Best Buy Dipping into GameStop’s Profit Pool
According to a blog post from Bestbuy’s Chief Marketing Officer Barry Judge, several Dallas Bestbuy locations will be testing out the used video game market.
A few weeks ago, PlayStation LifeStyle reported on how Walmart was beginning a used-game trade-in program. Bestbuy’s system, is not much different. To trade your game in, you must go to a certified Kiosk, then pop the game in. The Kiosk will systematically scan your game, checking for functionality, and give a coupon voucher, that can be traded in for a gift card.
As Judge puts it :
“It’s a pretty slick system and one of the few trade-in programs to provide instant gratification; you get the gift card on the spot and can redeem it on anything in the store – not just another game.
We’ll also be testing the sale of used games in those stores, and some of the kiosks will even rent games and movies.”
From the looks of it, Gamestop is going to have a lot of competition, and we may (finally) start to see reasonable prices on used games from the dominant gaming retailer.
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8 Responses to “Best Buy Dipping into GameStop’s Profit Pool”
reasonable prices sounds pretty good to me, all of the used games in a gamestop here (Valencia, Spain) are only slightly cheaper than the newer version. Although one part of me can understand that, for example, a used Wolverine just shouldn’t be that much cheaper, since the game is new, the disc is as new etc. the other part of me would love it to see the price drop a bit more. Then again, it will take even longer for this to take effect over here…
ok, used prices may be more reasonable, but this does nothing to the developer’s business- in fact at more competitive prices for a used game, it makes it worse.
@joinsideke
we have the right to sell and buy used games so that’s just an issue with developers. We the consumers buy whatever is cheaper. l’m glad Best Buy is doing this since l lost some of the boxes of my games that l wanted to trade in; l can just trade in the game disc.
works for me. I been using gamestop for years. Nothing wrong with comp. unless you are a developer.
best buy, walmart, futureshop, everyone is doing the game trading in thing now… gamestop better watch out lol.
Well at least at Best Buy they don’t try to sell all their used games as new (as Gamestop and EB love to do….good luck buying a new unopened game).
When the Wii came out I ran all over the city trying to find Trauma Center. Finally at one location they said they had it. I went in and the employee walks over, opens up his back-pack takes out a disc in a jewel case, pops it in the Trauma Center case and rings it up as new ($60)…..needless to say I walked out and never bought another game from them.
Sorry over-defensive employees of GS, but once that game is opened it is not new.
Screw Lamestop, I’m am glad there will be more competition in the used game market. They 9Lamestop) have had a chokehold on the used games market for too long.
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