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Sooo um... I ordered something from Gamestop Online and the case/game doesn't look new.
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Doesn't make it right but there's an easy ass solution, don't shop there.
If someone is internet savvy enough to make a gaming forum thread about it, they know about the gutted "new" copies practice.
They tried to sell me that kind of game at toys r us this week. It was their last game. He said he just had to put the display paper back in the case. He told me it's new. I told him it's not new if it's opened with no seal.
I'm usually not picky with this kind of thing, but I just find it kind of shady. It was a Christmas present for my nephew. I didn't want to give him what looked like a used game. Do they not give retailers extra cases for display?
The game being loose in its case is something I've seen happen somewhat regularly ordering games, and cracked cases less regularly but still on occasion. It's unfortunate but it's one of those things that just happens from ordering online where you can't see the game in store. The game probably runs fine but you could try and return it.
While Gamestop is notorious for gutted copies, there are cases when games do arrive opened. Saw it at Gamestop, Wal-Mart, Sam's, Officemax. Is not common, but it does happen.
Loose copies can happen in fully sealed copies too.
Loose copies can happen in fully sealed copies too.
For what is worth, their Black Friday week-stuff was a mess. My partner ordered an Xbox One S for a gift, and the order still says processing...yet it arrived today.
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Same thing happened to me with a online purchase of Tokyo Mirage Sessions. Hope the company burns to the ground (metaphorically) and that their employees find better jobs at a better company.
Getting a "gutted" copy online shouldn't happen. The only way a "gutted" copy ends up at a GameStop warehouse under 'New' stock would be if the game was requested to be sent back & for some reason the store sent the gutted copy. More often than not the store would keep that copy in-store.
As for the case of the OP, it could be that the wrap was damaged in shipping to the warehouse, got a tear in it, and that was their solution. Impossible to know what happened to the game case.
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Well apparently I didn't know. I usually buy stuff from Best Buy and stopped going to Gamestop yeeears ago. Every now and then I would see good deals at Gamestop online, and order from them. This is the first time I've experienced/heard of "gutted" version from their online store. If someone else would have started a thread, I think I would have seen it and took it into consideration. But I haven't seen a thread talking about their Online store, to remember it at purchase.
So maybe this thread will help someone else.
I was worried I would get a gutted copy of Detroit and Horizon when I bought them this Black Friday but got lucky. I usually avoid Gamestop as much as possible.
I suspect I got a gutted copy of a bluray at Best Buy. :0 came in cheap plastic and the cover and slip case were dirty. Gonna return it cuz case is broken. Does BB send gutted copies of movies or am I being paranoid?
I suspect I got a gutted copy of a bluray at Best Buy. :0 came in cheap plastic and the cover and slip case were dirty. Gonna return it cuz case is broken. Does BB send gutted copies of movies or am I being paranoid?
Gamestop.com is by far the worst place I've ever ordered anything from online. Ordered a bunch of 360 games from them a few years ago and it took them three tries to get one of the games right (kept sending me the first Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage instead of the sequel). Never ordering from them again.
It shouldn't, but it apparently does. It happened to me a few months ago. I got some Vita games from their website when it was announced game production was ending and they came gutted with the sticker seal on the side of the case.
