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    Re: News - Asda And Tesco trial pre-owned game scheme and trade-ins

    Quote Originally Posted by aidanjt View Post
    ...Games publishers have zero rights...
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    Re: News - Asda And Tesco trial pre-owned game scheme and trade-ins

    Quote Originally Posted by finlay666 View Post
    If you are going to quote someone, do it in context
    What context? You're crying for all those 'poor' games publishers who are already earning silly money, aren't getting a slice of the second hand pie.
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    ...every time Creative bring out a new card range their advertising makes it sound like they have discovered a way to insert a thousand Chuck Norris super dwarfs in your ears...

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    Re: News - Asda And Tesco trial pre-owned game scheme and trade-ins

    Hmmm...lots of text above this post which I've only skimmed over.

    My thoughts are:

    If publishers did get a slice of 2nd hand revenue (by whatever means) does anyone really think prices of games will drop? No, me neither.

    The profits Game/etc make on used are (IMO) obscene, they offer a pittance for the game, even less for cash & then proceed to sell it at £2 less than the brand new version.
    That's just my opinion though as they're doing nothing illegal (well, we think)

    If I could buy a pre-owned game for £1 more & I knew it would go to the devs (well publisher really) then I would although I hate to feed the publishers rather than the creators.
    I feel that it should be the carrot rather than the stick, provide exclusive content to purchasers of a new copy (not pre-order, just ANY new copy) rather than cutting out something pre-owned buyers have to pay for. I guess you could say this is actually the same thing but I think there is some difference & anyway it's not my problem to sort out!
    Last edited by Rob_B; 26-02-2010 at 02:08 PM.

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    Re: News - Asda And Tesco trial pre-owned game scheme and trade-ins

    Well, nobody is forced to sell/buy to/from GAME, and the fact that they are making so much money from it shows that there's a very large and popular market for 2nd hand trade. And naturally they're capitalising on it. Good for them, I say.
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    Re: News - Asda And Tesco trial pre-owned game scheme and trade-ins

    Quote Originally Posted by aidanjt View Post
    What context? You're crying for all those 'poor' games publishers who are already earning silly money, aren't getting a slice of the second hand pie.
    Which ones are they? The vast majority of games publishers are losing money, not earning silly amounts.

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    Re: News - Asda And Tesco trial pre-owned game scheme and trade-ins

    Looks like Argos have jumped aboard too but they're giving gift vouchers as opposed to cash.

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    Re: News - Asda And Tesco trial pre-owned game scheme and trade-ins

    Quote Originally Posted by Zap View Post
    Looks like Argos have jumped aboard too but they're giving gift vouchers as opposed to cash.
    http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Static...ideo_games.htm

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    MW2 = £26

    Nothing spectacular but will be useful to get Gamestation to match (plus you can prove prices easily unlike Game/HMV who won't print anything out for you)

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    Re: News - Asda And Tesco trial pre-owned game scheme and trade-ins

    True but they'd probably give you that in store credit knowing them.

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    Re: News - Asda And Tesco trial pre-owned game scheme and trade-ins

    Yeah it's all store credit.

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