Reseal question re:Nintendo DS My Japanese Coach

[orangest]

Just wanted to check and see if there was any chance that this isn't a reseal...I highly doubt it but I don't know for sure. Thanks in advance for any help!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/orangest/IMG_20140617_215042785_zpsd4288e39.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/orangest/media/IMG_20140617_215042785_zpsd4288e39.jpg.html)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/orangest/IMG_20140617_214908533_zps1873010b.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/orangest/media/IMG_20140617_214908533_zps1873010b.jpg.html)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v203/orangest/IMG_20140617_214857263_zps5f1a329e.jpg (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/orangest/media/IMG_20140617_214857263_zps5f1a329e.jpg.html)

[Tanooki]

Kind of looks like one. The image showing the top is just plain horrible like someone did it with one of those sandwich bag resealers, and the back, it's an odd line and I don't see any signs of vent holes the Nintendo sealer machines leave behind either.

[Dangerboy]

While the edges look like a reseal and the H Seam is questionable - what caught my eye was the back - the actual plastic shell of the DS case looks 'grafted' to the shrinkwrap - bubbly. That's usually a sign of a hand held heat gun being used for too long on it. Normally I wouldn't post in these kind of threads, but that does look like a reseal.

[Flashback2012]

IMO that's a reseal all day long. The stretch marks on the corners and top are a dead giveaway. I resealed games at GameStop back in the day and that looks consistent with a shrink wrapping job done manually by hand with the help of a hot air blower instead of being done by a machine. There were plenty of publishers that sent sealed new releases which lacked the nicer cellophane and Y-fold. Even lacking that, you could still tell their shrink wrapping was done by a machine instead of by hand.

[orangest]

Thanks very much for the feedback. I bought it like this at one of the last remaining Wherehouse stores (which is sadly gone now) and wanted to check before freeing it from that plastic.

[Tanooki]

Hah I remember them. Free the beast. That thing actually with its 1000 lessons supposedly is fantastic for learning basic japanese as it covers writing with the stylus, talking with the mic, reading and listening. It's no Rosetta Stone but it's not junk.