Quote Originally Posted by TRM View Post
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.
Um, factory sealing obviously means it was never used.
To me, if it is opened, it isn't new. I have no idea where it has been just like a used game.
I have bought a couple of "new" opened games from eBay, all of which looked used. There was absolutely no way they were new.
GS is also guilty of this, and it has happened to me.

About a year ago, I decided to go for Killer7 for the GC at a local GS. They only had an opened "new" copy, but it was only $10, so I grabbed it because it wasn't full price.
To my surprise, I got home and found adhesive on both game discs. I normally look before I buy used stuff, but I took the benefit of the doubt with this "new" game and didn't check it.
The store did let me exchange it for a used copy which happened to be pristine of all things.

Anyway, I've learned a lesson: don't go for anything "new" opened at GS, be it a 50% discounted game or not.