Tesco enters the second-hand market


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By Sean Poulter

1 June 2010

Tesco is to offer customers second hand goods with shoppers able to sell their old computer games to the supermarket, which will then offer them for sale at a bargain price.

However, the retailer will not pay cash to people who sell their games for the popular consoles such as Nintendo's Wii and DSI, the Sony Playstation or Microsoft's xBox.

Instead, it will give them a Tesco money card which can be used in its stores to buy games, other merchandise or groceries.

New games can cost as much as ?40, but they quickly become obsolete once the owner has completed all the levels or becomes bored.

Several retailers, such as the specialist firm Game, will allow customers to sell them back, providing they and the boxes are in good condition. Tesco has drawn up a central pricing structure, with a sliding scale as to what a customer will get.

Where a game initially cost ?40, Tesco might pay ?27 to a customer and then sell it on for ?30. The move by Tesco is a concerted attempt to grab customers away from firms such as Game and HMV.

Buying manager John Stanhope said: 'This is a great way for games lovers to get the biggest possible range of entertainment and get a little help with their shopping bill too.'

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/bargains-and-rip-offs/article.html?in_article_id=505492&in_page_id=5&ct=5

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Interesting, i always shop about bufore i buy anything including my second hand games normal routine is Game > Cex buy from Cex as cheaper lol be good to see how they deal with it tho if there same as game more expensive or cheaper :)

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I might start to pick up a few second-hand games after my shift then, coupled with my discount card, should make for a reasonable price.

I wonder when they will start to roll this plan out to their many stores?

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And so the domination of Tesco continues. Pretty soon we won't have anywhere else to shop. ;)

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Meh, no matter how hard they try they will never be able to beat eBay.

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Meh, no matter how hard they try they will never be able to beat eBay.

Yeah but if its as easy as walking into a store you could sell a game there and then and not have to bother with ebay/paypal fees and shipping. You can just sell a game and get Tesco store credit to go buy the next one.

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You can just sell a game and get Tesco store credit to go buy the next one.

Gamestation do the same thing, but also give you less if you take cash instead of store credit.

But I guess you can use the Tesco card for anythingin store??

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Is it legal? I thought games were like software: you don't buy games, you buy the right to play them...

Plenty of other shops do it, so I wouldn't see why it would be.

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Yeah but if its as easy as walking into a store you could sell a game there and then and not have to bother with ebay/paypal fees and shipping. You can just sell a game and get Tesco store credit to go buy the next one.

It's not like Tesco sell their games cheap instore anyway...

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Hmm.. this could be brilliant to be honest. Hopefully this should bring a price war on used games and even perhaps stop me from having to go to CEX for used games ;D

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This'll be interesting considering the '$10 plan'. Can't imagine people who buy games at Tesco will know much about it so it might cause a few problems.

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This could be pretty good, Supermarkets are already stealing sales from big releases by selling the games cheaper than actual game shops, and now if they can be competitive with their pricing of second hand games and not let bad quality non working games in, then this would be awesome.

is there anything that Tesco won't do, they are even selling houses now as well !!

I've always said it'll be Tesco that takes over the world one day, not Robots, lol.

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