Wednesday, October 11th 2006
PlayStation 3 pre-orders sold out
Anyone still toying with the thought of pre-ordering a PlayStation 3 may be out of luck. Seems like all 400.000 units for the United States have been pre-ordered. But not all is well, as many people who waited in line were told that the available consoles were sold out just as the store opened. Turns out employees of EB Games and GameStop were able to buy a console the minute the store opened up. So expect a lot of them on Ebay for over $1.000 and just in case you want to know - people are willing to spend much more to get their hands on a PlayStation 3 right of the bat.
Source:
DailyTech
24 Comments on PlayStation 3 pre-orders sold out
And $1m US? No way should anyone even CONSIDER paying a tenth of that, you'd have to be really sad.
Edit: And why does that reciept only say 100? Sounds a little low.
2. 100 bucks is just the down payment...
3. sorry bout the edit on your post. I hit the wrong button.... :respect:
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Also, I work at Toys R' Us, I like being able to pre order stuff ahead of time. BUT I think the people who work at the stores should have to sign ontracts saying they will not resell the presales or items on ebay.
Edit: Also, he (The Buyer) has had One bid retraction and sence this is the only item he has bid on in the past year...
The pre-order thing is a hoax, that's an original playstation on the receipt (nobody is foolish enough to sell a PS3 for $100).
Geez, what about the consumer rights? I bet even most of those store managers preordered a couple or more PS3s to sell them off at ebay as well. :twitch:
Now ebay is flooding with ppl offering their preordered systems (not surprisingly I guess most of those offers coming from employees from both those stores) at insane prices: $1,000, $1,500 and even $1,999! :eek: Geez, consumers should boycott those stores until the managers receive the order to cancel such unethical practices! Shame on all of them :shadedshu :(
if there is loophole, it should be used, imo
retail employees don't get paid enough as it is, let them get some benefits sheesh
To be fair, I bet a lot of ppl waiting in line to get a PS3 preorder were going to do the same thing: auction their overpriced systems over ebay, but I also bet a lot of them were kids that have been waiting a long time to preorder a PS3 for christmas.
While a lot of the guilt rests on Sony shoulders by cuttiing the amount of systems available for launch by more than half, meassures should have been taken to prevent this from happening, but with only 400,000 systems available for preorder, I guess it was inevitable that this launch was going to be a mess anyway. What a fiasco.
Unfortunately, while this didn't happen in all the stores, it happened in a lot of them, I'm not saying the employees of EB Games and Gamestop are totally guilty, the managers and owners of those stores are guilty too by: a) paying those guys a very low salary, and pushing them to these practices in order to make more money and b) Allowing these practices to take place.
As if they weren't profitting enough by buying used games from kids at $1 and then selling the same games for $15~$29 dollars.
Yields of the Cell chip have not been as bad as some ppl suggest, as Sony dissabled a SPE for the PS3 and only silicon with defects on two or more SPEs, or on the PPC are not being used for the PS3, and even a lot of those chips are being saved for future use in appliances that won't need all SPEs.
The reason behind the shortages it seems, was the laser diode used for the BD drive. A lot of ppl is saying Sony should have equiped the first gen PS3s with a cheap DVD drive, and then offer an update to a BD drive later on to early adopters, just as MS is doing with HD-DVD. There are only about 2 launch games that are supposed to take advantage of the storage space of a single layer BD-ROM.
That way they could have launched about 2 months ago and at a lower entry price. Now they are following the same road Sega followed with the SegaCD, very expensive at launch and only 100,000 were available in the first batch, that made them loose the advantage they had with the Genesis to never see it again. Hope Sony isn't making the same mistake, and they have a lot more cash in their pockets than Sega did about 10 years ago.
Anyway, hindsight is always 20/20 as some say.
Too bad they didn't take action in time for the PS3 preorders :shadedshu :nutkick: :mad: