Posted on 11/18/2006 5:12:46 AM PST by Living Free in NH
Nope, just a clown!
The reason they don't is because the system always has problems with it. It's pretty much a beta testing of the PS3 right now...peoples will break after they spent 3000 dollars on it and they will have to wait to get a new one which most of the bugs will be fixed.
You want to talk about creepy... Do you remember the "smaller" version of the cabbage patch kids, the "Premies?" As in prematures? Now THAT was CREEPY!
Mark
There have been some strange toy crazes over the last few years. The most recent I remember was the "Tickle Me Elmo". I never liked Elmo to begin with, but some folks just went insane over that one.
Of course, that PC would not play PS3 games, which presumably is a reason why people are buying the PS3. I assume that most PS3 owners already own a PC. Also, that PC probably wouldn't be $600 if it had a BD drive like the PS3 has.
Yes, it's Sony's fault. For making a product that lots of people actually want. Shame on them.
Sony's next shipment should contains 20 units.
The only solution to this situation is a windfall profits tax plain and simple!
I couldn't believe it either, six times the price. That's capitalism at its best.
So how do you spend your free time? Don't you have any hobbies?
Plenty of hobbies: Camping, Hiking, Photography, Travel, Bicycling.
I prefer to live in the REAL world as opposed to a virtual one.
FReegards!
I'm glad you're healthy enough to enjoy "the real world." My husband on the other hand is serious ill and in a wheelchair so we enjoy our home theater system.
Oh My! I am sorry to hear about your husband's illness. Certainly for anyone homebound, something like this is good to keep the mind sharp. But I'm sure you and your husband weren't camped outside Best Buy for three days waiting for the latest version.
There are lots of kids who are insulin resistant and/or developing adult-onset Diabetes before they even reach young adulthood. This is due in large part to the fact that they are not as active as kids were years ago (i.e.: too many video games). And I wonder why otherwise healthy people (Like the one's I saw literally camping with tents on the sidewalk outside Best Buy last Wednesday), would spend so much time and money on something that IMHO doesn't really do anything to enrich one's life.
With all the tents that were set up outside the store, I thought Best Buy was getting into the sporting goods line as well as electronics. Some of those tents were impressive. But I'd rather pitch one out in the woods......cleaner air and nicer scenery.
FReegards, & God Bless you and your husband.
I don't see how that would work any better because when do they hand out the tickets? Right before you come in the door for the sale? The mob is still going to show up hoping to somehow get to the front of the line to get a ticket. If I owned a store I'd just have a lottery for them. Anyone that came in the store the day before the sale could get a ticket and on the day of the sale I'd just pull the tickets out of the hat. The person would have to be in the store for the drawing and pay for it on the spot. If they weren't there or couldn't pay you just go ahead and draw the next name. No one would have to camp out or stand in line. Just be there and be lucky.
I really think that Sony is partly to blame for launching the sales before they had enough units to come anywhere near meeting the large demand.
My wife stopped at a game store in the local mall to get a couple of games for my kid's birthday. While she was on line, the manager announced that they had just gotten a couple of extra PS3's. Just as my wife got to the cash register. She bought it on the spot
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