So I Went to Buy a Game

[vun]

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Incorrect.

If they are just hanging around right outside the door all day for no reason it is considered loitering.

If they are attempting to make monetary deals with the people trading in the games on Gamestop's property, it is called soliciting.

Both are illegal. I work at a mall and we constantly have to get security to move people along (Usually large groups, as they make shoppers uncomfortable and weary) or boot people off of the property who are trying to sell stuff without going through proper channels like all of the retailers and kiosks in the mall have to.

Y'know those jokes in old shows, "Do you have a license to sell lemonade on this street corner?" Well, in some instances that isn't a joke.

I stand corrected. Now, I know of loitering laws, but I have never heard of them being enforced, not in Norway anyhow. That would be a misdemeanor, I believe? What is the penalty for it?

And as long as it's on public property, here in Norway, at least, no one can stop you from going up to someone and offer to buy their hat, say, or their coat, or indeed the game they have with them. You can decline to sell it, but they are fully within their rights to offer. This actually happened to me at a festival, where a guy just came up to me and went "Cool hat. Can I buy it?" Of course, this is only for small-scale stuff. If you do it enough for it to be considered any kind of business, you need a permit from the city/county authorities, but for small private deals, it would take a lot for this to be enforced.

I don't think the police would like it if you happened to wear 4 hats outside of a hat store offering to sell them to people just about to enter said hat store. If someone came out of the store disappointed and you happened to be walking by with the perfect hat there would be nothing illegal if they offered to buy it off you as far as I know.
Not that Norway has any hat stores worth mentioning, but you get the point.

More OT:
How can they tell the games have never been played? Though I guess console games wear and tear faster as you actually need to handle them quite often.

 

[Extra-Ordinary]

I almost saw somebody try to sell a hacked PSP once.
I say "almost" because it wasn't actually hacked. They were going through the system to make sure stuff worked, made sure it played properly, you know. Then at some point, the woman playing it turns to another guy working the counter and asks "Does that looked normal to you?" He responded with something along the lines of "That usually happens in a hacked PSP." Things got a little tense, for me anyway; I was like "Ooh, what's gonna happen?" Ultimately, they determined that it *wasn't* hacked, they just had to do, I don't know, this, that, the other thing, and then it worked.
Still kind of interesting though.

 

[2HF]

If you bring me 15 games that are spotless I know that you stole them. I'm going to take them in as trade and feel shitty as fuck about it but I am going to take them. Policy. I'm going to take your ID and pray that bad things come your way while giving you the iciest look and tone that policy will allow.

There is a difference between never-been-played-spotless and immaculately-taken-care-of-spotless. It's pretty clear when you handle as many disks as I do in a day.

If you come in with 15 games and I'm chatting you up while assessing your trade and you know fuck-all about the games you're trading in and you're asking me for cash when trade credit is twice as much I know you stole them. Yeah, sometimes people need cash quick but they know their games.

 

[FalloutJack]

Store clerk probably suspected the big pile of new, but he could have been as wrong as right. There was just no evidence, so he should not have made that call, really.

 

[Bat Vader]

I bought Persona 4 from GameStop a couple of weeks ago. I am really loving the game.

On Topic: I have never seen anyone try to trade in stolen merchandise before. Bringing in 15 games that look absolutely new does seem to be pushing it. It seems like if someone is bringing in 15 different games that some of those games should look like they have seen some use.

 

[Saregon]

I don't think the police would like it if you happened to wear 4 hats outside of a hat store offering to sell them to people just about to enter said hat store. If someone came out of the store disappointed and you happened to be walking by with the perfect hat there would be nothing illegal if they offered to buy it off you as far as I know.
Not that Norway has any hat stores worth mentioning, but you get the point.

More OT:
How can they tell the games have never been played? Though I guess console games wear and tear faster as you actually need to handle them quite often.

Well, yeah, but I also qualified my statement to that effect, so that's a bit redundant to correct me on. But I will agree that Norway has a grievous lack of hat stores, I love wearing hats, and I want hats dammit! Seriously, if they opened one where I live, I would quite literally throw my money at them.

There is a difference between never-been-played-spotless and immaculately-taken-care-of-spotless. It's pretty clear when you handle as many disks as I do in a day.

I'm curious, how can you tell? No sarcasm, just curiosity. I take very good care of my games, so I'll still have the ones I like in years and years, and have no problem reselling the ones I don't like as much. And apart from the tiny tiny bit of wear on the outside of the box (this only happens to the ones I keep, the ones I don't, I sell when I'm done with them, before this wear becomes apparent), and very, very few of my disks have scratches in them, and fewer still have scratches that can be seen. So how do you tell? Or is it one of those things that you can't explain, but just know, due to experience?


Also more OT: In Norway they require you to show ID when you sell games, guessing that's so they know who they bought from if it turns out the games are broken/stolen/etc.

 

[2HF]

I can tell because a disk that has been used is never flawless. A disk that just came out of the box shows a perfect sheen no matter which way you tilt it in the light. The only "flaw" is the glue between layers not being 100% uniform. With anything that has been used for damn near any amount of time you will see flaws. A slight fogging generally. I can't explain it to any degree of satisfaction. It's a lot like knowing a deck of cards is short 1 or 2 based purely on the feel of it. At least with 360, PS2, and Wii games. Much harder to tell with PS3 games because blurays are built like tanks but even those usually at least have fingerprints on them.