One man’s trash is one other’s treasure, and that definitely appears to be the case for ‘Josh,’ a GameCease buyer. The well-known gaming and trade-in enterprise says that Josh got here into its Clackamas, Oregon retailer and “traded hundreds of broken consoles for $10,690.06 in store credit.” In its Twitter/X put up, GameCease reveals Josh wanting happy with a fistful of commerce bank cards, one other picture exhibiting reams of receipts, and a far too small picture of the damaged console haul.
That’s lots of in-store credit score to spend, however as most GameCease-ites will know, your trade-ins go additional this fashion. In different phrases, when you requested for money as a substitute of credit score, you’d get much less. Accepting the compromise of in-store credit score can really internet you as much as 50% more money to spend – albeit along with your selections locked to what GameCease has in inventory. This won’t be a giant downside when you like video video games. But $10,690.06 is lots of credit score, even for essentially the most avid gamer.
Checking the GameCease web site right this moment reveals it doesn’t embrace gaming PCs or laptops, or PC elements. Your native retailer may need a range obtainable, although. What I did see right this moment have been just a few meager electronics objects like MacBooks and iPhones listed. The major trade at this retailer is in PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch consoles and games. This is where most customers would probably expect to use their credit.
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I found it interesting to try and identify the few broken consoles we can see in the plastic crates. Without too much scrutiny and pixel peeping, there are clearly a few Nintendo Switch Lites in there, a Sega GameGear, a pair of Sony PSPs, and numerous Nintendo Game Boys representing a few eras (GBC, DS, DSL). Under that crate are what look like a black and a white Xbox 360. There must have been many more crates to tally up to “hundreds.” Squinting at the receipts shows there were indeed multiple PS4, Xbox One, Series X, and 360 consoles in the traded collection.
In terms of pricing, the receipts reveal Josh traded in multiple Xbox One consoles for $7.92 each, Xbox Series X consoles for $10-11, PS4 consoles priced at $16 each, and working Xbox One consoles at around $40. Pricing for the more exciting stuff is unfortunately illegible in the photos.
Some social media keyboard warriors throw scorn at Josh for selling this bountiful collection of broken consoles to GameStop. The key accusation is basically that he’s been swindled by GameStop, who would pay a pittance compared to what could have been raised selling on auction sites like eBay. Perhaps he could have made a lot more cash selling his broken consoles independently, but depending on how many auctions he generated from the 100s of items, that would be a lot more effort: dealing with accurate description writing, photography, shipping, and the inevitable returns.
It would similarly be interesting to find out how much profit GameStop ends up making from this pile of consoles, but it isn’t likely to share this kind of business data. Some of the consoles will likely be irreparable, only useful for spares and donor components; others, perhaps if there are rarer special editions in the collection, could bring in a lot of cash if fixed and refurbished.
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