Amazon's Video Game Trade-In Program Now Pays Instantly

Amazon is determined to dominate all areas of eCommerce, be it new products, products from tertiary-party sellers, and, of course, digital downloads. Interestingly, it has also embraced used items and now runs a trade-in program where souvenir cards are offered in exchange for goods.

Typically, trading in an item takes effectually 10 days to ship and be processed before payment is received. However, if y'all desire to trade videogames, Amazon's service just got a lot quicker every bit the souvenir card credit is now added to your account instantly.

To take advantage of the offering at that place's a unproblematic 3 step process to follow:

Submit the particular you wish to merchandise afterwards checking it is on the eligible list
Receive your gift menu credit instantly
Ship the item using a prepaid aircraft label from a UPS location

You may receive credit instantly, merely Amazon expects to accept the detail traded for the credit shipped within vii days. Once the detail is received, Amazon volition verify its condition and decide whether or not to accept it. If rejected, an item will be returned to the customer without any fees being practical for aircraft it dorsum. If found to be counterfeit, Amazon will dispose of the item.

The value of private items will depend on their condition, but Amazon has shared examples of what prices information technology is willing to pay for some of the more than pop video game products out at that place this year:

Nintendo Wii U Console: up to US$150
Sony PlayStation 4 500GB Console: up to US$170
Microsoft Xbox I 500GB: upward to US$115
FIFA 17: up to US$25
Newspaper Mario Color Splash: up to US$30
Gears of War 4: up to US$26

Amazon has posted details of the condition information technology expects games, consoles, and accessories to be in to qualify for trade-in credit. It's certainly worth reading earlier deciding what to trade.

For now, the 'Instant Payment' offering is limited to videogames, but there'southward every chance information technology will be expanded to other product categories if information technology proves successful for video games over the holiday season.