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Even better than that is when they gut new copies of games because they 'need display copies', yet Toys R Us gets in display cover art from the manufacturers all the time and uses those with generic DVD cases. There is NO excuse, with Gamestop being such a big corporation nowadays, for them to have to still 'gut' new copies of games.[/quote]
I'm sure those extra cover art displays cost something. Customers at gamestop don't care enough that it hurts their bottom line. People looking for complete, new, and perfect games are more in the minority (and probably the least profitable customers too; if you're that picky about a games
cover, how picky are you going to be about the
price?)
The one manager at a local Blockbuster told me they used to do that as well(throwing away the cases). I imagine that if anyone was brazen enough, they could make a tidy side business selling these cases for even a buck each to people looking for replacements.
Bad thing is, when I was in a Blockbuster recently, they were using many of the 'spare' cases they stopped throwing out with the WRONG systems games. I found numerous 360 and PS2 games in the clear PS3 cases on their used game shelves.
Yah blockbuster did this. I have boxes upon boxes of amaray's actually (and real ones, not the crappy ones they have made with the holes for security locks). I must be too tired cause I can't remember the system that let me get so many of those. I think it had to do with receiving all the product in the lockable amarays + it's original amaray with coverart, and then taking the coverart out later for when it became previewed product. The amaray's would just get tossed. Now that each copy has coverart, the system has changed to where the original amarays don't come anymore. I
think I'm remembering this correctly, but it's been a while and I think I've successfully put a mental block on that whole area
The games are harder to get cases from, because there are fewer of them, but I think they still ship the way the movies used to. I used to try to match the cases to proper system best I could, but it's hard when you have less cases sometimes than copy depth... not sure how that always happened but it did.