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One notorious story that emerged from the Nintendo Switch 2 launch in early June got here from the Staten Island part of New York Metropolis, the place a GameStop worker stapled a receipt for the console to its box–which broken the Switch 2’s display screen within the course of. Now, GameStop is popping this blunder right into a boon for Youngsters’s Miracle Community Hospitals, as the corporate is auctioning off a number of objects from the incident–including the staple itself–for charity.
The eBay listing for the charity public sale features a letter from GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen, confirming that each one 4 objects included within the public sale are “genuine relics from the now-infamous ‘Staplegate’ incident.” Cohen’s message additionally says that, “whereas the incident itself was unlucky, [GameStop] hope[s] its legacy serves a larger goal.”
The 4 objects included within the public sale are as follows:
- The staple used within the incident, which is described as “a retail legend born from a half-second resolution”
- The Nintendo Switch 2 console itself, with a repaired display screen
- The full retail packaging of the console, “with the staple mark clearly seen”
- The particular person staple that broken the console, which has been “fastidiously extracted and preserved” in an “particular person show pouch”
The auction–which is elevating cash for Youngsters’s Miracle Community, per the eBay listing–has surpassed $8,000 in bids as of this writing, with the latest bid presently sitting at $8,110. The itemizing additionally confirms that bids on the lot can be accepted till July 16 at 9:51 AM PT / 12:51 PM ET.