Play N Trade’s number seven according to Franchise Market Magazine

Play N Trade Franchise announced on March 11, 2008 that Franchise Market Magazine has named it number seven in the magazine’s yearly “Top 100 Fastest Growing Franchise” list. The video game store is the only one in the 100 stores listed. For those who have never seen a Play N Trade store, they are somewhat similar to GameStops. In fact, the only differences I can see, based on their press release, is that they repair disc and consoles and allow people to trade in cell phones. It was named number four in Franchise Market Magazine’s “Top 100 New Franchises” list in October, 2007.

Personally, I’ve never seen a single Play N Trade store. Considering I live near Chicago, that’s saying something. The press release states that Play N Trade stores sell new and used games, buy used game paraphenalia, host tournaments, repair broken discs and units and let customers try games before buying them. To be perfectly honest, it sounds incredibly similar to your standard GameStop. Sure GameStop doesn’t host many tournaments, but they do occasionally have some for major releases. Plus I’ve never had a problem if I wanted to try a used game out in the store before I bought it.

Play N Trade also has an official website online, but nothing is really there at the moment other than a forum. A store locator would have been nice, since the press release mentions the franchise has 130 stores and 425 franchise stores. If there was one near me, and it had good prices and friendly employees, I wouldn’t be opposed to frequenting it.

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