Well, son of a bitch.

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Anthony Thompson
on November 20, 2006
in Bitching, Opinion and Video Games
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As many of you may know Lexy and I were trying to get the new Nintendo Wii.  Well, she went to Wal-Mart in Warrensburg to try to pick one up because unlike EB or GameStop, you didn’t have to be first in line to be guaranteed one.  Wal-Mart handed out tickets to those who showed up to grab a Wii.  They would run out of tickets when they ran out of Wiis.  Lexy showed up at Wally World and it turns out that a group of about 20 friends had shown up to claim every single Wii ticket Warrensburg Wal-Mart had.  Warrensburg’s Wal-Mart only got 20 Wiis by the way.  Jeff City got 50-100.  In fact, Warrensburg was out of Wiis ten minutes into the release date.  Jeff City, apparently, had a couple of Wiis left yesterday.  This pisses me off.  Yeah, chances are the Jeff City Wal-Mart would sell more Wiis, but guess what, it didn’t.  My brain tells me that the rate of sale for JC vs. Warrensburg is less than one or JC sold less in the same amount of time than Warrensburg.  Nice Wal-Mart, nice.

Now, why would a single group of people be buying all the Wiis?  To play them, yes.  But I can almost guarantee you that many of those Wiis were sold on eBay.  This pisses me off.  I will never buy a game console from someone on eBay.  I will only purchase something that expensive from an actual store such as Wal-Mart or EB/GameStop.  Sony really exacerbated this situation by releasing a mere 150,000 - 200,000 PS3s for the entire US.  So, if you are one of those who bought a console just to sell it on eBay… FUCK YOU!  Anyone who does that shit is one hell of a son of a bitch and should be shot.  Buy a console to play the console, not to make money… that’s Nintendo, Microsoft, or Sony’s job.  If you sell your console for more than a used price, you are cheating whoever buys it from you.  The idea of selling a console is you either can’t afford to keep it or you are bored with it, not so you can cheat other people.  Now, granted those people who pay MORE than the retail price for a technically used console… they need to be shot alongside the person who sold it to them.  You’re not going to go to the store and haggle the price for the console higher than retail.  If you are in a situation to pay more than retail… WAIT!!!  Just do without until you can get one from the store… you’ll end up with more money in your pocket.

To wrap things up, don’t sell your console until you are actually unhappy with it.  If you don’t think you will be happy with it… don’t get one.  If you are about to pay more than retail for a console… don’t get one.  Just do without… you sicken me.

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    Hey Tony, I hate them too, what I hated more than that they were grabbing up all of the Wiis was that damn look on their faces. I'm not sure if it was precisely intentional but I know I stated mostly loudly to Lexy that at least at the end of the day, she still had all her money and when she gets her Wii all the kinks will have been worked out of the system and it'll be cheaper. I can't believe people are stupid enough to buy something for more than retail, it's not worth it.
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    Good post. You captured my sentiments exactly. I wanted to buy ONE console to play and entertain myself. I didn't get a bunch of my friends together to take them all in the hopes of selling them for a pretty profit to wide-eyed hopefuls like me. People like me who have jobs and go to school and don't have the time to sit in line and wait for a game because I HAVE TO BE SOMEWHERE. (read: I have a life).

    Ho-hum, I'll just have to wait a while.
 

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