Game Stores Selling Opened Games as "New"

[JediMB]

Not really sure what's the big deal with the sealed box fetish.

It should really only be relevant for collectors who don't plan to open/play the games, but... eh... people will take every excuse they can get to demand a discount?

 

[DudeistBelieve]

It's really the principal of the thing. I'm not paying full price for something that's been opened, I don't care if it's never been played. If I'm dropping 60 plus tax, I want it factory sealed.

Just a thought, but I'm assuming you buy clothing all the time that has not only been "opened", but probably tried on by someone else!

Yeah but that's a little different. First of all, a brand new pair of pants or a shirt isn't gonna cost my 60 dollars.... well maybe in some stores, but clothing is one of the few things I buy on the cheap. also it's not like the option is there to get my clothes sealed.

It's also store logic. If I buy their open copy and decide I don't want it, they won't let me return it because the seal is gone.

 

[Chased]

It's also store logic. If I buy their open copy and decide I don't want it, they won't let me return it because the seal is gone.

I also had this issue. A game store I used to go to would only allow you to return new games sealed but they always gutted all of their new games - so even if you buy a game walked 3 feet and then walked back you couldn't return it because it was already "opened."

 

[rosac]

Wow, some serious OCD going on here. If you're just going to break the seal and play it yourself, why do you care that a Gamestation employee has already done this in order to prevent theft? Goddamn those people, wanting to eke out what little profit they can from those new games whilst still giving the publishers and developers money, those monsters.

 

[elvor0]

It's so people don't shoplift, there's nothing wrong with the games, I did it myself when I worked in GAME, they keep them safe, it's so so people don't steal them, if it doesn't work (which has never happened to me), just take it back.

 

[ResonanceSD]

Because I used shorthand to suggest that you are anal-retentive because you care about unimportant imperfections?

Or you know, because I don't want to support scams? Every store in my city gives discounts on damaged or opened products, only the two GameStops don't. I'm not paying full price of showcase hardware (Television, monitors, xyz) without even having to open my mouth, I'm not paying full price for damaged products (got an album with a damaged case this week for half price, sadly they had none without damage on them). Why should I make an exception for games and shitty stores?

If the store can't handle theft and security without damaging the product I won't pay full price, I won't even support that store.

Damaging the product? How does breaking the shrink wrap count as product damage? IF YOU BUY A GAME NEW THAT ENDS UP BEING ACTUALLY DAMAGED, TAKE IT BACK TO THE STORE.

 

[ChildishLegacy]

The lack of talk about the quality of the actual game/the change in your gaming experience due to a seal being broken pisses me off, it's like people are thinking about their picky little customer support problems before "can I actually play the game the same way as somebody buying a sealed copy can? - yes!" You are buying a game, you get to play a game with no problems.

 

[Ranylyn]

Damaging the product? How does breaking the shrink wrap count as product damage? IF YOU BUY A GAME NEW THAT ENDS UP BEING ACTUALLY DAMAGED, TAKE IT BACK TO THE STORE.

1) EVERY game I get that has been opened DOES have at least one scratch on it, which DOES affect loading time AND cause freezes. But no, if I take it home to see if it works, and then return it, because I broke the sticker they put on the game, I can't get a refund anymore, and they only offer me 5% of what I paid for the trade in value.

Before you ALL CAPS us and think your supposed LOGIC solves everything, keep in mind that we WOULDN'T even BE complaining if this WASN'T being a MAJOR issue for SEVERAL YEARS, already!

 

[ResonanceSD]

Damaging the product? How does breaking the shrink wrap count as product damage? IF YOU BUY A GAME NEW THAT ENDS UP BEING ACTUALLY DAMAGED, TAKE IT BACK TO THE STORE.

1) EVERY game I get that has been opened DOES have at least one scratch on it, which DOES affect loading time AND cause freezes. But no, if I take it home to see if it works, and then return it, because I broke the sticker they put on the game, I can't get a refund anymore, and they only offer me 5% of what I paid for the trade in value.

Before you ALL CAPS us and think your supposed LOGIC solves everything, keep in mind that we WOULDN'T even BE complaining if this WASN'T being a MAJOR issue for SEVERAL YEARS, already!

Apparently you've just got shitty luck then, or your GS is staffed by Edward Scissorhands Gutting a game means removing it from a jewel case and putting it in a sleeve. That's it. No reduction in quality whatsoever.


Also, which games do you buy that actually need to run from a disk these days?

 

[The_Echo]

At the GameStop I go to, they take the disc out of the display copy. That's it, and that's for the sake of theft prevention.

Every other copy is sealed and placed in a locked drawer.

Actually, I've gotten that 'last copy' of a game before on multiple occasions, and it still wasn't the display. Maybe they don't sell the display copy in my area.

 

[Akisa]

Because I used shorthand to suggest that you are anal-retentive because you care about unimportant imperfections?

Or you know, because I don't want to support scams? Every store in my city gives discounts on damaged or opened products, only the two GameStops don't. I'm not paying full price of showcase hardware (Television, monitors, xyz) without even having to open my mouth, I'm not paying full price for damaged products (got an album with a damaged case this week for half price, sadly they had none without damage on them). Why should I make an exception for games and shitty stores?

If the store can't handle theft and security without damaging the product I won't pay full price, I won't even support that store.

Damaging the product? How does breaking the shrink wrap count as product damage? IF YOU BUY A GAME NEW THAT ENDS UP BEING ACTUALLY DAMAGED, TAKE IT BACK TO THE STORE.

Here is the problem with that logic, I went back to the gamestop store with the last copy game which were opened by them. The game was defective, but when I tried to return the game in a calm manner, but than they said I couldn't return it because the game was opened. I spent like an hour complaining that it was sold like that before being asked to leave. I tried the next day, but I was promptly removed again. It wasn't until I tried another Gamestop that I was able to exchange the game.

 

[ResonanceSD]

I went back to the gamestop store with the last copy game which were opened by them.


I spent like an hour complaining that it was sold like that before being asked to leave.



I tried the next day, but I was promptly removed again. It wasn't until I tried another Gamestop that I was able to exchange the game.

So your problem appears to be with that one particular store?

And you've found a substitute store?

You should look up the word "problem". It doesn't mean what you think it does.