Why Does Gamestop...

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Onyxmeth said:

gergroy said:

Onyxmeth said:

gergroy said:
you guys do realize that most games you buy "new" from gamestope are actually new? They let their employee's check out the games, meaning they take these new games home and use them, and then bring them back.

Never buy new from gamestop.

You do realize it's fairly easy to tell which games that might have happened to and which ones haven't, right? If it's still shrink wrapped, like the majority of their new games are, I'm fairly certain it's never been played by anyone prior to purchaser.

This should go as a general rule. There's nothing wrong with buying a new game at Gamestop. Just make sure the new game you buy is a shrink wrapped copy, otherwise go somewhere else. Very simple.

it might have changed, but when I worked there we just re-shrink wrapped them.  So nobody could tell if it had been used or not.

I'll take the case of a 360 game since I'm most familiar with them. Each 360 game has three stickers along the three openings of the DVD case that are official Microsoft stickers. Secondly the original shrink wrapping is specially folded on all three openings, and most companies that re-shrink wrap things use the shoddy method of having some vacuum method and a pinched closing. So you're telling me Gamestop actually repackages 360 games to appear brand new? I call bullshit. It's fairly easy to tell when something has been re-shrink wrapped, because it's poorly redone.

well, I haven't worked for gamestop since 2002, so it has been a while.  Things may have changed.  Obviously the stickers on 360 games are different (although no such stickers exist for wii games or ps3 games).  And yes, we had a really nice shrink wrap machine that did the folded edges and everything.  You had to with that kind of repackaging going on. 

Either way, it doesn't change the fact that the employee's do check out the new games.