In a surprising surprise, GameStop recently announced externally that certain of its stores would initiating buying and selling greatly collectibles like Pokermon cards. There was, all of a sudden, a bunch of questions like “how?” and “why?” Recently, a YouTuber tested exactly how the process works.
Poker trading card gatherer and disputable YouTuber Lee “Leonhart” Steinfeld visited a GameStop at a mall around Dallas, Texas, one of the few sites for the new plan. Meeting the poor employee in the morning as soon as the store opened, Steinfeld flipped over a bunch of cards, including a Miriam trainer and a complete art Squirtle from based on the Scarlet as well as Violet setting, to watching how they was appraised and what he could got for them!
“These are chill,” the employee, who Steinfeld documented, says while thumbing through the PSA graded cards in their acrylic cases. “How it be this whole grading stuff function?” (The GameStop employee later told Kotaku he didn’t feel ambushed and was happy to learn on the spot but also didn’t know Steinfeld was filming him.) GameStop declared the trade-in platform earlier this month and started rolling it out right off without doing much training. While scanning codes on the graded cases brings up what the card should appear like and the amounts the store can offer, it’s up to employees to go through an eleven-point checklist to make certain the cards aren’t fraudulent. The GameStop employee in the video understandably winds up needing to call a supervisor to walk him through the training in actual time while also dealing with other customers that enter the store to buy real games. He glances at the cards, holds them up to the light, and tries to check for any signs of tampering, but like it would be for you or I For anybody who isn’t versed in spotting fake, bogus, or bogus PSA-graded collectibles, it all seems purely intuition-based!!!
Steinfeld assessed the value of the cards he was trading in before of time based on recent eBay listings, and the actual amounts GameStop paid him for them proved way off, from pretty good to pretty terrible. Overall, he obtained $157 for cards worth an estimated $328, pretty close to 50 percent of the estimated value.
That might not sound like much considering how easy it is to trade a bunch of cards online, but think about this: it’s way more than you’d get for trading in your real games. GameStop will currently only give you $20 cash for Stellar Blade, which is $70 new on PlayStation 5 and came out less than a month ago. Then, who knows really, games be like things you buy, and PSA-graded cards are, by like, stuff you collect, right?? It’s hard to picture who is selling their rare Lugia to GameStop rather than to another collector on Facebook or eBay. Then again, Steinfeld seemingly made out better than some of his own fans did when buying his own Pokermon mystery boxes. Few buyers from his freebies recounted receiving inferior to one-third of value they paid for.
