Zeep
07-13-2005, 01:29 PM
My brother needed to get his DS replaced (the top screen was messed up), so I called Nintendo's customer service for him, and they were going to ship out a new DS for him (and then he'd have to ship back the broken one), but when the guy asked for my phone number, I started with the area code, and then he said, "Oh, you're in the Seattle area? If you want you could just come down here to Redmond and we could just trade in your DS for a factory refurbished one instantly."
So My brother, dad, and I drove down to Redmond yesterday to Nintendo and went into their customer service place, and as soon as I walked in the door, I was just... Wow. The place was like heaven. The were a bunch of GCN and DS demo stations, big stone statues of Mario and Pikachu and the like, and dispaly case showcasing all of Nintendo's products, from Hanafuda playing cards to the GCN, a computer kiosk for browsing nintendo.com, and more Nintendo merchandise that you could shake a stick at. I'm talking Zelda: WW watches, 'All Purpose Golf Tools' with Nintendo's logo, Nintendo DS polo shirts, GCN hoodies, all manner of GBA, GCN, and DS carrying cases, Mario Party themed playing cards, Zelda Twilight Princess T-Shirts ($9.95 for any size! I should've bought one, but I didn't have enough money with me...), player's guides, and just about everything else.
So anyways, my brother handed over his DS, they looked at it, and the guy there said we'd have to wait about half an hour to get a new one (I didn't mind). So while we were waiting, a kid, looked about 10-12 years old, came in with his mom and his DS, and his mom told the guy a pretty funny story. the DS was killeed by Sony. I'm not even kidding. He got it on Christmas, and they plugged in a pair of Sony headphones, and the headphones work fine, but the speakers have never let out any sound since then. I thought it was amusing, anyway.
The other thing I couldn't get over was the fact that Reggie himself was probably somewhere on this campus, within less than a mile of us! Of course, I never saw him or anything, but just the thought of it...
Yeah, that's about it.
So My brother, dad, and I drove down to Redmond yesterday to Nintendo and went into their customer service place, and as soon as I walked in the door, I was just... Wow. The place was like heaven. The were a bunch of GCN and DS demo stations, big stone statues of Mario and Pikachu and the like, and dispaly case showcasing all of Nintendo's products, from Hanafuda playing cards to the GCN, a computer kiosk for browsing nintendo.com, and more Nintendo merchandise that you could shake a stick at. I'm talking Zelda: WW watches, 'All Purpose Golf Tools' with Nintendo's logo, Nintendo DS polo shirts, GCN hoodies, all manner of GBA, GCN, and DS carrying cases, Mario Party themed playing cards, Zelda Twilight Princess T-Shirts ($9.95 for any size! I should've bought one, but I didn't have enough money with me...), player's guides, and just about everything else.
So anyways, my brother handed over his DS, they looked at it, and the guy there said we'd have to wait about half an hour to get a new one (I didn't mind). So while we were waiting, a kid, looked about 10-12 years old, came in with his mom and his DS, and his mom told the guy a pretty funny story. the DS was killeed by Sony. I'm not even kidding. He got it on Christmas, and they plugged in a pair of Sony headphones, and the headphones work fine, but the speakers have never let out any sound since then. I thought it was amusing, anyway.
The other thing I couldn't get over was the fact that Reggie himself was probably somewhere on this campus, within less than a mile of us! Of course, I never saw him or anything, but just the thought of it...
Yeah, that's about it.