[quote name='bigdaddybruce44']And the odds of a company like GameStop, who enjoyed the best year in 2007, closing down and their credit becoming useless is basically zero. You have to know this. And yet, you just kept defending the idea in this topic.
Also, despite what you seem to think is a complete impossibility, people other than myself have brought up the same issue in this thread. Actually, I wasn't even the first one to mention it. I am not alone. We're all idiots, though, I assume, and you're the smart one. I hate to break to you, but guess what went through the mind of every, single person who ever got taken in a scam? Oh, that can't happen. That's impossible. It's not impossible, though. And for $10 (or not) and credit, this guy decided he would deal with the devil he knows rather than someone he doesn't. And as someone else said, the whole thing would probably look fishy to the average Joe just walking into a GameStop. It's not everyday you walk into a store and have some complete stranger offer to buy your possessions.[/quote]
To mention the possiblity of business collapse in the face of the argument that credit at a store is somehow an infallable resource is hardly defending it, at least not in the context you're trying to place it. Stores, corporations, dog kennels all go out of business suddenly. Some right after posting record profits. I fully concede that it's unlikely; I do not concede it's impossible.
I also concede that there is a chance of being robbed where ever you are, but as I have said: the chances are almost non-existant at your local Gamestop. If you want to celebrate someone who didn't even entertain the possibility of making his losses a little less painful by taking a chance and (*horror*) actually dealing with another human being, go right ahead. You have the same rights that guy did.