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GameStop buying customer gift cards issued by other retailers

More than 90 retail branded gift cards are accepted, including Barnes & Noble, Gap, JCPenney and Target.

March 11, 2015

GameStop Corp. has announced that customers can now sell select gift cards for store credit at any of its more than 4,000 retail locations as well as online. This is part of an expanded offering launched online in 2014 through a partnership with Cardpool, a gift card exchange platform.

Based on the successful launch and consumer demand for the online exchange program, GameStop Exchange is expanding so that customers can also quickly sell their gift cards in GameStop retail stores and have the value loaded to a GameStop gift card that can be immediately used to make GameStop purchases.

More than 90 retail branded gift cards are accepted, including Barnes & Noble, Gap, JCPenney and Target.

"We've always provided the best value through our trade-in and preowned offerings, and the success of our original gift card exchange offering has proven that," said Jon Haes, senior director, pre-owned merchandising at GameStop. "We're excited about our growing partnership with Cardpool. This is the logical 'next step' in revolutionizing the way major retailers offer prepaid gifting exchange while providing customers even more ways to access immediate value both in their retail stores and online."

GameStop also recently announced it will begin later this month to accept Apple Pay at all its locations.