GameStop has just issued an official statement regarding the “Infinite Money Glitch” first spotted by YouTuber RJCmedia earlier this month. This “Infinite Money Glitch” saw RJCmedia trade in a Nintendo Switch 2 and use a used promotion to earn a profit in GameStop store credit.
RJCmedia's channel dates back to May 2022, with the creator's first videos after his attempt to monetize through DoorDash. After a one-year hiatus, RJCmedia returned to YouTube in 2023, this time focusing his content on retro game collections. Since 2023, RJCmedia has continued to post game-related videos regularly, including many centered around GameStop, hunting for GameStop-owned “holy grails” and videos that see the creator using GameStop sales to expand his personal collection.
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On January 17, 2026, RJCmedia published a video titled “I Found The GameStop Infinite Money Glitch.” The first half of this 13-minute video sees RJCmedia and fellow content creator WoodmanClassics use several GameStop promotions to make the most of their bulk loot. These include GameStop's long-term promotion where GameStop Pro members can get an extra 20% trade-in value when they put it towards a pre-order, and a current promotion that gives customers an extra 25% trade-in value when they use it to buy a used item.
The second half of this video, and the part GameStop is about, describes the “Infinite Money Glitch” referenced in the YouTube video's title. This episode sees RJCmedia trade in a Nintendo Switch 2 and buy a used game to earn an extra 25% in trade-in value. RJCmedia buys Nintendo Switch 2 for $415 and trades it in for $385 in store credit. But when the used game is scanned, the promotion starts and the $385 store credit becomes $445. This is $30 more than RJCmedia paid for the Nintendo Switch 2, meaning they had made a profit using this GameStop promotion.
On January 20, three days after RJCmedia published the original video, GameStop released an official statement about the error. GameStop's statement begins with a brief summary of the “Infinite Money Glitch” discovered by RJCmedia, and goes on to confirm that this glitch has been “patched.” As GameStop's somewhat heavy-handed statement puts it:
“Trade promotions have been updated to ensure customers can no longer turn basic arithmetic into an infinite revenue stream, and balance has been restored…While we applaud the creativity, we gently remind everyone that our stores are not designed to act as infinite money printers.”
Responses to GameStop's official statement on the X are quite varied. While some speculate how much RJCmedia made using this glitch before GameStop found out about it, others call the creator a “legend,” and one even says this is “a huge win for the community.” In the YouTube comments, other customers are sharing how much they allegedly earned with this GameStop infinite money glitch, with some claiming they're now sitting on nearly $1,000 in “free” store credit.
Despite 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 it was closing nearly 300 stores, seemingly without giving many of its employees any notice. And just a few days ago, GameStop took heat online for criticizing the first official image of Sophie Turner as Tomb RaiderLara Croft. GameStop's X account (the same one it used to make the above statement) reposted IGN's image of Sophie Turner and gave it a caption that read “This is not Lara Croft.” Many Tomb Raider fans came to Turner's defense and turned the tables on GameStop by posting pictures of GameStop toy shelves with captions such as “This is not a game store.”
