If there is one thing that you have heard about GameStop in your lifetime, it is probably that the trade-in values are terrible. It is so commonly known that it has become a meme. Videos have circulated on the web of people trading in games and saying they got mere pennies back. Well, GameStop is officially saying that players can no longer say that the trade-in values are bad, saying that the statement is “factually and demonstrably incorrect.” This comes after a record-breaking trade of over $30,000 for a single item was made at GameStop.
Customer Makes $30,000 Off a GameStop Trade
Over the years, GameStop has released what is called the Power Pack Series – boxes that include two packs of Pokémon cards and a PSA 8 or higher single. This year, GameStop started selling Power Pack Series 4. In the hunt for the five golden tickets hidden within the latest Power Pack Series boxes, one customer received a PSA 10 Gengar. The Gengar card is the holo from the 2003 Skyridge set.
The customer brought the card into the GameStop store in Grapevine, Texas, and proceeded to trade it in. After completion, GameStop released a statement about the event.
The statement reads: “Upon completion of all required inspection, verification, and compliance procedures, GameStop executed a payout of $30,494.70, issued in accordance with the established terms and conditions governing the Power Packs Buyback Program. This event now constitutes the most valuable single trade-in ever recorded in GameStop history.” The fair-market value of the Gengar, which previously was around $5,000 in 2023, was now considered to be $33,883.00.
On top of this, GameStop decided to take a jab at the countless memes poking fun at the store’s notoriously low trade-in values by saying, “Furthermore, any trolls who publicly claim that GameStop trade-in values are bad are hereby factually and demonstrably incorrect. Any prior and ongoing objections to our trade values are now deemed without merit and factually invalid.”
