Does GameStop check if your games work?

Mr. Pink

Mr. Pink

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Here is the situtation, I got $20 GameStop giftcard couple of days ago and decided to get myself an Orange Box along with trading in my God of War game. The whole problem is that the game stopped working more then a year ago, it had no scratches on it was working perfectly before that and one day when I popped it in my PS2 and it didn't want to work. Anyways stuff happens. The CD, the case and the manual are all there. The game by itself looks great and has no scratches on it. I was thinking of giving it a shot and try to trade in my local GameStop towards my Orange Box to get myself extra $5-10.

So my final question what are the chances of GameStop checking your games?
 
Zero, they look at the condition of the disc. If there are alot of scratches, they charge a refurb fee. If the game looks in good condition they will take. I just hope that whoever buys your game keeps their receipt so they can get a working copy.
 
No, no they don't. They lightly glance over them if they even take the disc out of the case, if they're assholes they'll look for the tiniest scratches so they can charge you a refurb fee.

Otherwise, no. Yesterday when I traded in 2 games the guy didn't even take them out of the case.
 
They check for scratches, that is it. So if it looks fine, they will accept it. If it has scratches, they might take it, but it have to be resurfaced so they substract like $1.
 
That's a crappy thing to do though. You'll get a few bucks, and someone else pays near retail to get a broken game.
 
In my experiences, they've never looked at the disc itself, they just checked if the game was inside. Maybe if your trading in a lot of games, they probably wont check.
 
they wont check, and i dont think the edge card takes 10% off the negative karma points you'll gain from doing it:(
but hey, i mean its not so much a big deal, maybe the game will work for the next person, and even if they dont have the reciept, GS will take it back if they see the tons of price stickers they put on used games after testing it out.
 
This is awful. For one, going to gamestop, which is bad, for two, trading in a knowingly broken game. Thread should be closed on principle.
 
If GS cared they should try it.

Still, you never know, it could just be just his PS2 that won't play it.

Is GoW a dual layered disc? If so that might be his problem.
 
they dont do quality, they offer quantity. so the answer is no they dont check them very often. if they do, they check to see if the disc is there but the actual quality of the disc, almost never.
 
Ya thats not a disk problem that's a PS2 problem, disks just don't erase themselves.

Even if it is broken its Gamestop that will have to absorb the 3 whole bux's their going to give you for it anyway. If you have ever given... ah I mean... traded in a game to them in the past, just consider the score even.
 
[quote name='Mr. Pink']Here is the situtation, I got $20 GameStop giftcard couple of days ago and decided to get myself an Orange Box along with trading in my God of War game. The whole problem is that the game stopped working more then a year ago, it had no scratches on it was working perfectly before that and one day when I popped it in my PS2 and it didn't want to work. Anyways stuff happens. The CD, the case and the manual are all there. The game by itself looks great and has no scratches on it. I was thinking of giving it a shot and try to trade in my local GameStop towards my Orange Box to get myself extra $5-10.

So my final question what are the chances of GameStop checking your games?[/quote]

10% chance really

They only time they will find out if a game is good or not. To check if the system works.
 
[quote name='whoknows']If GS cared they should try it.

Still, you never know, it could just be just his PS2 that won't play it.

Is GoW a dual layered disc? If so that might be his problem.[/quote]

There not enough time to check to see if all games work that why they

got a moth to bring it back if dosent work.


7 day trial if you dont like it.
 
[quote name='jer7583']This is awful. For one, going to gamestop, which is bad, for two, trading in a knowingly broken game. Thread should be closed on principle.[/quote]

i be half of what it should be. and we send it out to the wharehouse to fix it.
 
I traded in my GBA for a GBA SP once upon a time and I left the batteries in it because I assumed he'd want to test it and i'd save him some trouble but the dude was chatting with the one female employee and he just stuck it in a bag and gave me the credit for it and I walked out with my SP.
 
[quote name='Mr. Pink']Here is the situtation, I got $20 GameStop giftcard couple of days ago and decided to get myself an Orange Box along with trading in my God of War game. The whole problem is that the game stopped working more then a year ago, it had no scratches on it was working perfectly before that and one day when I popped it in my PS2 and it didn't want to work. Anyways stuff happens. The CD, the case and the manual are all there. The game by itself looks great and has no scratches on it. I was thinking of giving it a shot and try to trade in my local GameStop towards my Orange Box to get myself extra $5-10.

So my final question what are the chances of GameStop checking your games?[/quote]

Like everyone else has said, I think it's just that your PS2 is at fault and the game itself is NOT broken. If you check out the thread marked 'I got a free broken PS2' on the PS2 board, I made up a post telling you how to open the system up and clean the laser, which is all most older PS2s need to get done to them to read discs like new.

Although, if the game still doesn't work and makes a LOUD noise while trying to read it, it may be that your laser is all but dead in the system. But even that is an easy fix, if you know what you're doing.

Oh and to all who said they charge a refurb fee if the game is scratched up, they never tried charging me one when I would intentionally drop some of my cheap Kmart games en route to GS to trade them during the 3/$10 extra deals. :lol: Of course, I'd pick them up with label side facing up and bottom side facing down on rough pavement, like many GS games look like they've had done to them.

Only time they tried charging me a refurb fee was when I brought in a copy of the Tom Clancy Trilogy to the one mall store, disc only, just prior to closing. No other store had done that, but I guess it was company policy that they were supposed to.
 
[quote name='Dezuria']That's a crappy thing to do though. You'll get a few bucks, and someone else pays near retail to get a broken game.[/quote]

Just do it. The fuckers screw evryone. Besides GS will eat it not the next buyer. Consider it all good. This should be a sticky "How to screw over EB/GS"
All Cag's should go to gs with broken games!
 
[quote name='rmb']Just do it. The fuckers screw evryone. Besides GS will eat it not the next buyer. Consider it all good. This should be a sticky "How to screw over EB/GS"
All Cag's should go to gs with broken games![/quote]

even i think thats jacked up b/c i wouldnt want my copy of futurama or dds to be broken :(
 
Speaking of Futurama, I found a copy the other night finally. It had tons of swirling scratches on it, but worked ok. Kinda weird that the game came from FYE like that though, since their games are normally good. It's not a bad game by any means, but certainly nothing groundbreaking it. So, I don't really see the appeal behind it really.

Maybe I'll ask my local FYE if they have a copy of it that I could swap out for, since their packaging says 100% guaranteed for used games. If not, maybe they'll give me a couple $$$ back, so I can go get it resurfaced someplace.
 
[quote name='Dezuria']That's a crappy thing to do though. You'll get a few bucks, and someone else pays near retail to get a broken game.[/quote]

its sad. check the condition of the disc when you buy. you always have a week to return the game for whatever reason. and if they say you can't then they are violating store policy and a call to the ditrict manager always 99% work.
 
Thanks for the real fast replies guys.

Personally I think it's the problem with my PS2 plus it doesn't want to run any DVDs either so maybe the game isn't the problem. Just the last 3 used games I bought from GameStop were all defective, so GameStop kind of owes me for this one.
 
I think this was discussed before... So they charge a refurb fee if the games are scratched, but they don't actually refurb them, right? Most of the used games I've seen at GS are scratched all to hell. If they "refurb" them at all they're apparently using 40 grit.
 
[quote name='Mr. Pink']Thanks for the real fast replies guys.

Personally I think it's the problem with my PS2 plus it doesn't want to run any DVDs either so maybe the game isn't the problem. Just the last 3 used games I bought from GameStop were all defective, so GameStop kind of owes me for this one.[/QUOTE]

So you 'stick it to gamestop' for your defective games by trading in one, which someone else buys and gets mad about, so they trade in a broken game to 'stick it' to them, which you buy later... it's just a cycle, dude.

Better idea:

1) Get the trade-in value from GS
2) Increase by a few bucks
3) Sell in market forum

You get more money, the buyer will likely get a cheap working game since it sounds like a system problem, but knows ahead of time it could be broken. Gamestop gets no business.

Sounds win-win to me.
 
[quote name='DuelLadyS']So you 'stick it to gamestop' for your defective games by trading in one...[/quote]
It is not the game. I guarantee it. DVD media doesn't work that way - it doesn't "corrupt", at least not commercially pressed discs that worked previously. This game is fine to trade in, and will work for anyone with a working PS2.
I would follow iamthecheapestgamer's laser cleaning instructions, or depending on your PS2 model you might also want to raise the laser housing and recalibrate. I've fixed two fat PS2's using that method, and it's very simple.
 
[quote name='PyroGamer']Sounds to me like a problem with his PS2.[/quote]

absolutly... whats the problem here.

Discs have no moving parts, so the posiblity of them magically not working with no scratches 0%. PS2s on the other hand....
 
I wouldn't have any remorse about doing this (with a local trade in place yes, but with gamestop no) but if you do decide to trade it in why not just tell them, hey I think I have a problem with my PS2, this game is not working, can you test it for me, they will most likely be more than happy to pop it in the PS2 they have behind the counter to try it for you. At least the ebgames I go to has a ps2 hooked up to a tv behind the counter... Then if it works you can either keep it and fix your ps2 or trade it in.
 
[quote name='Allnatural']I think this was discussed before... So they charge a refurb fee if the games are scratched, but they don't actually refurb them, right? Most of the used games I've seen at GS are scratched all to hell. If they "refurb" them at all they're apparently using 40 grit.[/quote]

They tried charging me a fee once when I was trading in disc only copies of the Clancy Triple Pack games, broken up as the three games individually, even though I had just taken them out of the case about a minute before trading them in.

And yeah, it seems like MANY GS stores must pull that scam on unsuspecting customers because the quality of the games I've seen from their stores is shittastic to put it mildly.
 
[quote name='Dezuria']That's a crappy thing to do though. You'll get a few bucks, and someone else pays near retail to get a broken game.[/quote]

Or the game will sit there along with the 20 other copies of God of War on the shelf...
 
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