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| - I don't normally shop at GameStop, but I was given a gift card a long time ago and I needed it out of my wallet so I dropped in to get a game I've been meaning to pick up for my 3DS.
They had both games I was interested in new and used. The new price was $39.99. These games have been out for over a year. A quick check on my smart phone shows them for $29.99 online, shipped free. Welp, I had a gift card that I have to use up, so I checked out the used copies, surely they would be closer to $30....
Nope. The used copies were a staggering TWO Dollars less. That's right, 39.99 new or 37.99 used. I thought this had to be a joke.
I begrudgingly grabbed the new copy, I'm not buying a used game to save only two dollars when I know that GameStop is notorious for giving customers pennies on the dollar for their trade-ins. A markup so absurd, knowing the game's developers got precisely 0% for that sale just made me angry.
So I took the case off the shelf for a new copy of my game, and took it to the counter. Guy literally opens the shelf case, which is covered in stickers and damage from being manhandled by everyone and their children, reaches into a drawer and snaps the game cartridge in.
Incredulously, I looked at the clerk and said "No. This is a new copy I'm buying, give me a new one in shrink."
His response? "We don't have those. All copies of the games are in the drawer and the cases are out on the shelves."
"New AND used?"
"Yeah..." (rudely)
And as he says this, he slaps ANOTHER sticker onto my game case, a big clear round one over the opening-- just in case of I don't know what. So now there's more adhesive residue garbage on my game.
It is absolutely unacceptable for a business to operate this way. And there is no reason for anyone to shop there when new games in undamaged condition cost less elsewhere. I will never return.
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