Amazon has confirmed that they have officially entered the pre-owned games market. The online shop will pay for your old games. If you box-up Medal of Honor (you will be forgiven/praised for doing so), print out a special pre-paid delivery label and send it off, you will get a £23 Amazon Gift Card credited to your account. Just Dance 2 will net you £15 and Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood will get you £28.

Once Amazon has received your game they will email you with a decision on whether you can have the money or not. If your game is broken or of an unsatisfactory quality (probably to stop hard-up journalists trying to make money from review copies) they will send it back. The games can take up to two weeks to get back to you and faulty goods may be thrown away by Amazon. You have been warned. Amazon will accept up to only three game trade-ins from you in just three months. It’s a bit of a weird conceit, but we are talking about a company that tried to sell some of the Wikileaks cables on their Kindle store after withdrawing their hosting support for the controversial organisation.