{"id":651278,"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.com\/index\/651278","title":{"rendered":"Walmart And Best Buy Bail From Video Game Trade-in Market"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Best Buy and Walmart have backed off on their challenges<\/a> to GameStop’s used game racket, both shelving their short-lived tests of trade-in kiosks<\/a>, Industry Gamers reports:<\/p>\n

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

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

Gamers, how do you dispose of your old video games?<\/p>\n

Wal-mart, Best Buy Quit Short-Lived Used Games Test<\/a> [Industry Gamers via Kotaku<\/a>] <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Best Buy and Walmart have backed off on their challenges to GameStop’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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Jqu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}