EB Canada is Playing the Ole Switcharoo?

Read the original source from The Escapist article here.

"It's an entirely unconfirmed rumor at this point but "internal documents" obtained by Kotaku would seem to indicate that EB Games in Canada [which is owned by GameStop] is doing away with separate pre-owned games sections. Instead, all the games will be kept together and pre-owned games will be priced with the same standard stickers as new games, rather than the distinctive yellow stickers with which they're currently adorned."

That's no biggy, but wait! There is more.

"...according to the insider employee there's a bit more to it than just that. He claims that stores have been told to ditch all signage advertising used games and to place used copies of games on top of new ones on the shelves."

"We were told that we were to merge all used games with the new games and have them sectioned off by one of four specific genres they gave us," he wrote. "They told us that the new copy must be on the very bottom of the pile..."

This plan was originally proposed by  VP Sneer

The Escapist does suggest an alternative (and not so villainous) explanation for this alleged behaviour. However if this is true it is an underhanded attempted that is mostly going to affect people with good intentions and poor knowledge. In a world where new copy free content is becoming more and more common this is dirty form of pool.

Till the next post.