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CAGiversary!
With the Wii a mere 2 days away... it's time to let you guys in on our trade-in promotion.
We will beat EB's trade-in value (varies per game), as well as offer $10 bonus credit if the credit is all spent on old-school games (NES/SNES/N64/Genesis/etc.). On top of that, every game traded in gives you 1 entry into a draw for a fully-paid pre-order on your choice of "Warioware: Smooth Moves", "Super Smash Bros. Brawl", or "Mario Galaxy".
We're also implementing the "game rental" system where you can buy a game, then trade it back to us for $1/day less. Conditions are: The game must be in the same condition as it was purchased, it only applies to used games, and some titles may be exempt.
We will have the system set up and will be playing it Sunday (and probably every day after), and you are all welcome to join us (bring a controller & any games you have in case we don't have them already).
OLD POST:
As most of the Canada CAG forum users know, I own a video game store in New Westminster BC. I'm not trying to spam or "hype" anything, but I'm looking for advice. As you know, we specialize in old-school stuff and our selection of new titles is quite lacking. I'm not worried about having many 360/PS3 games, but now that the Wii is upon us (and my customers are excited about it) I plan to carry a lot of Wii games... BUT... the wholesale cost on these games is so high that I can't possibly sell them for cheap & have it still be worthwhile. So my question is this... what kind of promotion would you recommend that I run that would encourage people to trade their new/used Wii games to me instead of EB games? I know some people will end up with bundled games they don't want, and launch titles that they don't quite like, and I want to build a library of Wii titles asap, but without losing money in the process. Any suggestions?
We will beat EB's trade-in value (varies per game), as well as offer $10 bonus credit if the credit is all spent on old-school games (NES/SNES/N64/Genesis/etc.). On top of that, every game traded in gives you 1 entry into a draw for a fully-paid pre-order on your choice of "Warioware: Smooth Moves", "Super Smash Bros. Brawl", or "Mario Galaxy".
We're also implementing the "game rental" system where you can buy a game, then trade it back to us for $1/day less. Conditions are: The game must be in the same condition as it was purchased, it only applies to used games, and some titles may be exempt.
We will have the system set up and will be playing it Sunday (and probably every day after), and you are all welcome to join us (bring a controller & any games you have in case we don't have them already).
OLD POST:
As most of the Canada CAG forum users know, I own a video game store in New Westminster BC. I'm not trying to spam or "hype" anything, but I'm looking for advice. As you know, we specialize in old-school stuff and our selection of new titles is quite lacking. I'm not worried about having many 360/PS3 games, but now that the Wii is upon us (and my customers are excited about it) I plan to carry a lot of Wii games... BUT... the wholesale cost on these games is so high that I can't possibly sell them for cheap & have it still be worthwhile. So my question is this... what kind of promotion would you recommend that I run that would encourage people to trade their new/used Wii games to me instead of EB games? I know some people will end up with bundled games they don't want, and launch titles that they don't quite like, and I want to build a library of Wii titles asap, but without losing money in the process. Any suggestions?