
From the end of this month you’ll no longer be able to sell on your old games at Amazon, as they give up on the trade-in market.
It may be the life blood of retailers like GAME and CeX but Amazon has decided it no longer wants to bother about trading in games and is closing its trade-in programme.
The details are here, but as you’d imagine there’s no explanation for why they’re stopping the service – although presumably the simple answer is because it isn’t profitable.
With the rise of digital downloads for even big name titles there’s no doubt been a downturn in trade-ins over the last few years, and indeed most other non-specialist stores gave up on… Read the full story