No more club nintendo after sept 2015

[game_player_s]

Odd thing, in all these years I don't think I ever bought a single game that included Club Nintendo points with it... thanks alot GameStop.

[KnightOfTruth]

Originally Posted by game_player_s

Odd thing, in all these years I don't think I ever bought a single game that included Club Nintendo points with it... thanks alot GameStop.

That's REALLY strange! Did you only ever buy preowned games and from the same Gamestop? Maybe an employee there (or a customer) pilfered all the CN inserts if so? Only way that could happen unless you purchased only the few games that didn't come with coins.

[Cosmic_Link]

Originally Posted by KnightOfTruth

That's REALLY strange! Did you only ever buy preowned games and from the same Gamestop? Maybe an employee there (or a customer) pilfered all the CN inserts if so? Only way that could happen unless you purchased only the few games that didn't come with coins.

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...

[game_player_s]

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.

[Gamer0890]

Originally Posted by KnightOfTruth

That's REALLY strange! Did you only ever buy preowned games and from the same Gamestop? Maybe an employee there (or a customer) pilfered all the CN inserts if so? Only way that could happen unless you purchased only the few games that didn't come with coins.

I worked at Gamestop for a bit to help out a buddy who was a store manager and I can confirm that, yes, employees would swipe the club Nintendo codes out of the used cases at every turn. One of the guys I worked with even told me to "put aside any codes that come in during my shift."

Ah, Gamestop.

[Thetof91]

Any one got points to buy a mario kart trophy? And will sell me :p

I would love to have one.. But dont have points, and Club Nintendo have never worked here in Denmark

And I think the prices of ebay is just ridiculous.. Hope somebody will help me

[goonergaz]

Originally Posted by goonergaz

I have a zombieU 250 stars code if anyone wants it - you just need to be an estabilished forum member

Originally Posted by Thetof91

Any one got points to buy a mario kart trophy? And will sell me :p

I would love to have one.. But dont have points, and Club Nintendo have never worked here in Denmark

And I think the prices of ebay is just ridiculous.. Hope somebody will help me

[Thetof91]

Originally Posted by goonergaz

Yeah well.. A trophy cost 5000 stars, so dont see how 250 stars will help

[goonergaz]

Well if 10 people gave you a 250 star code you'd be halfway there...I can't imagine anyone would have a spare 5000 points knocking around, especially this late in the day.

Good luck anyway.

[goonergaz]

Minor perks for rubbish paid jobs if you ask me, in the shop I worked at we got a few promos here and there so I don't see the issue unless there had been a 2 graded approach when buying the games (ie you got more to include the cards).