Overview
- A customer at a Grapevine, Texas store traded a fully authenticated PSA 10 Holo Gengar on Dec. 1, which GameStop says is its most valuable single trade-in ever.
- After inspection, verification and compliance checks, the card received a fair-market value of $33,883 and the store paid $30,494.70, roughly 11% under that valuation.
- GameStop’s statement took aim at detractors, calling critics of its trade-in values “trolls” and asserting the payout demonstrates competitive offers.
- The company highlighted the record as it promotes its first “Trade Anything Day” on Dec. 6, when customers can bring a wide range of items for store credit under stated restrictions.
- Coverage notes the five-figure card deal is an outlier in a volatile high-end collectibles market and not representative of typical GameStop trade-in returns.