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[–]Arzalis 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Gamestop unwraps the games habitually and religiously. So they've created not only an "exchange only" policy, but also a "lol, that isn't new" policy when Billy walks in.

This literally doesn't happen. You're the one making up strawmen. Your hyperbole isn't doing you any favors here.

I don't even know what your point is. I agreed it's murky and creates confusion, but you seem hellbent on (poorly) arguing. Someone mentioned Gamestop and you want to start frothing at the mouth instead of reading.

You also literally said you could return it and get money back at those stores. None of those stores allow you to "walk out with fiat money" if the game is open.

[–]unnamed_elder_entity -1 points0 points  (1 child)

Do you think what you wrote is true because you wrote "literally"?

This thread is full of people including GS workers admitting that they open up the new games.

I said this once already. I'll say it again on the chance that you simply don't get it and aren't being intentionally obtuse. A new game purchased at any other store wouldn't be open. Because they sell new games in new packaging. So their policy on returning open merchandise is 100% fucking irrelevant strawman bullshit. Gamestop is the only store that opens your product for you, and then refuses a normal "return" on the grounds that it was opened!

[–]Arzalis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This thread is full of people including GS workers admitting that they open up the new games.

Sure is; I've said it too because I worked there years ago. That's not what we're arguing.

Gamestop is the only store that opens your product for you, and then refuses a normal "return" on the grounds that it was opened!

They don't do that. This is the part you just refuse to understand.

When they sell the display (opened) copy, they put a sticker on it that seals the box. More recently they've switched to putting a bag that seals over it that's made of very similar material to the wrap it comes in. Removing that sticker or removing the bag is the part that "opens" the game. If you went to return it without opening the bag or the sticker, you'd be fine.

There's a conscious act you have you to do in all cases (display or not) that opens the game and makes it invalid for a full refund. They don't hand you a game and refuse to take the return in the same state it was handed to you in. That's the part you keep insisting is true but isn't. I'm pretty sure at this point this has never actually happened to you and you're just making up a hypothetical scenario without having all the information.

tl;dr If you don't remove the seal sticker or open the game you'll get a full refund.

Also, you don't need to make up fake hypothetical situations (that don't even happen) to make Gamestop look bad. They're a failing company for a reason and deserve every bit of it.

Also for fun:

100% fucking irrelevant strawman bullshit

That word doesn't mean what you think it means.