PLAY N TRADE Franchise Stores Closed & Closings

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• @Karl M Yea I had to do that many times, and the funny thing was the morons at corporate would actually tell you to do that, for inventory!! Of the many, many, many problems with Play N Trade, that was probably the biggest, not being able to get any inventory.

• If you all haven't heard by now, Jimmy Kindred is no longer with the company but has not formally announced yet. Not sure what happened but it wouldnt surprise me if he was forced out. I did hear he was in network marketing. I would love to hear the story and any updates on the State of The Mighty Play N Trade. Are they under 100 stores yet? I cant imagine anyone stupid enough to buy a PNT franchise right now. Seriously guys, hopefully you stashed away some of that money you scammed from people that were trying to make an honest living, because you can only hang on for so long. Time to pack it up and move on to the next scam.

• I need a good laugh. Does anyone have an idea of how many stores are still open (for now)? Are they still trying to sell franchise's? I also noticed they finally updated the "key leadership" portion of their website and it only includes Jared Turner, who doesn't know jack about the industry and the new president. Gone are Charles Tom Bozo and the rest of the clowns. Does anyone know what happened to them?

• Not sure this is accurate, but Entrepreneur magazine lists the following numbers for Play N Trade locations in 2012:

  Play N Trade

  U.S. 133
  Canadian 30
  International 10
  Company ownd 0

• The new xbox one and ps4 will make it much harder to trade used games...
  digital rights management will be personal...

  I will speculate that gamestop will have kind of work around to get their customers options to trade but i don't see how the smaller operators can do it..it will likely be some kind of digital rights management loyalty program that can organize gamers digital rights (as long as they are "preferred" customers or perhaps as long as they bought through gamestop

  Older games will always be tradeable and have value...there is a huge ps3/xbox360 base that will generate alot of cash flows, but over time it will be lower and lower end...it wont be a retro/rarity type of deal like NES...the games are all going to be easily available as usedgames..

• The Naperville, Illinois store owned by the regional developer has just closed.

• The Idaho Falls, Idaho store has also shut down. One day it was busy and popular, and three weeks later the store had shut its doors. :(

• the PlayNTrade in Derry, NH just closed, within the last few days I guess, it's annoying because I buy ALL of my shit there and they have the only good disc repair machine in the area

• After 2 years of storing my "store fixtures", I went out and destroyed every piece of PNT I had. Hoping to recycle the $5000 Aluminum sign. I was gonna make a Video about blowing it up and send it to the thieves @ corporate but nobody would sell me dynamite.
  I see that PNT "acquired" a Canadian gaming outfit and hired a new CEO.
  How does a compnay that is consistently LOSING franchisees and money continue to damage the gaming environment by buying things??
  Spread the loss???
  One of the BEST franchises in the system in IDAHO closed all of his stores!!! If you are consistently top 10 in sales and have to close ---what about the bottom 90 stores???

• To all the previous PlaynTrade owner out there please email me if you are looking to get rid of any inventory or Point of Sale computer systems.