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Friday, May 11, 2012, 04:38 pm
GameStop may start selling used Apple MacBooks
U.S. gaming retailer GameStop, which already buys and resells iPhones, iPads and iPods, may soon begin buying and selling Apple's MacBooks, new details suggest.An anonymous GameStop employee provided Kotaku with a screenshot of the company's inventory screen. It shows three MacBook models listed among used Xbox 360 hard drives, HDMI cables and a PlayStation Portable carrying case.
A second screenshot shows a more extensive list of MacBooks, complete with prices well below retail, suggesting that the retailer will sell refurbished Apple notebooks rather than new hardware. Listed in the inventory system is a 2-gigahertz 13-inch MacBook for $459.99, an 11-inch MacBook Air with a 1.4-gigahertz processor for $749.99, and a 17-inch MacBook Pro with a 2.4-gigahertz processor for $2099.99.
Four more low-end MacBook models are also listed in the inventory system, with a 2.1-gigahertz MacBook listed for $589.99 a 2.4-gigahertz model for $749.99, a 2.53-gigahertz-powered machine for $799.99, and a 2.66-gigahertz notebook for $949.99.
GameStop's trade-in program allows customers to sell their used gaming hardware or software to the U.S.-based retail chain for store credit, or 20 percent less in cash. Though GameStop specializes in traditional console games, late last year the company began accepting trade-ins of iPhone, iPad, and iPod hardware.
As software sales become increasingly disc-less, GameStop has also pushed into the digital distribution business, and offers PC game downloads from its website. Just this week, the company even began selling gift cards to Valve's Steam, a competing digital download service.
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Yeah, they'll take them in for $100 and sell them for $900, but they'll put them back in the box first and re-shrink wrap it and sell it as "new".
I was surprised to notice a sign in Gamestop's window the other day proclaiming that they sell iDevices.
I had been wondering what changes their business model will go through in the coming decade. Of course they have a strong consumer base across new and used video games and then I had heard they were trying to back their own tablet platform, but that sounded like a dead end to me. Expanding the scope of used goods sold seems like a logical progression, but I'm not sure it's the evolution they'll need to stay alive.
I had been wondering what changes their business model will go through in the coming decade.
Particularly since the idea of "used games" is actively being fought by the next generation of consoles.
Does this mean that the industry will start to consider the Mac as a legitimate gaming platform? Because they don't...and it isn't.
An anonymous GameStop employee provided Kotaku with a screenshot of the company's inventory screen. It shows three MacBook models listed among used Xbox 360 hard drives, HDMI cables and a PlayStation Portable carrying case.
A second screenshot shows a more extensive list of MacBooks, complete with prices well below retail, suggesting that the retailer will sell refurbished Apple notebooks rather than new hardware.
Uhm, those are shots of screes . . .
but they aren't "screenshots."
Just so you know . . .
Does this mean that the industry will start to consider the Mac as a legitimate gaming platform? Because they don't...and it isn't.
And by that I think we all assume you really mean that . . . you don't and you don't think it is. But it is really great to see your "very first" comment in the AI forums is so cogent and incisive.
There are lots of used iPods of all models for sale in the downtown Manhattan stores. Apple products have good resale value. I am not suprise they are evloving their model due to digital distribution and the number of stores they have.
So sad to see Macs listed on a Windows 3.1 (if we're lucky) screen...
And by that I think we all assume you really mean that . . . you don't and you don't think it is. But it is really great to see your "very first" comment in the AI forums is so cogent and incisive.
Given the number of Mac titles I would say that the industry still doesn't think much of the mac platform...
Given the number of asstastic ports I've bought on the Mac I'm pretty much in the "bootcamp to game" camp.
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Makes me wonder how much they'll give for trade ins. My 2007 Santa Rosa based 17" MacBook Pro sold for 800 bucks four years later.