News GameStop Nintendo Switch 2 customers hit with punctured screens after store employees staple receipts to the box

[Admin]

Customer reports reveal some Nintendo Switch 2 inventory is being damaged accidentally at a Gamestop location in New York due to staples piercing the packaging material, damaging the console's OLED screen.

GameStop Nintendo Switch 2 customers hit with punctured screens after store employees staple receipts to the box : Read more

 

[onigami]

Uuuuh, hate to break it to you, but the Switch 2 has an LCD screen, not an OLED. May want to correct that.

 

[heffeque]

I have never seen a store staple receipts directly onto the merchandise.

Is this common practice in the US?
And if so, what is the advantage of that versus just handing you the receipt?

It seems counter-intuitive to damage a box (and potentially its content) just for the convenience of not carrying around the receipt separately.

 

[thestryker]

There was some elaboration on one of the reddit posts that the store couldn't use their stickers due to them not sticking thanks to non-functional AC. While I feel like marking it off and putting the receipt on top should be fine I also wonder who came up with a packaging design so shallow that a standard staple can punch holes in the screen.

 

[toffty]

I have never seen a store staple receipts directly onto the merchandise.

Is this common practice in the US?
And if so, what is the advantage of that versus just handing you the receipt?

It seems counter-intuitive to damage a box (and potentially its content) just for the convenience of not carrying around the receipt separately.

Never seen this in the US (California and Colorado). If anything, just some scotch tape holding the receipt to the box. Usually just have the receipt on top of the box as it is handed to me.

 

[RTXMonster]

I'm sorry but what kind of tart staples into a 500 dollar piece of tech? Doesn't matter if it has a box or not this is called COMMON sense, something clearly lacking in the world today.

Now to further elaborate on the lack of said thing what was Nintendo smoking making the packaging so thin between the box and screen that a staple can hit the most vital and susceptible thing on the entire device?

To be honest I can't even decide who is liable cause it is ridiculous all the way around. I feel bad for the people who's excitement was stripped away due to this.

 

[xelistren]

I have never seen a store staple receipts directly onto the merchandise.

Is this common practice in the US?
And if so, what is the advantage of that versus just handing you the receipt?

It seems counter-intuitive to damage a box (and potentially its content) just for the convenience of not carrying around the receipt separately.

It is common practice with some stores in the US to mark reserved items. Most stopped the process after they realized that stickers provide the same effect, and adds in advertising for the store.