{"id":264141,"date":"2010-02-02T08:03:49","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T13:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001403"},"modified":"2010-02-01T23:19:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T04:19:14","slug":"walmart-and-best-buy-bail-from-video-game-trade-in-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/264141","title":{"rendered":"Walmart And Best Buy Bail From Video Game Trade-in Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/walmart-thumb-158x133-36578.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Best Buy and Walmart have backed off on <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/2009\/05\/walmart-goes-all-redbox-on-gamestops-racket.html\">their challenges<\/a> to GameStop&#8217;s used game racket, both shelving their short-lived tests of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bargaineering.com\/articles\/how-does-the-irs-pick-tax-returns-to-audit.html\">trade-in kiosks<\/a>, Industry Gamers reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The used game kiosks were provided by a company called E-play. Today, however, E-play suspended its operations, and consequently, both of the big box retailers have decided not to bother with the used business for now.<\/p>\n<p>Analysts have repeatedly stated that the used games test at retailers like Wal-mart would basically have zero impact on GameStop.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Gamers, how do you dispose of your old video games?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.industrygamers.com\/news\/wal-mart-best-buy-quit-short-lived-used-games-test\/\">Wal-mart, Best Buy Quit Short-Lived Used Games Test<\/a> [Industry Gamers via <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5461878\/walmart-best-buy-close-down-trade+in-kiosks?utm_source=feedburner&#038;utm_medium=feed&#038;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+kotaku%2Ffull+%28Kotaku%29&#038;utm_content=Google+Reader\">Kotaku<\/a>] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Best Buy and Walmart have backed off on their challenges to GameStop&#8217;s used game racket, both shelving their short-lived tests of trade-in kiosks, Industry Gamers reports: The used game kiosks were provided by a company called E-play. Today, however, E-play suspended its operations, and consequently, both of the big box retailers have decided not to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4514,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}