So whats the sub for Paws and Claws?

Sorry, we are sold out of :"Paws and Claws Pet Vet: Healing Hands". Please Substitute: "World of Warcraft Battlechest".

NeonLight

So what you're telling me is that I shouldn't have bought Paws & Claws Pet Vet 2: Healing Hands? I trusted Target that it'd be the same damn game!

Who can I trust if I can't trust Target's "substitute division..."

mfwahwah

Wow. I mean... seriously, do the folks at Target even know the difference between World of Warcraft and... any other video game that's out there? I'm just surprised they didn't suggest TurboTax, or Norton Anti-Virus, or something like that.

Salen

@mpmaley: That's what the employee told me, but feel free to notice that I *did* say "generally the only thing the substitute suggestion has in common with the original is price" which doesn't contradict what you said. My take is that - assuming you work for Target and maybe know better - this guy must be running to his boss for clarification on everything.

mariospants

@mariospants:

That's now how they work lol.

Read my other post.

mpmaley

@Cloral:

That's not how it works @ Target.

How the substitutes work is that someone walks around the whole store scanning all the ad items. If we don't have them in the back then they are required to do an instant substitute. So in reality the person that scanned that item probably had no idea what Warcraft is and just picked something else that was 19.99

mpmaley

I am sick of your bashing! Have you guys ever tired Paws and Claws Pet Vet 2? No you haven't so for all you know it could be just as good as WoW. Obviously the first one was good enough for a sequel after the first one was just released a year ago.

How many sequals does WoW has??? 0 thats right and it toook them almost 2 years to come out with just 1 expansion pack!

Next time try the game before you bash it. god you make me sick

taftsearlobe33

These "substitution" suggestions always confused me with their complete and apparently intentional lack of sense, so I asked a Target employee who the hell comes up with these printouts. Apparently, the "Manager" dreams these doozies up and yes, it's all about what either needs to be cleared out (too much inventory) or is being pushed by corporate ("hey, we got 200k of these in at half price, start pushing") and generally the only thing the substitute suggestion has in common with the original is price. So it's basically crap and totally worthless information that isn't worth the read.

Besides, the best game deals seem to be at Blockbuster these days.

mariospants

@Shoemaster: ya ... well ...Killzone is getting a sequel.

Lanhoj

Ya cuz those 2 games are totally for the same kinda gamer. WTF?

Lanhoj

They probably noticed a lot of people like to collect pets in the game...

BaseVilliN

I can't believe there was a game called Paws and Claws Pet Vet 1, and it made enough money to warrant a sequel.

Shoemaster

LF1M Pet Vet and gtg

GammaPoweredSuperApe

Sounds about right. One time I was looking for Mario Kart DS, and they recommended Hannah Montana's Whore-bag Adventures.

Xagest

Lol, I loved the substitution system at Target when I used to work for my local store. Instant subs are up to the discretion of the team leader or executive working at the store that finds a Sunday ad item completely out of stock. Of course they like to pass the duty of selecting an item down to the line as well. The first time I had to do an instant sub I had only returned from school about 2-3 weeks prior (they implemented it a few years ago while I was away at college). I was essentially told to find something similar (table for a table, 4 drawer dresser for another 3 or 4 drawer dresser, etc) and then make signs. So, it was always pretty hilarious to see the instant subs over in the electronics department since the variety of similar items was big enough to continually get events like this one happening.

SpishackCola

I'll only except the substitute if Target can guarantee me that I can import any of the pets I recuse and heal into Azeroth in "Wrath of the Linch King" as the most epic of mounts.

Senji

"Sir, we've got dozens of extra copies of the vet game. Nobody wants it. What should we do?"
"Next time we run out of a game, we'll suggest it as a substitute. Nobody will know the difference."

Cloral

You mean going to buy Animal Crossing and coming back with GTA IV. lol

CrashOverride777

not bad, i'd say they are about the same game.

MissingNo

Oh yeah, and I just noticed-
Who submitted this burn on Target?

THE BEST BUY GUY!

I call shenanigans.

Ad-hominem

Meh. Target just does this to clear inventory. I've seen them sell good, but poor-selling PC games for $3, and shove the lousy games they've had for years to the forefront with "sales" to get rid of the excess they bought.

Ad-hominem

Target always has to substitute the WORST Games.

Tw3nty0ne

lol :D yes you need something to heal hands after a long hours of WOW battlechest-ing..

Playstation

Anybody else remember when the new Advance Wars game came out and it was sold out and they suggested High School Musical 2 for the GBA?

Oldschool60

Technically, the instant substitution is just for computer record-keeping (so the store can track that signage is all being handled properly)... the neat thing about Target is that the actual substitution policy is a bit different. Any time a sale item is out of stock-- and it's not marked as non-raincheckable-- the consumer can substitute any like item that's not currently on sale for the missing one and receive the same percentage off. Some stores choose not to honor this on video games, but others do-- usually depends on the store leader. But for most of the goods in the store, it works. And it can get funny. Store out of the 26" 720p LCD that was 30% off on the week f the Super Bowl? Get 30% off the 42" 1080p model instead. All out of the 32MB thumb drive that's half off? Get 50% off the 4GB one instead.

Try it. Be a smart consumer.

wild homes loves you but chooses darkness!

Word of Warcraft? Wrong category, per chance, or did I miss some injoke?

Estel

I dont think the battlechest is the MMO. Isnt that the RTS one? At least thats the way it was for starcraft, but SC doesnt have an MMO. Kinda reminds me of when butters wants to play hello Kitty on his PC than join all the other kids in WoW.

adragonfang18

Does Paws and Claws have epic mounts? Like a Cat riding a Griffin? Cause I would pay money for that.

Emperor_Guam

Yeah, Target's instant substitutions are pretty retarded in the electronics department. For instance, one week at the Target I work for, we were out of Warioware: Touched, and the natural substitution was, of course, Imagine: Animal Doctor.

On the bright side, being sold out of Xd cards one week netted me a $15 2GB SD card. Still a stupid substitution, given that they're different card types, but great for people who matter... like me.

Kainy

That's the 2nd thing I looked for after I couldn;t find my WarCraft game! The first was Get A Clue: Barbie Horsies Adventure

Teh_Volz

Oops...this is what game-oblivious people do. It's pretty harmless when they're in charge of making up signs and such like this. We all know how bad it can be when they get a microphone and/or TV camera though.

However, Paws and Claws is automatically better for not having a monthly fee. =P

BigDragon

Hahahaha, this is pretty stupid.

spyker3292

@mule1984:
Nah, just someone that has no idea what Warcraft is.

mpmaley

@mariospants:
What I said is how we do it at my store which I assume is the way it's always done. They're supposed to find a product of similar price and use that.
@Kainy:
This is what happens when you get someone doing substitutions and they're either new, don't know the products, or just don't give a crap.

I love Target in some ways and hate it in others. The problem w/ the store is they higher a lot of high school kids (I was one way back when) and then shift them around. One night you're here and another night you're there, so you don't become an 'expert'. Electronics though should have smart people but they're not the ones that shoot the substitutes, it's the people that come in @ 6am....enough of this Target talk ^_^

mpmaley

This is the obvious substitution.
Because every now and then, you need a vet to check on your Orcs, Taurens and Lich Kings' paws and claws.

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

@Lanhoj: HAH! Agreed.

One time I went in looking for a set of hand-towels that were, like, extra soft. They were out, so they suggested drowning myself. It wouldn't have been so bad if when I was done I had those hand towels, though.
Now I am a soaked zombie.

Guaaaahhhhhh......

TheMurderer

Bait and switch?

mule1984

@mpmaley:
My store was the opposite. Still hired (missed that one in your post ;P) a ton of high school kids (I started at 16 almost a decade ago, even though I stopped working there just over a year ago), but once the team leaders at my store got an idea of how well they functioned in each area, you could usually find yourself in that same area for 90% of your shifts on the sales floor.

Also, we had a separate group of electronics people, so that made it easier when I initially worked in there (spent half my time in electronics and half the time out on the floor the electronics dept was in to cover breaks and help answer questions) since I could take all the down time to read the 3x5s and such. Rarely did someone get into electronics (if it wasn't their first week working there) from the floor that didn't already have a lot of time spent in the elec dept.

SpishackCola

Another Target Employee here, and an MMB Specialist to boot (which is the person in charge of PC games, they do not fall under Electronics jurisdiction).

Any Target employee worth their weight in Red and Khaki knows that ABSOLUTELY NO Video Games, DVDs, CDs or PC games get Substitutions, PERIOD. It has to do with Copyright policies of various companies and publishers. Mostly along the lines of if a Blizzard game is on sale for the week, it is because there is a deal with them and Target - ergo, you can't put up an EA game on sale in it's place because there was no deal struck. Even though our system technically allows it all to happen anyway.

My guess is probably someone in the price change or research team (they scan the store and zap any outs with their scanners and it will either pull the product or order the product) set that up without knowing what they were doing.

The product should have been rainchecked (unless it was an extra special promotion (i'm not sure what the sale is this week). So, yeah. Anyone who says otherwise doesn't know what they are talking about.

TheDoom

@Lanhoj: Hahaha, ZING!

Chanthas

I think this is right on the money. In both games you deal with the suffering of animals. In CaPPV:HH (the most used acronym in the world btw) you are treating the suffering animals. In WoW you are mercilessly slaughtering tons and tons of innocent creatures.

So somewhat similar.

svenhoek

Nowadays you'll even see that crap pulled by Eb Games. Or Gamespot.

EtisArap

Secretly, most WoW players love to fantasize about nursing sick kittens back to health. When you burn out on standard fare fantasy, you have to start reaching.

Uzumaki_Kiba

/facepalm

MKLOL

Sounds even funnier the other way around!

NiceMissMayonnaise

the wow battlechest at the Target I work at doesn't even sell....lol

islandknight

pretty great

elsteveo

much snickering is coming from Chilly Hollow

Chilly Hollow

@Xagest: Epic. Win.

greycobalt