Oregon Man Trades Hundreds of Broken Consoles at GameStop, Walks Away With $10,690 in Store Credit

A customer in Clackamas, Oregon just pulled off one of the biggest trade-ins in GameStop history — turning in hundreds of broken, mixed-generation consoles for $10,690.06 in store credit. GameStop posted the whole thing on X on August 17, 2026, and it immediately went viral.

The haul included PSPs, Nintendo Switches, an original Game Boy, an NES, and plenty more, all crammed into a tub. Seven lengthy receipts documented the exchange, with most individual transactions totaling around $900. GameStop shared photos of the consoles, the receipts, and the customer himself — a guy named Josh — fanning out a spread of GameStop gift cards for the camera.

The internet's reaction was predictably split. Plenty of people celebrated the sheer scale of the trade-in, but just as many pointed out that Josh likely left serious money on the table. "Bro could've sold it all on eBay for $100,000 if GameStop actually shelled out $10,000," one X user wrote. Even Razer's official account jumped in, asking what people would sell Josh for the full $10,000 at once. GameStop's trade-in payouts have been a running joke for years — the gap between what the store offers and what items actually sell for on the secondhand market is wide enough to be a meme in its own right. That said, $10,690 is still a genuinely impressive number to extract from a single visit.

For all the noise, Josh's haul isn't actually the all-time GameStop trade-in record. That belongs to a customer in Grapevine, Texas, who traded in a 2003 PSA 10 Gengar Holo Pokémon card for $30,494.70 back in December 2025 — a transaction GameStop celebrated with a tongue-in-cheek statement declaring all criticism of its trade-in values "factually and demonstrably incorrect." This latest story follows GameStop's viral "trade anything day" event from around the same period, which produced its own wave of bizarre counter moments. GameStop seems to be leaning into the spectacle, and honestly, it's working.