Wal-Mart and Best Buy drop used games

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Posted on Thursday, February 4, 2010 by Michele White | Comments

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Best Buy and Wal-Mart are to halt tests of automated kiosks that bought used games after their supplier e-Play closed up shop. e-Play kiosks allowed shoppers to trade in Wii, Xbox or PlayStation games for credit on a gift card or credit card. The kiosks also rented video games and movies.

Why the sudden shut down? According to e-Play’s website, “e-Play, LLC has suspended operations. Thank you to all our customers. For more information call 1-866-602-6014.” The number, however, only routes you to an automated message explaining how to return games and invites you to leave a message.

Could it be that Turks sent them into bankruptcy by endlessly trading in every game he owns during his lunch hours?

Source: Shack News

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Turks | February 5th, 2010 at 9:28 AM

My store never had one of these. Although if it did I’m sure I would have used it and they would have gone under a lot quicker.

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