Adam says:
"Today, like many anxious gamers, I went to Circuit City (Store # 3111) to pick up the highly anticipated "Call of Duty 4" for the XBox 360. I chose to pick it up at Circuit City as this week's circular ad listed a free copy of the previous game "Call of Duty 3" with purchase. When I went to check out, I was told that it was a misprint and that they refused to honor it. Myself, along with about half a dozen co-workers were rightfully angry that we wasted our lunch hour on this Circuit City bait-and-switch, that has become too common with this outlet lately. I would urge other Consumerists to skip out on Circuit City and try for another retailer (Target has a free $5 gift card)."
Adam
We looked up the weekly circular for Naperville, IL and sure enough. There it is. No mention of a misprint. We think Circuit City should honor this offer. There's really no reason to believe it was a misprint.
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I really hope we get other activision games on GP soon. My dream would be Scarface but I know the license probably expired
None of those games had dedicated servers on console in the first place? Were always player hosted. Did something change?
Multiplayer has worked fine but the campaign has crashed frequently and required a verification of files to continue. The Alone mission has been unplayable and it crashes at random times as seen in this video and others have reported the issue.
I have been working with Activision and they have no fix as of yet. I got past it yesterday but it crashed 3x before I completed the level. Run a defrag or optimize your drive, verify files, run a quick virus scan, and play. After each crash, verify files again and play. Not ideal but it did let me complete it. PC on Steam.
Honored the deal but the fine print said that the limit was 5 per store. Some guy who works there called me when the game came in and I was the third person to have bought the game. There were 2 more guys behind me. They went quickly.
Now I'll trade it in towards Mass Effect.
BS... I went to one circuit city, and they were selling the last COD4 with free COD3 to the guy in front of me, then I went to another CC, and supposedly they were still waiting for their shipment, and it was already 3pm, so manager gave everyone on line waiting (about 14) a business card that secured cod4 with free cod3 plus 10 dollar gift certificate for our troubles. This CC was in woodbridge, NJ.
if anyone is having problems with advertised promos, just call the CC customer service number and they can help you.
The title of this story is technically incorrect, because advertisements have a long legal precedence of NOT being considered "offers" at all.
Contract law stipulates that in order for a contract to be legally binding, there must be three essential things. An offer, consideration, and acceptance.
Advertisements are what is called an "invitation to treat". The actual offer comes when you, as a consumer, offer to buy a good at an "advertised" price. It is at that point in time that the business will either ACCEPT your offer, and sell you the good, or refuse the sale.
So while this may qualify as false advertising and piss a lot of people off, there is nothing technically wrong with what CC is doing (from a legal contract-law standpoint). They reserve the right not to honor an offer from you to purchase their product.
so why is this guy pissed that he didn't get COD3..I mean the game isn't that great either...