It helped my wallet so much that I stopped working at GameStop. As a customer, you're encouraged so much to place a pre-order since "you can just cancel it later" and get your deposit back. But how often has that happened for most customers, realistically?

I would routinely pre-order and buy new releases, leave them in their boxes sealed, and not end up playing them, so I'd just have to trade them in for less than half their value for other releases. And so the cycle continued.