edge-online.com - 3/5/2009
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GameStop CEO Dan DeMatteo isn't concerned about online retailer Amazon's venture into the used videogame trade-in business--not in the least.
"I give the probability of this working at zero," DeMatteo told Edge in a Thursday phone interview.
Amazon this week introduced a program ...
amazon.com - 3/5/2009
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amazon.com —
Calling all gamers! Do you have any used
games lying around? Today we are pleased to announce...
the beta launch of Amazon Video Games Trade-In, www.amazon.com/tradeingames . Amazon Video Games Trade-In is a new service that enables you to trade in ...
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Amazon.coms Trade-In Store Launches with 1,500+ ...
zatznotfunny.com - 3/8/2009
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zatznotfunny.com —
After reading my post wondering where Amazon VOD
in HD is , multiple sources have confirmed that...
TiVo’s implementation is currently in testing. While I still don’t have concrete timing details, and suspect we’re waiting on ...
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Amazon VOD in HD on TiVo - Coming Soon?
news.cnet.com - 3/5/2009
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news.cnet.com —
On Thursday, Amazon announced a new program for
customers to trade in used video game titles in...
return for credit at Amazon.com. The program is launching with around 1,500 titles, all of which can be filtered and searched by platform. Once users have ...
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Amazon launches trade-in program for used games | Webware
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GameStop: Amazon trade-in program has zero percent chance of working
Joystiq —
... Thanks to advances in internet technology, inflammatory retorts between industry figures can now be developed and distributed at the speed of light. For instance, when Amazon announced today that it'd begun experimenting with a trade-in program for video games, ...
GameStop CEO Dooms Amazon's Used Game Biz To Failure [War Of The Words]
Kotaku —
... and Electronics Boutique similar to Amazon's model were unsuccessful. He doesn't see Amazon faring much better. And they're also stupidheads. Given Amazon's turnaround on crediting consumers for used games and the method in which they do it, he may be right. I'm very tempted to try out the Amazon service, but almost equally as lazy. GameStop: "Zero Chance" for Amazon Trade-In Success [Edge Online]
Gamestop CEO: Amazon Will Flop At Mail-Ins Because We Did
Silicon Alley Insider —
Yesterday, Amazon (AMZN) all but declared war on videogame retailer Gamestop (GME) with an announcement the e-tailer is entering the used videogame market. Investors dumped Gamestop on news of the threat, sending shares of GME down 14% on the day.
GameStop CEO Dan DeMatteo isn't taking this one lying down, he's hitting the blogs saying Amazon has no chance of success.
Edge: "I give the probability of this working at zero," DeMatteo told Edge in a Thursday phone interview.
Amazon this week introduced a program in which consumers can ...
GameStop CEO to Amazon: 'Zero' chance game trade-in program will work
Between the Lines —
... — firing the first salvo in the war against GameStop for the used game market — GameStop CEO Dan DeMatteo says the “probability of this working is zero,” according to Edge Online . The program that Amazon launched allows consumers to ship, for free, games in good condition and receive an Amazon gift card for the game’s predetermined trade-in value. GameStop tried a similar mail-in trade program several years ago, but it was not very successful, DeMatteo said in the article.“Electronics Boutique also tried it and failed. There’s no consumer acceptance. With consumers, there ...
5Words for March 6th, 2009
Technologizer —
... Not a huge news day:
Snow Leopard: June eighth? Maybe!
Buggy Firefox gets fixed fast.
Robert Scoble leaves Fast Company.
GameStop mocks Amazon resale program.
Craigslist sued over prostitution ads.
Unauthorized iPhone software stores emerge.
Palm investor has high hopes.
TV converter box coupons return.
Washington types bash BlackBerry Storm.
MacBook Pro graphics card woes?
Chinese officials are chatting online. ...
GameStop puts up a game front
GMSV —
... . But CEO Dan DeMatteo showed no sign of being rattled by Amazon’s approach , declaring, “I give the probability of this working at zero.” GameStop itself tried a trade-in-by-mail program several years ago and saw it flop because, DeMatteo says, it failed the instant-gratification test. “Electronics Boutique also tried it and failed,” he said. “There’s no consumer acceptance. With consumers, there is an immediacy for currency when they want to buy a new game. … It didn’t work for us, and I can’t see it working for them.” While DeMatteo’s analysis ...
GameStop's Hubris Problem: Handicapping The Used Video-Game Market
paidContent —
... So who poses the greatest threat to GameStop? GameStop didn't address Best Buy or Toys R Us' efforts directly, but CEO Dan DeMatteo did tell Edge Online that he gave the probability of Amazon's program thriving a "zero." That didn't stop the company's stock from ...
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Good news for those of you with the well-liked Roku player. As we heard was going to happen , and then we heard was in testing , the little thing can now access the many videos on Amazon’s VOD service.
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Amazon takes shot at GameStop, starts accepting videogame trade-ins
blogs.zdnet.com 3/5/2009 — Amazon said today that it would allow shoppers to trade-in used video games for store credit, a move that may challenge a core business of GameStop, the biggest U.S. video game retailer.
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Amazon Video Game Trade-in Service launched —
I4U News 3/5/2009
Amazon has launched a new Video Game Trade-in service that gets you a gift card for your old video games the easy way.
You can check the Trade-in site to see what your pre-owned games are worth and ship them for free to Amazon. In return you get ...
Amazon does video game trade-ins —
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Latest from Computerworld 3/6/2009
At half the thickness of Amazon's first e-book reader, the Amazon Kindle 2 (US$359 as of 3/5/09) is pretty inviting--it's a, sleek, curved tablet that you can easily hold in your hands. But while Amazon has made some successful enhancements to its ...
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