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The Official PlayStation 3 Launch Thread

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by RC Cola, Nov 9, 2006.

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mrdave543 said:

what link are u guys using..and are u already checked in with ur membership?
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Site keeps crashing

#201 GRENDEL, Nov 17, 2006

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These ebay prices are insane...I will stick to my regular XBOX with the upconverted HD cables for now....I want the Wii

#202 BenignDMD, Nov 17, 2006
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So here is one person who isn't quite fond of scalpers at the moment:

Scalpers are the Scum of the Earth and Why Best Buy Sucks

Want to know why?

Nearly 2 days of waiting in line at Best Buy, 3 hours of total sleep at best, and I come home with no PS3, not even a 20gig, which after thinking about it, I would've duly accepted.

I'm tired, need a shower, it was freezing cold, it rained very hard the first night, and the elements were against us the whole time. So why bash scalpers (if I hadn't made it clear in past threads)?

Well, roughly 75% of the people who got one (the cut off was 34 people, I was 39) openly boasted of selling it on eBay. They had no interest in really playing with it, just the greed and dollar signs in their eyes. Some people sold their spots in line. A pair went for 700 each, another for 750, and one fairly close to the front went for a whopping $1000.

Once vouchers were passed out this morning, one person sold theirs to a guy who just walked up and offered $1600. This guy apparently already had 3-4 systems from other places and all were going up on eBay, including the one the voucher would allow him to get. This guy did NOT stand in line for 2 days like most of us.

Not to mention that when the remaining hopeful of us realized that there was a slim chance someone's payment would be declined or that they would have more than they said, some of us could get bumped up to receiving a system. Of course, this didn't happen at all.

I feel even worse for two of the people beyond me. One was this really cool Korean girl who was apparently out there to get the PS3 as a surprise Xmas gift for her boyfriend. In fact, she was probably the only person in line who was even giving it as a gift to someone else (the rest of us who were keeping it were buying it for our personal use). She braved the elements and got NO sleep for the entire time she was there and she doesn't even have a present to her boyfriend to show for it. If it weren't for the scalpers in line, we'd both have gotten one for sure. Victimless crime? I think not.

Then there was another guy who got dicked over by Gamestop/EB pre-orders. He (and several other people past the cut-off point) had apparently tried to come earlier or ask about the line-up policy and were told they couldn't line up more than 24 hours before the units would go on sale. Lo and behold, people lined up 48+ hours beforehand and were not told to leave. Thanks a lot Best Buy for having a consistent policy that dicks people over! Oh, and did I mention that he already had Resistance? Now he won't have anything to play it on for quite some time.

Morever, various BB employees fed us SOOO much bull**** over the 2 days that there was no way to believe that any one thing that came out of their mouths was true. One employee, especially, would walk by and say that they only had 28 and then snicker with a smug grin on his face. ****, Best Buy, is this any way to let your employees treat your customers? They would NEVER give us a straight answer as to how many they would be getting until near the end, but it would've been nice so that those of us who, for sure, were not going to get one, could leave and go home. Instead, they jerked us around until the actual launch.

~2 days is an exorbitant amount of time for anybody to wait in a line and scalpers made it hard for the people who sacrificed work, class, tests, and doctor's appointments to get a PS3, but who instead walked away empty handed. We aren't talking about Johnny-Come-Latelys here, but people who were there a majority of the time.

The whole idea of the scalper makes me cringe now, if it hadn't before. Greed over gaming is the ****tiest new trend to hit the community in recent years and it really is unfair to a lot of people who simply wanted to enjoy what the PS3 has to offer. I saved up the money from paychecks to buy one, so I can't simply go out and blow $2000+ on some lame eBay auction. Sure, I want one quite bad, but I wouldn't pay that on principle.

It's even worse when they like to flaunt it in your face as if they were the most clever person in the entire world. And they don't make the wait any more entertaining by telling you repeatedly how "mad cash" they're going to earn on eBay. Hey scalpers, quit trying to be the middlemen that nobody wants and stop dicking people over for your own personal gain.
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#203 RC Cola, Nov 17, 2006
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rc,

did you end up getting one?

#204 UTweezer, Nov 17, 2006
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I just picked up three systems.

Im keeping one.

The other two are for sale and I would love to give it to a clutchfan rather than a random ebayer.

I have two different systems
system 1) Luxury System
60 GB Playstation 3
Extra Controller (a total of two)
TWO FREE GAMES of your choice (madden, call of duty, resistance)
HDMI cable (highest possible quality available)
Talladega Nights:The Ballad of Ricky Bobby On Blu-ray

system 2) Great Value and Free stuff
60 GB Playstation 3
Extra Controller (a total of two)
ONE FREE GAME
Talladega Nights:The Ballad of Ricky Bobby On Blu-ray

Simple systems are selling between 2-3000(and more!!) on ebay at this moment. My listings include free games, controllers and more for the luxury system. If you are serious about purchasing a package, send an e-mail to " niptothetuck@gmail.com " If we can both avoid ebay and paypal fees, this would obviously be optimal. Please, serious offers only. Post in the thread with any comments.

#205 DrewP, Nov 17, 2006
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anyone have a costco membership i could try lol...=) worth a shot 13 min tog o

#206 mrdave543, Nov 17, 2006
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it shows sold out on front page?

#207 mrdave543, Nov 17, 2006

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It's actually up now but forget it. The website is screwed.

#208 rocks_fan, Nov 17, 2006
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RC Cola said:

This is one is even crazier, and the buyer actually has some positive feedback (been a member since Oct 05)
http://cgi.ebay.com/Playstation-3-P...ryZ62054QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting
The price confirms it is a joke bid though...or at least, I hope so.

edit: This one too:
http://cgi.ebay.com/SONY-PLAYSTATIO...8QQihZ006QQcategoryZ62054QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
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Is that first one real?????!!!!

#209 Lil Pun, Nov 17, 2006
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it shows sold out on front page?
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I hope it was just their way of putting it up because the e-mail said 8 pst

#210 GRENDEL, Nov 17, 2006
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Boooooooooooooo at Costco. I was on the site at 9:42 and all of the systems were sold out.

#211 Icehouse, Nov 17, 2006
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When I called CostCo's customer service line the nice computer lady said "approxiamately 8 AM Pacific time". I figured they'd try to sneak it out early, but I still got the shaft when I hit a Windows error that crashed the window. Then when I got back to it in a new window I was logged out of my CostCo account. Game, set, and match. Thanks Bill Gates. It's a giant Xbox conspiracy.

#212 rocks_fan, Nov 17, 2006
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Boooooooooooooo at Costco. I was on the site at 9:42 and all of the systems were sold out.
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What a bunch of BS!

#213 GRENDEL, Nov 17, 2006

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I just happened to hit refresh about 9:35 and got into the ps3 page.

Added to cart...logged onto account...then bam...error.

I'm trying to get back into my cart to see if i still have it in there, but no luck.

I was an idiot and didn't log onto my account first. Doh.

#214 Supermac34, Nov 17, 2006
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UTweezer said:

rc,

did you end up getting one?
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No, I'm not going to try and get one until around Summer 2007 or so. Maybe earlier, maybe later depending on how things go.

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Is that first one real?????!!!!
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Joke bid most likely...basically 99.9% sure about that.

#215 RC Cola, Nov 17, 2006
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Yeah no luck for me at Walmart how about you bud?
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nope...I'm trying to get on costco.com, but no luck either...

#216 rrj_gamz, Nov 17, 2006
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On Costco.com I get to the point where I can add to the cart, and then it tries to let me login, but it crashes every time at that point ... guess I should have logged in a long time ago

#217 RocketManJosh, Nov 17, 2006
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^ Same here...I'm at the add to cart section then it crashes once I click add to cart...

#218 rrj_gamz, Nov 17, 2006

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Yeah logging in beforehand is pretty much a necessity. I doubt it matters now though.

#219 rocks_fan, Nov 17, 2006
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3 buddies and I camped out for 36 hours at a Target. We got 1 60 gb and 2 20 gbs.

#220 steddinotayto, Nov 17, 2006

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