■At The CD/Game Exchange,
new and used CDs abound for
any musical taste
By Josh Ryneal
Oregon Daily Emerald
Anyone who has tried to buy a
used compact disc knows the fa
miliar frustration of poring through
poorly organized bins for hours try
ing to find that one score that will
make all the effort worth it. More
often than not, hopeful customers
will come out with empty hands
and a defeated look.
The CD/Game Exchange, located
at 30 E. 11th Ave., hopes to turn
what was once a laborious and
time-consuming chore into some
thing as easy as buying, say, a new
CD.
The first impression one gets af
ter walking into the store is CDs - a
lot of them. They line the walls and
shelves, locked away in glass cases,
organized by genre and alphabet
ized. Upon closer inspection, it ap
pears that the used CDs are right
there, mixed in with the new ones.
Ben Terrell, manager of the
CD/Game Exchange, explained that
although the store does a brisk busi
ness in new albums — “We sell
them at or below list price,” he said
— it’s used CDs that bring in a lot of
the store’s business.
“The used sales help keep prices
on the new stuff down,” he said.
The store, part of a chain that in
cludes three others in Portland,
makes about 30 to 40 used trades
and sales a day.
“We pay a little more and take
things that other stores won’t,” Ter
rell said. “I’ll buy pretty much any
thing.”
The store also trades in video
games and systems, tapes, LPs,
DVDs and videocassettes — most of
them used.
I
Erin Swanson-Davies Emerald
The CD/Game Exchange brings in business with its supply of new and used music,
movies and video games. The store, located at 30 E. 11th 4ve., is among a chain of three
others, which are located in Portland.
“I consider this place to be the
best of everything,” Terrell said.
Establishing the store’s unique
identity hasn’t been easy, he added,
with a lot of competition coming
from all directions. Not only does
the store compete with the numer
ous stores around Eugene, but it
also has to deal with big music
chains such as Sam Goody and
record clubs that give new albums
away for free.
“Big chains will undercut you on
the new stuff, and record clubs will
affect the way a new album sells be
cause they give them away for
free,” he said.
As for Napster, which critics say
could wipe out the record industry,
Terrell said he isn’t worried.
“I don’t think it’ll have that big of
an effect,” he said. “I think people
are more into the actual buying and
packaging of music, the physical
aspect of it; I love the packaging,
the sound, the smell of records.”
Nor is Terrell worried about the
rising cost of CDs hurting his busi
ness.
“Higher list prices on the new
stuff make the used stuff more val u
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