Playstation 3

Saurian said:
I hope you get the shaft on this whole scheme, and you and your friends just end up with PS3's for yourselves. Seriously. Though, that wouldn't be bad to all have PS3's. Still, this is rediculous.
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dont you think it makes a worse person to wish a huge financial loss like that on a person?
 
He's something to put in perspective: The idea of reselling the next-gen video game console is far from original. Selling them on eBay itself is more like a lottery itself..... What are the chances that a person is going to buy your overpriced, individual unit out of the thousands of other units being sold on eBay?

I personally, too, say kudos to you, but I really frown upon how you're almost bragging about this to other people. I had a kid in one of my classes doing the same exact thing, bragging about it to everyone too and it really pisses me off. It makes people like me who can't through like that around feel left out because: 1. I'm not doing that scam (yes, it is a scam.....) myself and, 2. I can't afford it, let alone buy just one PS3.......

Personally, I'm going to do what many people do and wait until a game that I really want to play comes out (probably FFVII), and maybe buy it then if I could spare the money......
 
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i havent been bragging. i listed an ad selling ps3's and people attacked me. its not like i have the extra cash lying around to do this, im getting a bank loan and i have my one and only car as collateral. im not trying to say this is original either, but selling them on ebay isnt a lottery, they are selling consistantly. besides ive got ads selling them everwhere.
 
Well...I just want to say that while I'm not against buying one and selling it on ebay, buying out an entire store and selling them on ebay is pretty....crazy.


But good luck...I myself will probably be camping out Thurs. night at my local Best Buy.
 
bebopin64 said:
i havent been bragging. i listed an ad selling ps3's and people attacked me.
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I gues you saying you were going to sell them ( and saying you dont have them yet.) could make people think different about that tbh. I mean, if you already had them, and linked to a ebay post where you have them already, then it would be advertising (imo).
 
let not get on at the guy, this is the price of capitalism.... if there weren't any buyer then there wouldn't be any sellers ;)
 
apj101 said:
let not get on at the guy, this is the price of capitalism.... if there weren't any buyer then there wouldn't be any sellers ;)
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true.. as long as people are buying it,.. the only fact i dont really like is that he wants to buy the whole stock of PS3's.. that seems a bit rude for the people who actually want to buy one in the store too.
but then,.. there isnt anything you can do about it anyway, so why bother?
 
Archangel said:
true.. as long as people are buying it,.. the only fact i dont really like is that he wants to buy the whole stock of PS3's.. that seems a bit rude for the people who actually want to buy one in the store too.
but then,.. there isnt anything you can do about it anyway, so why bother?
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Hehe, If i had lined up for hours only to find the guy in front had bought them all i wouldnt be too worried....

attached to my right humerus is an old bi-headed friend of mine, i call him "Pain". He has a twine brother sitting on my lift humerus, i call him "Destruction".
Together they would form a new kind of economic policy :)
 
apj101 said:
Hehe, If i had lined up for hours only to find the guy in front had bought them all i wouldnt be too worried....

attached to my right humerus is an old bi-headed friend of mine, i call him "Pain". He has a twine brother sitting on my lift humerus, i call him "Destruction".
Together they would form a new kind of economic policy :)
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the main reason i took a technical education... i hate economy :P

edit: im wondering tough... youre going there with your friends you said.. how can you make 10k then? i dont see buying 1 pp (or 2 max) for 600 and selling them for 1200 make you 10k, or dont your friends want to earn some of the money too?
 
wwell the only way to make a big profit is to deal big, resale a lot of them. im going to pay my friends $50 a piece to get their arse out of bed at 6am. im not too worried about people gettin pissed at me and pullin out their guns (laft and right, not real guns) because i've got an army of 20 kids who wont get paid anything if we dont take home these ps3's.
 
bebopin64 said:
wwell the only way to make a big profit is to deal big, resale a lot of them. im going to pay my friends $50 a piece to get their arse out of bed at 6am. im not too worried about people gettin pissed at me and pullin out their guns (laft and right, not real guns) because i've got an army of 20 kids who wont get paid anything if we dont take home these ps3's.
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6AM? There will be like 300 people in line by then :P
 
Man its people like you that make this world so bad. Honestly you are a jerk to send all these people to these places and basically take them from people who are willing to pay and i will laugh when the 360 opened here and i don't live in a big town all the stores in a 50 mile radius had a line starting at 4pm the night before so if you expect to be able to get up at 6am and get it i laugh at you for even thinking that you will arrive to a line of people there buddy. They even had a thing on the news already with people that were in line for the 360 that will be in line the night before again for the ps3. But if anyone is stupid enough to pay you 1200-1500 for a 600 dollar product is stupid as hell wait a month they will be back in the stores one month wont kill you people, and you will save 50% by doing that!!
 
Codeman, I don't know what your deal is. Whats wrong with buying a product and then selling it? It happens all the time with new products, even with the Core 2 Duo, it's an easy way to make a buck. And the Wii is also selling for around $600 on ebay, when you can buy them for $250 in stores.
 
I'm not saying that I'm saying people like him that buy 20 of them and then some kid in town that wants it for himself doesn't get one because of people like that nothing against buying 1 or 2 but 20 is a little much
 
codeman0013 said:
I'm not saying that I'm saying people like him that buy 20 of them and then some kid in town that wants it for himself doesn't get one because of people like that nothing against buying 1 or 2 but 20 is a little much
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perhaps the complaint should be aimed at sony, they are the ones who have limited production, they do this to ensure that demand well outstrips supply, it builds expectation, they know that buyer will bulk buy and sell at a premium.... and they let it happen
 
codeman0013 said:
I'm not saying that I'm saying people like him that buy 20 of them and then some kid in town that wants it for himself doesn't get one because of people like that nothing against buying 1 or 2 but 20 is a little much
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this is america thats the price of freedom. and i talked extensively with fry's upper management for that store about when lines were forming for the xbox. if i get there at 6am there will be no line. best buy on the other hand, people were lining up 3pm the day before. fry's is relatively unknown here because its out of the way.
 
you should sell it for this much.

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apj101 said:
perhaps the complaint should be aimed at sony, they are the ones who have limited production, they do this to ensure that demand well outstrips supply, it builds expectation, they know that buyer will bulk buy and sell at a premium.... and they let it happen
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Ya, actually, Sony is probably the one to blame if anyone...... They are unprepared and from a business stand point, they are losing so much money, while people like bepopin64 here are making money off their loss. (no offense bepopin.....)

Here's a parody comic of it......

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=212
(Sorry about earlier bepopin64....)
 
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