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May 27, 2007 at 06:27 PM |
We sell used video games in three different ways:
- Individually by title through our commerce website.
While ordering individual by title through our website is
the most expensive way to purchase games from us, it does offer largest
selection of games and no minimum quantities.
We can also DROPSHIP directly to your customers. See our Dropshipping Services for more information and to sign-up for a free 14 day trial.
- Individually by title from our BULK GAME LIST
Approximately every 7-10 days we update and E-Mail our current Bulk Game List in an Excel file. To order, just
enter the quantity of each title you'd like to order in the "Order Qty" column.
Note the total quantity and total dollar amount will be calculated automatically
at the bottom of the spreadsheet as you enter the desired quantities. See notes
at the top of the Excel file regarding minimum quantities as well as quantity
discounts.
The majority of the Bulk Game List consists of titles we purchase
specifically by title and price every week. Our goal in purchasing
these titles is to have newer/better used titles available for our
retail customers. We use these titles as "bait" to encourage our retail
customers to trade-in their games. If you are new to the video game
business, you will quickly find that the majority of your profits will
be made on the games that are traded in to you. Unfortunately if you
don't have the games that your retail customers WANT TO TRADE FOR, they
will take their trade-ins to Game Stop, EB Games or another local game
store.
If you are selling video games in a retail store environment, you
will be able to make money selling titles from the Bulk Game List, but
you'll also want to use titles from this list to maintain a GOOD
SELECTION OF NEWER GAMES to encourage your customers to trade-in their
games.
Our Bulk Game List contains less than 5% of the titles we have
available for purchase. The other 95% of available titles are available
online to browse/purchase from our commerce website as described above.
- Packages
The cheapest way to buy games.
If you are looking for the
best price per piece and/or don't require specific game titles, ordering a
"package" of games is the way to go.
- Pre-packaged Packages - Several times a month, we E-Mail pre-packaged
packages of games for various platforms. These packages will contain a specific
list of games for a set price. We find that most of our customers for these
packages are looking to purchase at the lowest possible unit price. To keep the
average unit price down, we include what we refer to as "crap games" in these
packages, these games are normally older sports games and are best used to
bundle with game consoles to offer a package to the retail customer. These
packages will include a range of titles from the crap games at the low end to
some better titles that aren't too expensive that they increase the unit price
of the package dramatically. If you have a need for games at a variety of
prices, these packages can work for you. If you are looking to sell each of the
games in the package individually based on the value/desirability of the title,
you will be better off selecting a custom package of games (see below for more).
- Custom Packages - Custom game packages offer the value of purchase games in a
package as well as the flexibility of giving you some choice over the selection
of games you receive. While you can not select individual titles to be included
in a package (to select games by, use one of the 2 options above), you can
select titles that you DON'T WANT in the package. You can also select genres or
groups of games you don't want in a package. If you don't want any sports games,
let us know. If you don't want M rated games, just tell us.
When
ordering a custom package, we will ask you for the criteria of the games you
want or don't want in the package.
A sample criteria for a package might
be:
I want 200 PlayStation 2 games ranging in price from $5 to $12,
but I want to pay an average price of $7.50 per game for the entire package. I
don't want any soccer or hockey games and I don't want any sports games older
than 2006. I only want one copy per title.
You can also give us a
specific list of game titles that you don't want and we won't include any of
those in the package. This strategy works great for retail stores that are
looking to expand their selection without duplicating the game titles that are
already on their shelves. All you need to do is send us a list of your current
inventory (or just the inventory for the platform you're wanting to order for)
and give us the criteria for the games you'd like to receive (similar to above).
The minimum quantity of pieces per platform for a game package is 25.
The packages are normally invoiced at one average price for the entire package,
but on smaller, more diverse packages, we can invoice them at 25-30% off the used
retail price (25% off orders under $5,000/30% off orders over $5,000). When your package is invoiced this way, you will receive an
itemized invoice with individual prices for each game title which may be useful
to help you determine the retail price to sell the games for (especially if
you're not a subscriber to our Game
Price Guide Service.
- Store Opening Packages - Our used video game inventory lends itself very
well to new game stores looking for an initial inventory of hundreds or
thousands of different game titles, but only 1 or 2 copy per title. If you are
opening a video game store, video store or other business where you need a wide
variety of games, but not necessary large quantities of each title, please
contact us with a few details and we'll forward our sample store package
calculator spreadsheet with our recommendations.
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