GameStop's employee checkout policy may be illegal

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mike_intellivision said:
Some quick thoughts.

Gamestop puts gutted copies of games on the shelf so that people can't walk away with them (because unlike mass merchandisers like Wal-Mart and Target, they don't lock their games in a cabinet where you can't see them).

The only time they sell the gutted copy is when it is the last one.

I remember the EB policy where it would take back new games and resell them as new as being a lot worse. Of course, if you think about it, most stores do the same thing -- buy a shirt, wear it, decide you don't like it, return it, it gets resold. And there is NO PROOF in the article that the FTC cares enough about this to investigate it. My guess is that it does not considering the same charges were made two years ago.

Mike from Morgantown

There are other solutions, other game stores have the games inside a hard shell which they remove when you go to the counter and pay for the game. Then they have those detectors which make something beep if you try to steal the game.