A customer at a GameStop store in Grapevine, Texas, traded in a Pokemon card for $30,494.70, marking the most valuable trade-in in the company’s history. Photo courtesy of GameStop
Dec. 2 (UPI) — GameStop announced a customer in Texas traded in a Pokémon trading card for $30,494.70, marking “the most valuable single trade-in ever recorded in GameStop history.”
The gaming store chain released a statement reporting a customer in Grapevine, Texas, brought “a fully authenticated PSA 10 Holo Gengar” into their local store.
The card was put through required “inspection, verification and compliance procedures,” and was found to have a fair-market valuation of $33,883.
The store paid the customer $30,494.70 for the card.
“This event now constitutes the most valuable single trade-in ever recorded in GameStop history,” the statement said.
The store, which paid $3,388.30 under fair-market value for the item, also took a swipe at critics of its Power Packs Buyback Program.
“Furthermore, any trolls who publicly claim that GameStop trade-in values are bad are hereby factually and demonstrably incorrect,” officials wrote. “Any prior and ongoing objections to our trade values are now deemed without merit and factually invalid.”