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Topic	Saw a kid get scammed at GameStop today.
lightwarrior78 06/26/19 10:44:41 AM #40:	DevsBro posted... lightwarrior78 posted... WrkHrdPlayHrdr posted... DeadBankerDream posted... ArchiePeck posted... I mean, that's not a "scam" - he is getting the advertised service be paid for. It's a waste of money, but he's not actually being cheated. It's not bribery if giant cloth sacks of money with a dollar symbol on them aren't being exchanged! But he's right. You're buying insurance. Is car insurance a scam? Phone protection insurance? Maybe this dude knows he ALWAYS fucks up his discs. Just because you don't use it doesn't mean it's a scam. Depends on the insurance. Car involve a lot of external interaction that means something can happen despite your best practices. The stuff under disk protection it either so rare it seems an impossibility, so is a sign you mistreat your own property. It's not expensive, but who doesn't make jokes about extended warranties being for suckers. If the used games I've bought are any indication, no, catastrophic damage to a video game disc or cart is not rare. I swear some of these people store their games in a vat of koolaid. I said rare OR a sign of not caring for your property well. Yeah, I've seen enough to say the disks were handled by chimps on uppers, but then that's why limits on insurance exist: they aren't supposed to cover being moron that can't figure you why using a game disk for a Frisbee and them jamming it onto the spindle blindly stops parts of it from working. --- http://backloggery.com/reddthesock <cite>lightwarrior78 posted [p:923868015] in Saw a kid ... [t:77819917]...</cite> <quote><cite>DevsBro posted...</cite> <quote><cite>lightwarrior78 posted...</cite> <quote><cite>WrkHrdPlayHrdr posted...</cite> <quote><cite>DeadBankerDream posted...</cite> <quote><cite>ArchiePeck posted...</cite> <quote>I mean, that's not a "scam" - he is getting the advertised service be paid for. It's a waste of money, but he's not actually being cheated.</quote> It's not bribery if giant cloth sacks of money with a dollar symbol on them aren't being exchanged!</quote> But he's right. You're buying insurance. Is car insurance a scam? Phone protection insurance? Maybe this dude knows he ALWAYS fucks up his discs. Just because you don't use it doesn't mean it's a scam.</quote> Depends on the insurance. Car involve a lot of external interaction that means something can happen despite your best practices. The stuff under disk protection it either so rare it seems an impossibility, so is a sign you mistreat your own property. It's not expensive, but who doesn't make jokes about extended warranties being for suckers.</quote> If the used games I've bought are any indication, no, catastrophic damage to a video game disc or cart is not rare. I swear some of these people store their games in a vat of koolaid.</quote> I said rare OR a sign of not caring for your property well. Yeah, I've seen enough to say the disks were handled by chimps on uppers, but then that's why limits on insurance exist: they aren't supposed to cover being moron that can't figure you why using a game disk for a Frisbee and them jamming it onto the spindle blindly stops parts of it from working. --- http://backloggery.com/reddthesock</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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