you been able to get another?

Heh. Reading this I'm not quite sure if you mean another Wii or another roommate.