Originally posted by: Queasy
Well, I just got back from camping at a local Wal-Mart. INSIDE, I might add. No way in hell was I going to be outside waiting.
10th in line. Went pretty well. The folks at the Pleasant Hill Wal-Mart in Duluth, GA treated us right. Had chairs for us to sit in along the backwall by the layaway department to mark each of the 12 consoles (8 60GB, 4 20GB) and 2 rain-checks they were offering. They escorted us out to our cars after everyone was checked out and everything. Kudos to that store as we heard that other Super Wal-Marts in the area were making people stand outside. I seriously don't know why stores don't embrace things like this and make it sort of an event and try to treat the campers right.
My only complaint was when they moved us out of the back of the shoe department where we had access to electrical outlets over to the crafts side where there were none. I had a pretty good setup with a portable DVD player and speakers until we moved and the battery on the DVD player died.
It was funny to see the people showing up at 8, 9, 10, 11, and even 12AM tonight long after the last of the chairs were taken. One punk looking guy offered up $500 for a seat and then proclaimed to have enough money to buy all our PS3s when he was turned down. Offer up some more money then idiot.
Another guy showed up at 11:30 and was determined to stay in line despite being repeatedly told that all the units were already claimed. He was for sure that they kept more than the allotted 12 somewhere because he was a store manager once and that's what he would do. He must've been fired from his store manager job because that is the damned stupidest thing I ever heard.
Originally posted by: RossMAN
Originally posted by: Queasy
Well, I just got back from camping at a local Wal-Mart. INSIDE, I might add. No way in hell was I going to be outside waiting.
10th in line. Went pretty well. The folks at the Pleasant Hill Wal-Mart in Duluth, GA treated us right. Had chairs for us to sit in along the backwall by the layaway department to mark each of the 12 consoles (8 60GB, 4 20GB) and 2 rain-checks they were offering. They escorted us out to our cars after everyone was checked out and everything. Kudos to that store as we heard that other Super Wal-Marts in the area were making people stand outside. I seriously don't know why stores don't embrace things like this and make it sort of an event and try to treat the campers right.
My only complaint was when they moved us out of the back of the shoe department where we had access to electrical outlets over to the crafts side where there were none. I had a pretty good setup with a portable DVD player and speakers until we moved and the battery on the DVD player died.
It was funny to see the people showing up at 8, 9, 10, 11, and even 12AM tonight long after the last of the chairs were taken. One punk looking guy offered up $500 for a seat and then proclaimed to have enough money to buy all our PS3s when he was turned down. Offer up some more money then idiot.
Another guy showed up at 11:30 and was determined to stay in line despite being repeatedly told that all the units were already claimed. He was for sure that they kept more than the allotted 12 somewhere because he was a store manager once and that's what he would do. He must've been fired from his store manager job because that is the damned stupidest thing I ever heard.
Thanks for the story. How long were you in line to be 10th?
Originally posted by: RossMAN
Not bad for 1.5 days
Are you going to sell it or keep it?
Originally posted by: Queasy
PS3 auction up over $20k - Yeah, I don't think he's gonna get that.
Originally posted by: Chris A
Originally posted by: Queasy
PS3 auction up over $20k - Yeah, I don't think he's gonna get that.
Current bid: US $99,999,999.00
Originally posted by: Queasy
Originally posted by: Chris A
Originally posted by: Queasy
PS3 auction up over $20k - Yeah, I don't think he's gonna get that.
Current bid: US $99,999,999.00
LMAO - if you look at most of the bid ending around now...they are all 0 bidders.
Originally posted by: Queasy
Originally posted by: RossMAN
Not bad for 1.5 days
Are you going to sell it or keep it?
Selling. I'm going to buy one later though when a game other than Resistance comes out that meets my interest. Kind of hard to pass up the eBay profit opportunity at this point.
100 million dollars for someone with 15 positive, lolOriginally posted by: BD2003
Originally posted by: Queasy
Originally posted by: Chris A
Originally posted by: Queasy
PS3 auction up over $20k - Yeah, I don't think he's gonna get that.
Current bid: US $99,999,999.00
LMAO - if you look at most of the bid ending around now...they are all 0 bidders.
Eh, it's often 0 bidders until the last few seconds.
Originally posted by: mzkhadir
probably they were all bought for ebay.
Originally posted by: RagingBITCH
It's funny........not a *single* person yet has posted how badly they've wanted to play their PS3.
Originally posted by: Gibson486
Just came back from Sony Style......In the end, the cops came (it was a riot) and it ended up being a raffle.
basically, they just opened all the doors at once and it was just crazy, Everyone was pushing and shoving. One even was thrown down the stairs.
ROFLOriginally posted by: Flashram
Just got home with mine. The manager at Gamestop was pissed that no one was buying games. He started throwing his keys and banging on the keyboard yelling how everyone was selling them on Ebay.