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lothar

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Jan 5, 2000
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I'm back from my 3 week vacation and I wanted to clear up some misconceptions.

I'm not sure where people are getting the idea that I said the game was shrink wrapped. It wasn't. It had an oval seal that I broke into half.
But then...again I didn't check to see if someone had tampered with the oval sticker. It could be that they removed the seal carefully and put it back or I was simply too excited to open the box and never took notice.


The "shrink-wrap" part was an off-topic discussion and had nothing to do with my situation.
Out of curiosity, I went to my bedroom to find the box and double checked my statement.
There is a rectangle seal at the top and bottom part of the box.
However, there is also a round/oval seal at the top part of the box on top of the rectangle seal.

I'd guess the ones from Blizzard are rectangle seals and Gamestop opened the top rectangle seal, took the game out, and put an oval seal exactly on top of the rectangle seal?
The oval seal looks almost perfectly done...no spaces, barely any air bubbles between the overlapping area of both tapes, no fingerprints found all over seals from what one would expect from a Gamestop highschool employee.

I have no idea if the rectangular seal was already broken or not since I didn't check, but the bigger oval seal on top definitely was not.

Either the top rectangle seal was already broken and the round seal on top of that rectangle seal wasn't
or...
Neither were broken(but if that's the case, what would be the point of putting 2 different seals at the top and only 1 at the bottom?)