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Toys R Us Begins Selling Used Games
by Chris Faylor, Mar 02, 2009 1:57pm PST
Nationwide retailer Toys R Us has begun testing a program to buy back used games and sell them at its stores, similar to that of GameStop and other gaming specialty stores.
"We are testing out a program at a couple of our stores in the New York area," Toys R Us public relations manager Bob Friedland told Kotaku. "We are selling used games in the stores participating in the test."
Among those participating stores is a location in Nanuet, New York, which was noticed by Cheap Ass Gamer user phear3d. That store is apparently part of a 12-week trial program, which has been running at that location for about four weeks.
It seems that the chain hasn't yet decided if it will take the initiative nationwide.
The used game market has been extremely lucrative for GameStop, with the company buying games at a low cost, typically a third of their worth, and reselling them at a much higher rate, sometimes just five dollars less than the price of a new game.
Despite accounting for only 26.1% of the GameStop's total Q2 2008 sales, used game sales made up 49.7%, some $234M, of the retailer's overall quarterly profit.
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On a side note, I bought a brand new copy of Quake Wars for the PS3 for 11 bucks Canadian, I think they screwed up on the price or something, man did I ever fly out of there!! ;)
Also, they sell used copies of Motor Storm, which clearly came from a bundled PS3, because it says on the cover that this game is not for sale etc. How are they allowed to do this?
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It's too late for current console but I can see future consoles going Digital downloads only or games that comes with a 1 time use CD-KEY with internet required to install the game.
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(Cue grumble about the lack of immediate posting at my job...)
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Like right now Killzone 2 for me is $45 bucks ($40 with 10% off).
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Having said that, i do not mind used bookstores or libraries at all. I guess that makes me a hypocrite, as I am trying to find a difference here and cannot.
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I really dont like the fact that a lot of these places push used over new, it doesnt help the developers at all and just reeks of greed. My preferred way of buying used is craigslist for this very reason, though gamecrazy is pretty cool, as Im never really hassled there about becoming a member or reserving a game.