After 3 months of unsuccessfully using Itrackr, checking inventories, calling stores and waiting in lines, I decided to give up on finding a WII today. Every time ITrackr, or the back door inventories, said there were WII's in stock, I would call the stores and be told that they didn't have any.
The final straw was finding out they had 3 units at CompUSA today. And, they said they would hold one until I made the 15 minute drive to pick it up. When I got there, they accidentally sold the last one. At that point, I had decided that enough was enough. From that point on this morning I would no longer monitor the WII inventories or even bother trying to get a WII.
Convinced that our family was just not going be getting a Wii any time soon, I decided to visit the local Best Buy to purchase my kids some new games for our old XBox. So, I walk to the game section, only to see one of the employees bringing out 5 new boxes of WII's from the back. They just had a small shipment come in. I stared at them in disbelief for a few seconds, before picking up a box and making sure it was not some kind of empty store display. It was not
I grabbed the first Wii. The other 4 were gone within a couple of minutes.
How crazy is all this. I spend the last 3 months unsuccessfully tracking Wii's almost daily. Then, on the same day I had convinced myself to give up on them, I stumble upon one by accident.
I am convinced that finding a Wii takes both persistence and luck. If I had not made the trip to Best Buy to buy the XBox games, I would not have a Wii today. It was the same Best Buy that I have already visited about 20 times in the last few months looking unsuccessfully for a Wii.
I hope the inventories catch up with demand soon, for those that are still having trouble finding a Wii.
BTW, I refused to buy a Wii off an EBay seller. After seeing some of their antics in the pre-dawn Wii lines before Christmas, I was not going to give them the satisfaction of making a sale at any price.
Cheers,
The final straw was finding out they had 3 units at CompUSA today. And, they said they would hold one until I made the 15 minute drive to pick it up. When I got there, they accidentally sold the last one. At that point, I had decided that enough was enough. From that point on this morning I would no longer monitor the WII inventories or even bother trying to get a WII.
Convinced that our family was just not going be getting a Wii any time soon, I decided to visit the local Best Buy to purchase my kids some new games for our old XBox. So, I walk to the game section, only to see one of the employees bringing out 5 new boxes of WII's from the back. They just had a small shipment come in. I stared at them in disbelief for a few seconds, before picking up a box and making sure it was not some kind of empty store display. It was not
I grabbed the first Wii. The other 4 were gone within a couple of minutes.
How crazy is all this. I spend the last 3 months unsuccessfully tracking Wii's almost daily. Then, on the same day I had convinced myself to give up on them, I stumble upon one by accident.
I am convinced that finding a Wii takes both persistence and luck. If I had not made the trip to Best Buy to buy the XBox games, I would not have a Wii today. It was the same Best Buy that I have already visited about 20 times in the last few months looking unsuccessfully for a Wii.
I hope the inventories catch up with demand soon, for those that are still having trouble finding a Wii.
BTW, I refused to buy a Wii off an EBay seller. After seeing some of their antics in the pre-dawn Wii lines before Christmas, I was not going to give them the satisfaction of making a sale at any price.
Cheers,
