**********: Bids on eBay are over $1,000
********: crazy...
********: who the hell is that desperate?
The few... the desperate... the geeky.
The wait is over for the debut of the Xbox 360. Electronics stores across the nation opened their doors at midnight last night to the thousands of gamers who found some way to round up $500 so that they could stand in line for 12 hours and not worry about doing anything but getting their shiny new Xbox 360 home and playing it for the next 12 hours.
Man, I need a new job.
By 10 AM this morning, pretty much every retailer that was legitimately selling this little white marvel across the US was sold out. Until Black Friday, that is, when they bring the rest of the reserved shipment from the back room. *wink wink nudge nudge* This theoretically intentional shortage should create enough buzz and demand to have those who let marketing get the best of them clamoring for one ASAP, to ensure another day of sell-outs this coming Friday. Those who didn't have the digital cojones to stand out in the rain and cold, being pointed and laughed at by early bird shoppers in the mall parking lots and personalized candle kiosk attendees closing shop for the day, can resort to eBay:
Even if it's not too clear, you can see that this $399 system is selling for somewhere in the four digit range on our favorite (pretty much only) online auction site. And most recently, take a look at this:
That's $5,750 for ONE system. Equivalent to a dozen shares in Google. Or a thousand fancy holiday eggnog cappuccinos from Starbucks. Looks like those patient, cold and wet geeks get the last laugh...
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