Hooo boy. I had a day today.... So now I bring you a cautionary tale from the Pop Culture Fair...
The Pop Culture Fair is a gathering held at the Aviation Museum in Edmonton, and has vendors selling comics, toys, and all sorts of stuff. There was one today, which I went to at opening this morning (10am). I spent all my money after shockingly finding the NES and SNES Classic's you see pictured. Money gone and itching to game, I left pretty quickly.
Naturally I get home and start hooking stuff up. At first, everything works fine, but then the NES just starts randomly turning itself off. Well Google and Nintendo.com only have so many suggestions, and they say to phone in if nothing helps as repair/replacement might be the only options. After abut 20 minutes on the phone, I'm informed that both have counterfeit serial numbers! Needless to say, I got off the phone quick and headed back to the PCF.
When I got back, I asked for someone in charge, told him everything, said I'm not here to stir up **** but I wanted my money back. He was very helpful, and actually handled everything for me. The vendor basically didn't say anything besides "oh" and shuffled off to get me my money. I'm very thankful for the help, but damn.... you can't take anything for granted these days....
So I guess I'll never get an NES Classic (as it's discontinued), and probably never an SNES Classic either. Cause I'll never get one from anywhere other than brick and mortar now, which I'll never find. *sigh*