{"id":11886,"date":"2011-05-24T01:22:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T23:22:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"uk-retailer-points-out-that-pre-owned-marketplace-is-good-for-the-whole-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/11886-uk-retailer-points-out-that-pre-owned-marketplace-is-good-for-the-whole-industry","title":{"rendered":"UK retailer points out that \u201cpre-owned marketplace is good for the whole industry\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new challenger appears! UK retailer GAME has stepped into the ring to fight for the occasionally controversial pre-owned market, saying it&rsquo;s &ldquo;good for the whole industry&rdquo;. Which should probably be obvious, but somebody important over at Max Profit HQ must&rsquo;ve missed that memo or something.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent interview with trade mag <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcvuk.com\/news\/44438\/GAME-Pre-owned-attitudes-are-cha\" target=\"_blank\">MCVUK<\/a>, GAME CEO Ian Shepherd says that, despite publishers employing deterrents disguised as online passes, the general attitude towards the somewhat vilified market is perhaps changing.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think, through conversations with developers and platform owners, that there is a growing realisation that a healthy pre-owned marketplace is good for the whole industry,&#8221; he explains. &#8220;It has made the mint marketplace more affordable and has kept people in that marketplace.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There has been endless debate over pre-owned versus mint, but my view is that a healthy pre-owned and trade-in marketplace &#8211; which we are largely the people who are involved in driving &#8211; is good for the whole industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/13724-Pre-owned-games-market-good-for-the-industry-UK-retailer?p=428352#post428352\" target=\"_self\">Do you buy games second hand?<\/a><\/strong><\/span> &lt;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People vs capitalism, round 12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}