Question about exchanging games from store to store

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Last week I picked up Borderlands from Gamestop. I kept the reciept. Two weeks ago I picked up Brutal Legend as part of TRU's buy 2 get 1- it wasn't a free game and I also kept the reciept. Tomorrow I'm going to Best Buy- if I pick up Brutal and Borderlands and bring them unopened to the respective stores where I initially purchased a different copy, can I exchange them?

I asked this on the IGN boards and someone told me that each store knows if you're returning a game from a different store to them. I'm hoping he's wrong and figured I'd ask you guys.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!
 
as long as the store doesn't have their own exclusive version of the game (as far as i know, neither of those do) then no. they only go by the UPC code which is the same no matter which store you take it to.
 
To be fair, this is a pretty minor form of return fraud... he bought the game from the store in question, he's returning the same game- just not the excact same copy. It's not worth sweating over, provided you don't make a habit of it.
 
This isn't return fraud at all. He's returning a product to the same store that he had gotten it from, in the same condition it was bought. He found a better deal and bought it elsewhere. It's being a thrifty shopper, not return fraud. It'd be fraud if he didn't have a receipt or didn't originally buy the game from the store.
 
Yes, no matter how you try to justify it, no matter what extent you feel it is, it is still fraud. My question is why would you buy the games again? It is not like they are priced cheaper at best buy than they are at other retailers. If you are buy 4 games and going to make these 2 your free games, why go through all the trouble and just go ahead and get 2 other games instead....

Either way you are going to do what you want to do, so why ask this unless its to get at least one person to say it is ok so you can justify it to your own conscience.
 
[quote name='scorch']this isn't return fraud at all. He's returning a product to the same store that he had gotten it from, in the same condition it was bought. He found a better deal and bought it elsewhere. It's being a thrifty shopper, not return fraud. It'd be fraud if he didn't have a receipt or didn't originally buy the game from the store.[/quote]
qft!
 
If the UPC is a match between the two versions, you can return either copy, as long as it's sealed, to either store with the respective receipt.

It's not return fraud to anyone thinking it is. It's the exact same item.
 
[quote name='ktims777']Yes, no matter how you try to justify it, no matter what extent you feel it is, it is still fraud. My question is why would you buy the games again? It is not like they are priced cheaper at best buy than they are at other retailers. If you are buy 4 games and going to make these 2 your free games, why go through all the trouble and just go ahead and get 2 other games instead....

Either way you are going to do what you want to do, so why ask this unless its to get at least one person to say it is ok so you can justify it to your own conscience.[/QUOTE]

How is it return fraud if he is returning the exact same item? It's not return fraud, no matter how you think of it. What you are trying to do here is make your opinion and the way you feel about it, fact, when it is not a fact.

According to you, if I buy two copies of Borderlands, one at GS and one at BBY, bring them home, get them mixed up, and then return one of the copies to a GS store, then it is fraud because I'm not 100% sure that the copy I'm returning is the one that I bought at GS or BBY. It just doesn't work like that.
 
It doesn't sound like return fraud, but I'm still confused on the endgame. It sounds like you want to go to Best Buy and take advantage of their B2G1 free deal.

One of the games you want to get from BB is Borderlands because you paid full price for it at Gamestop. You could return this and get your money back. I get that.

I just don't get why you want to get another copy of Brutal Legend from BB. If you picked it up already as part of TRU's B2G1 free, then you already got a deal. There would be no point in taking it to TRU for an exchange, when you could just as easily buy a different game from BB instead of Brutal Legend.
 
[quote name='flasht3']

I just don't get why you want to get another copy of Brutal Legend from BB. If you picked it up already as part of TRU's B2G1 free, then you already got a deal. There would be no point in taking it to TRU for an exchange, when you could just as easily buy a different game from BB instead of Brutal Legend.[/QUOTE]

I totally missed that part. I guess some CAGs frown upon this behavior, but it has been discussed a lot in the TRU thread. What he wants to do is go and exchange Brutal Legend for another $60 game I believe. There's no way he'll ever get his money back from it. Some TRUs actually let you switch one $60 game for a different one. I agree with you though. Why both with the whole Brutal Legend thing? Just go buy some other game instead of BL.
 
[quote name='breakingcustoms']Best Buy's Brutal Legend comes with free rock band tracks with a nice big thing on the front...not sure if that changed the sku[/QUOTE]If the UPC's are the same, then they're the same version. If the cover art is different, such as showing the "free Rock Band tracks", then it's likely to have a different UPC. If the UPC's are different, then you can't return it to the store you didn't purchase it at.

Even if the UPC's are the same and the cover art is different, they won't take it back, unless they're completely clueless.
 
It's technically return fraud, given that you did not buy that EXACT copy at the store you are returning it to...

But, you'd have to be a dipshit to say its the same as stealing or that its actually wrong to do it.
 
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