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Game to stop selling pre-owned titles

The firm's owner, Frasers Group, told the BBC trade-ins would be phased out in "the coming months".

It is in contrast to High Street rival Cex, which has built an empire of 600 stores worldwide, and 385 in the UK, based entirely on a business model dealing in pre-owned electronics. On X, formerly Twitter, one poster reacting to the reports of the end of trade-ins wrote: "They've just handed their biggest rival (CEX) the entire pre-owned market." The takeover has led to the closure of some stores, as well as others opening inside retail spaces already owned by Frasers Group.

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