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gaming retailer Gamestop Famous for providing you old business facility video games For store credit. But what if they let you trade almost anything?
The answer, apparently, includes a gas mask, a stuffed bobcat, a 20 mph speed limit sign, and an educational model of the blood vessels around a human lung (written in Japanese, naturally).
These were among the strange and suspicious treasures handed out at GameStop branches on the company’s first ‘Trade Anything Day’ on Saturday.
“For one day only, GameStop will accept more than the standard video game and tech-related product assortment we’re known for and will accept almost anything in merchandise*!” The company said, whose share prices surged last year due to CEO Ryan Cohen being a vocal supporter of Donald Trump,
As the asterisk suggests, there were some limitations: customers were only allowed to trade in one ‘anything’ item, and it had to be able to fit inside a 20-inch cube-shaped box. Participants will receive a $5 gift card for their trouble.
There was a long list of exclusions, ranging from hazardous waste from live animals to “ashes of your loved ones” and “that one gift from Aunt Helen.”
But that didn’t stop customers from dumping a veritable haul of knickknacks and bric-a-brac, including a bowling ball, a “creepy doll collection” and a worn-out stuffed Canada goose.
According to the company, there was also a folded copy of the Declaration of Independence, a paper straw, a pair of Nike Air Jordans, an incomplete Friends box set on VHS, a Stars and Stripes helmet, several cans of Campbell’s soup, a drawing of a dog with Snoop Dogg’s famous hairstyle, a bottle of Martinelli’s Sparkling Cider, and a plastic spoon.
Social media posts also show people trading board games, vinyl records, baseball cards and more small piece of lintSaid to be a fake PS5 game sister’s calla “Pound Town ticket” (which caused staff and spectators to laugh), and a piece of paper that the customer found at the register.
A customer handed in a historical curiosity item: a Netflix “Instant Streaming Disc”, designed to be inserted into a Nintendo Wii to be loaded with the Netflix app (the service was discontinued in January 2019).
Yet other social media posts, Gaming news site Polygon reportedrevealed how the incident left some GameStop employees feeling irritated by “disrespectful” or “belligerent” customers, who took the company’s announcement as an invitation to create chaos.
Some workers were forced to deal with online influencers Attempts were made to troll them for reaction, while others faced inappropriate items such as dildos, a custom Sonic the Hedgehog sex toy, and pornography.
“There were a lot of kids in the store, and so I got upset and kicked him out,” An apparent staff member on Reddit said Who made a deal with the would-be dildo donor.
“Well, word got to my direct manager, and apparently my regional manager is blaming my entire store… [for] Let it happen.
“I don’t care if I’m let in at this point. How is this guy going to defend a guy for bringing literal dildos into the store?”
Another Redditor is claiming to be a GameStop worker Said: “I found… drugs, condoms (not used, thank God), but I think the one that took the cake was a whole family of cockroaches hatched from eggs.
“The guy took it out, threw it on the ground, and brought it back in like I was going to touch it again. Also found a PS4 with a bullet hole in it. That was interesting.”
Another wrote: “I’m so tired… we’re already dealing with too many dirty people in the store.”
On the other hand, many people handed in canned foods in the hope that they might be helpful to low-wage workers or otherwise given to food banks, although some stores reportedly refused to accept them.