When GameStop outlined the policies of its “Trade Anything” Day event back in mid-November, most of it made complete, logical sense. For instance, don’t trade in hazardous waste, chemicals or weapons.
Yep, that makes sense.
But in that same list, there were some exceptions to the rule that made everyone lose their minds. Chief among them is that “Taxidermy” items were identified as being “valid for trade.” In other words, if you’re sitting on a long-deceased stuffing of an animal and also similarly want $5 of in-store trade credit, then you can totally bring it in.
Flash forward to last Saturday when reports of what actually went down at “Trade Anything” Day, taxidermy was somehow nowhere to be found among the list of items that employees at GameStop began listing and sharing online.
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Go figure, it actually did happen, not once but twice! What’s more, the official GameStop Twitter account is the one with the proof!
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Over on Twitter, GameStop identified not one but two instances of actual taxidermy trades. The first of which involved a bird in all of its dead and stuffed glory.
The second of a mountain cat of some sort that was also seemingly perfectly posed.
Again, and we cannot stress this enough, these were once living creatures and were paid to be stuffed and preserved for the purposes of displaying them.
Now, it’s worth noting, as multiple people did in response, GameStop’s own terms had dictated these items, whatever they may be, must fit in a 20x20x20 box. I won’t pretend to be a mathematician (I was horrible at math as a kid), but there’s almost zero shot any of this actually did fit in that box that employees were supposed to adhere to.
Of course, if they had adhered to it, then we wouldn’t have gotten proof that someone did indeed trade taxidermy, but also considering that employees seemingly had an issue with someone donating soup cans, an item that would’ve been perfect since to donate to charity, AKA part of the whole point of this thing, then it’s a bit backwards that elsewhere taxidermy was being accepted, only if to make the joke happen.
Ultimately, at the end of the day, GamStop got its viral moment and that person got their $5, which sufficed both parties. Whether GameStop tries to run this back with different parameters still remains to be seen, but if they do, I’d venture to guess that things will be a lot stricter, even if it means turning people away.
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