Posts Tagged ‘Best Buy’

Best Buy planning to sell used games in US

Best Buy has announced that they will begin to buy & sell used games in all US stores later this summer. From Gamespot :

While some Best Buy stores will have dedicated trade-in desks, most locations will handle game buybacks at the customer service desk. Customers will receive their compensation in the form of a gift card good for anything in the store, and any used games purchased will be covered by the store’s return policy.

Once the program starts, customers will be able to use the Best Buy website buyback program to get estimates of likely trade in value for their games before going in to the store and trading it in. That program can also be used to figure trade value of various types of electronic hardware.

Best Buy is just the latest major retailer to try to chip in to Gamestop’s chokehold on the used games market, with Wal-Mart, Toys R Us and Amazon already trying to carve out a piece of the market.

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Best Buy offering digital movie downloads/Target expands gaming section

Two major retailers making approaches to all of us geeks everywhere? This demands…a double feature!

Perhaps tiring of seeing business lost to online rental services like Netflix, Best Buy will be launching a new online service called CinemaNow later this month.

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Walmart, Best Buy, Toys R Us to be bigger problems than piracy

Mooooo!

You might have heard that Walmart, Best Buy and Toy R Us are getting back in the used game market. While there is no news about how far into it Toys R Us and Best Buy are going to be doing this, Walmart at least seems to think they can make this work. They are rolling this out to 5 stores and will ‘monitor with great interest’. Walmart is taking a smart approach, going slowly and making sure things work for them. Used sales is a large market and rushing into it as they did before with the kiosks was a bad move. At least they’ve learned some lessons and are taking a more sensible approach.

Right on the heels of this announcement by big box retailers, Andrew Oliver, co-founder of Blitz Games, has said that used sales is more of a problem than piracy. He told Develop:

“Arguably the bigger problem on consoles now is the trading in of games,” he tells Develop.

 

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