On a side note: has anyone given genuine thought to lining up now, and then when the line size equals the number of consoles available at that store - sell their spot for say $500? It seems like that would be a possibility at these huge launch stores and enable you to get a decent profit while decreasing your camping time.

Well when i line up tomorrow, I will sell my Spot at any time for $500. Of course the later it gets the more money i'd want, but i would sell my spot for $700 up until the end probably.

Also if i'm extrememly lucky i could walk away with 3 ps3's by this time Friday. Of course lady luck would have to be on my side big time.

EB totally canceled one of my pre-orders without notifying me. I have their district manager's number, so she can expect quite a few calls from me until this problem is resolved

bummer, I guess just getting 2 must completely suck.

haha, well i should have had 3, but who is keeping track.

I mean, if it was conveyed to me previously, or they would have told me they were canceling my order and crediting my card back, it would be a completely different story

It's one per household, not just per name. So if your girlfriend lives with you, and they cancelled it, then you could go up to the CEO of the company and they won't do anything for you.

If this is the third one you're talking about, well, whatever, stop trying to play the system.

Certainly they didn't cancel your pre-order AND keep your money, did they? They're only saying you aren't get a launch unit but you still have a raincheck, backed by $$$.

nah, she doesn't live with me, and we have two completely different addresses. She wanted one for her brothers and sisters, really

and yes, they canceled my pre-order without notifying me, and they still have my $100.00

Like I keep saying......if this information would have been brought to my attension previously, then there would be no problem. I personally canceled on of my pre-orders after finding out I couldn't have more than one per household. Obviously, I wasn't pleased with that as well, considering they should have told me that before I gave them 100.00, but I figured I'd have to play by their rules, even if I wasn't informed by any associate at the three locations I visited that day.

:violin:

Or more likely, you were bumped to another shipment of systems.

As it sits now, you're not going to get much...I mean, any sympathy from anyone on this board - considering 99% of people here couldn't even get one pre-order.

Well, at least only one of your pre-orders got cancelled. I pre-ordered at both a Gamestop and EB on 10/10 and went in not knowing about the 1 per household deal until I got a call from the DM that afternoon saying that he was cancelling one of my pre-orders but I would get to keep the other. I had no problems with that.

Then, this past week I get my CC statement and my deposit isn't on there. So, I call GameStop and the Manager tells me that my pre-order was cancelled on 10/10 due to duplicate pre-orders. I was pissed! Even though I was #6 in line I still felt good about my chances of getting one because this particular store was suppose to get 16. So, even if their shipment was cut in 1/2 I was still getting one. I got a hold of the DM who made the error and cancelled both and he's giving me his pre-order so I will be getting one Friday. It all works out for me in the end but had I not checked my CC statement they would have had one pissed off customer on Friday.

By the way KurrptSenate, I got the DS game yesterday. I'll leave you positive feedback. Thanks! :)

I wasn't expecting sympathy from anyone, really. It was more to express my disgust for the way they conduct business. It just doesn't seem right to do something like that, and not notify them about it.


edit : oh wow, thanks for the feedback :D

at least the district manager was big enough to fix the error that he made. I don't think I will be as lucky, but you can expect me to press the issue as much as humanly possible

Co-signed.

http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/061115/japan...tion.html?.v=5


PlayStation 3 Nets Fair Price in Auction



Wednesday November 15, 3:54 pm ET
By Yuri Kageyama, AP Business Writer
PlayStation 3 Gaming Consoles Are Selling for Reasonable Prices on Internet Auction Web Sites


TOKYO (AP) -- Sony's PlayStation 3 isn't living up to the hype -- at least on Japan's Internet auctions. The gaming consoles, which went on sale here Saturday, are fetching reasonable prices online, disappointing those who had hoped to make a quick profit by reselling the machines on the Internet.
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Some of the 4,000 PlayStation 3 consoles listed on Yahoo Japan's auction site were downright bargains. Even systems with games included were going for about 60,000 yen ($510) for the most expensive model and 50,000 yen ($420) for the cheaper one. That's in line with Sony's suggested retail prices, minus the extra games.

In the U.S., where the PS3 goes on sale Friday, bidders on eBay have pushed up the price of PS3 preorders to $2,300 as of Wednesday.

The PlayStation 3 is facing off in a next-generation console war against Nintendo Co.'s Wii and Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360. The Wii debuts on Sunday in the U.S, while the Xbox launched late last year.

Yahoo Japan spokesman Nobumitsu Iwaisaki said some PlayStation 3 bids were as high as 2.1 billion yen ($17.8 million), but those turned out to be jokes.

Sony Computer Entertainment spokesman Daisuke Nakata declined to comment on the auctions, saying the deals were unrelated to Sony's operations.

Hundreds of hard-core game fans had lined up at electronics stores, many from Friday night, to make sure they got one.

But some were clearly not buying it to play -- including those who marched immediately to a waiting van with the machines -- says Hirokazu Hamamura, president of Japanese game magazine publisher Enterbrain Inc.

"The Net auction is so popular these days, that's inevitable," he said. "There's even talk some are taking the machines overseas."

Although Sony had promised 100,000 PS3 machines in Japan on the first day, the count was more like 90,000, and the entire shipment virtually sold out, Hamamura said.

Sony has promised 400,000 machines for the U.S. launch.

A survey by Enterbrain of 3,500 game stores across Japan showed that 88,400 PS3 machines were sold in the first two days.

Sony Corp. has promised a million PS3 machines in Japan by the end of the year, and an additional million in the U.S., targeting a global shipment of 6 million by March 2007.

Oh, I don't think it was as low as 99%! ;)

Chris

:lol: no duhh

Chris

yeah - I was being optimistic.

special stores are doing a ps3 launch tomorrow evening around 10, check the CC site. Thats why people lined a few days ago.

Ouch.

http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/ps3/com...ps3-214847.php

Wow. This wouldn't be a bad deal if you're already in the market for one of the Sony SXRDs, but it sounds like they won't even have PS3s at the launch.

There were already people lined up inside my local walmart for the 4 premium and 2 basic ps3s available.

Aw mang. You may remember my earlier post about attending the PS3 preview event in NYC 2 weeks ago. This afternoon I got another email from Sony, saying that the first 50 people to respond would be invited to attend tomorrow's NYC launch party and be able to buy a PS3 at midnight. I didn't see the email until about 30 minutes after they sent it, but I replied anyway, even though I don't even really want a PS3. Well, I just got the response, and I'm in. :eek:

Now, the moral dilemma...like I said, I don't want a PS3. My first instinct is to eBay it. Pros: it could cover the entire cost of my Wii launch purchase (system + games + extra controllers). Cons: it's kind of skeevy. I could just keep the PS3. Pros: fun. Cons: 600 freakin' dollars.

I'm leaning towards eBay. Don't kill me!

Sell it to Liver & Onions for $700 plus shipping. That way you make $100 and L&O's wife won't call him a dillhole anymore.

my 24 hour wal-mart is getting 6 and are doing the chair thing, apparently one guy already left once they moved the chairs outside. I'm debating if i should even try at that store.

email me.