Quote Originally Posted by portnoyd
What bothers me about BB is that the used newer system games come in those stupid plastic cases that use the yellow bars for security (at least mine does). Bothers me.

dave
NOTE: This applies to corporate stores. Franchises may do something different. The reason that we use the rental cases for used discs is because we don't have the space to keep thousands of extra cases. When we get stuff in for rent, it's ready to go in the yellow-lock case (same design as the Gamecube case). We also get the original case and artwork. We file the art and throw out the original case. When we sell a used game/DVD we just put the artwork in the rental case and re-lock. Saves time, space, and money.

If we kept the original case we'd have to switch cases which takes labor, then we'd have to lock them in a larger case. Yellow locks are 4 cents versus $1.50 for the clear lockable cases. Multiply that times 3,000 cases per store times 5500 stores and you'll see why we ain't saving the original cases.

You want cases, make nice with a manager in your area and see if they'll save them for you. I used to bring mine home to replace the "new" EB/Gamestop cases but now have hundreds in the garage.

BTW, today is the last day of the $3.00 off sale. The next sale is the buy 2, get 1 free that starts in a week and runs to January 5th.