GameStop Offers New Pre-Trade-In Deal
GameStop, the nation's number one video games retailer, is offering a new way to get money for your used games.
"It's great," said Steve Morgan, president of GameStop. "You put down $5 for a future release and then we give you whatever the trade-in value will be for that particular game when it's released."
According to Morgan, GameStop customers typically trade in their games after they finish them, but with the age of the average gamer on the rise, there is less time to play and less time to finish.
"People don't finish their games anymore and so they sit around and collect dust. This new deal cuts out the need to finish the game, thus allowing our customers to get their vending machine money faster than normal."
This is the latest attempt by GameStop to get their customers to trade in their old games for store credit or cash. They've recently taken to calling and emailing their customers, offering higher trade-in values for newer games and full-body massages to the first 50 returned copies of The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Morgan is proud their new approach.
"Look. If you don't play those games anymore, then why do you keep them? Wouldn't you like to get a tiny fraction of your money back for them? And besides, it's not like people collect video games or something. I mean, whoever heard of a video game collection?"