Sure, that's on Nintendo a little bit.
But who staples things directly to the box of a collector's item or an of expensive piece of electronics? Store was asking for trouble. The staple would have bothered me even if it didn't touch the screen.
Yeah, blaming this on Nintendo is just rage bait.
So, par for the course.
Yep. And to further mitigate any rage induction, the store replaced them.
https://bsky.app/profile/megannicolett.bsky.social/post/3lqv6v72abk2m
So yeah, I think that post is spot on that it's kinda no big deal in any direction.
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Minimum wage workers who have a problem they need to fix.
For a lot of people, the box isn't much different from an Amazon delivery box. You throw it out after you've got what's inside.
I'd be asking for a different box though, lol
But why does the receipt need to be stapled to anything at all? Just give it to the person or put it in the bag.
In one article (maybe not this one), the reasoning was that these were preorders, and they needed to ensure that each preordered console was saved for someone who preordered it.
In that state, plastic bags are illegal and haven't been replaced by paper bags, so that's out.
Generally, they'd tape the receipt to the box. But it was especially hot in the store on that day, and the receipts were being blown off by the AC/fans despite the tape.
They didn't have stronger tape, but they did have a stapler.
Perfectly logical for someone who doesn't realize the box is part of the purchase. I hate it, but I get how it happened.
EDIT: clarity
Ahh so it's just a very unfortunate series of events, that makes more sense then.
How is the way Nintendo boxed them "weird"? If anything, stapling the receipt to the box is weird, that's so unnecessary. No other store is doing that.
Update 6/5/2025 12:42 p.m. ET: A customer who was impacted by the stapling issue says they were told that replacement units are on there way from a neighboring store. How did the staples become a thing to begin with? According to what they were told, the store’s air conditioner was broken and it had gotten hot enough in the store that the receipts weren’t staying taped to the boxes. To avoid mixed up paper work they were stapled on instead.
It was too hot for tape? That's bullshit, it was only 85 fahrenheit in Staten Island today, what kind of tape are they using that stops working at 85 degrees? WHY DID YOU NEED TO TAPE THE RECEIPTS, THEN??? JUST PUT IT IN THE BAG. WHY ARE YOU OVER-COMPLICATING THIS???
Nintendo makes a lot of dumb decisions. But stapling a receipt to the box wasn't one of them. Don't blame Nintendo for this, blame the morons working at the Staten Island GameStop.
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