Comments on: Amazon Rolls Out Game Trade-In Service http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/03/05/amazon-rolls-out-game-trade-in-service/ Business + Technology in the Exponential Economy Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:12:44 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Continental Cafe Free Download | Best Hemorrhoid Cure http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/03/05/amazon-rolls-out-game-trade-in-service/comment-page-1/#comment-65497 Continental Cafe Free Download | Best Hemorrhoid Cure Mon, 15 Jun 2009 05:09:37 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=15097#comment-65497 [...] Amazon Rolls Out Game Trade-In Service (xconomy.com) [...] [...] Amazon Rolls Out Game Trade-In Service (xconomy.com) [...]

]]> By: Bob http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/03/05/amazon-rolls-out-game-trade-in-service/comment-page-1/#comment-52431 Bob Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:20:51 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=15097#comment-52431 Pretty sure Funcoland was doing the buyback/second sale thing before 1996. I was buying games from them for my original Gameboy and SNES. So no, all that's new is you can use the credits from your old games to buy your new baby some clothes or get a sweet new cutlery instead of buying more and more expensive games with smaller and smaller credits. Pretty sure Funcoland was doing the buyback/second sale thing before 1996. I was buying games from them for my original Gameboy and SNES. So no, all that’s new is you can use the credits from your old games to buy your new baby some clothes or get a sweet new cutlery instead of buying more and more expensive games with smaller and smaller credits.

]]> By: Steve Bonneau http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/03/05/amazon-rolls-out-game-trade-in-service/comment-page-1/#comment-49070 Steve Bonneau Sat, 07 Mar 2009 16:52:44 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=15097#comment-49070 To date there hasn't been anyone the size of Amazon to offer this type of service to consumers - I believe Amazon will iterate their offering (as well as other successful buyback sites) to add more benefits and successfully differentiate from Gamestop’s in-store trading. Gamestop has recently said that online trading will fail. This is like Blockbuster saying that Netflix will fail because why would people want to receive new movies in the mail rather than go to their local Blockbuster store – we now know how that story line has played out. Though buyback sites have been around since 1996/97 (with the debut of SecondSpin.com) this category of ecommerce (consumer to business) has been a sleeping giant. No one with any significant resources to date has offered consumers the type of service that really compels consumers to trade online in the numbers consumers do with online ecommerce or rental of movies through Netflix type services. With Amazon’s entry this sleeping giant of an online commerce segment will wake up and challenge brick and mortar stores (who trade) like ecommerce did with brick and mortar for the last 10+ years. Game on! Disclosure – Buybak.com provides a buyback software platform as a service for online retailers. To date there hasn’t been anyone the size of Amazon to offer this type of service to consumers – I believe Amazon will iterate their offering (as well as other successful buyback sites) to add more benefits and successfully differentiate from Gamestop’s in-store trading. Gamestop has recently said that online trading will fail. This is like Blockbuster saying that Netflix will fail because why would people want to receive new movies in the mail rather than go to their local Blockbuster store – we now know how that story line has played out.

Though buyback sites have been around since 1996/97 (with the debut of SecondSpin.com) this category of ecommerce (consumer to business) has been a sleeping giant. No one with any significant resources to date has offered consumers the type of service that really compels consumers to trade online in the numbers consumers do with online ecommerce or rental of movies through Netflix type services. With Amazon’s entry this sleeping giant of an online commerce segment will wake up and challenge brick and mortar stores (who trade) like ecommerce did with brick and mortar for the last 10+ years. Game on!

Disclosure – Buybak.com provides a buyback software platform as a service for online retailers.

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