You can always cancel a pre-order or switch a pre-order without worries, or paying some kind of fee. I think you may get charged a fee if you want to cancel within 24-48 hours of the street date, but I'm not sure...also if you paid for a pre-order through some trade-in special deal...that might mess things up too, but not if you're just changing your pre-order to the LE.
I think you may get charged a fee if you want to cancel within 24-48 hours of the street date
That's definitely not the case. You can cancel preorders at any time and get 100% of your money back. Any Gamestop employee that tells you there is a penalty for cancelling preorders is lying to you - they're just trying to pad their numbers, because they get rated on how many reserves they take, and a lot of times the number of work hours they get in a week is based on that number. If they cancel a preorder and don't apply the $5 or whatever to another upcoming game, that's minus one on their reserves number for that day. They don't want that, and will do anything possible to stop you from cancelling a reserve (while simultaneously trying to get you to reserve Final Fantasy XXXIV).
As you can see, I hope every Gamestop gets simultaneously struck by lightning and burns to the ground. Not while anyone is inside though, of course.
"You guys have to put money up front for preorders? HaHaHaHaHa."
So what do you do?"
Here in the UK you generally walk into the store, say you want to preorder a game, give them your name and mobile phone number, and walk out. They'll send you a text message when its ready to collect. You don't pay any money up front, you just pay the whole amount when you collect it.
"So theres not really a difference. Either way you pay full price. soo, to quote you, HaHaHaHaHa."
I just think its stupid having to give a huge company $5 of your money and you get nothing in return for X months. Why couldn't they just take your details and get the money off you when you come and collect it?
"So theres not really a difference. Either way you pay full price. soo, to quote you, HaHaHaHaHa."
I just think its stupid having to give a huge company $5 of your money and you get nothing in return for X months. Why couldn't they just take your details and get the money off you when you come and collect it?"
Because in a capitalist society putting money down on a product almost ensures that one way or another you are going to come back to the store. Whether thats to pick up your game or to pick up your money. It also guarantess that they have to hold the game for you for up to 48 hours I believe if you put $5 down or indefinetly if you paid for the game in full. Its also safer financially for the company to gauge interest for a game at particular store, that way they can send the proper amount of product to that store and it helps to prevent product from going unmoved since they can limit the number of unsold product in the store
You saying you want a game XX number of days or months before a game comes out does not necessarily mean you have to go and pick it up, backing it with some sort of financial backing at least means traffic.
"So theres not really a difference. Either way you pay full price. soo, to quote you, HaHaHaHaHa."
I just think its stupid having to give a huge company $5 of your money and you get nothing in return for X months. Why couldn't they just take your details and get the money off you when you come and collect it?"
I guess the places that do it see it as a intrest free loan; and who knows they might even forget to pick their game up.
Pre-ordering a game from Gamestop where I live would deem you irrefutably crazy.
Example: Far Cry 2 PC
Gamestop Drive down to store to pre-order, pay deposit. Drive down when game is available, pay rest, totalling at 499SEK
Anywhere else, online. Go to site and pre-order. Pay ~399SEK, game in the mail.
Play.com Go to site and pre-order. Pay ~330SEK, game delivered in a sweet steelbook case, in the mail.
It just makes no sense at all why anyone would do that. It makes no sense that games are more expensive at a retailer specializing in games. It's all so highly illogical it bothers my brain how it can be a reality.
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