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Amazon Begins Taking Used Game Trade-Ins
The Escapist : Latest News — The money is in the water: Amazon.com has joined Toys R Us on the bandwagon and is now testing its own videogame trade-in program. Despite being an online retailer, Amazon's trade-in system is surprisingly simple. Prospective customers look up the titles they're interested in trading on Amazon's trade-in store , which will give a flat-rate value per title. A pre-paid shipping label will be generated which must be printed and affixed to the shipment; once received and validated, the total value of the trade-in will be deposited into the customer's Amazon.com account. Games must be in good condition, with ...

Amazon Launches Used Game Program
Digital Something — Another day, another story about a company trying to get into the extremely profitable used video game business. GameStop has long dominated this market with their huge profit margins and aggressive growth. It looks like Amazon now wants a piece of that pie and now Amazon has introduced a new service titled Amazon Video Games Trade-In. Now here is a competitor that GameStop can't just shrug off. This new Amazon program launched today with about 1500 titles that can be exchanged for Amazon credit. The process couldn't be easer. You simply pick out the games you are looking to trade, submit your ...

GameStop Says Amazon's Game Trade Program Will Fail
G4 TV - TheFeed — A new game war is brewing: The fight over the amazingly lucrative used-game market. As you know, Amazon recently entered the used-game-game with a program where you can send in your tired titles for credit from the online retailer. This puts it in direct competition with current used-game king, GameStop. But don't think for a second GameStop's heads are worried...or at least admitting that they're worried publicly. GameStop CEO Dan DeMatteo told Edge-Online: "I give the probability of this working at zero... Electronics Boutique also tried it and failed." ...