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 Why Buy Games? somehow escaped our notice until 2008, and appears to be a medium-sized outfit with a simple site design, good prices and inventory, though their service is as yet untested. Based on Wales, they covers all the major consoles, including the Wii and PS3, but excepting Gamecube.
The site design is good, and they do offer a customer service phone number - an increasing rarity. They also allow you suspend your account if you go on holiday, which is a welcome addition.
WhyBuyGames claim that over 80% of their customers receive their top game choice, which if true would make them unique in the industry, so we're a bit skeptical.
The site is easy to navigate, but is rather basic, missing out on some features like customer reviews and ratings which other sites have as standard. Games include descriptions and ratings amongst other details like publisher, release date, players, age rating, and category (genre). They also have other reccomended titles below the game you're looking at, which is useful for browsing. We do wish they had a list all games catagory by console, so you could see everything released for a given machine and make a better judgement whether to sign up, rather than browsing each genre within that console--most other sites allow this.
Again, the site is the only game rental site based in Wales, to our knowledge, and you'll probably get the best postal turnaround times if you live nearby. They note local Welsh celebrities such as ex-boy band member Andy Scott-Lee have subscribed to the service, and they have reputation for excellent customer satisfaction. Paul Billington-Dykes, Technical Director of WhyBuyGames notes “families that have 2 or more children can’t always afford to buy the latest games for their kids, so this type of service is a perfect way to save money.”
Prices: Why Buy Games? offer a choice of 3 tariffs: a one game at-a-time unlimited subscription for £9.49, 2 for a very competitive £12.49, and 3 for an extraordinary £14.49 making them the cheapest games-only price for 2 and 3 games at-a-time packages. They offer a 10-day free trial only on the 1 game package.
If you cancel, Why Buy Games Terms and Conditions require you get proof of posting from Royal Mail, which is free. You must return any games in yourpossession within 7 dats or be charged the full retail price.
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Wayne from South Shields, June 18, 2008
I myself have been with WhyBuyGames.com for about 2 months now, i chose the 3game package (PLATINUM) and it is awsom They e-mail me when the games are being dispatched and they even hepl you get games that you desperatly desire, from kids games to full out war games they will help you get the game you want :D The website is basic but does the job well, only this i wish is that they were to put a whole catalog list on the site as somtimes i just want to rent something a bit different I would recomment this service to anybody and everybody Great work guys thanks for helping me get a better GamerScore :D
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Wayne from South Shields, 21 January, 2008
I have been with whybuygames for a few months now and there service is the best there is send them an email and they will ring you to sort out any enquiries within a day and they are very nice and helpfull over the phone i have had a couple of problems but they were very helpful to sort out by giving me a free month and couple times they ask me what game I want next with me getting it the next day and you pretty much wont get games at the top of your list (no other site does anyways) only couple time since joining i have tryed most rental sites and i just find these to be the best...im on 15 a month for 3 games unlimited rentals...cant go wrong with that
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Tony from Manchester, 13 January, 2008
I have used other sites before for games and found they never can practise what they preach. Whybuygames gave exactly what they promised. Site was very easy to use and there customer service was excellent. Five out of Five.
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