Another used game that doesn't work

[kane_magus]

I'm tired of ordering games from EBGames.com and then having them send me copies that don't actually work.

This time, it was a used (because they didn't have any new ones anymore, apparently, or I would have ordered that instead) copy of Soul Calibur 2 for the GameCube. On both my Wii and my GameCube, the game is getting disc read errors out of the blue, making it pretty much unplayable.

And now they're apparently doing an upgrade on their website at the moment, so I can't even get to the info about getting a replacement or a refund or whatever.

Comments

[imbikun.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... weird. Is the disc all scratched? What they're supposed to do when they take a game back is look at the disc and if it's scratched they charge a small fee and send it out to get refurbished. That was always fun...

Me: Your disc is completely scratched up. Gonna take $2 off the price.
Them: Yo man it works good!
Me: Funny, I still don't care.
Them: This is bullshit.

Happened about half the time ;)

[kane-magus.livejournal.com]

It doesn't look that bad, really. There was some gunk around the hole in the middle, a lot of which I was able to clean off, and roughly the inner fourth of the disc is scratched a fair bit, but the rest of the disc looks okay. I used some of my glasses lens cleaner on it, and that seemed to help quite a bit, at least for removing the gunk. It is still getting the disc read error even after that though, but it's not like it's doing it half way through the opening movie every time anymore like it was when I first tried it.