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Am I the Jerk?

Nintendo Wii Launch Day - r/TalesfromRetail

Am I the Jerk?

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Society & Culture, Relationships

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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r/TalesfromRetail  Full Episode - https://youtu.be/bSpFqAJZLkA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Want to make a podcast? Spotify has got a platform that lets you make one super easily and then

0:04.8

distribute it everywhere and even earn money. It's called Spotify for podcasters and here's

0:09.6

how it works. It lets you record and edit podcasts right from your phone or computer so no matter

0:14.2

what your setup is like, you can start creating today. Then you can distribute your podcast to

0:18.8

Spotify and everywhere else podcasts are heard. You guys probably noticed that MI The Jurk has

0:23.7

video podcasts and that's one of the things that I like the most. I definitely recommend you give

0:27.6

to try. It's free and has no catch. Download the Spotify for podcasters app or go to

0:32.4

Spotify.com slash podcasters to get started. This story took place the day after the launch

0:38.3

in the Nintendo Wii. Our store had a guarantee that if you pre-ordered a Wii by a certain date,

0:43.2

then you would get one. If you had not pre-ordered one, then it was first come for a serve.

0:48.0

For the remaining stock, no one was able to place an order or reserve one after the release day

0:54.0

as we could not guarantee when we would get stock back in. The day after release, we had just

0:59.2

open and I was standing by the entrance of the door to greet customers when this big angry looking

1:03.5

guy comes charging through the door straight up to me. Customer, do you have any Nintendo

1:08.0

Wii's and stock? Me. Hi, I'm sorry. We're sold out of the stock we had yesterday.

1:13.8

On hearing this, the customer stamped his foot and slammed his shopping bags against his side.

1:20.0

I knew at this point the drama was about to unfold. Customer. Right. Well, I want a pre-order one.

1:26.3

Me. I'm sorry. We can no longer take pre-orders as it's now after release day and we are

1:32.0

unable to take orders as we cannot guarantee when we will receive stock back in since the product

1:38.2

isn't such high demand. Customer. That's a lie. Me. What? Customer. You're lying to me. I wasn't

1:45.1

here two weeks ago and I was told that I pre-ordered one. I was guaranteed one on the day

1:49.6

at release. At this point I'm thinking that maybe I've misunderstood and he has in fact pre-ordered

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