In a move that should bring much rejoicing by Gamefly members, compounded by their distance from Inglewood, Calif., Gamefly is finally opening up an East Coast distribution center. The site is located in Pittsburgh, PA. An official announcement has not been made by Gamefly about this new hub because they are working out the kinks to "supply the best experience possible."Part of the email sent to certain members read, "Initially, we are launching this new distribution center for only a small subset of our members so we can complete our testing and training efforts. Over the next several weeks, we'll broaden the reach of this new distribution center to more members." Gamefly says the official announcement of this new center is not expected for a month or two.
East Coast members of the service have become accustomed to week and a half long waits in receiving their next game. Gamefly's fast return, which was meant to recognize when a member dropped a game back in the mail and then send out the next title on the queue, has been a hit or miss system. This new distribution site should cut down shipping times and alleviate traffic in the West Coast center, meaning faster turnaround there. All good consumer news. Gamefly also has some of the best deals in used games, they'll even ship the buyer the "new" case and manual.



















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Now I can rent an get all my gam... Ohh wait a minute, I live in the Bahamas:(
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I may start it again, since I will most likely be getting Wii/Xbox360 soon (thank you IRS return).
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But this IS good news for me.
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That's only 50 miles away
Maybe now it would finally be worth it to have a GameFly account...
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*Cancels GameznFlix subscription*
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Here in Indianapolis it takes GameFly 4-5 days to receive my games. The fast return only works about 10% of the time.
Receiving the games takes 4-5 days as well.
I'm glad to see the new location though I am a little shocked they didn't try Indianapolis.
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That is the only reason I cancelled my subscription.
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I think Gamefly, or a similar rental place is the way to go for the next few months if you've got a Wii. There are a lot of games that seem like they use the motion controls in interesting ways, but aren't worth purchasing to fiddle with. Marble Mania, for instance.
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I live in St. Louis, which is pretty much equal distant from CA and PA. It will still take the same amount of time for games to arrive.
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I'm not sure this new distro center is going to do much to change that.
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I got spoiled when I first used Netflix. I was so close to a distribution center that if I put something in the mail tuesday, I'd have a new movie wednesday morning.
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That said, Gamerang has 4 distribution centers scattered around the US, but I have no idea how good they are, as I just found out about them.
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I live in Texas, so I don't know how much this news will help me, but it's good to hear they realize their is a huge problem and they are working on fixing it. I look forward to the day when GameFly is as big as Netflix and has shipping centers all over the country.
Matthew
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Also, no more missing games because of the non-orange envelopes?
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WWWWEEEEEEEEEEKKKKKSSSSS!!!!!!
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Christ, look at a map. The distance between LA and St. Louis looks to more than twice that between Pittsburgh and St. Louis.
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both companies get complaints about delivery time... to me it's simple... gameznflix is almost half the price and i can get a movie every now & then.... so, if one of my games/movies comes longer than expected, at least i am paying half the price...
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