Halo 3 Street Date broken....

Reserved online. Ran to argos... check out... paid... waited 10mins to get the game up as they came in todays delivery!

She brings the game to me to stamp my receipt. . . games infront of me in her hands.

I asked for another copy she said nah we dont have anymore till monday...
So o said "err ok i guess u dont want to sell it to me cos u broke release date..."

TURNS AROUND WITH MY GAME AND THEN GETS MANAGER!!!! So no game and forced to take refund. And i mean they forced me! As in give me your credit card for a refund because your not getting the game.

 

Shouldn't have said anything...

 

Paulo: what a stupid thing you did. You should have kept your mouth shut, and ridiculed them here instead, while you had the game in your hand before time.

 

Dude it sliped out... plus I HAD PAID FOR THE DAMN THING!!! i thought it was mine and all that jazz.... hope microsoft smack a fine on those idiots.

 

HOLY POOH! You should have RAAAAANNNNNNN !

 

forcing you to be refunded seems very stupid from a retail standpoint, a simple "i`m afraid we can`t actually sell you this until monday" or whatever would have sufficed.

 

I wonder if they could arrest you if you ran off with it after you paid for it...

 

should have waited until you had the game. -_- street date broken? not yet. close but fail.

 

Only if you tell MS it, other than that. Then I think MS won´t do a thing.

 

Street date is broken. ALOT of argos stores DID sell it! Check ebay and game blogs...

http://www.destructoid.com/halo-3-street-date-broken-absolutely-no-one-shocked-45343.phtml

http://s94.photobucket.com/albums/l119/Diablos_Rojos/?action=view&current=19092007201-small.jpg

All from argos...

 

I don't know about UK law but here street dates are contractual between the retailer and distributor and has baring on customers. If a company fucks up then that is there problem. Furthermore once sold they can bitch, moan, and threaten all they want but it is all baseless. They have no right to force a refund on property they no longer own.

You didn't consent to the refund so they basically stole your property from you.

 

Yep. I was for a second thinking of wasting police time on it but i thought its abit over the top. Took my refund and sent a complaint to head office. Which i will be following up on.

 

of course not.

 

well.. since they did break the street date in more than one occasion, i guess you could say they discriminated because "i is black/foreign/gay" or something that sounds seriously discriminatory

 

Yeah but is forcing me to take a refund after the fact ive seen the game and was just waiting for them to hand it to me actually breaking any laws? Im ready to call up their parent company and make a complaint in the hope they make the store sell it to me. However i would prefer to know if they broke some law.

 

Yes, i guess it is a form of breach of contract.

You had agreed to a price, you paid for it already (although arguable not cash, which means that the order was not complete until the money was transferred in the following days, they could argue).

However, having done "your part" of the contract, they didn't do theirs. They changed their mind at the last moment and forced you to get a refund.

This is very far-fetched, but if you were to go to court they d order specific performance. But that's a moot point, considering that the release date will be due much sooner than you can get to court

Answering your question however, yes they did break a term of your oral agreement as evidenced through your and their actions. Breach of contract baby. - hardly a civil offence though.

 

Umm second call to them... on a free number They are sending me a £10 cheque. Not a voucher but a cheque... She did say they normally send vouchers but as this was a unusual problem she sent me something i can spend anywhere.

 

Yeah they have been sold and this has resulted in it being leaked on to the net before the release and the ending getting leaked and even more. To be honest I'm quite mad about it all considering that I and many others have been waiting for this game for ages and now people are playing it illegally. It really sucks

 

i guess many games have broken street dates too.

 

like bioshock