Wal-Mart testing video game kiosks in deal with Columbus provider - Business First of Columbus:

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Retailing giant will feature E-Play’s kiosks for used video games in the vestibulexs of 77 stores inthe Wal-Mart and Columbus-based E-Play declined to commeng on the test run, other than to providse a fact sheet about the kiosks, whichu buy used video games using a database with prices for more than 4,00o titles. Customers scan games’ UPC code and then are given the chance to accepty or declinethe turn-in price, whicb would be credited to a credif or debit card. The price can be as much as $25 for a high-demandc game. (Fellow parents would agree the averagwe is likely to be much less.
) E-Play has other partnerships with convenience gasoline service stations and others that have put its DVD- and videi game-rental kiosks in more than 200 locations in 11 including Ohio. Columbus Business Firs t has reported on some of itsprevious deals, each time withoutt comment from E-Play, despite repeated requests. The company was part of Dallas-based ’s Blockbuster Express $1 DVD rental kioskm test in 2007, which was abandonerd in 2008, then it partneredf with ’s MovieStop subsidiary for a simila $1 DVD kiosk test. Recession be Let’s expand.