GameStop, Fraudulent Return Policy Even Coroprate Doesn't Know Return Policies! ripoff Flushing Nationwide

I understand the software return policy to an extent, however I've had issues with them where I buy a game, hate it, and within 20 minutes of buying it I take it back with the box and all related paperwork, with the game cartridge cleared of my save data and they give me less than half of what I paid.
They usually give you about $14 max for any software return, regardless of if it's a new release, used game, or anything. Unfortunately there really aren't many alternatives for selling your games, Gamestop owns EB and the only other place around here gives even worse prices (a small return shop) if they even have cash to give you to begin with.

Basically if you buy from Gamestop, unless you drop $50 on a warrantee policy they want nothing to do with helping you.

Oh, if you want cash for your trade ins you get like 20-30% less than if you take store credit too. Honestly you'd probably make more cash having a yard sale with your old games every few months, or getting a paypal and eBay account and selling them there.

GameStop's return poilcy is pretty straight forward, and it is very precise. I'm not sure who it was you talked to at corporate, but they were quite misinformed. GameStop does allow a small bit of fluxuation when it comes to the return policy, however it's not a 'based on each individual store' type of policy. My apologies, even though I don't work for them anymore, I still feel like the company tries very hard to be customer-centric, and it's a shame that these types of things happen.

You are right on the first paragraph, you should be able to return a used game within 7 days for a full refund or exchange, no questions asked. You should have contacted corporate to file a complaint with the store ont the day the incident occured, same thing about the accessories.

What tickles me is that the return policy for systems is once you have opened it, you can only return it for an exchange. You "exchanged" the product, that is all you could do. Some companies (I don't know whether GameStop does this or not) on the exchange will actually break the seals in front of you before they give it back to keep you from being able to pervert the return policy as you were trying to do.

My suggestion is to call customer service for real complaints, and to learn how to read and use common sense and maybe brush up on something called logic.