GameStop is opening its doors to almost anything customers want to bring in for store credit during its upcoming Trade Anything Day.
The one-day promotion invites people to show up with unusual items instead of the usual lineup of games, consoles, and accessories. The company is billing the event as “Bring Whatever and Get Store Credit,” with the tongue-in-cheek reminder of “some questions asked.”
The event marks a broader push to get customers back in stores with a more flexible, attention-grabbing take on trade-ins.
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GameStop says nearly any physical item is eligible as long as it meets size requirements and passes a staff inspection. That includes taxidermy, which the retailer specifically confirms as valid for trade.
Everything excluded from GameStop’s “Trade Anything Day”
Despite the anything-goes branding, GameStop has outlined a detailed set of items that won’t be accepted. Exclusions include hazardous waste, chemicals, and liquids, as well as lithium-ion batteries or any item that contains one. Weapons and ammo are not allowed. Dead or Alive animals are prohibited, although taxidermy is permitted.
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The list also blocks alcohol, tobacco, drugs, or pharmaceuticals, and most computers such as desktops, laptops, tablets, all-in-ones, and VR headsets with built-in processors. Computer peripherals under 100 pounds, like monitors, keyboards, mice, external hard drives, and printers, are also excluded unless they fall under GameStop’s normal trade-in categories.
Other banned items include portable digital music players, VCRs, DVD players, DVRs, converter boxes, projectors, small-scale servers, televisions, gift cards, jewelry, sexual or explicit items, and anything resembling human body parts. All items must fit inside a 20x20x20 box, and employees have final discretion to decline a trade.
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This isn’t the first off-the-wall thing GameStop has done in 2025, either. While they were auctioning off the viral stapler used to accidentally damage launch day Switch 2s, CEO Ryan Cohen added his underwear to the sale.