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Best Buy to enter used video game market

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After watching video-game stores do a booming business in second-hand games at the local mall, Best Buy Canada has decided to follow suit.Starting with a test at six of its Future Shop stores in Calgary, the country's largest electronics retailer plans to expand its second-hand games offerings to all 133 Future Shop outlets by late summer, putting it head to head against the sector leader EB Games.
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awesome. more compition for cheap folks like me, well hopefully its cheap >_>
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awesome. more compition for cheap folks like me, well hopefully its cheap >_>
2 dollars cheap then a new game from best buy LOL

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2 dollars cheap then a new game from best buy LOL
thats what im afraid of, like the sam goody of used games D:
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How can you do this? If the game has a one use CD key...
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How can you do this? If the game has a one use CD key...
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It'll be like gamestop, console games only.
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