Pre-owned market is "defrauding the industry"

[Final-Fan]

ameratsu said:

Frodaddyg said:

Final-Fan said:

Frodaddyg said:

Final-Fan said:
So Zero Originality seems to have gotten kicked off of YouTube.  Here is the (first half of the) first episode at GameTrailers:

http://www.gametrailers.com/player/usermovies/263243.html

I got through about 1 minute of Mumbly Mumblington's very aptly titled thing before I shut it off. Neat, I get it. There's alternatives to Gamestop. There always have been, and yet people don't use them. Shocking.

I admit it's a bit much to ask you to sit through several episodes of that thing, but he really does do a great job of listing every one of Gamestop's deficiencies in terms of what we were talking about (along with many other unsavory qualities the stores have which are less relevant to our discussion).  Just keep in mind that the minute you saw was just the warm-up.

And the main counterpoint would be: What kind of value will a place like Best Buy or Walmart give you for a used game?

In canada, Future Shop (owned by BB) accepts used games for trade in. As does blockbuster video. Their trade in values are somewhat better than EB's.

It looks like Froggy's point just got undercut.  Clearly Gamestop is following the monopoly strategy to success (buy or destroy competition so consumers will accept jacked up prices and crap service).