GameStop Customer Earns Over $10,000 in Store Credit After Trading in "Hundreds" of Broken Consoles

GameStop Customer Earns Over $10,000 in Store Credit After Trading in "Hundreds" of Broken Consoles

A GameStop customer from Clackamas, Oregon is going viral after trading in hundreds of old, busted consoles to earn over $10,000 in store credit from the games retailer.GameStop is notorious for being exceptionally stingy when it comes to paying out customers selling or trading in their pre-loved games, consoles, and peripherals. In fact, the company's payouts are so low that their trade-in policy has evolved into a meme over the years, with man…

Josh Traded Hundreds of Broken Consoles for $10,690 in GameStop Credit

Josh arrived at the GameStop in Clackamas, Oregon, with plastic crates stacked high. Inside sat hundreds of consoles that no longer worked. Staff sorted through PlayStations, Xboxes, Nintendo Switches, Game Boys spanning several generations, a Sega Game Gear, a pair of Sony PSPs, and more. Some units were modern enough to still hold residual value [...]

GameStop customer earned over $10,000 in store credit from a stack of broken consoles — traded 'hundreds' of PlayStations, Xboxes, Game Boys, Switches, and more

One man's trash is another's treasure, and that certainly seems to be the case for 'Josh,' a GameStop customer. The well-known gaming and trade-in business says that Josh came into its Clackamas, Oregon store and "traded hundreds of broken consoles for $10,690.06 in store credit." In its Twitter/X post, GameStop shows Josh looking pleased with a fistful of trade credit cards, another image showing reams of receipts, and a far too small photo of …