From compusa:


Thank you for your recent order for the 51811227 Xbox 360 Super Bundle.

Due to the high demand for this product, we are currently back-ordered. We
are expecting a shipment from the manufacturer in late January of 2006.

If, at any time, you would like to cancel this order or make other
arrangements, please email us at [email protected]. Otherwise,
you will be notified via email when all items have been shipped.

CompUSA apologizes for any inconvenience this may have caused

Thank you,

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Got the same e-mail and canceled mine.

Every Best Buy will have 10 on Friday the 9th? Anybody confirm this?

I doubt it since they're supposedly hoarding them until the 18th. That original message said nationwide in *Canada.

I also heard store were going to get new shipments last weekend. I've rather lost faith in rumors.

Lost faith in rumors. Of of the most solid bits of info came directly from MS and that was a lie. So essentially there is nothing left to believe in until you see it on a shelf.

As I've said before, I'm #88 in line at my local EBgames. How rediculous that I need to most likely end up going to this thing on the 18th at Best Buy... that's why I made a pre-order for first shipment... so I wouldn't have to go through this. But whatever. I'm not camping. I'll show up two hours before they open. If the line is too long, then I'll go grab breakfast, and come back when they open. If they have any left, great, if not, boo hoo.

True, I suppose it's no longer a "rumor" when it comes straight from the horse's mouth. Making true "rumors" even less believable.

Called and cancelled with CompUSA. I asked "What's the dealie-o?" and they said "We let some preorders happen but were not able to get theXboxes so we cancelled them."

That's why it had a 3-6 day on the checkout screen for some.

Unfortunately it's looking as though DiscoStu was right about the entire thing. Disco - plz accept my apology. You were right.

What was he right on, microsoft lies and the shortage? If so, I apologize as well. He was right.

Probably a reference post #604

http://forum.dvdtalk.com/showpost.ph...&postcount=604

I bolded the operative sentence.

I still call BS to anyone but WalMart getting more than Best Buy. There is no way these 2 are not the market leaders, and it is probably BB that is #1.

I was talking about everything OTHER than that statement. I highly doubt that part is true, although I guess it could be.

Hm...I just got mine from UPS....just kidding

Mine got cancelled too. I bet they didnt even have any.

hehe... boy was I off.

You can quibble over who is going to get the most units... as if 20 per store vs. 10 per makes much of a difference, but hey... ok.

But I think that you'd agree that until Feb/Mar you'll have to be in the right place at the right time in order to get a 360. And that Microsoft either outright lied or dramatically twisted their "shipments every week" claim.

Yeah, what does Microsoft care that these places took so many preorders? Too bad. Otherwise, every little store in town could take hundreds and hundreds of preorders and get stocked.

I still think MS is crazy if they don't make it at least semi-reasonable to get by Xmas, or at the latest by early January (when people are spending their Xmas money). The longer it is hard to get, the closer we get to concrete specs, info, and release date of the competition...

The key to making the low supply/high demand work is balance. MS needs to release enough hardware to keep the hope alive in people who want one so they keep looking and the buzz continues, while not oversaturating the market so the product is 'common'. Like the Every 10 Minutes thing. During the entire promo I saw caps maybe twice, and they were all the 1.29 at-the-counter 20 oz bottles. My chances of winning with just a few caps were less than negligible, so i didn't really bother. Had I seen 12 pack cans with the codes, I would have been buying them instead of the Lowe's brand drink.

Another possible reason for the contest: budget. Selling 9000 consoles would mean they would lose what, $ 1,134,000? That's a direct hit on the bottom line. But *giving* them away, especially with a tie-in that Pepsi/Dew probably helped subsidize, means that money can be applied to the 'marketing/promotions' budget. And of course if you give someone a console, odds are they are going to buy games or accessories, which is where the profit comes in.

Relaunch--is this anything special, or just a scheduled 'second wave' of consoles?

And yes, while there may not be anything 'illegal' with store employees buying multiple copies of a hot item while on the clock to sell on ebay, it's surely wrong, and if I were a manager, I'd try to put a stop to it.

Did you know that Microsoft promised stores a certain number of units for pre-order and then later cut that number by up to 66% in some cases? Sure, there were probably some stores that overbooked even the original number, but a vast majority got cut short by Microsoft directly.

Actually your chances were pretty good early on: 1 in about 600 on average for the first couple weeks. Those are great odds for a contest like that. It got bigger as it went on hovering around 1 in 1,500 for a while until settling in to 1 in 2,500 the last week or two. The only exception was the final day where some drawings were fetching 30,000 entrants.

Even with the rampant cheating, your odds don't change.

And giving away the 9,000 instead of selling them... 9,000 is a drop in the bucket for the demand. How do we know the giveaway isn't a part of the increased demand? It may have worked it is hard to guage.

Probably shipping 2 units to some store in Burbanka fulfills the requirement of shipments every week, and we assumed it would be widespread shipments.

And I'm sure that Best Buy and Walmart got shorted from what they originally asked for as well. Still no reason to think that EBGames and Gamestop would move up the distribution list. They'll get some in, but not more than Best Buy or Walmart or Target.

the Hard Drive is now OOS at Circuit City for those who were curious.

My Best Buy had one 360 today.







































Too bad it was the demo version