[General Discussion] Gamestop and gutted games

For the past six months or so I've ordered all my console titles online, usually from indie retailers. My town's GAME still stocks Gamecube titles at £39.99. Yes, you can own the best-of-platinum-bullshit version of Resident Evil 4 for eighty dollars. Mickey Mouse's Magical Fuck is the same price. The most damning part is that they only stock second-hand GCN games.

Oddly enough, it seems to be the only branch in the country staffed by people who realise most of the people in their profession are assholes. I was buying Brain Age like a year ago and lo and behold someone - most likely another employee, seeing as this game was "new" - had opened the box, scratched off the Stars Catalogue insert, obviously registered the reward points and then put everything back together again. I asked for another copy when I noticed this, and hey, exactly the same situation in the second box. The girl was totally apologetic about it and said something like "fucking [name]" and told me I'd have a sealed copy if I came back a few days later. Happy fun.

I don't care about the Stars bullshit (I'll never get up to the 100,000,000,000 points required to get a free copy of Zoo Tycoon DS, why lie), but much like most of you guys it's just a matter of principle.

Jam it back in, in the dark.