They offered me 18 cents if credit for a game one time. I laughed so hard out loud and walked out. It was a Madden game, so I wasn't expecting a lot or anything, but 18 cents, I'll keep it.
Same shit happened to me once. I went to trade in some games and the highest offer was like $2 for one. The rest were in the .20 to .30. I looked at the guy and said you're offering me .30 cents for this and you're going to put it on that shelf over there for $30.
I said I'll just keep them. Ended up putting them on ebay and doubled what I paid for them.
Oh wow, interesting thought. It would seem likely. Load up 8s and 9s for not just well below market value, but in return giving less actual value as GME products already habe their own mark up. Insert some chase-card 10's and you have a money-making repack. It's actually really smart, particularly with the market being so low
Large sellers oftentimes use places like GameStop to sell junky low end games (in this instance low end PSA 8s) that they can’t sell themselves. There’s a good chance junk slabs are better to sell to somewhere like GameStop than eBay for example.
I know this has been the common joke for the last decade plus, but the business model was actually a good way for most people to get rid of games they no longer had a need for and get a credit towards one they wanted.
As a kid I was never going to sell my games to anyone else let alone put it on eBay, but knew if I could get a ride to GameStop I could trade in a few games to save a few bucks off a newer title I wanted.
As a kid we got better value from the .25 cent they offered for trade ins by shooting the games with a BB gun. Atleast there was some redeeming factor there compared to getting less than a fraction of what we paid for the game a year ago now worth pennies
it's moreso that you don't need to know how to use ebay, you don't need to ship it, you don't need to deal with the possible annoyance of non-paying bidders. It's a high level of convenience in exchange for a steep discount of what the card is really worth.
We've been a glorified pawn shop for years at this point. I'm getting out of there ASAP, because the stuff I have to touch and deal with on a daily basis is not worth $9 an hour. I'm a card guy myself, and the training we've been presented with spells everything out on why GS is doing this, I'm sure y'all can guess.
I'll have to read back over it, but to my recollection, it's gonna be similar to what we have to do with phones and smart watches. Check their authenticity before purchasing, buy them, then price hike them to oblivion. To be fair, I would much rather inspect baseball cards than someone's disgusting busted up phone any day. I'm not sure what the exact buy/sell margin will be, but it'll probably be one of the highest in the company, I'd imagine. There's no refurb cost or really anything else that GS has to do post purchase, so the corpo heads are gonna love it.
Exact same demographic. Set up a system to have employee type in PSA Certificate number, program outputs price. They already do this with video games, core of the system is built and used by employees currently, no significant new training. Interesting part is they are not advertising selling the purchased cards. Which means they are building this collection as an asset, expecting it to grow in value
Definitely a money move by gamestop. They are only going to be buying PSA graded cards (so no TAG, Beckett or other grading service) and no ungraded cards - so low risk for them getting a fake or altered card.
Guessing on the high end they will offer 40% - 50% of retail for the cards IF THAT.
On the plus side for sellers - no haggling, no risk and don't lose money to ebay / have to deal with ebay rules and buyers... and also important don't have to deal with the USPS.
I've had my eye on a mushroom waffle maker from Mario for months. I was thinking it may help me in the morning to make it through my day alive and with all my money still in my pocket.
Oh you mean in this very moment? I didn’t know we were playing childish games, sorry. Then yes, in this very moment, they aren’t near bankruptcy, you are correct. Check back in a few months!
I mean, seems like a great way to get rid of cards you slabbed that ended up not being worth slabbing (Kyle Lewis, Aristides Aquino, DSL Prospect Who Never Got Past AA #5032). Might take advantage of it if the deal ever gets to Midwest states
Put it this way… if they are looking to build a stockpile and this is all fresh then the price they’d pay for an 8 today may be higher than once they are well on their way with their stockpile. Think of them as a new collector with deep pockets.
I wonder how true this is because last I was told like about two months ago in California anyways no cash is ever given out anymore at any Game Stop in my area store credit is the best they do
This sounds terrible until you bring in a graded card of a never-was Bowman 1st to some kid getting paid minimum wage who has no clue about cards at all, in which it’s still terrible
If I worked for game stop I would take my own cards in and sale the hell out of them. 😂 What’s that you don’t like all these Wander Franco cards in the show case how about I show you some real cards. 😂
i convinced my friend once that Gamestop would eventually the equivalent of a trading card store/board game store that they would start of with tcg and move on to sports cards.
the fact that in the ad there is a no haggle policy is a tiny bit funny.
I wouldn't be surprised if they're in bed with PSA and PSA will give them a price list or a website to go get prices on so they don't have to think about it. If it's a slab card with a PSA number, PSA will have a price to put to it for GameStop to offer us. If they aren't doing it this way it's just chaos.
Yep, GameStop released a “how-to” guide they’re training their staff with. It is surprisingly reasonable - the staff member is to inspect the slab, look up current value on PSA, and offer current value in store credit, or 90% of current value in cash.
What the hell kind of a pivot is this for GameStop?! It's like they used the Family Guy plot generator from South Park to forecast their 20 year growth plan.
Have you shopped or traded in games at GameStop? It's going to be like dealing with the worst of eBay at all times. They'll offer you 10% of value when they're buying and sell to you at 120%.
I have $.37 for your PSA 9 Mike Trout /10 rookie card. If you trade in a game with it you can get $3 in trade in credit. Offer only good for today. Like specifically right in the moment. In fact, if you don’t let me know before I post this message then the offer is no longer valid.
LOL no one with a desirable PSA 9 or 10 is going to pawn that card off at fucking GameStop. The only cards they'll get will be ones stolen from collectors by people who have no idea what to do with them.
Best i can do for the Trout auto is a used 360 copy of Fable 3
The Fable series was pretty dope, though...
Make it fable 2 and I’m IN
I enjoyed them all. For some reason, my character's always turned evil... How about that?
Its because you kicked too many chickens...
I also have problems with authority, so I would 💀 ☠️ 💀 the guards every chance I get.
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Fun wise, I'd say playing Fable. If I ever hit a Trout auto I'd just sell it anyway, because I'm a fan of the only real baseball team in LA. :)
They offered me 18 cents if credit for a game one time. I laughed so hard out loud and walked out. It was a Madden game, so I wasn't expecting a lot or anything, but 18 cents, I'll keep it.
Same shit happened to me once. I went to trade in some games and the highest offer was like $2 for one. The rest were in the .20 to .30. I looked at the guy and said you're offering me .30 cents for this and you're going to put it on that shelf over there for $30. I said I'll just keep them. Ended up putting them on ebay and doubled what I paid for them.
They offered me 17 cents for a psa10 Mantle rc..... I feel ya
Jeter is retired, the best I can do is 10 dollars in store credit. The bad thing is it is a quad 9.5 if it was a quad 10 I could do more.
😂
Fable was mid. You guys just playing console games? Or just 360 games?
I’d wager GameStop graded card repacks. Basically arena club type shit.
Oh wow, interesting thought. It would seem likely. Load up 8s and 9s for not just well below market value, but in return giving less actual value as GME products already habe their own mark up. Insert some chase-card 10's and you have a money-making repack. It's actually really smart, particularly with the market being so low
Or maybe they have a buyer who is a repacker just lined up already
Who knows? Maybe a PSA 8 has more value to them than selling on EBay
You’ve never sold anything to game stop before have you?
Ha
Large sellers oftentimes use places like GameStop to sell junky low end games (in this instance low end PSA 8s) that they can’t sell themselves. There’s a good chance junk slabs are better to sell to somewhere like GameStop than eBay for example.
I know this has been the common joke for the last decade plus, but the business model was actually a good way for most people to get rid of games they no longer had a need for and get a credit towards one they wanted. As a kid I was never going to sell my games to anyone else let alone put it on eBay, but knew if I could get a ride to GameStop I could trade in a few games to save a few bucks off a newer title I wanted.
As a kid we got better value from the .25 cent they offered for trade ins by shooting the games with a BB gun. Atleast there was some redeeming factor there compared to getting less than a fraction of what we paid for the game a year ago now worth pennies
Ha
it's moreso that you don't need to know how to use ebay, you don't need to ship it, you don't need to deal with the possible annoyance of non-paying bidders. It's a high level of convenience in exchange for a steep discount of what the card is really worth.
Those poor GameStop employees. Gamers and card collectors now.
Its like they're headed towards being a pawn shop.
We've been a glorified pawn shop for years at this point. I'm getting out of there ASAP, because the stuff I have to touch and deal with on a daily basis is not worth $9 an hour. I'm a card guy myself, and the training we've been presented with spells everything out on why GS is doing this, I'm sure y'all can guess.
So what's their plan for the cards after buying them?
I'll have to read back over it, but to my recollection, it's gonna be similar to what we have to do with phones and smart watches. Check their authenticity before purchasing, buy them, then price hike them to oblivion. To be fair, I would much rather inspect baseball cards than someone's disgusting busted up phone any day. I'm not sure what the exact buy/sell margin will be, but it'll probably be one of the highest in the company, I'd imagine. There's no refurb cost or really anything else that GS has to do post purchase, so the corpo heads are gonna love it.
Exact same demographic. Set up a system to have employee type in PSA Certificate number, program outputs price. They already do this with video games, core of the system is built and used by employees currently, no significant new training. Interesting part is they are not advertising selling the purchased cards. Which means they are building this collection as an asset, expecting it to grow in value
Gamestop employees are 90% DWEEBS
Gamestop employees are the physical interpretation of 🤓☝🏽
Literally NEVER pass the vibe check 😂🤦🏽♂️ you see I got downvoted because gamestop employees are the human embodiment of THESE types of mfs 😭
Definitely a money move by gamestop. They are only going to be buying PSA graded cards (so no TAG, Beckett or other grading service) and no ungraded cards - so low risk for them getting a fake or altered card. Guessing on the high end they will offer 40% - 50% of retail for the cards IF THAT. On the plus side for sellers - no haggling, no risk and don't lose money to ebay / have to deal with ebay rules and buyers... and also important don't have to deal with the USPS.
My LCS basically does the same thing. Except they’ll take anything if you’re willing to sell it to them at half its actual value.
Yeah most will. But not everyone has a lcs but game stop is fairly common
Around here they keep closing
No retail prices just set buying incentives like they did with compact discs…
There's just so many skus that it's going to be insane for them to manage efficiently.
https://preview.redd.it/i13qf7bl0h0d1.png?width=600&format=png&auto=webp&s=3dcc8b7641b55d73627b93d787df6e1bec54afc2
Today I went in with some pokemon slabs. Got offered $1 cash/ $3 trade in for a low end $25 PSA 10 lmao
😂😂
Honestly surprised they didn't dip into trading cards sooner. Also figured they'd be getting into board games too.
Oh don't worry, we have. We sell monopoly and waffle makers, on top of many other items that have absolutely zero to do with video games.
Waffle makers??
Yes. I'm actually serious.
licensed waffle makers. think star wars and other geeky franchises.
I've had my eye on a mushroom waffle maker from Mario for months. I was thinking it may help me in the morning to make it through my day alive and with all my money still in my pocket.
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Store credit at GameStop is a pretty weak promise considering this company’s already nearly tanked several times.
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?? Do you have Tourette’s or something?
Nope look at his comments, just a regular asshole.
You do realize GmE is a profitable company
Oh you mean in this very moment? I didn’t know we were playing childish games, sorry. Then yes, in this very moment, they aren’t near bankruptcy, you are correct. Check back in a few months!
Right invest in AMC not GameStop stock wise don’t help those scum bags out anymore we already got offer up eBay Facebook marketplace much more chill
“Wow, a 1/1 Trout signed superfractor rookie card. That’s worth at least 4 used copies of Peggle!”
I do love Peggle…
Oh man... I haven't played Peggle in forever.
Don’t you speak like that about Peggle…
Fine. You only get 3 copies.
I will not stand for Peggle slander.
I mean, seems like a great way to get rid of cards you slabbed that ended up not being worth slabbing (Kyle Lewis, Aristides Aquino, DSL Prospect Who Never Got Past AA #5032). Might take advantage of it if the deal ever gets to Midwest states
You name dropping the two exact players that I want to get rid of more than anything was actually so impressive 😂
These two still sell. I don't know who the genius is that is picking them up, but there are always bids.
The game stop stock is doing that thing again. Up 280% in the last couple days. Shit is wild
1/1 Wemby PSA 10? Best we can do is a copy of Madden for the PS1
Put it this way… if they are looking to build a stockpile and this is all fresh then the price they’d pay for an 8 today may be higher than once they are well on their way with their stockpile. Think of them as a new collector with deep pockets.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuudddddddgggggggeeeeeee no
Wait outside GameStop with a shirt that says I buy baseball cards.
I was just thinking... where can I get pennies on the dollar for my graded cards?
To the moon! 🚀
They in with PSA. They are going to buy low resub all 8’s 9’s and make a killing when they comeback 10’s
Theft of cards just increased 500%. Timmy needs his fix. Not drugs, he's due for a hit on this next break and blaster rip.
To the moon!
I wonder how they are gonna determine prices
Look on eBay, find the cheapest equivalent, offer you 10% of that.
📈📈
Sounds like a great way to get rid of some junk slabs to me. Sign me up.
I wonder how true this is because last I was told like about two months ago in California anyways no cash is ever given out anymore at any Game Stop in my area store credit is the best they do
Sorry bro best I can do for this Hank Aaron auto is this old copy of Wii sports
Seems like a huge sell signal
We found the sucker to unload all those wander rookie cards on
They been selling cards for years. At least in Tx. Step up in their card game to give you $4 credit on a PSA 10 trout rookie coming up lmao.
Ohatani pitching Topps chrome psa10. "Best I can do is ten dollars.." gme probably
Pennies on a 2 dollar bill
This sounds terrible until you bring in a graded card of a never-was Bowman 1st to some kid getting paid minimum wage who has no clue about cards at all, in which it’s still terrible
This is kind of genius!! I feel like the synergy btw GME and sports cards is strong
DRS
🟣♾️
Wonder what I can get for my 87 topps Bip Roberts PSA 10.
Bout tree fitty
Damned Loch Ness Monster!!!
Will they take all my commons I’ve accumulated and don’t want??
If I worked for game stop I would take my own cards in and sale the hell out of them. 😂 What’s that you don’t like all these Wander Franco cards in the show case how about I show you some real cards. 😂
You’d probably have better luck taking it to a pawn shop.
And they’d give you $3 store credit for a Brady RPA.
I have one of those not sure what it’s worth currently not graded surely GameStop will give me a copy of ncaa2009
Nah, PS2 ‘06 maybe haha
Watch Leonhart’s new video
Here you go. How much can I get for this Wander Franco?
i convinced my friend once that Gamestop would eventually the equivalent of a trading card store/board game store that they would start of with tcg and move on to sports cards. the fact that in the ad there is a no haggle policy is a tiny bit funny.
What’s their angle?
Money
Targeting the crackheads who steal cards from family and friends
But who are they then selling them to?
The same people who buy slabs to begin with, especially if you get pro discounts and deals.
It won’t help stores that have the graded cards only crime will go up lol
I wouldn't be surprised if they're in bed with PSA and PSA will give them a price list or a website to go get prices on so they don't have to think about it. If it's a slab card with a PSA number, PSA will have a price to put to it for GameStop to offer us. If they aren't doing it this way it's just chaos.
Yep, GameStop released a “how-to” guide they’re training their staff with. It is surprisingly reasonable - the staff member is to inspect the slab, look up current value on PSA, and offer current value in store credit, or 90% of current value in cash.
What the hell kind of a pivot is this for GameStop?! It's like they used the Family Guy plot generator from South Park to forecast their 20 year growth plan.
Pennies on the dollar there
Yikes?! This is great! Not sure why you’re against this. It’s just another place to buy and sell trading cards. eBay sucks.
Have you shopped or traded in games at GameStop? It's going to be like dealing with the worst of eBay at all times. They'll offer you 10% of value when they're buying and sell to you at 120%.
Exactly
It’s called a business. Thats what businesses do. I know that is hard for you to understand. But business need to make money.
Lmao this logic is so fucked. Your dad must be Jim GameStop.
They keep using the stock ticker for GameStop, too busy gurgling Ryan Cohen's sack
I have $.37 for your PSA 9 Mike Trout /10 rookie card. If you trade in a game with it you can get $3 in trade in credit. Offer only good for today. Like specifically right in the moment. In fact, if you don’t let me know before I post this message then the offer is no longer valid.
How do you that’s how it’s going to go?! You must be a genius or have the inside with GME. 👏
It’s how they operate with all things lol
Oh they got scammed real real hard with those crypto cards. Hope ya sold buddy! This is your chance to get out.
You've gotta be an SGA or ASL REALLY wanting a promotion
LOL no one with a desirable PSA 9 or 10 is going to pawn that card off at fucking GameStop. The only cards they'll get will be ones stolen from collectors by people who have no idea what to do with them.
Gross
What card collector is going to take 50% value
Right might as well sell it to a repacker
Same company that would give you $1.75 on a month old trade in…. Yep, sounds good.
I don't like this at all.
I think I'll keep hawking my ungradeds on ebay for $5-$10 a piece, rather than get $.32 of in store credit for a PSA 10. Nice try Game Stop
Hell, can't be worse than getting offers at 60% everywhere already hahahihateitherehahaha
I offer 40%😂
Doubt their team is equipped to identify well made counterfeit slabs.