Amazon Jumping into Video Game Trade-Ins

As I've said a few times here, I'm a video game nut. And mostly proud of it. It is both a source of shame and joy, but that's another story. The story right now is that sometimes for gamers, you have the need to buy new titles but maybe not the cash to do this with. This is where trading in your old games comes to play.

While brick and mortar establishments like GameStop have been the way to do this for the past ten years or so, a few online retailers are getting into it as well. The newest addition to this list would be the online giant, Amazon, who is now taking used games from users and giving money back.

The process isn't too bad, either. First, you select the games that you want to trade in, which already have an assigned value from Amazon. Second, Amazon gives you a shipping label to print up for your mail-in. Finally, you are credited via Amazon gift cards for the amount of your trade-in.

The Amazon video game trade-in store is just in a beta format at the moment, so it'll be interesting to see where it goes. Right now, the values don't seem to be too different from places like GameStop, meaning those of us that are impatient will probably just drive to a store rather than wait for their items to ship. But then again, plenty of people do all of their shopping online, so it's bound to get lots of traction.

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