GameCease buyer earned over $10,000 in retailer credit score from a stack of damaged consoles — traded ‘a whole bunch’ of PlayStations, Xboxes, Game Boys, Switches, and extra

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.