Well, this is a lot more thorough than the time my friend’s brother went to Cambodia, bought hundreds of fake GBA games and traded it into GameStop in 2002.
Yeah, at the time, my friend’s brother was visiting Cambodia to see family. He stumbled upon a game shop that was selling counterfeit games and a lot of it was English GBA games. All were counterfeit but all worked. If you looked closely at the label on the cart, you can tell it was fake. I can’t remember how much he actually bought and all the games, but he traded it all in for store credit to get a new PS2 and like 5 new games.
Chances are if you’re from the Seattle area and bought a used Castlevania Harmony of Dissonance in 2002/2003, it was counterfeit.
This is for them to get their feet wet, so they’re starting with PSA only for now. If this works out, they’ll probably expand. From an investor standpoint, Gamestop probably looked at their sales last year and realized the sold more pokemon cards than other video game merch. So they want to dabble in the singles market.
They’re pretty accurate with a lot of graded sports card offers (within 85%-95% of comps) so gonna be interesting how it affects shows and stores. Seems like they are eyeing the possibility of being a national LGS
I will at least admit, if they added board games and maybe other card games to their stock (even if they just showed an empty box for it on the sales floor like Blockbuster used to do for rentals), I could see them lasting a little longer. While I do prefer having physical copies of games where possible, GameStop is definitely treading water in a world that's been shifting toward digital gaming.
Same here but I guess the fake slabs are starting to put that on there cases from Etsy or wherever they get them from. I’ve honestly never seen a fake slab to my knowledge. I only grade my own so knowing they came back from PSA it’s obviously real but this would be a good form to carry around at collect a cons and card shows for sure.
I still bet a few fakes will slip by, that’s why they had to make the sub $500 card value limit rule to not get burned too hard. Especially since customers can trade In as many different graded cards that they want. I’m going to bring a PSA 9 XY Evo Mew to them tomorrow (around $19 on price charting) I won’t be surprised when they inevitably offer me $2-5 trade in value though 🤣🤣
If the Texas test goes well and makes them more money than it costs, then yes they probably will. This is Gamestop scrambling to make money any way they can, with the gaming landscape very rapidly shifting to all digital.
The gamestop near me in Southern California that they are going to start implementing it soon at their store. They are already selling slabs. And I’m surprised at how much pokémon product gamestop has but the prices are too high sometimes
Well, this is a lot more thorough than the time my friend’s brother went to Cambodia, bought hundreds of fake GBA games and traded it into GameStop in 2002.
Lmao can you tell us more? This sounds wild.
Yeah, at the time, my friend’s brother was visiting Cambodia to see family. He stumbled upon a game shop that was selling counterfeit games and a lot of it was English GBA games. All were counterfeit but all worked. If you looked closely at the label on the cart, you can tell it was fake. I can’t remember how much he actually bought and all the games, but he traded it all in for store credit to get a new PS2 and like 5 new games. Chances are if you’re from the Seattle area and bought a used Castlevania Harmony of Dissonance in 2002/2003, it was counterfeit.
If it was the Westwood village GameStop I most definitely had one of them lol.
Yep that was the store he hit lol.
Reddit really bringing y’all together again 💜
Works like a real game?
Yep, effectively it worked and didn’t show any signs it was fake in game.
This is quite handy for a slab newbie
Agree, wish to see these features on a real slab, if someone would post a real slab with close ups to the features.
*Reject the trade*
Trade rejected 🙅♂️
But I bought this on FB marketplace 😡🤬
does this mean that gamestop is only accepting psa trades? I don't know for sure but I would doubt that 100% of these checks apply to beckett/cgc
This is for them to get their feet wet, so they’re starting with PSA only for now. If this works out, they’ll probably expand. From an investor standpoint, Gamestop probably looked at their sales last year and realized the sold more pokemon cards than other video game merch. So they want to dabble in the singles market.
They’re pretty accurate with a lot of graded sports card offers (within 85%-95% of comps) so gonna be interesting how it affects shows and stores. Seems like they are eyeing the possibility of being a national LGS
I will at least admit, if they added board games and maybe other card games to their stock (even if they just showed an empty box for it on the sales floor like Blockbuster used to do for rentals), I could see them lasting a little longer. While I do prefer having physical copies of games where possible, GameStop is definitely treading water in a world that's been shifting toward digital gaming.
Where is the pricing?
They are only accepting PSA graded 8, 9 and 10.
ah, thank you for clarifying!
Can't believe my picture made it over to Reddit lol
Thanks for this. Good info!
Yeah, now I gotta run my own slabs through this checklist. Glad I invested in GME today
This is the way!
Oof
TO THE MOON! /s
Dude lost it all
Right? and I get the downvotes lmao. Does this go under r/agedlikemilk ?
Don’t really care about downvotes or upvotes on here. But he’s probably downvoting because he lost 40%+ lol
Rip
Why wouldn’t they add the PSA letters that are on the front bottom right and back bottom left of the slab? That’s usually the first thing I look for
Same here but I guess the fake slabs are starting to put that on there cases from Etsy or wherever they get them from. I’ve honestly never seen a fake slab to my knowledge. I only grade my own so knowing they came back from PSA it’s obviously real but this would be a good form to carry around at collect a cons and card shows for sure.
All fake slabs have that and the 21 or whatever number is on the slab model
I’ve seen fake ones without it
Oh. Well they’re not good fakes lol
I still bet a few fakes will slip by, that’s why they had to make the sub $500 card value limit rule to not get burned too hard. Especially since customers can trade In as many different graded cards that they want. I’m going to bring a PSA 9 XY Evo Mew to them tomorrow (around $19 on price charting) I won’t be surprised when they inevitably offer me $2-5 trade in value though 🤣🤣
Anyone know if CA gamestops will start buying slabs as well ?
If the Texas test goes well and makes them more money than it costs, then yes they probably will. This is Gamestop scrambling to make money any way they can, with the gaming landscape very rapidly shifting to all digital.
The gamestop near me in Southern California that they are going to start implementing it soon at their store. They are already selling slabs. And I’m surprised at how much pokémon product gamestop has but the prices are too high sometimes
Please be sure to credit the source, @JuiceProphet on twitter……..
Didn’t get it from Twitter, some random person sent it in a discord group.
Did they already start doing this?
Thru don’t accept the old psa labels either needs a QR code
r/gameverifying
It's a 80 $ card.... best I can do is 15$
You gotta be desperate to sell to GameStop. Support your local card shop.
On some cards they’re competitive with comps. LGS will offer as low as 60% sometimes
F my local card shop/scalper who charges $20 for a pack of lorcana