A crazed man in Colorado threatened to blow up his local Best Buy store after the employees messed up his Modern Warfare 3 pre-order and told him the game was sold out.
Lomorin Sar, 31, grew irate after the employees of the store said they did not have his game. The manager offered him a gift card or an upgrade to a more expensive copy of the game, but Sar would not have it.
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Originally posted by core2kid: Well the store goes by how many copies they'll receive from the publisher (Activision), in the end when Activision is ready to ship, they realize "Oh shit, we don't have these many copies". I pre-ordered the hardened about 1 1/2 months in advance. Got a week 5 days before release saying that they didn't have any.
It don't matter how many were shipped.... the store sold out! that implied someone walked in earlier than the preorder buyer and paid cash for the last copy in the store.
if that happens it is consumer fraud!
Not at all. Pre-orders are done before the store actually has the items. If the had 100 pre orders (Activision told them they'd get 100 copies) but Activision sent 90 copies, who's fault is that?
I doubt they did not receive enough copies to cover all pre-orders. It would have been simple for the store to count how many pre-orders they have and set aside the copies, our local Blockbuster did that with pre-orders. It is only fair that people who pre-order it get it the night of it's release, they are basically reserving a copy and paying a small part or the whole price tag when they pre-order. Activison may very well have stiffed the store on copies promised but it is the stories duty to fulfill a customers pre-order, not sell there copies to someone walking off the street.
Originally posted by Mr_Bill06: I doubt they did not receive enough copies to cover all pre-orders. It would have been simple for the store to count how many pre-orders they have and set aside the copies, our local Blockbuster did that with pre-orders. It is only fair that people who pre-order it get it the night of it's release, they are basically reserving a copy and paying a small part or the whole price tag when they pre-order. Activison may very well have stiffed the store on copies promised but it is the stories duty to fulfill a customers pre-order, not sell there copies to someone walking off the street.
It happened at Best Buy, Amazon.com, Buy.com, and GameStop. Never heard about this with MW2 or Black Ops. They had prestige editions of black ops a week after release. Pretty sure this was Activision trying to be "smart"
