‘Video Game Swap Shop’ That’s Saving People Thousands Reaches Business Award Finals

“We have saved the UK general gaming public almost £400,000”.

Video games aren’t cheap, and if you only have a modest source of income then buying new ones isn’t something you can do regularly. There are, of course, high street stores which offer trade-ins against other titles, but the part-exhange price is almost always far less than the resell price (these stores have to turn a profit, after all), which means you can sometimes lose quite a lot of cash when trading in your expensive games for new ones.

That’s where Game Swap Shop UK comes in. The organisation first started life as a Facebook page back in 2005 but has now evolved into a fully-fledged website with over 600 trusted traders – and it has recently made its way to the finals of the SME Cambridgeshire Business Awards in two categories: ‘Website of the Year’ and business Innovation.

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