Pre-order

I tried to pre-order something for the first time this week. It was going to be Halo 4. I realized I was going to end up shelling out $60 for it anyway, so why no try to get a freebie out of it? I looked around at all the pre-order bonuses and decided that Wal-Mart had the best deal going, and tried to order it there. That involved talking to Wal-Mart clerks. At least three clerks at two separate Wal-Marts didn’t understand the, “Pre-Order,” part of my sentence, and tried to find the actual product on the shelf. I had to repeat the, “Pre-Order,” part several times, and was told they never got any of the pre-order cards that were apparently essential to the process. So then I tried Bestbuy, with their second best deal. The had no less than four spots with pre-order cards. The only spot for Halo 4 was empty. I thought about going to EBgames where asking to preorder Halo 4 would likely result in them asking me if I wanted to preorder every other game that didn’t exist yet, and decided, “Fuck it.”

Online fared no better, as I’d passed the invisible pre-order date, and didn’t want to wait for the product to be shipped to my house. I tried the Wal-Mart and Bestbuy sites to see if I could order and pick it up in store, as I live and work in striking distance of both stores, and don’t want to play, “Answer the door in the allotted time or be forced to drive out to our shipping centre and pay extra fees for a product you could buy in store for less.” Apparently that was a no-no. EBgames’s site was acting like a retarded child, so I said, “Fuck it,” in general.