Redbox expands into video games

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Redbox currently offers $1-a-night pricing for its video rentals, but it is almost a guarantee that the same pricing will not be given to video games, which retail for much more than DVDs and Blu-rays.

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this is a good idea but the prices would have to be a dollar or else they would not be able to remain competative

Yeah I thought their plan was to rent out the games, and then sell them off when nobody rents them anymore.

With Blockbuster in WI, you can keep the games an extra 5 days beyond the due date and then they convert to a sale. Return the game before 30 days is up from the date of the sale and only pay a $1.25 restocking fee. So for about $8.50, you can rent the game from Blockbuster for about 40 days. That's what I do and finish most of them before the due date. I don't see how they can compete with that. Games take much longer to finish than a movie. Of course if the game sucks, you'll know that pretty quickly and would only be out $1.

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In North Texas, Hollywood charges video games that are 5 day rentals for $8.90. While Blockbuster charges for seven days for $10.95 and five days for around $7.95 to 8.40 they change the price about every month.

I'm think they will probably charge around 1.25 to 1.50 any more or less can become a profit loss.


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