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Originally Posted by Cosmic_Link
If it's anything like what GAME used to do here, then they gut the game boxes to put on display and keep the contents in drawers behind the counter. This was mainly in instances where they never had display boxes for games. This gave employees opportunity to swipe the codes from the boxes. Thankfully they do this anymore.
I kicked up a stink in HMV before because they didn't have any sealed copies of a new release title as the staff had gutted all the boxes. I think it was for Rayman Legends when they had the steelbook... They only do it with the games though...  |
I would guess that 90% or better of my DS games were purchased used, and a good chunk of the used ones came from GameStop. And yes, all of the GameStops in my area did then and still now gut every game case. I use to know a GameStop store manager who bragged about the fact he and his employees never had to pay for Xbox Live because they had an infinite supply of 3-month subscription cards from new games they'd gutted. I can only remember getting two games in all these years from GameStop that were actually factory sealed, and both were games I'd pre-ordered.
It's also possible that many of the games I bought may have never had club Nintendo points as I rarely bothered with 1st party Nintendo titles.
Now the 3DS is a different story, only one or two games I have for it were bought used, but I must confess I never checked the paperwork included to see if they have point.
And there's also the issue that I don't know the status of my Nintendo account as I believe it may have been banned for getting caught up in a rather heated debate/argument on the forums back in 2004 concerning wether or not the DS stylus was phallic and raising the odd-ball question of if the DS was aimed solely at a male audience... that raged for almost a whole day before Nintendo began banning accounts over the hundreds of posts the topic was generating and I can't recall if I ever logged back in to see if mine was banned or not over that idiocy.... wonder if I still have any of that topic saved on an old Windows 98 data back-up somewhere, hmmm.