You may have come across a Best Buy or Walmart location that had a game trading/renting/selling automated kiosk recently. Now they're leaving just as quick as they came.
It turns out that these machines were put in place by a company called E-Play. Now E-Play is going out of business. They're in the process of picking up their machines. They'll all be shut down and removed in the next three weeks.
Judging from your reaction from when we first reported on in, it's no wonder they're going out of business. I'm with many of you. I have no interest in buying a game without the packaging. I talked to a retail buyer a few months back about this. He assured me this would take off. If you're reading: I told you so.
Walmart and Best Buy cease used games trade-in operations [Joystiq]
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11:40 AM on 02.02.2010
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Cameras and locked security cases, I reckon.
No, this isn't right at all.
I remember them telling me they were looking at getting into video game rental and trade-in when they were giving me a tour of the place before the interview, and asked, "Yeah, sounds cool, huh?" I think I told them it was interesting, but, as a pretty hard core gamer, I didn't see it working. Probably why I didn't get the job, but then again, I ended up being right.
People that are willing to pay more than $5 for a game don't want them.
Best regards, Anna, CEO of datacore iscsi and i tunes