The only downside to working at GameStop is that we take in people's used stuff. A lot of the time it's stolen crap, especially in the neighborhood I work in. I'm in between two trailer parks and one of them is chock full of ghetto rats and drug dealers.

Yeah.

So this guy comes in, wanting to trade in his PS3 Slim.

Hint of Shadiness #1:

He was in a hurry.

Anoyone with a brain knows that trading in anything, be it at GameStop or a pawn shop or any other place takes time. If you're in a hurry, I just want to take my time because really. You should have chosen a time when you're not itching to be somewhere else. It just makes me think you're worried the cops are after you. He was questioning everything I did. He was annoyed that I took my time testing the buttons on the controller and that I even needed to test it. He came in and plopped the system down no cords or anything and then asks how much he'd be getting. I just asked for the cords and he was annoyed and asked again, like it was some big task to pull the cords out. I think the next time this happens I'll just be like $45 bro. Because, wtf.

Hint of Shadiness #2:

He didn't know how big his harddrive was.

How many people honestly don't know what size harddrive they have on their system? This notion baffles me. He didn't know if it was a 120 or a 250GB. He also didn't know that there were different sizes. Now, this one could have been legit in that some people don't ask/do homework about things before they buy them because they're stupid, but in conjunction with the other stuff? I was almost tempted to ask him what his gamer profile was called.

Hint of Shadiness #3:

He wanted cash.

Many of you may know this. When you go to GameStop to trade in your stuff, you can get cash OR credit. Cash is ALWAYS 20% less than credit, and most people tend to choose the credit over the cash because it's more. On games, 20% isn't that bad, but when there's a promotion for credit only (as is the case for the PS3s right now) he was looking at $250 credit OR $128 cash. He wanted cash. He's losing ... $122. That's A LOT if you paid for your system, but when you're making a 100% profit because it's stolen? Of course you don't care.

Hint of Shadiness #4:

He didn't know PS3s needed to have the charging cable for the blue tooth controllers.

This was when he stormed off (after asking for corp's number. I am thinking he wants to call them and tell them what a terrible employee I am because I was... oh, wait. DOING MY JOB.

So yeah. That guy? He's on the shady character list. Yep.