 has anyone waited in line for video game consoles? |
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 Nov 16 2006, 04:03 PM
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 fuck you! Group: Members Posts: 641 Joined: 22-February 06 From: fuck you! Member No.: 19  |
i'm contemplating going to best buy at 4 am to get a PS3. apparently there are gonna be security guards there to make sure no one shows up before then. i have no idea how this works. when the doors open is there gonna be a stampede, or will the be some sort of order? i have little interest in waiting there several hours only to be trampled by a bunch of nerds. if someone behind me runs past me, i'm beating the shit out of em right in the middle of the store
-------------------- only here to talk sports occationally
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Nov 16 2006, 04:20 PM
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 Prize? Group: Members Posts: 302 Joined: 16-October 06 Member No.: 343 |
QUOTE (Throwdown @ Nov 16 2006, 04:03 PM)  i'm contemplating going to best buy at 4 am to get a PS3. apparently there are gonna be security guards there to make sure no one shows up before then. i have no idea how this works. when the doors open is there gonna be a stampede, or will the be some sort of order? i have little interest in waiting there several hours only to be trampled by a bunch of nerds. if someone behind me runs past me, i'm beating the shit out of em right in the middle of the store Tell me you are planning on ebaying it for double its value. |
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Nov 16 2006, 04:31 PM
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 Group: Members Posts: 10,620 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Houston, TX Member No.: 48 |
when i talked to best buy here, they said about an hour before the store opens they're going to hand out tickets (which specify an order). when the store opens they'll let the first 5 in, let them complete their purchase and leave, then the next 5, and so on until they're out (lubbock best buy is supposedly having around 26 total).
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Nov 16 2006, 04:32 PM
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 DEATH TO ....something? Group: Members Posts: 5,618 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Parker, CO Member No.: 55 |
there was some dude camping in a fucking tent on the sidewalk outside circuit city at 8:00pm last night.
I mean seriously is it THAT big of fucking deal? -------------------- I r Ur Gawd!
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Nov 16 2006, 04:54 PM
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 Do they ignore parts of reality? Group: Moderators Posts: 2,935 Joined: 23-February 06 From: South Overton!!! Member No.: 46 |
Waiting in line to buy a console is fucking retarded, in fact buying a console when it first comes out is retarded because the first editions always have issues and fuck up. It is best to wait a while before the price goes down and then buy it when you know it will last you a good 3 years or more. It is the same premise behind going to a movie right when it comes out. I always wait a few extra days so I can avoid the long lines and actually get a good seat. It is not like you win some award for getting to play the PS3 first. All you do is lose 4 hours of your life and 600 bucks on a console that will break in a year...
-------------------- A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And--how many of us do know it? Perhaps if you know you are insane then you are not insane. Or you are becoming sane, finally. Waking up. I suppose only a few are aware of all this. Isolated persons here and there. But the broad masses... what do they think? All these hundreds of thousands in this city, here. Do they imagine that they live in a sane world? Or do they guess, glimpse, the truth...?
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Nov 16 2006, 05:28 PM
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 ROCKPACALYPSE NOW Group: Members Posts: 1,519 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Dallas, TX Member No.: 13 |
Some coworkers told me that the news reported that at least One Best Buy in the ATX area is telling people to not worry about standing in line. No ticketing or anything
Supposedly on Friday morning they are getting everybody to just pile up in the back of the store, then just set them loose and whoever can run to the front of the store and get inside first, gets themself first dibs on PS3s.... -------------------- QUOTE (Lance) now we have some dude from argentina wondering how to fuck dogmeat |
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Nov 16 2006, 06:06 PM
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 New son Donovan Charles Mummert born July 17, 2008 Group: Members Posts: 8,635 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Port Wentworth, GA Member No.: 15 |
i'm not buying the fucking thing to play, i'm buying it to sell to some rich loser on ebay
-w hopefully this throws spectatrix into a panic attack |
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Nov 16 2006, 06:17 PM
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Group: Admin Posts: 6,906 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Austin Member No.: 9 |
QUOTE (Jessica @ Nov 16 2006, 05:06 PM) hopefully this throws spectatrix into a panic attack *yawn* -------------------- |
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Nov 16 2006, 06:49 PM
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CHEE CHEE Group: Members Posts: 5,026 Joined: 23-February 06 From: trapped in the hoezone layer Member No.: 39 |
kevin and i saw people in tents outside circuit city wednesday afternoon
and we saw people sitting in lawn chairs with blankets inside the walmart on quaker getting scolded by employees -------------------- Little monkeys making money
Naked monkey looking funny Mighty males are strong and free Female monkey, not so lucky Rocking monkeys, funky monkeys Monkeys sticking other monkeys Monkeys wrong or monkeys right Mostly flexing monkey might |
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Nov 16 2006, 10:26 PM
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Group: Members Posts: 170 Joined: 26-February 06 Member No.: 83 |
QUOTE (Rocky @ Nov 16 2006, 05:28 PM) Some coworkers told me that the news reported that at least One Best Buy in the ATX area is telling people to not worry about standing in line. No ticketing or anything Supposedly on Friday morning they are getting everybody to just pile up in the back of the store, then just set them loose and whoever can run to the front of the store and get inside first, gets themself first dibs on PS3s.... that sounds fun. |
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Nov 17 2006, 05:49 AM
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 Group: Members Posts: 706 Joined: 22-February 06 From: Lubbock, TX Member No.: 20 |
There are rules that ebay has set on selling PS3's.
Check out this auction. http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...em=300049080338 $3333 - overnight shipping - ($600+tax) = ~$2600 profit? -------------------- Beers that I have had, updated July 5th, 2009: 1,548
My Beer List "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel" - Samuel Johnson "I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ" - Mahatma Gandhi |
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Nov 17 2006, 07:34 AM
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No day but today... Group: Members Posts: 773 Joined: 22-February 06 Member No.: 5 |
Hahahahahahaha
 http://www.startribune.com/462/story/816150.html QUOTE Nov. 16: PlayStation 3 hopeful buyer injured trying to buy console in Wisconsin
Associated Press WEST BEND, Wis.  A person was injured Thursday morning outside a Wal-Mart department store racing for a chance to buy one of 10 coveted video game systems the store will put on sale Friday. An assistant manager announced to a crowd of about 50 people that the store was only going to receive about 10 of the Sony PlayStation 3 game consoles and the store official placed 10 chairs outside of the store, police said. At the signal, the customers were told to run to try to occupy one of the chairs to be able to buy the system at 12:01 a.m. on Friday. A 19-year-old man ran into a pole and struck his head, injuring himself. He was taken to the hospital for treatment, police said. -------------------- Forget regret
or life is yours to miss |
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Nov 17 2006, 07:54 AM
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 Group: Members Posts: 5,275 Joined: 22-February 06 Member No.: 2 |
i saw people camping out with tents at fry's, best buy, circuit city, and target last night when i was looking for an LCD TV
you have to be a major fucking dork to camp out for a console, especially something as sucky as a god damn PS3 |
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Nov 17 2006, 09:38 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 10,620 Joined: 23-February 06 From: Houston, TX Member No.: 48 |
QUOTE (Overlord @ Nov 17 2006, 07:54 AM) you have to be a major fucking dork to camp out for a console, especially something as sucky as a god damn PS3 I don't think you guys get it. yeah you're a dork if you're camping out to get one to play. If I didn't have to work i'd have been right there with em. let see... camp out for about a day and make $2000+ profit? I'll take that any day of the week. Hell I'd have taken a day off if I thought I had a decent chance of getting one. |
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Nov 17 2006, 10:37 AM
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Group: Members Posts: 290 Joined: 23-February 06 Member No.: 59 |
If I would have seen anyone out there they would have gotten the water balloon treatment. It's not like they're going to get out of line to do anything about it.hahhahhaa.
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