GameStop Puts Trolls On Notice After Record-Shattering $30,000 Trade-In

Infamous gaming pawn shop chain GameStop says someone just walked into its Grapevine, Texas headquarters and traded in a PSA-10 holographic Gengar, supposedly worth $33,883, and walked out with $30,494.70. In simpler terms: GameStop just paid someone a little over thirty grand for a Pokémon card.

The company blasted the announcement across social media, complete with a triumphant tongue-in-cheek tone that suggests it believes it has delivered a crushing rebuttal to every long-running joke about its notorious trade-in values. "Any trolls who publicly claim that GameStop trade-in values are bad are hereby factually and demonstrably incorrect," the statement reads, before declaring any further objections "without merit and factually invalid."

It didn't take long for the internet to respond, and the replies on the X post are hilarious, but this reply from "meme bastard" more or less sums up the reaction:

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