Best Buy testing out used game market.

[gamevet]

Apparently, Best Buy has seen the light and hopes to try it's hand in the used game market.

According to Gikas, Best Buy, which has 700-plus stores nationwide, is testing the new business model in four stores. Gikas says the likelihood Best Buy (ticker: BBY) will roll out the new service is very high.

And if Best Buy does decide to roll out the sale of used games across its entire network of stores, Gikas views the move as a "modest competitive threat" to GameStop's business model, long-term.

http://www.gamespot.com/news/2005/09...s_6134778.html

I say it's about time Gamestop felt the heat.

[EvilMog]

Toys R Us use to buy games years ago too. They stopped doing it though. I look forward to them doing it again now.......

[Clash!]

Well Best Buy has different types of stores unbeknownst to the public, only certain stores will have that.

[SpoDaddy]

I hope this means we start seeing fair used prices, when I walk into EB or Gamestop and see preowned games for 45 bucks as opposed to 50 new, right under the sign that says they give 15 bucks to buy back that game, it makes me want to take their cash register and throw it through the window.

[Revoltor]

I hope we start seeing Gamestop and EB go out of business. Those stores are so obsolete it's not even funny.

[SpoDaddy]

Yeah really. And then there's the whole "store credit only for trade ins" system, like I'm some sort of crackhead at a harlem pawn shop. You're buying the game from me for 12 dollars and selling it for 45, and I don't even get that 12 dollars in real money? Go fuck yourself.

I think now they actually give you a choice at EB, you can get half the trade in value in cash, so you could actually see a five and a one for your 45 dollar game. And people actually do it! How in the hell have they built this culture where people drop 50 bucks on a game and then trade it in for 12 2 weeks later? You could rent that game almost anywhere about 8-10 times for 38 bucks, that's like 2 months with the game instead of 2 weeks, and you'd have 12 bucks of real cash in your pocket instead of funcobucks.

[Grave]

I hope we start seeing Gamestop and EB go out of business. Those stores are so obsolete it's not even funny.

I have never been to an EB or Gamestop that got an adequate number of units of ANYTHING. As far as I know, I still can't get We Love Katamari. I almost didn't get Halo 2 the day it came out, and I preordered months before, simply because I wasn't there at midnight. If a friend of mine wasn't working the register, I would have been out of luck til the next shipment. Plenty of people other than me were.

Infuriating. If they never have anything in stock and they're not going to get enough to cover preorders, let alone any walkins that come along later, why not just order online or go to a store that doesn't take preorders? Chances are about as good of getting it.

[SpoDaddy]

I haven't had to preorder a game to get it on it's release date in about 8 years, between Best Buy, Circuit City, Walmart, etc you can always find a copy of just about anything

[ChaoofNee]

I hope we start seeing Gamestop and EB go out of business. Those stores are so obsolete it's not even funny.

Agreed. I can always find my weird shit plastered about the internet. There's absolutely no need to go and perorder shit from them anymore.
I hear EB's also been dicking their employees over on console service plan commissions, too. Great way to keep people on board, you cocks.

[Grave]

I haven't had to preorder a game to get it on it's release date in about 8 years, between Best Buy, Circuit City, Walmart, etc you can always find a copy of just about anything

Except we only have one of those chains and Target within a reasonable distance. GameStop is within walking distance, and BB's stocking of games is pretty unreliable... I just kind of wish I could put the money down and know it's going to be at GS. I might just order games online from now on, if I really need it near launch.