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Richard

Richard

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Ack...city life
I went to Best Buy last night for a cable. There were over 100 people milling around in front of the store wearing parkas, gloves, etc. Most had a sleeping bag. Avg age looked to be mid 20s/college age. The store clerk told me these folks are waiting for the imminent release of PlayStation 3. Oh brother! The clerks said the people have been queing up since last Monday because Sony only made 3 million copies worldwide. Several people showed up on Sat with BBQs but the police shoo'd them away.

All the clerks said you can laugh at the folks outside if you want. It appeared these people have a virtual life.
 
I have a life, and it's continued without PlayStation1 or 2.
And there have been beatings and shootings in Richard's referenced waiting lines.

HR
 
I guess if one doesn't have a job, it's possible to camp out for a week in front of a store to by a game system to take up time that one would otherwise be working. But how can one afford to pay that kind of money for a game system to fill one's time if they aren't working? :dunno:
 
Richard said:
I went to Best Buy last night for a cable. There were over 100 people milling around in front of the store wearing parkas, gloves, etc. Most had a sleeping bag. Avg age looked to be mid 20s/college age. The store clerk told me these folks are waiting for the imminent release of PlayStation 3. Oh brother! The clerks said the people have been queing up since last Monday because Sony only made 3 million copies worldwide. Several people showed up on Sat with BBQs but the police shoo'd them away.

All the clerks said you can laugh at the folks outside if you want. It appeared these people have a virtual life.
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More. Look at http://blackfriday.info and you can get the top secret info to plan a week in advance which store(s) you want to camp out at to get the post-T day sales deals.

I'll stay home, thanks. I figure my time doing nothing is worth around $20 an hour.
 
LOL,
Even more pathetic were the police escorted lines, a few blocks long when Krispy Kreme opened east of Seattle a few years back. I never knew for sure if the cops were protecting those in line from themselves or just cutting into the line under that guise.
 
Yes, the PS3'ers were outside Circuit City last night as I was on the way home. It was pouring rain and they looked pretty miserable.

I, too, think they need a life. But: To each his own.

-Skip
 
It is sad. More and more kids are relying on non-human, unnatural technology to occupy their time. They also now communicate less face to face prefering email, chat rooms, text messaging and cell phones. Can "Tron" be far behind?

Whatever happend to "Hey, lets choose up side and play touch football, baseball or basketball? Oh almost forgot. Pond hockey without refs. :)
 
I did this when Xbox 360 came out. I was hard up for money at the time and saw an opportunity. I made almost $700 in profit overnight by just sitting in a chair outside for like five hours talking on my cell phone. This is *way* more than I would have made at my job.

They aren't idiots. They are taking advantage of the lazy rich people who are willing to pony up thousands for some stupid gaming system.

Some people are doing it because they like to play games. It's a big deal in their life. I guess I'd rather have them at home playing video games vs. getting drunk and causing trouble. Several of us sit on Flashchat and this forum talking to each other all the time. These gamers would look at us and say "get a life".

A lot of these people need money. They saw an opportunity...And money--they will make.
 
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Evidently a lot, if not the majority, of those line campers aren't really interested in owning the game system, but in flipping it on eBay.

Which is being fought by a group determined to stop the ebay scalping/flipping, by running up the auctions to rediculous amounts until the PS3 is more widely available.

We were watching one PS3 auction get up to 89 million today, so apparently the fight is working to some degree. :)
 
There are over 8,000 PS3s on eBay now.

My policy: never, ever, pay more than list price on consumer goods. It's plain silly.

No victims, only volunteers.
 
So maybe the really smart people aren't in line at all. No, the really smart people hired some hard up college kid to stand in line. To get rich you have to think rich.
 
This is actually my plan. I am heading out soon to camp out for the PS3 (maybe the Wii too) and sell it on Ebay when it is revealed that the system is sold out.

Profits galore, and all for sleeping outside in the cold for a night or 2. Its worth it.

And I don't consider myself overly stupid, just partially.
 
I think it is kind of pathetic, now if it was for book seven of Harry Potter!!!

BTW I was jet lagged when book 6 came out. So there I was in downtown SanFran and got up at 1 am and walked to the Barnes and Noble a few blocks away to see 1. if I could get tired and go to sleep, 2. see if there were actually any people waiting for HP, and 3. to buy the book if I could.

I got it!!! Finished reading it by 3pm that afternoon and NEVER did get any sleep DOH!
 
SkyHog said:
And I don't consider myself overly stupid, just partially.
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If you're getting in line to wait for the PS3 *today*, I think you'll have to drop the "partially".

(PS3 was released today, partner. ;) Wii is on sunday)
 
Chuck, I still think Nick is just partially.

Time for a poll:
How many of you think Nick is holding at partially stupid?
How many of you see an upward/downward trend?

:cheerswine:
 
Greebo said:
If you're getting in line to wait for the PS3 *today*, I think you'll have to drop the "partially".

(PS3 was released today, partner. ;) Wii is on sunday)
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Oops. Yep. I'm stupid.

Sunday it is then. I will go wait in line tomorrow.

/me grumbles about missed opportunities.
 
Richard said:
Chuck, I still think Nick is just partially.

Time for a poll:
How many of you think Nick is holding at partially stupid?
How many of you see an upward/downward trend?

:cheerswine:
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HAHA.
 
Richard said:
Chuck, I still think Nick is just partially.

Time for a poll:
How many of you think Nick is holding at partially stupid?
How many of you see an upward/downward trend?

:cheerswine:
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Depends . . . . has he moved yet?
 
Anthony said:
Oh almost forgot. Pond hockey without refs. :)
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THAT brings back some memory gaps!! Still have the crease in the ear from the first time I was knocked unconcious. Kept all my teeth so guess it wasn't all that bad.

Gary
 
Explain how this works; when you get to the front of the line is there any limit to the number of these one can buy, or do you stand in line all that time to only be able to purchase one?

Best,

Dave
 
In most places, they limited you to one. Stores in the DC area had a max of 100 units per store, so only the first 100 customers got one.

I heard a couple of interviews on the radio today... the interviewees said things like "I will be able to get $5000 on eBay for this" and "I'm not a techie or a game player, I'm an entrepreneur..."

So it goes...
 
wsuffa said:
In most places, they limited you to one. Stores in the DC area had a max of 100 units per store, so only the first 100 customers got one.

I heard a couple of interviews on the radio today... the interviewees said things like "I will be able to get $5000 on eBay for this" and "I'm not a techie or a game player, I'm an entrepreneur..."

So it goes...
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While there are some folks out there willing to part with $5000 for a $300 game console, I'm willing to bet the majority of PS3s bought on spec will go for a lot less, possibly no more or even less than retail.
 
The news tonight said a person in line was shot and robbed after getting a unit.

John Edwards, future presidential candidate, had an aide call Best Buy to see if they would sell him one before it was offered to the general public--great role model!

Wasn't it Will Rogers that stated he was not a member of any organized political party....he was a Democrat <g>

Best,

Dave
 
The thread title is ironic, given that I'm home on a Friday night online talking to other pilots who are home and online on a Friday night.
 
Gerhardt said:
The thread title is ironic, given that I'm home on a Friday night online talking to other pilots who are home and online on a Friday night.
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There's nothing more depressing than someone who's right when everyone else wishes they were wrong.
 
wsuffa said:
In most places, they limited you to one. Stores in the DC area had a max of 100 units per store, so only the first 100 customers got one.

I heard a couple of interviews on the radio today... the interviewees said things like "I will be able to get $5000 on eBay for this" and "I'm not a techie or a game player, I'm an entrepreneur..."

So it goes...
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Which is sad. I know sometimes I live in a world in my head that does not exist, but it sucks that greedy bastards are driving up the cost of something for someone that DOES want to play the game system.


Gerhardt...nothing ironic about it. I have just gotten off a plane from OKC for business, where I read a flying book and listened to Marion Blakley's speech at the AOPA Expo on my Ipod. I am now chatting with other live people that I hope to meet someday IN person, about a hobby/passion that involves REAL WORLD interaction, so real world it can kill you.

Sounds like a life to me.

*BTW, I am a recovering computer gamer that finally realized there is a life beyond a video screen, so I knowest from whenest I speaketh! :D
 
Steve said:
Local coverage here mentioned most in line were not buying to play the game themselves, but to put it on e-bay.
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Sadder yet is that they don't seem to know that eBay is not letting "average Joes" put PS3's on eBay! They had problems with too many people starting auctions before the release and then being unable to actually deliver the product because they weren't close enough to the front of the line.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061115/ap_on_hi_te/game_consoles_ebay
 
Anthony said:
It is sad. More and more kids are relying on non-human, unnatural technology to occupy their time. They also now communicate less face to face prefering email, chat rooms, text messaging and cell phones. Can "Tron" be far behind?

Whatever happend to "Hey, lets choose up side and play touch football, baseball or basketball? Oh almost forgot. Pond hockey without refs. :)
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Unlike us pilots who use the perfectly human and natural semi-monocoque technology to fly around and talk to people face to face using VHF.:D

Chris
 
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