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Originally Posted by Professor S
I don't think so. I think its giving those people their just desserts. If you wait in line for days on end for a system, it should be out of joy, love and enthusiasm for the product... not the profit you you'll make from it.
Just think if you were some guy who waited in line for days dreaming of a new PS3, only to have the store run out right before your turn, and then you find out that most of the people before you that got one just wanted to sell it on e-bay.
I hope all those auctions are jacked up under false pretenses.
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say you were the guy that stood in those lines, and waited and waited, out of sheer love and enthusiasm for the product, and couldn't wait to play it because you've been dreaming of it since it was announced....
say you finally got it after that long wait, you paid your $600 and you got it.
then say someone offered you $3000 for it. are you SERIOUSLY telling me you would say no way and take it home instead of the money?
i mean its basically a few thousand dollars give or take, just to wait a few months to buy one at its regular price.
im sure MANY those people on ebay really really WANT the ps3, but when you can get the money the morons are willing to pay on there, they'd be idiots not to.
and jason is right, its sony that is the one they should blame. but certainly not because they couldn't make more, because they could and most likely did. its because they release a limited number for JUST this reason..... to create this kinda hype and demand for the system. its sony that is doing this, not the people on ebay.
(but i have nothing against messing with the people on ebay either, im just saying that many of them probably planned to keep it originally )