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Their business practices just haven't moved on, they used to get away with ripping people off charging £39.99 for new games and selling the same one used for £37.99 after giving the person trading it in 5p for it as a lot of people didn't know better, more people are online savvy now and not so gullible.
Even if they rely on pre owned they don't do that anything like as well as CEX, Amazon or HMV. You can go on their websites (or use the phone app with HMV) put in your product and find out how much money you'll get for it straight away.
Whereas with game you still have to traipse down the shop and find out they will give you nowt for them!
Very true. Game group is very much 'jack of all trades, master of none'. Game got away with it during the mid/early 2000s whilst the industry was booming, the highstreet was still strong, and internet competitors not so common/aggressive. Then they over expanded, AND bought out Gamestation. Gamestation had the preowned specialty, with older systems, wide selection, and had a gamers store feel to the place because of this. Thanks to Game Group, the stores are just Game under different branding.