Gamestop have also taken a perfectly good download based games portal (Impulse) and removed any semblance of customer service and putting the customer first. Have been having massive problems trying to buy ONE title from their service, and they have been of zero help trying to resolve it. I have now given up and have resolved to never give Impulse any more money. Way to take a smallish games portal and trash it's customer base Gamestop!

Laptop. That is where you are making your mistake. Using a laptop for PC gaming is, frankly, like trying to ice skate uphill.

But I think that this gag may have been due to the French surrender to Nazi Germany in 1940. The French government were offered a way of not having to surrender (in my opinion it was an insane idea they were offered) but chose instead to capitulate. It is indeed daft to use that one instance to paint a picture of the entire history of French military power.

How do we do the same in the UK?

Have you got any examples? I'm being serious here, I personally didn't think that French music was particularly good,and i'm not saying that just to have a go at the French, I just thought that French people weren't overly bothered about music to be honest. I'd like to be proven wrong.

So you're saying people should not be allowed to sell on a particular class of product, just because the developers/publishers can't manage to run a sensible business model without unfairly restricting the rights of their customers?

This! A thousand times this! Hyperbole over exactly how much money has passed them by from the AC aside, this is why you aim for the best in customer service, and sadly this is seemingly becoming a rarity rather than commonplace. When the PHBs actually get it it will, of course, be too late for WorstBuy.

Caveat: As a Brit my only encounter with these guys was visiting relatives across the pond 9 years ago, and helping them shop for computer peripherals. Bestbuy's service was reasonable on that occasion (must have been lucky), but nothing particularly amazing

It's not just that we will take their vacation it just because it's been _earned_. It's actually legally required. Something called a work life balance

Want to cite some sources for this nonsense rhetoric?

So you think that laws to protect citizens of a country and their rights should not actually be enforced?

So you think that citizens should have zero rights to actally know they have a job for longer than the 5 minutes you can be bothered to pay them?

You think that anywhere in the EU there is a sales tax of 60%? What the hell have you been smoking?

Stop disparaging the system in other countries until _you_ get a clue

Probably more like adverts for more *ahem* professional services

Here in the UK, we have this. It works really well when combined with a publicity campaign. Anyone buying a phone that then turns out to be stolen goes to the police, and if they bought it from some person in the pub, with no way of tracing that person, then more fool them, they just learned a valuable lesson.

WHEEEAAAATOOONNNN!
(Not sure everyone likes in jokes, but meh(this sentence inserted to defeat all caps lameness filter))

I have to say, with that one, I salute you. (or was the doubled entendre entirely accidental?)