So which is more pathetic the people buying 4-5 consoles to resell of on ebay and craigslist or the people stupid enough to pay insane prices for them. The ps3 at least has the planned scarcity behind it, the wii...geez people there are more shipping next week.
Right now on ebay there are 18,000 ps3's and 27,000 Wii's thats current not whats already sold. I actually swung by my local target for a Wii last night. I was in line for about an hour, talked to a father and his son a few people behind me, the kid was around 9-10 and was wearing a really cool yoshi t-shirt after talking to them I knew they were fans. By the time we got to our turn in line the jackass in front of me bought 3 of them, there were 2 left. I ended up just dropping out of line so the kid behind me would be sure to get one and figured those in line wanted one far worse than I did. Who knows maybe I let myself get scammed and the father and son are going to try to cash in with theirs too, but at least I can sleep well tonight.
Im a big believer in karma and opportunistically ripping people off is about as sad as it gets imho. Of course the suckers willing to pay stupid amounts of money for being able to play a game a few days earlier than someone is worse. I guess in the end the suckers get what they deserve to bad the same isnt generally true for the greedy bastards.
As well I can always hope nintendo restocks faster than most of the scammers can move their inventory. Im going to try again next week but who knows. Its only games, I guess im just not hardcore anymore, but there isnt anything out I cant wait a week or two for.
Right now on ebay there are 18,000 ps3's and 27,000 Wii's thats current not whats already sold. I actually swung by my local target for a Wii last night. I was in line for about an hour, talked to a father and his son a few people behind me, the kid was around 9-10 and was wearing a really cool yoshi t-shirt after talking to them I knew they were fans. By the time we got to our turn in line the jackass in front of me bought 3 of them, there were 2 left. I ended up just dropping out of line so the kid behind me would be sure to get one and figured those in line wanted one far worse than I did. Who knows maybe I let myself get scammed and the father and son are going to try to cash in with theirs too, but at least I can sleep well tonight.
Im a big believer in karma and opportunistically ripping people off is about as sad as it gets imho. Of course the suckers willing to pay stupid amounts of money for being able to play a game a few days earlier than someone is worse. I guess in the end the suckers get what they deserve to bad the same isnt generally true for the greedy bastards.
As well I can always hope nintendo restocks faster than most of the scammers can move their inventory. Im going to try again next week but who knows. Its only games, I guess im just not hardcore anymore, but there isnt anything out I cant wait a week or two for.