This Nintendo Switch Scam Is Bigger Than We Thought?

In what looked like a one off situation, it seems more and more people are finding an unwanted surprise when opening their new Switch games begging the question: how far does this scam go?

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[KartKingever]

Imagine someone buys a game to keep sealed for 30 years and then it's just one of these.

[mistahtom]

The bigger scam is buying a legit case thinking you’re getting a physical cartridge and finding a download code

[DubsBrown]

So this is where all those loose cartridges sold on eBay come from.

[MCastleberry]

Back when I worked at Target, this kind of stuff is exactly why we opened DVD, Game cases, etc when being returned, even if they looked unopened. It wasn't uncommon for people to buy things, take the disc, then re-seal them and try and return them.

[JMLRetroRoom]

It’s not that bad. Just use a flashlight. Once you see the cartridge pins you’re good. You can even see from the edge of the case. All this can be done while it’s sealed. I checked the games I got for my daughter this way before Christmas.

[snakemaster]

My sister bought Pokemon Sheild for her son for Christmas from Amazon and the case was sealed. He opened it up and it was empty. Could believe it.

[gligarguy]

As it always goes, the first few cases are real, but then people start clout chasing when they learn how many fake internet points they can get on Reddit for this and make up cases.

[Mario]

This is probably why some store they will recommend you to let them open the game for you to make sure of the cartridge is in there or not, especially with used games.

[brundeasie_OG]

When I worked at GameStop a guy came in and bought a brand new PS2 game that didn't rattle. Needless to say he came back and was worried we wouldn't believe him that there was no game in the case when he opened it.

[MachineDJP]

Sadly, this is nothing new. Over a decade ago, I purchased a new, sealed Wii game from Walmart. Opened at home and found the game disc had been removed and replaced with a blank CD-R. Took it back and had it replaced. The common denominator seems to be Walmart with all these instances.

[Crylhound]

My brother once worked for Nintendo of Europe and he said that the foil was probably carefully opened in order to replace the cartridge. At Nintendo itself, this would not be possible on the production line, unless someone took the case off the production line before foiling, replaced the contents and placed the case back on the production line so that it could be foiled.Note that he worked there during the Gamecube era. Logically, things might be different today (especially since Nintendo of Europe has also changed location years ago).

[noelsilva]

Damn so now we have to open the games at the store to see if the game is in there? Just like when you order food and you check to see you got everything. 😂😂😂😂

[JGNE]

4:22 "Glad I opened it before I went back home." Image clearly taken at home. Probably happened once or twice to someone and then other people just try to replicate the images for likes and comments.

[paper_gem]

These types of scams happen all the time. There are a lot of scumbags. My uncle got scammed before. A scumbag sold him two empty camera boxes for $900. When I was in high school, I knew this piece of garbage that "successfully" returned a Dreamcast box without the Dreamcast of course.

[jasondiorio]

Keeping games sealed is dumb. Waiting 10 years to make 100$ is crazy. Games were meant to be played. Collect something more valuable to make money.

[Cookiedon]

My cousin bought Diddy Kong Racing on N64 at Target back in the day. When he got home, he found a piece of wood where the game should be.

He did take note that the wrapping was loose.

He was able to trade it out, fortunately, but the take away from that was to check new games to avoid the situation

[Shimazaki]

The worst about this is that those stolen cartriges, could be dumped to be distributed on pirated sites, and them they sell those cartriges separatelly and everyone would be banned for mutiple games using the same cartrige ID.

[ThaexakaMavro]

Once, I purchased the Crash Bandicoot at Walmart for PS4, and thief stole the disc by cutting the middle of the shrink wrap. Thank goodness the clerk believed me. Try explaining that to the clerk without looking like a thief. It's frustrating.

[shirayukinobunaga]

Unironically this is why i buy games at gamestop, I can see the employee's put the cart/disk in the case

[blazeupe]

This happened to me a few years ago. Went to target and picked up splatoon2 for my friend as a Christmas gift. It was sealed in cellophane packaging and looked completely normal. He opened it and it was empty. Went to target and explained the situation-they gave us a replacement and had us open it in front of them to make sure it was in there. I think it was a return that wasn't thoroughly checked and got put back on the shelf. Ever since that experience, I inspect every physical copy to make sure the cartridge is in there. I guess the scam is evolving