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GameStop Clerks Knew They Were Buying Stolen Games

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By Edge Staff

October 2, 2008

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Eight GameStop employees have been found guilty of buying games for trade-in, after being told the games were stolen.

Much of GameStop's profits come from reselling games it buys from the public. The GameStop employees were offered games for trade-in by undercover cops who told them they were stolen.

The GameStop employees were acting on behalf of the retailer, and did not profit from the transactions personally.

GameStop's regional vice president of stores Rory Rhoads commented, "GameStop takes this situation quite seriously.

The defendants all pleaded guilty to theft and were ordered to serve a year's probation.

Source: Memphis Commercial Appeal


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On October 2nd AaronMC said:

@ Brendon: It depends. In some jurisdictions, the items must actually be hot, in other jurisdictions, you can be arrested for buying what both, or even just one of the parties thinks is hot.

And, frankly, I'm surprised they even plead out. I've had friends who have worked at Gamestops, before. You get a lot of weird people saying a lot of weird things. Somebody coming in saying the games were stolen would be really low on the weird-o-meter.

Especially since my logic would run "If they were actually stolen, he wouldn't be telling me about it. Thus, they are likely not stolen."

Bad bust.

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On October 2nd Brendon said:

I wonder why they took those games in. Is there corporate pressure to accept games under any condition? Or did they just not care?

Also, can you really get probation for theft when the items weren't really stolen? It's not like they actually stole anything of themselves nor was anything actually stolen.