Ok, so about 3 weeks ago I bought a new Tamagotchi 2004 off of e-bay, because i couldn’t wait for an english version to come out in America. Today,it came, I was soo excited I almost shat myself,(also because my new cranks are on their way from the UPS station about 15 miles away to my house now) anyways, i open the package up, (I notice that the packaging of the Tama is shoddy and stapled together poorly and that the display is a bit cruddy but i was like " hey they are Japanese Prototypes, they could have a used male speedo around it and i would still not care". I pull the tab, on the deal and immediately I relised something was arye(sp.) the animation was nothing f a tamagotchi and appears to be some sort of girrafe! The controls are funky and the panel is weird, obviously I was either scammed or there was a f*ck up at the factory and they put the wrong thing in my Tamagotchi, I was wondering if you guys coulod help me, I ordered two tamagotchi’s but from different people and the other one shipped out the same day from a different part of japan so it should be here within a day or two. I need you guys to tell me if I should send it back and ask for a new and real modell, or just keep it and suck it up, The deal only cost me 12 bucks and I had that lying around on paypal from some G-mail accounts i sold. So im not pissed off about the money, just the fact that this is a peice of shit toy makes me so pissed off!!! I want to get the real thing, because it almost obvious its a fake but i don’t want to have to pay for a new one or have to send it back for a new one, i think I’ll just ask for a refund. What should I do???
I have no idea what a tamagotchi is but maybe u should resell it for a little higher price on ebay.
BRiAN
i’m tempted to say that once u get into tamagochi country, u’re on your own
(any toy that can get serious corporates to set up ‘tamagochi creches’ must be evil…)
but since i’m very much in favour of the empowered consumer, i would suggest contacting the source and arranging for a replacement
ideally a free upgrade
and no, i’m not some xtreem-freeloader
i don’t regard me picking up the phone (or the email machine for that matter) to tell a company about how they screwed up as complaining
no, it’s (unsolicited, fair enough) consumer feedback
companies pay fat wads of cash for consumer feedback to be able to fine-tune their marketing efforts
they might as well throw a lil’ bit of that my way
(i’m in the middle of getting a 54cm TV exchanged for a 74cm because i sent the 54 in for repairs covered by an extended warranty and they returned the wrong serial-numbered TV.)
so, yeah, send it back
I talked to the guy today and he insists it real, i am starting to believe him because I got the other one today, it had english Instructions too, and it contained a whole ton of options, including the girrafe like creature, im going to experiment to check for actual realness(to be redundant). Im pretty sure i wont send it back cause im lazy, unless one of them breaks really soon.
whats a tamagotchi?
- bobgob
found this for you,
A Tamagotchi is a virtual/giga/digi pet on a key ring. I got two of the Tamagotchi Connexions from Firebox.com and they are cool! You can link them up via infra red and trade stuff! Demanding tho… Mine and my girlfriends both lie dead/dormant in a cupboard after about 3 weeks of use…
Go for the refund or at worst, replacement.
My parents gave me a tamagotchi back on the last day of school in 1996 as a gift. After playing with it that summer, I put in one of the drawers of my desk. I haven’t turned it on since. Good fun, though sometimes annoying.
Wow, was that really 8 years ago? Crazy.