There are people already camping out at Best Buy for one....

I am wondering if I should do they same and make an easy 500 bucks.

12/17/2005 9:03:20 AM

easy

12/17/2005 9:05:15 AM

insane

12/17/2005 9:10:28 AM

i cant imagine living in the north east or somewhere else where it is freezing.

12/17/2005 10:24:19 AM

I'm curious as to how many xboxes you think you'd have to buy to make 500 bucks.

12/17/2005 11:01:17 AM

When they first came out, you could make an easy 500. Good luck turning it around for a 500 bone profit now.

12/17/2005 11:26:13 AM

you won't make a $500 profit now

they're too plentiful

there's like 20000 of them for sale on eBay right now, literally

12/17/2005 12:30:21 PM

80% of them are still on the shelves in japan

12/17/2005 12:32:44 PM

hahahaah japan is all sony
they didnt buy the x box and they wont buy the 360

12/17/2005 2:49:35 PM

I heard now that there's a bunch more of them, you can sell them for ten times as much.

That's called supply and demand.

12/17/2005 4:19:28 PM

i think it is sad that tons of kids might not get their xbox cuz 20000 people on ebay were greedy dicks.

12/17/2005 4:45:45 PM

What about the greedy kids that make their profiteering possible?

12/17/2005 5:54:31 PM

for the time you have to camp for 1 item you could be making more money elsewhere.

12/17/2005 6:24:08 PM

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"80% of them are still on the shelves in japan"

Actually most everyone reported that 38% sold the first weekend (62,000/159,000). Also most stores were saying that while not a lot were purchased yet there were people putting reservations for the 360 when DOA4 was released (one of the few games that appeals to the Asian market). XBox 360 is not doing nearly as bad as people are trying to make it out to be, in regards to sales and in regards to operation of the machines.

12/17/2005 6:56:32 PM

how many did they get in today?

12/17/2005 6:59:58 PM

there are like 20-30 people with tents in the Garner Best Buy...

fucking idiots

12/17/2005 8:11:15 PM

Did Best Buy make some big announcement about more xbox 360s coming in at midnight tonight?
Im going to the best buy in garner tonight when i get into town and laugh at them.

12/17/2005 8:14:51 PM

the net says they are getting a min of 20 per store....

but they have them in the back in cages lol

12/17/2005 8:41:38 PM

I saw some outside of the best buy in wilmington early this afternoon, with tents and everything

12/17/2005 10:56:54 PM

From the BB on Glenwood...




Someone told me that that doors open at 8am.

12/18/2005 1:02:01 AM

I just got back from the camp out at the Cary Best Buy. I was holding a spot for my fiance (who works at Best Buy) until he got off from work. Those mofos are crazy as hell to spend all night out in that crap for one.

12/18/2005 1:48:19 AM

Microsoft making a joke of the American people. Can we sue that company?

12/18/2005 2:23:56 AM

^ arabs are all stupid and gay

12/18/2005 2:25:19 AM

The sad thing is that I didn't see any Arabs camping out there.

12/18/2005 2:35:14 AM

lol just joshin' with ya

we are dumb. some are even dumb enough to pay over retail on ebay

12/18/2005 2:40:53 AM

Why would a company release a product and then not provide enough inventory to retailers? It is not like they couldn't get China to manufacture more of these devices. Very very dumb move on Microsofts part.

12/18/2005 2:42:19 AM

^ yah and the dumber part was sending inventory that could've easily sold in the USA to Japan, where nobody cares about the Xbox

12/18/2005 2:46:18 AM

i think they were trying to use the frenzy they knew that so few systems would cause in the US to help them sell more overseas. everyone would see how crazy the US was over them and buy one too.

12/18/2005 8:36:00 AM

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"Why would a company release a product and then not provide enough inventory to retailers? It is not like they couldn't get China to manufacture more of these devices. Very very dumb move on Microsofts part."

I for one think its brilliant.

You had overwhelming demand for a product with limited supply already. MS knew that people would be lining up at the doors to get their hands on them, then the free market economics simply took over.

Stories about how people were camping out on store sidewalks for hours, about how some 360's went for over $1000 a pop generates a buzz in the "uninformed parent buying a xmas present" demographic that says "Damn this thing must really be good! I need to get one for my kid!"

12/18/2005 10:48:43 AM

^ marketing analysts typically say it a bad thing. Time will tell.

12/18/2005 11:01:26 AM

MS is blaming the availability problems on IBM, and considering IBM's history with Apple, this is a plausible explanation.

12/18/2005 7:13:34 PM

It was more a productiont hing than anythign else. Keep in mind that just 6 months ago they still didn't have the capacity to make a single xbox360 because the parts just weren't available yet.

I still think its a smart move simply because the news/frenzy does all the marketing you need. Why bother with commercials when the nightly news, newspaper, and word of mouth hits pretty much everyone without showing a thing. Oh, and the xbox360 is not selling nearly as badly as people are saying (they sold 40% of the stock the opening weekend) and most asians are waiting for the DOA4 release anyways.

12/18/2005 11:48:00 PM

If it was really was IBM's fault, MS should have taken that into consideration and not released it until there was a decent supply. MS isn't making money on people selling it for $1000, that just means people will have less money to buy their shit.

12/19/2005 12:19:22 AM

Delaying it would have pushed it passed Christmas and that would be catastrophic for sales. People paying $1,000 doesn't hurt them because the people who do that can afford it without hesitation.

12/19/2005 12:25:51 AM

best buy is getting more in for the 22nd!!!

12/19/2005 12:30:04 AM

Got one! 14 hours later...

12/19/2005 1:05:22 AM

have these people not heard about the hardware malfunctions? i can't imagine they've been corrected already

12/19/2005 2:14:12 AM

have you not heard that it is a very tiny percentage of the machines? id much rather get my kid one and have to get it fixed (under warantee im sure) than not have one at all.

12/19/2005 10:46:21 AM

suckers

12/19/2005 10:50:36 AM

^^I'd much rather teach my kid that they can't always get what they want when they want it

12/19/2005 11:34:50 AM

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"^^I'd much rather teach my kid that they can't always get what they want when they want it"

Isn't that the truth. Parents who buy their kids a $400 videogame system that just came out need to be dragged into the street and stoned. What message are you sending to your kid when they ask for such and expensive gift and actually get it, that if they throw a fit every day then they will get what they want. This is what's wrong with society. The more and more we try to claim stuff for ourselves, the more and more we push away everyone else. "You want an Xbox 360, fuck you, that system is mine. You say you want it more?" *Bang* "I just shot you bitch, who wants it more now." (Worst case scenario, but it is bad enough to where fist-fights, trampeling, and guns being drawn have happened because of this release). First it starts off as the kid screaming and yelling for an Xbox 360 on Christmas day, then it moves onto a person shooting another over a someone's brand new Mustang, Camaro, or whatever the hell you want.

And the parent's excuse for buying them an Xbox 360, "Well, I want to make him happy." You really want to make him happy, teach him not to be so materialistic so that when he grows up, he doesn't have to get ass-raped by a 400 pound man named Tiny while he spends his 20+ year sentence in prison. I'm sure not ever meeting Tiny would make him happy enough, I know it's made me happy my whole life, and I intend to keep it that way.

[Edited on December 20, 2005 at 10:53 AM. Reason : errors]

12/20/2005 10:53:32 AM

^A little extreme but on the right track.

I was listening to poeple talking about gifts they were giving this morning on talk radio. One lady was trying to decide what to get her 9 year old nephew. She couldn't decide because he wanted a gamecube and she wanted to be able to get him several things so there was more to open. After all "If I get him the game cube I'll only be able to afford it and one other thing." They then went on to talk about how he only played the nintendo handheld that she got him last year only one or two times. The conversation was basically a debate on whether or not to get the gamecube because the kid doesn't really play video games that much. She will still be getting the gamecube for him.

My first though was . "If I get him the game cube I'll only be able to afford it and one other thing." Holy crap! If I got a GC for christmas (or its equivalent at the time) that would be pretty much all I would be getting - let alone one of an expected many gifts from just my aunt at that.

People are crazy spoiling their kids like that. Not once did they even hint to the lady that she was spoiling the crap out of that kid. Notice how the kid didn't appreciate the prior christmas gift? That is another symptom of what happens when you fulfil a kids every whim without teaching sacrifice.

You can get back to talking about the Xbox 360 campout now

[Edited on December 20, 2005 at 11:53 AM. Reason : -]

12/20/2005 11:44:13 AM

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"best buy is getting more in for the 22nd!!!"

more fools camping out.

12/20/2005 12:33:50 PM

A used gamecube is only $60.

12/20/2005 1:06:52 PM

"only" $60. Man, I wish I was on your christmas shopping list. You would hate to be on ours.

[Edited on December 20, 2005 at 3:50 PM. Reason : -]

12/20/2005 3:41:09 PM

Is anyone camping out tonight?

12/21/2005 7:31:55 AM

In terms of video games it is pretty damn cheap considering that a new Xbox 360 game is $60.

12/21/2005 7:48:18 AM

^Yeah, in that light.

$60 is a lot to me. I guess video games have hit the magical price where they are no longer worth it to me. I'll settle for the PC versions when they hit $19.

12/21/2005 7:57:14 AM

Well after the games have sold a lot of titles, they usually become "greatest hits" games and go down to $19.99. I don't know if the PS3 and 360 games will ever get that low (since their initial cost will be so much higher), but I'm pretty sure the REV games will since it is expected to cost so much less.

12/21/2005 9:06:45 AM