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.

The best trick to remove residue is to put the sticky part of the same sticker that you just pulled off on the left over residue and it should pull it off the box, keep repeating.

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. 

Most of the time when I buy from Gamestop the games aren't butchered, though this is probably more to do with me getting games on or relatively close to release date.

You should probably shop somewhere else if you can't stand stickers and opened games - Gamestop seems to do it pretty often from what I hear and I've only had it happen to me once or twice. And by once or twice, I mean I went to another store to buy the games so they would've already been opened.

Buying used at gameday sales is okayish though.

Yea this is so annoying! I never buy from Gamestop at all. I did buy a game online with a sticker on it, but it came perfectly off with EASE, it must have some special adhesive or something. You can usually get most stickers off but you gotta be patient and take it off carefully.

If there are still major smudges I just use Rubbing alcohol and a q-tip. It does wonders on cleaning about any game (cartridge, disk, etc.) it gets off about anything.

That happened too me twice from Gamestop. Their employees opened my cases, played the games before release and then put a "new" sticker on it and sold it too me without the shrink wrap on it for full price. The next time I see one of them do that I will seriously bitch and have a heart attack over it. From now on if I buy a game from them it must be in shrinkwrap or I just will go buy somewhere else.

I just can't stand that they open a game before selling it.

^ Yeah, that is not a new game, and should automatically be sold for the "used" price. It is bullshit, and if it ever happens to me again. I will call corporate and bitch them up a storm.

... ive heard many many many horror stories about gamestop, none of which i have experienced. maybe it has to do with having 2 gamestops in the same mall (thats right, i got 2 gamestops in the same ****ing building 3 blocks away from me). i guess ill keep giving them business till i turn 18 or till i get a horror story of my own.

Same thing happened to me when i got tales of vesperia it had a new sticker on it but it was open i was like wtf,I rarely buy games new

there any more, Try buying a used game from there. they spam those shitty Yellow stickers like 4 times on the box.