GameStop sells played games as new, sources say, practice could be illegal.

It does make sense to go after Gamestop while I know that Game Crazy allow there employees to borrow games and I'm sure most mom/pop stores do too if you want send message to the video game retail ndustry that this sort of thing needs stop GameStop would be the place start. You come down hard on GameStop and the smaller chains and mom/pop stores will stop doing it for the most part themselves.

For the record, I feel like it is not fair for them to charge new prices to a game that has been opened and played. New to me equals sealed, untouched, and unplayed.

mastermario said:

For the record, I feel like it is not fair for them to charge new prices to a game that has been opened and played. New to me equals sealed, untouched, and unplayed.

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That's what I thought everyone would think, but this topic has showed me otherwise :lol

SpartanEvolved said:

That's what I thought everyone would think, but this topic has showed me otherwise :lol

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that's what i thought too...... and i thought i was the conformist one from a socialist country XD

Bumped. I made this topic a poll, because I am interested.


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No problem here. You'll never know the difference.

I'm kind of embarrassed to admit I was debating all this without even reading the article :-X This whole time I thought you guys meant that GS opened some games, but then resealed them to make them appear new. That I would not have a problem with, as you'd never know the difference. I wouldn't pay new price for an unsealed game. No way in hell. Sorry about that all that, guys :-\

I had to go with don't care because while I do think it's unethicial I just don't have it in me anymore to get worked up over this sort of thing any more believe me I wish I did.

I am honestly surprised people are ok with paying full price for open goods.

I don't know... I won't pay full price for open items... if they are open, I am paying the used price whether the game has been played or not.

†B†V† :hat

Bluevoodu said:

I am honestly surprised people are ok with paying full price for open goods.

I don't know... I won't pay full price for open items... if they are open, I am paying the used price whether the game has been played or not.

†B†V† :hat

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On the flip side..I'm surprised at how much people are freaking out when it comes to a little bit of plastic wrap that surrounds your game. :lol

Strubes said:

On the flip side..I'm surprised at how much people are freaking out when it comes to a little bit of plastic wrap that surrounds your game. :lol

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that's the symbol of the game/product being new and untouched.....

the ridiculously annoying stickers are a symbol of an used game/product, and seriously sometimes they go overboard with those stickers to the point they just ruin the box of the game =_=.

Zidart said:

the ridiculously annoying stickers are a symbol of an used game/product, and seriously sometimes they go overboard with those stickers to the point they just ruin the box of the game =_=.

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I will agree with you on that one 100% there is no reason to cover half box like have seen before in stickers telling people that the game is used.

Zidart said:

that's the symbol of the game/product being new and untouched.....

the ridiculously annoying stickers are a symbol of an used game/product, and seriously sometimes they go overboard with those stickers to the point they just ruin the box of the game =_=.

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I know omg! How many times do you have to list the price on one game? One is plenty! lol. It's a pain in the you know what removing those.

Zidart said:

that's the symbol of the game/product being new and untouched.....

the ridiculously annoying stickers are a symbol of an used game/product, and seriously sometimes they go overboard with those stickers to the point they just ruin the box of the game =_=.

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The gutted copies would then also be considered used because they have to take one out to showcase the case. That's pretty sad then.

Strubes said:

The gutted copies would then also be considered used because they have to take one out to showcase the case. That's pretty sad then.

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it is... but there are ways to show the game and still have it inside its case safe and sound *points at walmart and FYE*

Zidart said:

it is... but there are ways to show the game and still have it inside its case safe and sound *points at walmart and FYE*

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Hate to break it to ya, but not all companies are like them. And even so, I like this better than having a game behind a glass case, because you can read the back.

Strubes said:

Hate to break it to ya, but not all companies are like them. And even so, I like this better than having a game behind a glass case, because you can read the back.

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you can reach stuff in the back in FYE just fine...and i realize not all companies are like them...however the only places where i can buy games around here are gamestop, walmart and FYE...so =P i don't really care about other companies...as was already posted above if gamestop is banned of such things then the others will too.

Zidart said:

you can reach stuff in the back in FYE just fine...and i realize not all companies are like them...however the only places where i can buy games around here are gamestop, walmart and FYE...so =P i don't really care about other companies...as was already posted above if gamestop is banned of such things then the others will too.

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We don't always know that. Though, even if GameStop's stopped from doing that, they'll find loopholes and ways for the employees to try out the games before selling them. If anything, I don't see this going very far. The GameStop employees I've talked to haven't even heard of this case.

Strubes said:

We don't always know that. Though, even if GameStop's stopped from doing that, they'll find loopholes and ways for the employees to try out the games before selling them. If anything, I don't see this going very far. The GameStop employees I've talked to haven't even heard of this case.

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yes there is an acceptable loophole...label the game as used before selling it... heck if they want to be cheap and sell it for only 5 cents less or heck the same price then fine but at least leave what's new untouched or what's used in the used section...they waste thousands of stickers to put those in the "new" game stickers anyway why not simply label those that are used? true i would like those games to be sold at the price of used games but if what you say is true and there's no way around it, at least the principle of informing the uninformed costumer that the game was used is expected.

when i bought Tales of Legendia, the store clerk did tell me that the game was used, he showed me the disc... no problems with it or anything like that, so i wasn't really bothered by this fact because it was informed to me beforehand....

the first time i had a problem with gamestop was way back when i was new to this country and bought DBZ budokai 3 new.... when i arrive home i looked at the disc and there was a huge scratch on the back side of the disc.... obviously i went back the next morning (i didn't have a car so i have to walk about 6 miles total.. which for me is not a whole lot but it is time consuming)...anyway it turns out the clerk made a mistake and gave me an used copy instead of a new one... now i know this is partly the guys fault, but if the company didn't allow discs to be out like that it probably wouldn't have happened..... (this was the same guy that sold me legendia... he learned his lesson alright and so did I)

there's been at least 2 other problems like that with gamestop (the other 2 with a different one) but this is the one that pissed me off the most.

so what i think? this case might help lower the percentage of this happening to anyone again.... and even if the percentage is as low as the RROD last year (around 16% i believe) it's better to be safe than sorry... i still buy at gamestop, same reasons for everyone else, the tyrant is the only way to get some games.. but if they are going to monopolize the industry of gaming they could have least give the costumer all the treatment he/she deserves....most of the time they do and i realize this could happen to any other business but if the chances are there... why not take them to support the costumer?

Edit: forgot to add.....if they have the time to ask you a thousand times "do you want to pre-order this, subscribe to that" then they sure have time to at least do what that clerk told me when i bought Tales of Legendia.......

Zidart said:

yes there is an acceptable loophole...label the game as used before selling it... heck if they want to be cheap and sell it for only 5 cents less or heck the same price then fine but at least leave what's new untouched or what's used in the used section...they waste thousands of stickers to put those in the "new" game stickers anyway why not simply label those that are used? true i would like those games to be sold at the price of used games but if what you say is true and there's no way around it, at least the principle of informing the uninformed costumer that the game was used is expected.

when i bought Tales of Legendia, the store clerk did tell me that the game was used, he showed me the disc... no problems with it or anything like that, so i wasn't really bothered by this fact because it was informed to me beforehand....

the first time i had a problem with gamestop was way back when i was new to this country and bought DBZ budokai 3 new.... when i arrive home i looked at the disc and there was a huge scratch on the back side of the disc.... obviously i went back the next morning (i didn't have a car so i have to walk about 6 miles total.. which for me is not a whole lot but it is time consuming)...anyway it turns out the clerk made a mistake and gave me an used copy instead of a new one... now i know this is partly the guys fault, but if the company didn't allow discs to be out like that it probably wouldn't have happened..... (this was the same guy that sold me legendia... he learned his lesson alright and so did I)

there's been at least 2 other problems like that with gamestop (the other 2 with a different one) but this is the one that pissed me off the most.

so what i think? this case might help lower the percentage of this happening to anyone again.... and even if the percentage is as low as the RROD last year (around 16% i believe) it's better to be safe than sorry... i still buy at gamestop, same reasons for everyone else, the tyrant is the only way to get some games.. but if they are going to monopolize the industry of gaming they could have least give the costumer all the treatment he/she deserves....most of the time they do and i realize this could happen to any other business but if the chances are there... why not take them to support the costumer?

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Instead of responding with a huge, drawn out argument, I'll just say...I respectfully disagree.