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Due to new tariffs, many more physical game discs may “simply not get made” - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
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[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

I haven't been to a GameStop in quite some time, but I can say it's generally better off not to waste your time looking for a deal at walmart, at least at the store level. According to the markdown policy, they want you to try to run 10 to 15% per markdown and you can only do two markdowns before you're supposed to dispose/claim. So for a $70 game, my first markdown would have been 60$, my second markdown would have been around 50$

Many times I would have tons of clearance games that I wouldn't be able to sell because of those restrictions, during those times I would mark it down further than that, but many times when you went to mark it down further than that they would actually rather you dispose on the second markdown because for some stupid reason, their claim system has it so you can dispose/claim for full cost, so financially it makes zero sense store side to sell the game for 50% off when you can send the game back for about 80%(or even full cost at times) of what was paid

It was a really stupid system, but I assume they're getting some sort of Kickback from game Studios to discourage physical media

ofc this also assumes they are on top of dealing with markdowns, \0/