Headset crazinessSo people I play Xbox with have been telling me since I got my new xbox headset that I've been cutting in and out. I think it might actually be my internet connection that's not the best, but I was strolling around Best Buy with my brother today and decided to get a new headset. I was just gonna get the standard xbox cheap headset, but then I thought, maybe I'll look at these nicer ones. Maybe I'll try out a Turtle Beach or something, not like the $250 ones, but maybe a $50. I've heard good things.

So we're looking around the xbox aisle and I see a sign with a headset on it and a price of 9.99. There's also like a Gamer's Zone Club or whatever they cal...

Headset crazinessSo people I play Xbox with have been telling me since I got my new xbox headset that I've been cutting in and out. I think it might actually be my internet connection that's not the best, but I was strolling around Best Buy with my brother today and decided to get a new headset. I was just gonna get the standard xbox cheap headset, but then I thought, maybe I'll look at these nicer ones. Maybe I'll try out a Turtle Beach or something, not like the $250 ones, but maybe a $50. I've heard good things.

So we're looking around the xbox aisle and I see a sign with a headset on it and a price of 9.99. There's also like a Gamer's Zone Club or whatever they call it logo. I thought, well, those can't be very good if they're only 9.99, and even if it's a discount you probably have to sign up for their club thing, and it'll never be worth it. So I turn to look at something else and see the exact headset pictured on the sign, this headset to be precise, only the price is 99.99.

So now I'm like, hold on, maybe it is worth it to join this club if that's what gets me a 90% discount on this headset. There's no details on the sign, it just says to ask a customer service person. So I flag down the first one I see and ask him if he can tell me about it. He looks at the sign and says, "It's a headset." And I'm like, "Yeah?" and look at him expectantly. He looks again and says, "It's $9.99." So finally I say, "Yeah, but over here it's 99.99. Do I have to like join this club to get the price or is it a misprint, or how does it work?"

He looks back and forth and then is like, "Let me get someone who works in games." He flags down a guy and says, "Do you know anything about the game department?" and the other guys says, "Yeah, I like to play games." So he tells him the situation and the guy is like, "I don't know. I think that must be a misprint." Then the first guy goes off to find someone who actually works in games and the second guy stands there for a moment before saying, "Yeah, that has to be a misprint. Because if that was the price, I'd get a pair too." Then he walks away.

The first guy shows up with the actual game dept. guy who looks at the sign (which according to the dates on it had been hanging there for a week), and is completely flabbergasted by it. Eventually he whispers under his breath, "That cannot be the right price," removes the sign and the two of them walk away without another word to my brother and I.

So I'm like, I guess that's it then. And my brother and I keep looking at other headsets and some used games. The first guy came back a couple of times to compare the sign to the actual product and then finally to take the product away as well, but he didn't say much to us. So we continued comparing the other headsets, trying to work out which combo of prices and features would be the best buy (ha, get it?).

After a few minutes the guy returns one final time and says, "Yeah, unfortunately, that sign was a misprint." I'm not at all surprised. I was just like, "Oh, ok, that's fine." Then he says, "Fortunately, we're required to honor it." And he walks me up to the front of the store where I purchase the $100 headset for $10 and change. While he's trying to type up the special circumstances into the computer a manager comes over and asks to see the sign and then she gets on the phone with someone, and I'm like, I don't want to have to join the club or pay more. So I pull out a $20 and pay for it and get out of the store as fast as possible.

So now I've got a cool new headset, and it's time to try it out!

PS. One last funny thing. My brother pointed out as we left that the poor guy who worked there couldn't spell at all. I wasn't about to complain, but I had noticed that he typed in things like, "miss print," "corpoirate," which he corrected to "corpoate" before getting someone to tell him how it was spelled, and "weekley." Usually bad spelling irritates the hell out of me, but I love this guy. So he can spell as badly as he likes.