Best Buy starts selling used video games at Texas stores - Puget Sound Business Journal (Seattle):

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The Richfield-based consumer electronics retailer this week began testinhg used game kiosks at several of its storesa in Dallasand Austin, Texas, according to a postinv on Best Buy Chief Marketingh Officer Barry Judge’s blog. Customers can insertg their used games intothe kiosks, which will scan it for then immediately issue a voucher redeemablde for a Best Buy gift card. “It’s a prettu slick system and one of thefew trade-inb programs to provide instant gratification; you get the gift card on the spot and can redeekm it on anything in the store not just another game,” Judge wrote on his Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) also will test the sale of used gamesa at the stores testing the kiosks, and some of the kioskz also will rent games and The nation’s largest used-game retailer, Texas-based (NYSE: GME), reported $8.
8 billion in salees in 2008. Other retailers are also testingout used-game including Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and onlinre retailer Amazon.com. Game publishersw have mixed feelingsabout used-game sales, as they aren'tg guaranteed a cut of the sale the way they woulc be with a new game. Some developers have started addinfg new content that only works if the user has theoriginaol game, to cut down on reselling. Best Buy is reportedlyh using Columbus, Ohio-based ePlay for the kiosks.