I feel like most of these questions are just victim blaming. OP bought a new game from a retail store and was not sent a new game; end of story. They should not need to take it further than that when making a purchase. They shouldn’t need to physically go to a store when making a purchase online. They should not need to justify buying used vs new. For all you know the new price was comparable or better than used (happens frequently). Maybe they had a gift card to gamestop. There’s any number of reasons. The takeaway here is Gamestop pulled a bait and switch. OP held up their end of the transaction.
I ain’t victim blaming, I’m not saying it is ops fault for what happened. I even made that clear with my last sentence that OP needs to get a refund and buy it elsewhere cause gs is a shitty company that’s also charging more for a new older game than other places. I honestly was just more personally curious of what lead OP to trusting gs in the first place in the manner they did. Not to blame but genuinely just wondering why from a personal standpoint
I feel like most of these questions are just victim blaming. OP bought a new game from a retail store and was not sent a new game; end of story. They should not need to take it further than that when making a purchase. They shouldn’t need to physically go to a store when making a purchase online. They should not need to justify buying used vs new. For all you know the new price was comparable or better than used (happens frequently). Maybe they had a gift card to gamestop. There’s any number of reasons. The takeaway here is Gamestop pulled a bait and switch. OP held up their end of the transaction.
I ain’t victim blaming, I’m not saying it is ops fault for what happened. I even made that clear with my last sentence that OP needs to get a refund and buy it elsewhere cause gs is a shitty company that’s also charging more for a new older game than other places. I honestly was just more personally curious of what lead OP to trusting gs in the first place in the manner they did. Not to blame but genuinely just wondering why from a personal standpoint
Asking “Why would you do X?” implies heavily that had they not done X, the situation wouldn’t have happened. It is victim blaming.