I wish you the best of lucks. Because I recently received a game from pieceofmindmedia/Noram that was branded and priced "like new", and it was missing the instruction booklet, as well as having a refurbished disc case. I ordered the thing before finding this thread, so I really had no warning...
As a general rule, I limit my purchases to marketplace sellers that are fulfilled by amazon. Through this frame of logic, I recently stumbled upon pieceofmindmedia and have bought quite a few "like new" games from them.
Out of 11 purchases I have had very few but heart-breaking problems. The...