That makes getting the lowest attainable price on a given pre-owned model more difficult than usual.
Pre-owned vehicle prices subsequently skyrocketed by a stratospheric 32 percent over the ensuing three-year period.
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Microsoft's pre-owned game policy for their new Xbox One console has been a source of confusion and contention.
It then resells the pre-owned merchandise at a discount to their new counterparts.
Gross margins on pre-owned games are more than double those of new titles.
The music industry is already challenging ReDigi, which has a service that lets users sell their pre-owned digital music.
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One way to think about is the new software business is 17 percent bigger thanks to the pre-owned games that are being traded.
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Pre-owned home sales almost tripled in Beijing last week, following the latest moves by the State Council to reign in this property market.
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Inside The Jet Business, the would-be jet-set sip champagne and fancy coffee while running through the details on available pre-owned aircraft around the world.
Saab is apparently suspending all new car, powertrain, emissions and parts warranties, along with recall campaigns, certified pre-owned coverage and no-charge maintenance programs effective immediately.
He said the pre-owned business is an opening price point business.
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Just recently, Kia Motors announced that it will begin to offer Sirius in certified pre-owned vehicles, an important first step into the used car market.
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This approach has helped Sprint avoid a billion dollars in cost, since the majority of these pre-owned, certified devices are redistributed through equipment warranty and insurance claims.
And for those concerned that selling pre-owned games could cannibalize sale of new ones, I want to highlight another key benefit of the used-game business: higher profit margins.
While there is an undeniable amount of egotistical cachet in driving a brand new car home from a dealership, choosing a pre-owned model is usually the better deal.
Pre-owned game sales were up 3.5% from a year ago.
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Those looking to the pre-owned market for a less expensive way to obtain upscale brand cachet often find themselves paying dearly for the privilege in terms of steeper repair bills.
Even though there is chance that auto sales may not pick up as expected previously, Sirius XM will likely continue its growth by increasing penetration in both new and pre-owned vehicles.
Russ Lucas, manager of pre-owned sales for BMW, will become vice president of its eastern region with overall responsibility for sales, marketing, aftersales and dealer development activities in the 12-state northeast region.
The first Blockbuster store in the UK opened in south London in 1989, and the firm has sought to expand its services in recent years, including with a trade-in facility for pre-owned titles.
Combined with GME's Edge card program, which allows members to receive additional credit on trade-ins and get additional discounts on pre-owned titles, the used-game business breeds the kind of customer loyalty its competitors simply cannot duplicate.
This should provide all the capital the company needs to continue along its current transformation from a specialty retailer of new and used videogames to a more general seller of new and pre-owned electronic entertainment and media products.
While recent reports suggest a softening of prices in the used-car market in the coming months, values of pre-owned models continue to be at record highs, due largely to inventory shortages caused by depressed new-car sales and leasing following the economic collapse in late 2008.
The reselling of pre-owned jets is big business right now, with depreciation values reaching as much as 30% on year of use, particularly in Brazil, where the private aviation market surged by 76% between 2008 and 2010 (according to the National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC), the Brazilian civil aviation authority), totalling 652 private jets and helicopters legally registered within the agency.
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This is the rationale behind a bill calling for the creation of a new energy firm Pre-Sal Petroleo that would be entirely state-owned (unlike Petrobras) to manage new projects.
That awkwardness would lead to others, one of them being the question of restitution for Palestinian-owned properties throughout the pre-1948 Mandate for Palestine, including West Jerusalem.
However, Google considers the trial a threat to freedom on the Internet because it could force providers with an impossible task - pre-screening the thousands of hours of footage uploaded every day onto websites like the Google-owned YouTube.
All publicly owned radios in the DPRK are pre-set to specific stations (this is strictly enforced by the leader of the local inminban, which are small groups consisting of 40-50 people).
UBS's Warburg Dillion Read subsidiary has been regarded as one of the more successful bank-owned investment banks, not least because its pre-merger parent, Swiss Bank, was ruthless about organisational change and was also willing to put the subsidiary in charge of all corporate lending.
Massing around St Brigida's, his admirers talk darkly of a return to pre-war times when, they say gloomily, most buildings in Poland's towns were owned by Jews.
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