Some people donate their old junk to Goodwill at the end of the year, hoping for a small tax write-off. But last weekend, you could’ve taken it into GameStop and gotten some actual money. Sort of.
GameStop held its first ever “Trade Anything Day” this past Saturday, and the idea was that you could bring in almost ANYTHING, and get “some” store credit to use.
Plenty of people participated, and the employees had to deal with a lot of WEIRDNESS. Examples of items they received include:
1. Taxidermied animals, including a bobcat and a goose.
2. A “tiny Jesus.”
3. A creepy doll collection.
4. Used Air Jordans.
5. A speed limit sign. It was 20 miles per hour.
6. A dog portrait. Someone even tried to bring in a LIVING PET DOG, hopefully as a joke, but it was not accepted.
7. A “can of whoop-a**.”
8. An “instant streaming” Wii disc in an old Netflix sleeve envelope.
9. A copy of the “Declaration of Independence”.
10. VHS tapes with episodes of “Friends”.
Anyone who brought in something to trade received a $5.00 credit. And the company says they took in more than 80,000 items during the event.
One person traded in a non-alcoholic cider for the employees, but it sounds like they could’ve used the BOOZY version, because some employees went on social media to complain about how frustrating all this chaos was.
That said, it sounds like GameStop got enough mileage out of the event, sharing the silly trade-ins online, that they’ll probably do it again someday.
(Here’s a gallery of the wild trade-ins. Here’s a guy bringing in some stuff, and here’s someone trading a squash.)
