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GameFly opening Distribution Center in Austin, Texas

GameFly is opening a Distribution Center in Austin, Texas. The news was revealed in a job listing on Monster.com looking for an Operations Manager for the area. As a user of GameFly in Kansas, I get my games in two to three days, and this is great news to others in the Midwest and beyond as the time between receiving games will be cut even shorter.
A very observant reader noticed while searching job listing website Monster.com that GameFly, the online game rental service, is looking for a manager in the Austin, Texas area. The job description clearly states: "We are the leading subscription based video game rental company headquartered in Los Angeles, CA. We will be opening a satellite Distribution Center in Austin and we have an outstanding opportunity for an OPERATIONS MANAGER." The listing looks completely legit and we're happy to see GameFly continuing to open distribution centers -- anything to cut down turnaround time is a good thing. We've contacted GameFly for confirmation.

This would mean the rental service will have two distribution centers beyond their original California location. They just recently opened and expanded service at their East Coast branch located in Pittsburgh. For many on the East Coast, they've seen their turnaround time go from two weeks to around one week. Sadly, GameFly's growth has caused Xbox 360 and Wii game availability to appear in short supply and there was a recent $1 increase (although Netflix recently did a $1 decrease, so for subscribers of both it balanced out). We're guessing the tech-friendly city of Austin's distribution center will service the middle of the country. Don't expect the distribution center to open for a couple months though, they're obviously still staffing the place.
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    Vito Raliffe | July 26, 2007
    Now maybe I can get my games in a day

    SO MUCH MONEY SAVED!!
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    FRoGBuster | July 26, 2007
    great! they're getting bigger. THey need to open more in US cities too
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    Storm | July 26, 2007
    I need to find a good store around here that I can rent games from...I hate buying some and they turn out to be crap, lol.
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    Inuyasha19 | July 26, 2007
    I'm not too big on the whole system. I had it for a month and the game was scratched beyond use. I asked for a different copy and got the same thing. Not sure exactly what to think of this new plant if all I'm going to get is a scratched up game.
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    JJBDude | July 28, 2007
    Renting games is becoming bigger and bigger and I'm glad to see this is going to be helping you lot out over seas in America. Here in England it only takes a day to arrive heheh.

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