Sounds like a great way to get banned. You already came out way ahead by getting some free Switch games, which are normally expensive. Just sell your extra copies, and whatever you earn is worth more than plastic wrap.
Gotta say, lesson learned. I've purchased dozens of new games from GS over the years, and I'd say I used to get maybe 1 out of 10 games gutted and I bought niche/less popular games without too many issues in the past. This round has been very bad. I also got Neptunia Reverse and Virtual Stars (both standalone, non-B2G1F purchases) and both of those were guts too.
13 sentinels got large reprints of the vanilla version without the day one le stuff. They're super common now compared to a while ago where copies were hitting over msrp back when it was only the first print copies in the wild.
You should try anyway and see if you can at least get one with a case. Gamestop Customer Care is really good and they went the extra mile for me despite sending replacements to the wrong address; in the end they just refunded and didn't ask for the games back.
Sometimes that just happens that way. All of my games also came new and sealed including akiba which others reported to not be/be resealed. But yes some stores they ship from do come in better condition than others.
I’m from California, and I received my order of Kingdoms of Amalur
NieR Replicant 
and Sakura Wars which came from Texas. I was worried since it was in a mailer that they were gutted, but was pleasantly surprised they were all sealed. I’ve ordered when they had a similar deal in the past, but that was a mixed bag with half of them being new, and half being gutted.
I doubt their inventory system has a way to differentiate between new and displayed as new. Unless it assumes the final copy is a display and only ships to those states from stores with 2 or more in stock.
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You aren't supposed to be charged, but if it shows a dollar amount and a gift card used for payment instead of $0 it might decline when they attempt to process it. (The replacement I had that actually shipped wasn't shown in my account history at all.) At that point you need to contact them again for another rep to do it correctly.
My order from a couple of months ago was from a warehouse. I guess that's why my Caligula effect 2 was sealed. My most recent order was from a store and everything still came sealedI’ve found that when they come from one of the 3 warehouses, it’s sealed usually. From a store? You’re
It used to not ship from stores if they only had 1 stock assuming it was a gut. This was changed a couple of years ago due to complaints about old stock sitting in stores and being unable to order online. It'll never change back.
One time I got the game cart-only in a blank case, with a flowery handwritten note begging me to please forgive them and accept the $5 gift card they also included. No idea there.
Go ahead, you are almost 20 years too late.
I didn’t know about that! Interesting they’re still able to do it.
You're better off trying to exchange locally at those stores. They won't send multiple replacements for the same order anyway - well, not that they won't do it, but the system will simply cancel the orders past the first replacement.GS don't liked me
3 copies of Dragon Quest S (S) gutted and replaced New ordered get 3 copies Gutted again. Should i ask for replacement?
2 copies $20 games is sealed and Star Wars collection is gutted (so many store around me had multi copies. Why? shipped me gutted copy).
They did that for me- one of my orders had two gutted games (1 damaged case, 1 with scuff marks on disc) out of 3, and they replaced both guts at once. Of course, my replacements were also guts but at least looked new condition. Maybe they have to be the same order AND same shipment or something?
Yeah sorry for the confusion - I meant that they won't be able to replace the same order/shipment twice, not multiple items within the same order, which is totally fine.
Oh... wow. That's some BS right there. Like I could understand if they were sealed games and people were just abusing returns because the item had exterior flaws, but they're literally sending "new" items where the case was put out to display/handled by how knows how many people?
Yup. Back in the day, some stores would have the balls to hand you a gutted copy that you
ing preordered on *release day*. Even worse, it felt like a lot of them did it because they thought a 12 year old me wouldn't complain. (they were wrong)
This is a totally reasonable take and I agree. I just don't like placing the order thinking I'm getting a good deal, then finding out that 0 out of 3 games were sealed. And with those stickers leaving residue on the case, along with overall shelf wear, it doesn't feel like I actually got new games without a seal on them. It feels like I got used games.
