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Originally Posted by MOONPHASE

If you couldn’t tell by my post, I used to work for Gamestop many years ago so I know all of the dark secrets with them including things I was not proud of doing despite working there for quite a bit of time until I was laid off(about 5 and a half years).

But the whole trying out a game thing on a New copy, yeah my boss would have never allowed me or any of the employees at my location to do that with a New copy. The rule at least at my location was could only do that on a Used copy if there is more than 1 copy available otherwise my boss would have sent me packing. So there was no doing that with a New copy only if at least 2 people traded the game in. I personally only did it with a few titles since I was already getting 25% used games between the Employee Discount and the GameStop Pro Membership which gives you the 10% off discount on Used games and Extra Credit on Trade-Ins.

GameStop will only do a discount on a damaged copy. Places like Wal-Mart do the putting the games in a glass case that only an employee can unlock which many people hate for not being able to really look at the game while deciding to purchase it or not which makes it frustrating to the Employee as well. Some places like Best Buy do the putting each copy of a game in an individual security case which is mostly more annoying for the employees. It’s hard to please people on this besides just having the game on the shelf with no protection and hope for the best that someone isn’t dumb enough to steal it.

I didn't know, thanks MOONPHASE for letting me know you used to work there. I felt that you liked Gamestop, but wasn't aware that you were an employee. That's cool your store didn't allow playing of new games like that store I was at where the employees were talking about it quietly but not quiet enough. I think because their boss was part of that is why they allowed it there.

Here's an interesting video on the history of GameStop, formerly Babbages years earlier and Software Etc. At 11:30 or so, it even talks about how some employees played the game first, then sold it as new at the full price.
But that's good you had good experiences there and thanks for those details.

The Story of Gamestop - YouTube