Guts. to buy, or not to buy.

**Will** · 22 Sep 2003, 11:32 PM

Well hey thats what happens. Try to sell me a gut and I'll fly your ass store into the sun.

**ChaoofNee** · 23 Sep 2003, 12:44 AM

Pitiful ass stores and their gutted games...

I only have a problem if the game was handled like shit when given to me. I ALWAYS ask to see it. Once, though, my friend gave me a game for my birthday. It was scratched to hell and was, indeed, gutted. Though, being the good friend I am, I didn't want to insult him by asking for the receipt so I could take it back. Instead I had to pay seven bucks to get the damn thing resurfaced 'cause some commie pinko gamestore bastehd doesn't know how to handle a disc.

**NoFace** · 23 Sep 2003, 12:51 AM

Originally Posted by kabuki

Why can't EB / Gamestop just get fake boxes from game companies ?? Like those paper display boxes, or even a cheap DVD case with a color copy of the cover attached ??
- Kabuki

I've always wondered that myself. EB and I'm sure Gamestop print up thousands of company made inserts (with stupid shit on them, like Rikku on the box for Tactics Advance), could it be that hard to get some deal going with the major publishers where they have to provide, say, 10 inserts for every game they release? Or display boxes for things like GBA? Bottom line is these companies don't care about people like us, who care about "minor" things like blemishes on a DVD case or scuffed up discs that are bought new. The shit EB encourages it's employees to take back when dealing with used shit is just disgusting. A disc could be everything but broken in half, and they'd take and stick it in a "100% Clean & Tested!" box without a moment's notice.

As for gutted games, I don't mind purchasing them myself so long as I can take a look at the box/disc ahead of time. Factory-sealed is where it's at of course

The best is when EB covers it's gutted boxes with stickers... price tag, new release, "Played it? Trade it!" crap, and special offers. Sometimes you can still figure out what game it is your holding when they do this, if you've got good eyes. I love retail.

**Mzo** · 23 Sep 2003, 12:53 AM

Fucking old thread, man. I don't even remember saying that.

I don't care if a game is gutted. Chances are I did it myself at the store anyway. Look at the disc. Does it look used? Don't get it. Is it in perfect condition? Buy it. Get over it.

For those that said they'd only buy a gut if it's the last copy in the store: that's good, because that's the only circumstance under which we sell them. Way to go.

And the next time I kill a thread, I'd appreciate it if it stayed dead.

**Diff-chan** · 23 Sep 2003, 12:54 AM

Originally Posted by kabuki

Why can't EB / Gamestop just get fake boxes from game companies ?? Like those paper display boxes, or even a cheap DVD case with a color copy of the cover attached ??
- Kabuki

Not every company sends those fake boxes, champ. Some do, some don't (EA, I believe, is one that does not). And even if the store does have some, after maybe a year or two the store will throw them out just because of all the clutter it builds up (can you imagine have 200-300 fake game boxes, and having to constantly shuffle them from the back to the floor). At which point, the copies will get gutted.

**Mzo** · 23 Sep 2003, 12:55 AM

For the record, I think the best system is what Toys R Us used to do, with the flaps hanging on the walls with tickets underneath.

**AaronChance** · 23 Sep 2003, 01:03 AM

Even when my local EB and GS get display boxes, they'll chuck them and replace them with the boxes of a gutted game once they get the game in stock. I don't mind gutted as long as it's perfect condition and it's $5 or so of... the latter my local GS doesn't do anymore, sadly.

**Will** · 23 Sep 2003, 01:07 AM

Originally Posted by Mzo

Fucking old thread, man. I don't even remember saying that.

I don't care if a game is gutted. Chances are I did it myself at the store anyway. Look at the disc. Does it look used? Don't get it. Is it in perfect condition? Buy it. Get over it.

For those that said they'd only buy a gut if it's the last copy in the store: that's good, because that's the only circumstance under which we sell them. Way to go.

And the next time I kill a thread, I'd appreciate it if it stayed dead.

When I don't toss stores into the sun for shrinkwrapping copies of games, I switch to my alter ego as a mild mannered EB employee. I like using my heat vision to seal up gutted copies.