http://www.kotaku.com.au/2010/10/sale-of-the-century-the-pre-owned-debate/- By Mark Serrels, October 12, 2010
Quite a long article but well worth the read if you have the time. Good insight on what the pre-owned games industry is thinking (from Gametraders perspective)
Video game publishers and retailers like Game and Electronics Boutique are notoriously interdependent - they need each other to survive.
more like one needs to dominate the other
Things have changed. The reason we can?t do it now is that the maximum margin of a new game is 25%, and on formats like the PS3 it's closer to 22%. Then when you price match, or you have too much stock and it isn't selling, your margins are under 20%.
sounds about right but could be totally off
And the big retailers like Big W - they pay less for rent per square metre. They're probably paying $250 per square metre, and we're paying over $1000!?
nice estimate right there
