What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[darsparx]

You obviously haven't met most of the customers I deal with when I do cashier at the current store I'm at. All of them so far are pleasant, and understanding when I mess up. Of course I don't know how that holds up to other Harris Teeters.

[Ziggy]

I sold an N64 to someone and a week and a half later they are saying it doesn't work. I told them that you have to continually clean/blow into the cartridge slot of the console and games but he says that's nonsense and he won't do it because he doesn't believe me. It's so obviously a buyer's remorse case and I'll end up getting screwed out of the shipping.

Send him a bunch of links to YouTube videos showing how to clean carts and cart slots, specifically for N64 if you can find them.

[nullxor]

I sold an N64 to someone and a week and a half later they are saying it doesn't work. I told them that you have to continually clean/blow into the cartridge slot of the console and games but he says that's nonsense and he won't do it because he doesn't believe me. It's so obviously a buyer's remorse case and I'll end up getting screwed out of the shipping.

Send him a bunch of links to YouTube videos showing how to clean carts and cart slots, specifically for N64 if you can find them.

I've tried everything to convince him to blow into them, but he's acting like I'm trying to blow up his house. It feels like this scene.

[Ziggy]

Well I wouldn't recommend blowing in any carts or cart slots. The moisture in your breath (why you can fog up a window) isn't good for the contacts. Isopropyl alcohol or electrical contact cleaner, along with proper techniques, is really the only things you should be using to clean them.

[Hobie-wan]

Well I wouldn't recommend blowing in any carts or cart slots. The moisture in your breath (why you can fog up a window) isn't good for the contacts. Isopropyl alcohol or electrical contact cleaner, along with proper techniques, is really the only things you should be using to clean them.

Indeed. A system that you have to blow into isn't really a working system to me. It is 'damaged' and in need of cleaning to work properly. Blowing on carts is a crappy band aid that just keeps making the problem worse.

[nullxor]

I suggested alcohol at first but he said that he didn't have any so blowing on it was the obvious solution to prove that it does work.

Oh, you seem to be missing the whole point; he's full of crap and diverting every suggestion so there is no way to prove that it isn't really working. Yes blowing on it is a band-aid but it does work enough to get the cartridge to boot right then.

I bet my house that it's working fine when I tecieve it back but that's the way selling used goods goes. It gives people a leg up in lying.

[Luke]

I suggested alcohol at first but he said that he didn't have any so blowing on it was the obvious solution to prove that it does work.

Oh, you seem to be missing the whole point; he's full of crap...

Don't take this the wrong way, but if you sold this N64 to the average Racketboy member and said "Blow into it, and it will work" they'd ask for their money back.

"So you want me to damage the system and games in order for it to temporarily work?" would be the question you would receive. It either works or it doesn't, end of story.


Smile: Week has flown by, as it is already Thursday. Lots of irons in the fire, so today and tomorrow should also fly by. Can't wait for the weekend, can't wait to see some friends and relax.

[darsparx]

Don't take this the wrong way, but if you sold this N64 to the average Racketboy member and said "Blow into it, and it will work" they'd ask for their money back.

"So you want me to damage the system and games in order for it to temporarily work?" would be the question you would receive. It either works or it doesn't, end of story.

Well the solution to blow into it arose out of the fact the guy apparently doesn't have any alcohol to use to try and clean it up(and apparently isn't willing to even try anything else since we all know this is probably the issue with the system and not the fact that it doesn't work)

[nullxor]

I suggested alcohol at first but he said that he didn't have any so blowing on it was the obvious solution to prove that it does work.

Oh, you seem to be missing the whole point; he's full of crap...

Don't take this the wrong way, but if you sold this N64 to the average Racketboy member and said "Blow into it, and it will work" they'd ask for their money back.

"So you want me to damage the system and games in order for it to temporarily work?" would be the question you would receive. It either works or it doesn't, end of story.


Smile: Week has flown by, as it is already Thursday. Lots of irons in the fire, so today and tomorrow should also fly by. Can't wait for the weekend, can't wait to see some friends and relax.

It's like this...

1) Some guy buys my N64 off Amazon
2) Doesn't say anything is wrong with it for 16 days
3) Suddenly emails me today saying that his son purchased it using his account and he wants to return it because the son says it doesn't work
4) Explain to him that cartridge-based system and games periodically need to be cared for because of things like dust so I offer him advice on what to do (alcohol and cotton swabs)
5) He says he doesn't have any and that it should just work (who knows what the condition the games he has are in)
6) Every suggestion and explanation that I give to him is disregarded
7) Amazon tells me to keep trying to explain how to operate the console to avoid giving a refund (he paid for expedited shipping, $20.) Even they think that it's buyer's remorse by his emails

It wasn't supposed to be this big of a deal, I just have nowhere else to rant about video game related issues in my life.

[Hobie-wan]

Many of those details were left out so you made it sound like you sent a possibly non working system and suggested cleaning the slot and that all systems required blowing in them every now and then. It is certainly possible that whatever games they're trying are filthy if none came from you. The information you gave regarding blowing in the system made it sound like you might have not prepared it for sale and tested completely.