{"id":841,"date":"2025-06-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-05T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/?p=841"},"modified":"2025-06-05T12:12:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T12:12:06","slug":"random-one-gamestop-apparently-stapled-receipts-to-brand-new-switch-2-boxes-and-guess-what-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/05\/random-one-gamestop-apparently-stapled-receipts-to-brand-new-switch-2-boxes-and-guess-what-happened\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: One GameStop Apparently Stapled Receipts To Brand New Switch 2 Boxes, And Guess What Happened&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>GameStop, just stop.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So, there you are, in the midnight launch line to collect your brand-spanking-new Nintendo Switch 2. It&#8217;s been a bit of an ordeal getting your pre-order in, but none of that matters now &#8211; you&#8217;re here, you&#8217;ve made it, you&#8217;re about to get your first taste of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch-2\/mario-kart-world\">Mario Kart World<\/a> on pristine new Nintendo hardware!&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Except when you open the box you see that your hardware is less than pristine, thanks to a GameStop employee who apparently used a stapler to attach pre-order receipts directly to Switch 2 boxes, with predictable results. <em>Oof.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/06\/random-one-gamestop-apparently-stapled-receipts-to-brand-new-switch-2-boxes-and-guess-what-happened\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GameStop, just stop. So, there you are, in the midnight launch line to collect your brand-spanking-new Nintendo Switch 2. It&#8217;s been a bit of an ordeal getting your pre-order in, but none of that matters now &#8211; you&#8217;re here, you&#8217;ve made it, you&#8217;re about to get your first taste of Mario Kart World on pristine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":842,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions\/842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.carrerstep.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}