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"According to Ars Technica, Slackers of Illinois/Missouri are taking retail Wiis and dumping them on Ebay for US$399, $150 above the MSRP."

"Retailers have unfairly, though legally, used bundle gouging to nickel and dime gamers seeking Wiis in short supply. This is the first report of retailers bypassing retail to become resellers online which yield better returns."


I always used to imagine some fat dude in a cut-off NASCAR t-shirt and a coors in a kozy having built up a small fort of 30 Wiis, snapping that picture with his username on it, all proud of the fact he now can rip off thirty people and Nintendo.

And now I can add to that mental picture managers of game retailers? When I didn't get my Wii on Black Friday, one person left the store with a Wii; I was excited, but I was denied.

"We only got six today!" they yelled to us, apologetically.

That math never added up... until now?

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It makes you wonder how often this goes on. Good article

Great article dude. Expose the frauds.

I honestly don't think this is big news at all. No one gets upset that Best Buy stores lie about their quantities of Wii's and try to sell "the last one" every 15 minutes, so why should a store selling system on ebay be any different.

Trust me, having about 8 or 4 Wii's in stock isn't a scam. My time at Gamestop and Target, usually you would expect places like those to have large quanities, but they really get just 4 or 8... well hold on... i know how many are in a box

1 Box = 3 Wii

yeah thats right. so if you see a brown box, with blue writing on it, its a Wii box.

that happens too

I really wish that I could be surprised by this, honestly I do. But I'm not, and that's sad. Quite sad.

Meh, there were so many on ebay, it looked pretty suspicious. I mean, how many times would these people wait in line for the Wii just to sell them all (Or some of them, not all of them sell) on ebay?

I expected stuff like this to happen.

That's really cheap. Some people are just so greedy.