Quote Originally Posted by Kyle15 View Post
You can't compare items that generally come sealed in plastic to those that don't.
Most books are released and priced accordingly. If any get messed up during their time on the shelf, they are taken care of most of the time.
This is not the same with games.

Also, to quote a GS employee: "If you buy a sealed game from us and open it, the game is now used whether or not you even opened up the case."
To this I said: "Why can you all open a game, do whatever you want with it, and call it new?"
His answer: "Sorry, there's a grey area there."

Gamestop absolutely makes me sick sometimes. :P
Well if you open it up and do not play it, then it is still technically a new game. Proving this to Gamestop or to Farmer Joe down the street, it could be a difficult thing, but regardless, it is still technically new. If a store opens up an item to place one on display, keeps it under lock and key, does not use it, and sells it as new...it is just that...new. If people really get so sick by Gamestop, then just stop shopping there. I mean, I really do not see what the big deal is. If the store is selling the game as new, and it looks new, and so forth, if it is the display copy and is opened, there really is no way to prove if it was used by employees or not, so sometimes one just has to take things on faith.

I've seen books before at various Waldens/Borders/Barnes and the like which were shrinked, next to unshrinked copies...but I think the unshrinked ones would be also new...

Anyway, new is new, and used is used, and shrink or no shrink is not the 100% evidence of usage or not.