Thanks to the miracle of Craigslist, cash payments, and a man who sold me games out of his car window (not making this up – I did it just after meeting
Now I just have to quit my job in order to get enough time to play them all.
I feel like some sort of dealer or addict, buying stuff with greenbacks on sidewalk corners and in alleyways. It’s almost as though the government has declared all Wii products illegal, and stripped the shelves of every Best Buy, Future Shop, Toys R Us, Blockbuster and EB Games bare. Is this druggie-style procurement methodology really the image Nintendo was hoping to foster in young adults when they completely failed to account for supply and demand with their manufacturing output?
You’re a crazy person.
A crazy person whom I love, so it’s okay.
I need a photo of me making thumbs up signs.
Does this mean I have my very own hand-held unit of delight? And do you remember me telling you about the plague of ravening rabbits that we had in Oakville this past summer? The mind boggles…
Indeed it does. I spare no expense for my mother.
Tennis, anyone?
Remember that rumour I told you about the embiggened Xbox 360? It looks like those rumours may be true.
So you’ve got a choice, once the big black box is released – you can trade up right away and get the doubleplusgood hard drive and HDMI (for your new LCD HDTV, of course), or you can trawl craigslist and redflagdeals for the poor suckers who are offloading their old white boxes for new shiny black ones at a cut rate.
In either case, now is *not* the time to buy 🙂 (as much as that pains me to say)
I’m so excited for you!
Prior to Christmas a friend of mine got a Wii from a guy off Craigslist. They arranged a meet out front of the RBC on west georgia late one evening. The guy drove up, my friend handed him a wad of twenties, was giving a box, and then the guy drove off into the night. It was all very clandestine.
…I think there’s a good chance that’s exactly what they were looking to do. Nintendo has a history of deliberately undersupplying to create incremental demand – it seems that they believe that the scarcity creates more demand (and buzz) than they’d get if they provided enough product to meet demand initially. And, frankly, they’re probably not wrong – witness your street-corner purchases over the last few days. 🙂 So, I think it’s less about failing to take into account supply & demand, and more `cleverly manipulating them’.
And…that’s your `boy, is Christie ever taking her MBA right now, huh?’ snippet for the day.
C