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eBay Hawkers

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Gremolin

Jessie's No. 1 Fan
With the Wii almost released there will be a lot of people who will only be buying a Wii just to make a profit on eBay.

What is your opinion on these types of people?

My opinion is that these people are taking the new console away from people who want to play it.
Im considering bidding for some ebay hawkers and not paying, lol
 
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oliver sreeves

Well-Known Member
if there was a club for this, i'll join.

seriusly, if people take away wii, for there own sefish needs, by selling it at a higher price, that would be wrong.

why not pre order, buy then play it untill next year.

then when your bored of it, you then sell it.

i on the other hand will never sell, or trade mine.
 
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WheelerTheViper

Procrastinate Today!
Are you kidding? I almost did that with the PS3. I'm not taking it away from anyone, someone else will buy it, then I can buy two PS3s (Or Wiis in this case). Personally I think it's rather dumb to *buy* it off ebay when you can get it so much cheaper if you wait a month or so. :/ But whatever.
 
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FlygonXS

Kamehameha!
it is a good thing, like this guy sold a PS3 for $82 million and I doubt the guy is even going to pay that money
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~Bent~

awhups
I can see why people do it. Heck, if I'd foreseen the huge market for the 360 when it came out, I'd've bought one and sold the box and console separately, most likely making a killing.

I won't be doing that for the Wii, since I really doubt the demand will be as high as the 360 was when it came out (due to way-casual gamers wanting to have the first and the best, considering it was the most advanced system at the time).
 
MidnightScott

MidnightScott

Super Gamer
I think Ebay should ban any sales past a certain limit on both consoles.

$2000 for a 360 is not worth it IMO

~Scott;229;
 
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~Bent~

awhups
MidnightScott said:
I think Ebay should ban any sales past a certain limit on both consoles.

$2000 for a 360 is not worth it IMO

~Scott;229;
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'Course, if they did that, they'd also have to put a limit on high bids for moldy cheese sandwiches. That would make eBay lose much of its appeal... after all, the whole "get rich quick on eBay" thing is partly what gives it such activity.
 
MidnightScott

MidnightScott

Super Gamer
Touché my friend :D

Yeah - I saw a PS3 for $5000 on there >_>; - I mean geezus. But for some reason every one of those has a bid by someone, making me think it's Sony buying it back because they don't have enough for Europe, lol.

I saw a Wii for $1,500 pn Ebay though, which you can actually buy like 6 Wii's for that price(not Including tax)

~Scott;229;
 
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Fez the Mysfit Elf

Annyong
In all of this worlds idiocy, it's nice to see some truely brilliant people now and then.

Anyone who buys PS3's for reselling on eBay is a genius. Really. If I had $600 to spend, I would've been right up there with the rest of them, waiting in line in the sheer cold for days on end for a couple thousand dollars. Wait, when I say it like, it doesn't sound so great. Well then, I would've just pre-ordered it like the pros did.

And how can anyone even think that reselling the system is wrong? It would be wrong if a millionaire bought them all just so other people couldn't have them, but reselling them isn't wrong. I mean, just think of all the people in Europe that won't get the PS3 until March! These "eBay Hawkers" are helping them! If they didn't resell them, then no one in Europe would get one for months.
 
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Railith

Hero of Justice
It's not going to happen with the Wii because there isn't a shortage of them.
 
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Sheik

Well-Known Member
I really don't like these people who do this at the first TRU pre-order most of the people were pre-ordering both the ps3 and the wii in front I was like come on the stupid TRU shouldn't allow that you know since they're just either selling both or keeping on and selling other which is wrong I would have gotten the pre-order if all the ps3 pre-order people didn't took it from others.

I really think TRU should had one system per person either that they should have did the wii pre-order sperate from the tmxelmo and ps3 since scalpers always go for those luckily tru did another pre-order, but some reason mine didn't. =\

I really think companies like GS, EB, and TRU should do something to stop this like look up tickets if it's from their store on ebay pull it off or do not accept those.
 
Little_Pikachu

Little_Pikachu

With Action Amusing!
I have nothing against it, I actually did it with the 360. My friend worked in a game/CD/DVD store and had one pre-ordered the second such a thing became available to him. Now it had always been his intention to buy it, but when the day finally came he found he just couldn't make his finances stretch enough, so after noticing a huge amount of 360's on Ebay selling for double their RRP he allowed me to buy his pre-order and do with it what I pleased. So I bought it with his staff discount for something like £260

I took a gamble, a exchange store was offering somethng like £350 for the 360's and I'd seen some on Ebay go for less than that, but I put it on Ebay and I guess I won, I got £620 (approx 1170 US$) for it, from someone local so we didn't even have to bother with shipping. The man who bought it had been asked by his boss to go and find one for his son at any cost. Some people just have more money than sense, and I'll be glad to take it off them. So I made a very nice little turn over just in time for Christmas, little Jimmy got his Xbox, the guy who bought it got praised from his boss and everyone was happy, except my friend because he'd really wanted to play on it but I wouldn't let him.

I've had a Wii pre-ordered for like 6 months, but I have no intention of selling it on. Why? I think there will be a shortage, but not nearly as much as Xbox or PS3 so I don't think I'd make that much from it, also the Wii will just rock way too much for me to even want to sell it, i'm getting it and I'm playing it all damn day.

In my opinion if you really want something, you should've pre-ordered it. They're not 'taking it away' from you, they're actually helping you by offering you the chance to buy a console that you otherwise wouldn't get in time for Christmas because you were too stupid to pre-order it, knowing the sorts of stock problems these console always have at launch. ('you' does not reffer to anyone inparticular, I'm just using it as a generic).
 
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meta-master

The name says it all
agreed, probably around 25-50% who will have one tomarrow will just be on ebay selling them for 500+ USD :(
 
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Ho-oh Master

Well-Known Member
I OWN THE WII!

well each wal-mart store was sopossed to have 29 Wii's but they only had 20. so there were 9 rainchecks. I was number 22 >.> and it is GARENTEED that I will get it before X-mas. they said that they will get them in a week tho :D the first 20 people had to weait till 12:01 AM but the people with the rainchecks had to wait till 10:00 PM because there was no point in waiting. my dad was number 23 but he went home then some other places. so another person took his spot. then my dad cam then at 9:30PM another guy came. so there are 4 rainchecks left.

we got there at 5:15PM and left at 10:20 PM :D thats the longest I've been at walmart :p

WOOT!

where gonna sell my dads Wii on ebay for some money :)


*has been posting this everywhere*

I guess I am a ebay hawker :p
 
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