A GameStop employee damaged a Nintendo Switch 2 with a stapler in June. Now that stapler and other "staplegate" items have ...

The GameStop stapler that damaged a Switch 2 screen on launch day just raised some major funds for a major children's health ...

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A staple-punctured Switch 2 fetched $250,000 on eBay Wednesday for Grapevine-based GameStop Corp., compared to $499.99 for a ...

A GameStop employee damaged a Nintendo Switch 2 with a stapler in June. Now that stapler and other "staplegate" items have sold on eBay for $250,000.

GameStop has been specializing in making pretty wacky headlines in recent years, and its latest follows in that grand tradition. After employees at the retailer stapled Switch 2 receipts to boxes in a ...

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Instead, GameStop made headlines by selling the stapler said to be responsible for the now-infamous puncture holes on eBay. The winning bid? $250,000. For a stapler.

GameStop is auctioning off the infamous stapler that one of its co-workers accidentally used to destroy a few Nintendo Switch 2 displays.

On July 9, GameStop announced that it was auctioning off the actual stapler that damaged the screen, the staple itself that was embedded in the console, the Switch 2 that was damaged, and even the ...

GameStop has put up the infamous Switch 2 stapler on auction for eBay. As of this writing, the eBay bid has six days to go. At 181 bids, the highest outstanding bid is placed at a wild $ 108,895.

But if you really want to have not just a stapler, but also the first Switch 2 it broke, the box with the puncture marks and the offending stapler, feel free to throw your money at it.