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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

Anyone know any tips on how to get your hands on a Wii these days? I'm going to check a couple stores after school today.

I'd really like one by the time Galaxy comes out.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I didn't realize that they were still hard to get! That's crazy.
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aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

Yeah. Getting less so, but Agnes only found one by luck, a couple of weeks ago, because they happened to be delivered just before she walked into the store.

They still typically sell out within a few hours of delivery, everywhere.
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Yeah, it's a matter of hitting the store after delivery -- if there's a Target in your area, they generally take deliveries around noon on weekdays, so it can be worth it to go by one around 1 or so and see if they have any in.

aderack · . Joined: 15 Jun 2005 Posts: 1105 Location: San Francisco

Can anyone recall another console with supply problems a full year after release?
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helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

I checked two stores. Nothing.
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ryan · . Joined: 20 Feb 2005 Posts: 999

I ended up buying mine off ebay a few months after it was released after checking stores in the surrounding area in the interim and coming up with nothing. I went by a GameStop right after they opened a few weeks back and there was someone there already waiting for one. A truck had brought in 6 that didn't make the last shipment, and the workers were commenting that they don't keep them in for more than half an hour when they actually get some in.
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SuperWes · Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 8:28 pm Post subject:

Best Buy has a Reward Zone Member's only shopping night at a few stores in all major cities. They're opening up at 8:30 on Sunday and are promising 30 Wiis per store. If you get in line at 6ish and are a reward zone member you're probably guaranteed one?

-Wes
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Ethoscapade · . Joined: 30 Oct 2005 Posts: 276

i sold mine, unboxed, complete, from launch, on ebay for exactly what it'd cost plus the value of the points thus far spent ($50), a month or so ago.

for what that's worth.

silentmatt · Posted: Wed Nov 07, 2007 5:59 am Post subject:

Can't you preorder or reserve one from the next shipment? Or did they only do that for the launch?
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

There use to be a website that tracked Wii shipments closer to the time of launch, thought I don't know if it's still around...

Also, it may only have been for California because when I looked at it that was all I seemed to have seen.
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Scratchmonkey · . Joined: 02 Mar 2005 Posts: 1439

Of all the stores, the only one that I've heard of that lets you reserve one from the next shipment is Game Crazy.

dhex · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 9:06 am Post subject:

so why is there a wii drought?
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Pijaibros · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:09 am Post subject:

There is only a Wii drought on the coasts. It's where the Wii I buy always end up getting shipped to. I find them in nearly every store I go.

I bet that will change when I actually want one for my own (i.e. Smash Brawl arrives) since I predict it will be the ebay darling of this Xmas season (again). It will carry that momentum to Easter.

I don't really think it's as much of a supply problem as it's claimed. Anyone with a product would rather have a shortage (allowing for high [desperate, sustained] demand) instead of flooding the market and devaluing their own product by a wide availability.

I know it's worked for me in tracking down old games like Tactics Ogre for PSX. This being from a few years back, in my collecting days. Took me so long to find it, I didn't mind paying the $70 to own it. Whereas at first glance such a high price for a videogame disgusted me.

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

my friend is selling his wii because demand is HIGH with christmas coming up, and lots of people are making a tidy profit on ebay.
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daphaknee · Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 12:05 am Post subject:

The wii was the only thing ive ever camped out for
and i almost didn't do it becuase i was like CAMPINGO UT? THATS DUMB but i ended up playing gameboy all night and then getting the last ticket for the wii

and im still like the only person in my circle of friends with a wii

at least they're not pumping out broken wiis like they did with the ps2 i guess

FortNinety · Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 1:03 pm Post subject:

Cossix · . Joined: 14 Nov 2007 Posts: 87