Gamestop is at it again.

[Emperor Megas]

I think that was their poorly worded point, though. And in response, I say that neatly putting a fifty buck disc away in a sleeve so the new copy can be displayed on a shelf without getting stolen is substantially different than a several hundred or even thousand dollar television that will endure months of wear and tear from customers fiddling with it, not to mention compromising the warranty for something substantially more complex than a replicated dvd-rom or bluray disc.

Regardless, they could still offer a discount for an open copy. Of course they don't have to, but it's a pretty sleazy thing to do.

Exactly. Nobody's forcing anyone to buy the opened display copy, yet people go on these tirades as if it's some kind of secret they withhold from the customer and they also wipe the disc around their moist and unwiped anus before handing it to you. The average customer simply doesn't care, because they just want to play their copy and then go about the rest of the well-balanced life, not obsess over whether there's a single hairline scratch on th instruction booklet of a game that will be worth six dollars a decade from now.

They don't let you return unsealed games though. If someone's non gamer savvy mother or girlfriend purchased a game for them and it wasn't something they wanted, you're pretty much assed out if it's opened, because they don't consider it "new". So then, why sell an open game as new?