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

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.

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

The $250,000 raised by the Staplegate Switch 2 auction will go to Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals, which goes to fund ...

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.

GameStop Is Auctioning Off The Stapler--And The Staple--That Damaged A Nintendo Switch 2 On Launch Day The gaming retail chain is making lemonade out of a lemon for Children's Miracle Network.

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.