The Gamestops near my house have thrown away most of their used PS2 manuals and boxes and are now selling the discs in cardboard sleeves. Ugh...
Gamestop is at it again.
The Gamestops near my house have thrown away most of their used PS2 manuals and boxes and are now selling the discs in cardboard sleeves. Ugh...
They've done the same at the one near me, though it seemed to be just for their clearance rack, as they still had a shelf full of complete PS2 games. The stuff in the sleeves seemed to be mostly sports games and really old common stuff.
EDIT: Ooh, post number 1111!
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Yeah the Gamestops in my area started this awhile back. It was only like the under $5 sports junk mostly with a few other $5 and under games. They've done the same with the last $5 Gamecube games they had laying around as well.
That reminds me, I'd found a reasonably cheap used copy of Monster Hunter Freedom Unite on the shelf at a local EB Games and discovered upon it being scanned at the till that there were, in fact, zero copies in stock. The clerk, without hesitation, turned around and chucked the box (with manual) in the nearest trash can. Really, I should have offered a buck for it or something and cleaned up on a UMD-only eBay copy.
You could have asked for the box. I do this when a game is out of stock. Since they no longer need it, I get the box for free. Of course, YMMV.Originally Posted by Drixxel
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Ugh, to work at or know someone at a GS who could have bagged up all those cases and manuals...
Well, at least the manuals. Most GSs I go into have the horrid generic cases peppered in between the legit cases that are stickered and beat up to hell.
No big loss I guess. Sad panda.
i remember them doing this with all their gameboy advance stuff.
One of the stores I go to told me they threw out like 50 GBA boxes/manuals, now that I am collecting for the Gameboy Systems that just stinks thinking about that
Reminds of me the days when I worked there, just after the Funco Land takeover. Any pre-PlayStation 1 boxes were tossed. This is precisely how I bulked up my NES, SNES and Genesis collection. I'd grab all the boxes and worry about getting the game later.
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am I the only one who digs around in the dumpster behind gamestop?
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Not around here, yet. Might have to go make friends with the manager of the local store. They've got a lot in sleeves as it is, but there's still a good number of them on the wall, just like the other systems.
RIP bargora, you will be greatly missed.That is how we do things on Giedion Prime.
I've considered doing this, but the GS in my town is in a strip mall near a busy Rosatis (pizza store) and it's used by others as a shortcut to the Wal-Mart nearby, so I'm SOL on rescuing innocent PS2 cases.
Still, this is bullshit- they can't sell these in bulk to make a profit? Where is their logic in all of this (if they even had logic behind this to begin with)?
All the Gamestop's in my area have been doing this for over a year now.
Of the nine locations I've visited over the past 6-8 months, two of the stores actually have the manuals packed into the cardboard sleeves with the PS2 games. But otherwise all of the remaining stores seem to have tossed both the artwork and box. Not to mention you don't even get a case for the game.
Guess the PS2 "completists" who hadn't been fast enough in getting around to picking up complete copies of NBA Live 07, NBA 2K6, Madden 07 or whatever because they assumed Gamestop would still have dozens of copies of stuff like that for another 2-3 years shouldn't have dicked around so long.
One or two locations in my neck of the woods have also begun doing this cardboard sleeve business with XBox 360 games, anything under $2.
Meanwhile, the one location nearby who are still carrying XBox 1 games (they have a selection of about 100) are keeping them in their original case with the artwork and manual. At this point they are all 75% off. So I suppose someone who wants a case badly can buy one of the 99 center's which are now discounted to about 25 cents, before the Edge card discount. Easy way to get a lot of cases all at once.
It's a good thing I don't buy used PS2 games from Gamestop.
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I thought GS recently initiated a policy that all trade ins must be complete? Or does that only apply to new generation consoles?
They've started tossing the boxes for used DS games at my GS. Can't wait for something like Dragon Quest V or Electroplankton to come in...
I think people here forget that most gamers really don't care that much about the packaging of a game and simply want to play the game and have fun.
Gamestop can toss the cases for 40 two buck games and make room on a shelf for stuff that will actually turn a profit and keep the location open.
Been snagging a lot of cheap PS2 games this way for awhile (gathered about twenty so far around the many GS stores in San Antonio). If I need any type of help on them I can find what I need on the web.
I just purchased a 500GB hard drive for my PS2 Fatty and plan to install most, if not all, of my collection onto it and use Free McBoot and Opal (Open PS2 Loader - OPL for short) to play them.
The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout "save us!"......and I'll look down, and whisper "no."
No, you're not. If I'm walking past the GameStop location near my apartment and see an employee walking to or away from the dumpster I take a peek after they leave.
Really, this sort of thing shouldn't bother most people. The only people who should be really pissed off are people who don't already own copies of the PS2 games that Gamestop has trashed the cover art and manual for.
We always get the excuse of the store not having enough space. Not all the locations really need the extra space but you'd be surprised how many Gamestop's could use a little more room in the store.
If all of the earlier PS2 Madden titles (2001-2007), for example, had been kept in their original cases at any Gamestop location on Earth it would have taken up at least an entire shelf. Not good if you are trying to push PS3, Wii or 360 product.
Though I still think a better solution would have been either price dumping the $4.99 & under stuff a little more (what is stopping them from 49 cent Madden games?) or doing a BOGO-type of offer for awhile. Simultaneously shave a little off their already small trade-in value and viola, you have a solution.
What kind of retard shops at Gamestop anyhow?
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