Back in my retail working days we had a lot of people try to return hard drives. They would just take their old hard drives and put it back in the box and return it. Nothing more embarassing then opening up the box and going, "I think you put the wrong hard drive in here" . I heard of some people buying Plasma TV's and there was nothing but rocks in the box.

that's awful. that sort of happened to me when i was younger - when Discmans first came out. my mom got me one for hannukah, and when i opened it - the box had the stuffing but was empty

OMG, that's horrible!

Wow. Slow news day? I can't believe they actually sent a guy out for that, lol. Interview, sure. But a guy out at the "scene" live?? lol.

It's good for the family, though. They'll definitely believe them now. And even if they don't, they aren't going to refuse to replace it.

Doesnt anyone check the box before they put it under the tree? make sure all the stuff is in there? Hell I check my order at take out places before I step my foot outside.

Awwwww
So sad

At first I thought the parents played a trick on their son (I could see my parents doing that to us when we were younger!) then I understood that they did not know that was in there. I didn't know that sort of stuff happened--how sad!

That's what I thought too Happ! My mother still does it from time to time

actually this did happen to me this christmas, my sister bought me a game at EB for my DS but inside it was empty. She said the guy at the store took it from behind the counter and it was new, so she did not even bother to check. But when I opened it I discovered that the plastic protection had been sliced and there was no game inside.

Some of our Apple reseller friends were having this problem with new MacBook Pros shipped to them from Apple. The problems all tied back to a UPS hub. Pretty sneaky.

wasn't there a situation in the past where eb sold guitar hero and there's no guitar hero in the box?

That's awful.

Now I know why my mom always opens the box (if she can) to check before buying.

I would have to maim someone over at EB Games.

I always check inside the box before I hand over an expensive gift.

I don't fluffyhelen - maybe I should! That's just plain awful. What a total bummer.

I'm going to have to agree with Liz R.

wow, that's really sad!

ohmy gosh!!
thats awful
poor kid.

I've heard that's been happening with iPods too. People open them to find a box full of rocks. What kind of a grinch would do that! Lame!

at first I thought the parents had playeda cruel trick on the poor kid but after reading I was shocked.... I never open the box to check for stuff... guess I should before I start handing them off... thats awful... poor kid... now he will never have another 'big gift' look - instead he will probably have flashbacks each year of how he opened his ps3 and got a stinkin' phone book

I usually like to see what I'm buying to make sure it's either there or in a good condition but I guess with something like that I wouldn't bother. I hope they give him a real one. Poor kid. People are so shady.

EB Games should give the parents their money back AND give the kid his PS3.

That's really bad.

Poor kid.

that sucks. Reminds me of that story where the girl got a slice of meat in her new ipod/iphone box.

I thought his parents played a trick on him too! This is why I check everything I buy. Even if the box has that round seal sticker, I don't care, I still open it and check the contents. I've bought plates that were sealed tightly in the box. When I opened it, I noticed that instead of 6 dinner plates, I only had 4, to which one was cracked so bad that it wouldn't have made it to the table.