Re: [HoE] "...and the west side store claims it hasn't been released yet."

[Rich <toadpooka@usa.net>]

My personal favorite was, two weeks after the Road to Hell came out, I stopped in at my local gaming
store (though I hesitate to call it that now) to pick up a copy.
Seeing it not on the shelves, I wasn't terribly upset, but I asked the guy at the counter when/if
they were getting it in.  He said it wasn't going to be out till August at GenCon.  I, of course,
told him that he was thinking of a different product, Hell on Earth.  His response was that PEG
wasn't putting anything out between then and GenCon.  To "prove" his point, he opened up the latest
copy of InQuest, to show me the now-infamous HoE spoiler article.  He pointed directly at the words
"Hell on Earth," and said, "There: Road to Hell.  Coming out in August."
I found the most polite way possible to tell him to screw off in general, and that if he was going
to be stupid enough to get all his information on the gaming industry from a CARD GAME magazine, he
should at least have the common decency to learn how to read.  I then stepped aside to avoid being
trampled by 10,000 first graders with foaming mouths who were beating down the wall of the store to
get at the new Teletubbies expansion for Magic.
I've gone in there about two times since.  Not a single time (even before this incident) have I seen
the owner do anything to get out from behind the counter, so curiously placed so as to make it
impossible to judge whether or not he's wearing any pants, to help a single customer.  Last time I
called and talked to one of the slug's employees, I learned that they've stopped carrying any
Pinnacle products at all.  It could possibly be that they weren't selling much there due to the fact
that people didn't like to pay to be pushed around by that sweathog, but I refrained from telling
the poor guy on the phone this, since he's being punished enough, having to work for the guy.
I mean no offense to any retailers on the list who actually care about their customers, but this guy
made me wholeheartedly believe in the comic shop clerk in The Simpson's.

The moral of the story;  If you even find yourself in Villa Park, Illinois, in need of a gaming fix,
DO NOT, under any circumstances, set foot inside a store called Gamer's Paradise there (The others
in the chain are allright, but this one's a total hole).

OUR0B0ROS@aol.com wrote:
>   No, maybe he gets off his ASS every once in awhile and attempts to serve the
> customer, or maybe he places a call in to his distributor to ask about a book
> when he has 7 customers asking about it every day...
-- 
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
(Whatever is said in Latin, sounds profound)

Rich Ranallo,
The Man They Couldn't Hang