GameStop has just issued an official statement regarding the ‘Infinite Money Glitch’ that was first spotted by YouTuber RJCmedia earlier this month. This ‘Infinite Money Glitch’ saw RJCmedia trading in a Nintendo Switch 2 and using a pre-owned promotion to earn a profit in GameStop store credit.
RJCmedia’s channel dates back to May 2022, with the creator’s first few videos following his attempts to earn money via DoorDash. After a year-long hiatus, RJCmedia returned to YouTube in 2023, this time focusing his content on retro gaming collections. Since 2023, RJCmedia has continued to publish gaming-related videos commonly, including quite just a few that revolve around GameStop, comparable to hunts for GameStop pre-owned ‘holy grails’ and videos that see the creator using GameStop sales to expand his personal collection.
“Our Stores Are Not Designed To Function As Infinite Money Printers” — GameStop Puts Abrupt End to ‘Infinite Money Glitch’
On January 17, 2026, RJCmedia posted a video with the title “I Found The GameStop Infinite Money Glitch.” The primary half of this 13-minute video sees RJCmedia and fellow content creator WoodmanClassics using several GameStop promotions to make essentially the most out of their bulk trade-ins. These include GameStop’s long-term promotion where GameStop Pro members can get 20% extra trade-in value after they put it towards a pre-order, and a current promotion that provides customers an additional 25% trade-in value after they use it to buy a pre-owned item.
The second half of this video, and the part GameStop is anxious with, details the ‘Infinite Money Glitch’ referenced within the YouTube video’s title. This section sees RJCmedia trading in a Nintendo Switch 2 and buying a pre-owned game to earn an additional 25% trade-in value. RJCmedia purchases the Nintendo Switch 2 for $415 and trades it in for $385 store credit. Nevertheless, when the pre-owned game is scanned, the promotion kicks in and that $385 store credit becomes $445. That is $30 greater than RJCmedia paid for the Nintendo Switch 2, meaning that they’d made a profit through the use of this GameStop promotion.
On January 20, three days after RJCmedia posted the unique video, GameStop published an official statement regarding the glitch. GameStop’s statement begins with a succinct summary of the ‘Infinite Money Glitch’ discovered by RJCmedia, and goes on to verify that this glitch has been “patched.” As GameStop’s somewhat tongue-in-cheek statement puts it:
“Trade promotions have been updated to make sure customers can not convert basic arithmetic into an limitless revenue stream, and balance has been restored…While we applaud the creativity, we gently remind everyone that our stores should not designed to operate as infinite money printers.”
The replies to GameStop’s official statement on X are quite varied. While some speculate on how much RJCmedia made using this glitch before GameStop discovered, others are calling the creator a “legend,” and one even says that that is “an enormous win for society.” Over within the YouTube comments, other customers are sharing how much they allegedly made using this GameStop infinite money glitch, with some claiming they’re now sitting on almost $1,000 of “free” store credit.
Despite only being just a few weeks into 2026, GameStop has already made headlines a handful of times, not including this one. On January 9, GameStop confirmed that it was closing down almost 300 stores, seemingly without giving a lot of its employees any prior warning. And just just a few days ago, GameStop received heat online for criticizing the primary official image of Sophie Turner as Tomb Raider‘s Lara Croft. GameStop’s X account (the identical one it used to make the statement above) reposted IGN’s image of Sophie Turner, giving it a caption that read, “This just isn’t Lara Croft.” Many Tomb Raider fans got here to Turner’s defense, turning the tables on GameStop by posting pictures of GameStop toy shelves with captions like “This just isn’t a gaming store.”