Merry Christmas, Have A Phone Book
What would suck more than receiving a PS3 for Christmas with Lair instead of Drake? How about getting a box which supposedly contains a brand-spanking-new PS3 only to discover that the package instead holds a phone book. Yes, indeedy, that would suck. Wait, what? That actually happened? Seriously? You've gotta be kidding:
13-year-old Brandon Burns Christmas morning. He says he laughed about it when it happened. His parents... not so much, since they spent $500 for the PS3. According to a spokesperson for the store involved, the matter has since been resolved.
Hm... according to news reports, the PS3 was purchased at a mall in Thousand Oaks, the only one there being The Oaks, which I shopped at a few times when I sold my soul to Mickey Mouse and worked at one of his parks. When I called the GameStop in the mall, I was told that they didn't know what I was talking about, which is a shame because I suspect there are some truly entertaining details to this story that we'd all love to hear about.
Teen Opens PlayStation 3 Box, Finds Phone Book Inside! [MyFox Utah]
[via Kotaku]
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Posted to Miscellany on 27 December 2007
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Other stuff like this: christmas, gamestop, phone book, ps3, thousand oaks, what gives?
While watching the video, if you pause it when they're looking at the receipt, it definitely says EB Games, The Oaks, at the top.
Yep, one of the videos doesn't get clipped and they go on to actually name the store, oops EB...gg ruining Christmas ;)
http://www.shoptheoaksmall.com/map.asp
No EB Games is listed on their website, only a GameStop. I double-checked by going to EBgames.com (which is, really, the same as gamestop.com), and the only store listed in Thousand Oaks is GameStop. I suspect they haven't changed the name on the receipts or something, because when I called in I got the usual GameStop spiel.