Batman...Part 2

JERRY: I don't understand, I made a reservation, do you have my reservation?
RENTAL CAR AGENT: Yes, we do, unfortunately we ran out of cars.
JERRY: But the reservation keeps the car here. That's why you have the reservation.
RENTAL CAR AGENT: I know why we have reservations.
JERRY: I don't think you do. If you did, I'd have a car. See, you know how to take the reservation, you just don't know how to *hold* the reservation and that's really the most important part of the reservation, the holding. Anybody can just take them.


I pre-ordered Arkham Asylum and they tell me that it's out of stock. On the bestbuy forum they mentioned that a pre-order would reserve a copy of the game for me, whenever they were in stock.

This doesn't make much sense to me. If you have 100 pre-orders, why would you be sure to have fewer than 100 copies of the game? That's just bad business. Now, I am stuck waiting for a game that may not come in for a week (and then will be shipped to me) and cursing bestbuyca.

Bad business!