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Originally Posted by Idiotekque
Ah, I thought Amazon took payment first. Either way, I'd rather pick it up in person rather than risk shipment damage on a large item like this. That's odd that you say that though, because it was 4 days or so ago that I looked at the Amazon preorder page for Borderlands 2 and it was active.
GameStop does take $25, yeah. I preordered today.
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Just so you realize, when you pickup a game from a physical store, like Gamestop, remember that that game had to be shipped first to Gamestop warehouses, then to Gamestop individual stores. Two shipping experiences for that game already. It's the same for amazon. It has to come from the manufacturer, to amazon, then to customer. 2x shipping. Often times, I find the employees at Gamestop stores care very little for how the handle games; be it a small book style limited edition or a huge edition like this upcoming BL2 Chest.
If we are talking amazon and gamestop only here, the best source to get your games, where they will least likely be damaged is from
gamestop.com (
delivered NOT local store pickup).
I say this from personal experience of which I have a lot of. Just never forget that even though your picking up an item in a store, that item had to go through several shipping experiences already which means it's just as likely to have been damaged, if not more so because the empoyees are usually NOT collectors themselves, just gamers. The only real benefit to picking up in store is you get the item faster than delivery. That's it.