Just thought Id share this story.

Ive paid for my pipboy waay back almost as soon as it was announced via EB games here in Aus. Ive told a few people that I was buying it and Im not going to pick it up till I leave work.

So 2 minutes ago I got a phone call from EB Games saying that a guy had just come into the store, used my name to pickup my Pipboy ed. They wouldnt release it to him because he couldnt produce any photo id .

Lengths people will go to... Im just more concerned some stranger boob is using my name

I doubt it was a professional identity thief, as they have the means to produce decent counterfit IDs. Indeed it probably was one of your coworkers that knew about it. Kudos to the people at EB Games for not giving it up, they usually aren't too attentive.

If only we treated voting with the same amount of reverence.

Ain't it the truth


You've got some good friends there- some people will stoop to anything

I'd watch your back around your co-workers from here on. Fallout 4 can make sane people do strange things...

You should actually take some pics of your coworkers or friends to the store and see if the cashier recognizes them. I would do it right away while its still fresh in their mind. Then when you get to work you let EVERYONE know what they attempted to do. Low life scum like that need to be ostracized from their friends and society in general. He should be made pariah and every effort should be made to make him quit his job and leave. I have worked with people like that although its usually stuff like writing down that they did something in the logs that someone else clearly did or stealing lunches. I [censored] hate people like and with those tactics I have forced a few of them to leave or at the very least no one will associate with them anymore. I got some dirty looks from them but I just flip them the bird or stick my tounge out at them and sit down with a group of people while they sit alone and dejected. If you treat your friends like crap you don't deserve them.

Go to the store see if they will let you see the surveillance tape and see if its anybody you know of.

I have a better form of identification protection at gamestop.....the dudes there know me by name and face. They greet me by name when I walk in.

How the hell does some random bloke just roll up into an EB store and know how to use your name to steal your game?

Something is rotting in Denmark. Or EB games. Or both.......

This is why I preloaded the game on Steam. Come 9:01pm tonight, I'm ready to roll with zero issues.

It was obviously one of his friends or coworkers. As someone else mentioned he should check out the tapes and report it to the police as attempted theft. Its a game but its almost a $100 game.

Actually the PipBoy edition is $120.....and I agree, somebody who knew the dude tried this and deserves to rot in prison.

Use your new pipboy to scan for the weaknesses in your enemy coworkers!

Man if this happened to me I'd me making a list of mofos who knew me, got Fallout 4, could get to my gamestop and were not in my sight at the time of the incident.....someone would be getting a beatdown that day!!

Actually the EB Games Pip boy edition is like 188 dollars Australian. Im in Australia as I said in my original post .

So it would be about 130 ish US.

Either way its the most Ive ever played for a computer game ever.

Also Im a librarian. My coworkers are all late 40's early 50's Females. Not the target age group for FO4. I doubt it was any of them. I was thinking perhaps someone looked at a monitor they shouldnt have or former employee? Not sure.

Its just totally weird, but hey so is the Fallout Universe!

If we did it may not turn out the way you intend. Just imagine all those people who lost their licenses from for-profit policing though and then voter suppression of the poor ensues.. Also, voter fraud isn't that commonplace compared to indirect/direct voter suppression.

Not to make this a political thread but the main reason I support voter ID is because I am sick and tired of having to wait for losers wasting my time and everyone else's time hunting for a utility bill to show where they live and then the additional time that the poll worker takes to verify it compared to just quickly checking a photo ID. I have the same view of idiots who wait till after the last grocery item is scanned and then and only then start filling out their check, a check for cheese sake. This is 2015 get freaking debit card already. If you don't have a photo ID you are a loser pure and simple. They are free and easy to get. You can still vote absentee ballot if you are home bound as my grandma did so that isn't an excuse either.

Also, voter turnout increased the most among groups that they claimed would be disenfranchised in states that passed photo ID laws in the last election so I don't know where you are getting your info from but its just plain wrong.

I screwed up the multiquote thing apparently. I am really glad that I didn't get it then. I figure in a year I can pick up the pip boy on Ebay for way less than that.

Man the PipBoy case is nice and solid. Mustard Green too !