I personally won't use it for the same reasons as Squirrel Pope but I could still see it working.

Haha best idea evar! Next time my kids get out of hand I will sell their Wii for them exact candles! Hahaha

normally I just trade my games goozex style...but screw it, i'ma use amazon just to piss gamestop off...cause their shit is bogus. whoa 5 dollars cheaper to buy a used copy? thats it? fuck you, im sorry i walked in your smelly ass store.

psssh... Goozex will destroy both Gamestop and Amazon with one hand tied behind its back.

I'd much rather use amazon

This won't work well. The value of the games seems to be lower than GameStop a lot. Grand Theft Auto 4 is 10 bucks.

Would you sell that for 10 bucks in Amazon gift cards?

think it'd probably work. amazon rocks too. can't say the same for gamestop.

on the other hand, I don't really trade in games so I wouldn't know.

I'll consider it...

If I was Gamestop, I would be worried simply for the fact that there is an increasing number of competitors in what is essentially a Gamestop monopoly. Amazon is the only company so far that can compete with Gamestop's brick and mortar presence. Combine that with the number of people, such as me, who boycott Gamestop, then you have potential for Amazon to provide a viable alternative.

I am still surprised that GameFly hasn't tackled this segment more aggressively.

HEY ...DON'T YOU CALL ME LAZY YOU MUTHA.....


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Trash talk the competition!

The "buyback" of used games (along with DVDs and CDs) has been around online successfully for many years. Sites like BuybackMadness.com, PreplayedDiscs.com, BuybackDirect.com, DigitalDogPound.com, BuybackMedia.com, PlayItSellIt.com and others allow consumers to sell their no longer wanted Video Games, DVDs and CDs for cash via payment by check or Paypal. (Disclosure we provide the software platform as a service to the above listed online buyback retailers). We believe that the consumer is better served when they are able to conduct trades across multiple categories for quick cash rather than credit - especially during these economic times. With that being said we welcome Amazon's entry into this space, we believe everyone benefits!

Gamestop believes that online buyback will fail because of their experience with Tradestop. With Tradestop - Gamestop customers were already used to trading pre-owned for new games in the thousands of brick & mortar Gamestop stores across the country and the way Tradestop was presented online it didn't provide any additional benefit to the current Gamestop consumer who had been trained on in-store trading, plus (IMO) Gamestop shuttered Tradestop due to it’s recent (in 2005) acquisition of Electronics Boutique and since it owned a monopoly ( ~80%) of the pre-owned video game space, why offer a service that exposed their buyback prices with no material benefit to their existing customers. First, what Amazon and other buyback sites offer is a trade for cash platform that isn't Gamestop. Many gamers feel that Gamestop doesn't pay a fair price for their games. I believe Amazon (along with many current online buyback sites) will offer buyback in additional categories - this is where Gamestop will have to make a decision to follow (or not) since consumers will be better served by trading for cash across multiple categories. To date there hasn't been anyone the size of Amazon to offer this service to consumers - I believe Amazon will iterate their offering (as well as other buyback sites) to add more benefits and successfully differentiate from Gamestop in-store trading. In my opinion, for Gamestop to say that online trading will fail is like Blockbuster saying that Netflix will fail because why would people want to receive new movies in the mail rather than go to their local Blockbuster store – we now know how that story line has played out.

Though buyback sites have been around since 1996/97 (with the debut of SecondSpin.com) this category of ecommerce (consumer to business) has been a sleeping giant. No one with any significant resources to date has offered consumers the type of service that really compels consumers to trade online in the numbers consumers do with online ecommerce or rental of movies through Netflix type services. With Amazon’s entry this sleeping giant of an online commerce segment will wake up and challenge brick and mortar stores (who trade) like ecommerce did with brick and mortar for the last 10+ years.

Game on!

I got so fed up with the trade-in values at Gamestop, and it seems amazon is really no different, that I started a company called Mooch about 3 years ago. Last week we launched a peer-to-peer game trading site at www.mooch.com. If you're fed up with paying $60+ bucks for games that last 8-10 hours only to get $5-$20 back in trade-in value at Gamestop or amazon, check out Mooch. I think we've built a pretty cool trading engine and I hope you'll agree. Cheers.