r/switch2 • u/ProfessionalKind3922 • 21h ago

Discussion Pre order warning

So I live in Canada and I tried to go to my local GameStop Canada to trade in my switch OLED and games to get credit to make it cheaper for when I preorder hopefully next week and the store manager told me they will not take in store credit for preorders right away and that you need to put down $250.00 down deposit of either cash or card and then use store credit to pay it off, really annoying and frustrating as they didn't used to do this when I did the ps5 pre order so this is a heads up for my fellow Canadians I wish they would put that on the website.

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u/Grease2310 18h ago

That’s not at all company policy unless something has WILDLY changed. They prefer trade credit to cash. I’d assume that location has gone rogue.

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u/ProfessionalKind3922 18h ago

Nope apparently they're changing a lot of things eternally with all Canadian GameStops, it sucks now because I don't have 250 cash or credit to spend on a deposit and then use credit to pay it off

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u/Grease2310 18h ago

I’d still check with another location. Their whole profit model is trade credit based they wouldn’t want to do it this way.

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u/ProfessionalKind3922 18h ago

I mean it would make sense to limit scalpers in a sense but I know GameStop Canada has been making a lot of eternal changes to the company I'll call a different store and see if it's the same, if it is then I'll just use the store credit when the console released in June and try my luck then

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u/Gunfstep 9h ago

If this is company wide, more than likely the reason they're doing this because they know people are going to trade in their systems, so this may be an attempt to get people to hold on to their system for a little while because you know the value of the switch is going to deprecate immediately when the switch 2 comes out. OLEDs trading in for 175 now. Come Mid May, I bet you its going to be 125 or less.