Gamestop

Gamestop (http://www.gamestop.com/) is a business in a very odd place. On one hand, it’s a good thing for the consumers; the ability to buy-sell-trade is an interesting concept, and quite honestly it puts a lot of power into the consumer’s camp. On the other hand, it’s a bad thing for game makers; the ability of a store like Gamestop to sell a single product multiple times takes away from the developer’s profits. I, as a consumer, tend to like the advantages it gives a consumer, but I think the company’s business model is insane. They charge you $20 for some used game that they probably paid less than $5 for. They only accept games from the current console generation, they’ve all but phased PC games out of their stores, and the only time you get anywhere near your money’s worth for a game trade-in is when you’re putting it toward some new game recently released, and even then they rarely offer that deal and the games you need to trade in for it are still selling for around $40 +. Any other time, you’d get $15 or less for that game; with this deal, you get a whopping $20 (also, you can only do it when you trade in two games at once). Honestly, I believe that they need to seriously rework their trade-in system; make it substantially more worth the consumer’s effort. That way, people would buy into it more.