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Originally posted by: Eeezee
We only checked the status of absence once an hour on the hour, so I spent a lot of the extra time at the bars and playing Guitar Hero II inside the Best Buy. I am now addicted to Guitar Hero and will be purchasing it this weekend. I have not set up my PS3 yet; I don't have an HDTV, and am waiting for Black Friday to get the $499 Westinghouse 32".

Enjoy GH1&2 🙂
 
Originally posted by: thawolfman
Originally posted by: Eeezee
We only checked the status of absence once an hour on the hour, so I spent a lot of the extra time at the bars and playing Guitar Hero II inside the Best Buy. I am now addicted to Guitar Hero and will be purchasing it this weekend. I have not set up my PS3 yet; I don't have an HDTV, and am waiting for Black Friday to get the $499 Westinghouse 32".

Enjoy GH1&2 🙂

Last I heard, GH1&2 weren't compatible with the PS3. The controller connectors aren't right or something. They are supposed to be releasing an adapter.
 
Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
i wonder if they are actually selling any of them on the costco site? if the servers are this hosed nobody is buying.

that's what I'm thinking and hoping too. at around 743ish I saw it and add to cart, from there on the site was hammered.
 
Originally posted by: Queasy
Originally posted by: thawolfman
Originally posted by: Eeezee
We only checked the status of absence once an hour on the hour, so I spent a lot of the extra time at the bars and playing Guitar Hero II inside the Best Buy. I am now addicted to Guitar Hero and will be purchasing it this weekend. I have not set up my PS3 yet; I don't have an HDTV, and am waiting for Black Friday to get the $499 Westinghouse 32".

Enjoy GH1&2 🙂

Last I heard, GH1&2 weren't compatible with the PS3. The controller connectors aren't right or something. They are supposed to be releasing an adapter.

I assumed he had a PS2 😱
 
Heh...heard on the radio that Sean Hannity called a store in Florida and asked to speak to the first person in line. Offered the guy $3000 for his 60GB PS so he could give his kid a PS3. The guy took him up on the offer and is supposed to be delivering it at some event that Hannity is going to be at today.
 
alright, i give up on the costco.

too many errors and what not.

i doubt it'll go through now and i dont want to waste any more time sitting in front of the puter.
I do that all day at work 😛

I'm glad I picked up atleast 1 at my gamestop.
 
PlayStation 3 shopper shot outside Wal-Mart
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/17/playstation.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

PUTNAM, Connecticut (AP) -- Two armed thugs tried to rob a line of people waiting for the new Playstation 3 game system to go on sale early Friday and shot a man who refused to give up his money, authorities said.

In other states, customers pushed and shoved their way to the shelves to get at the limited supply, and in Kentucky, four people were grazed by BBs fired from a passing vehicle as they waited for a Best Buy store to open.

The two gunman in Putnam, Connecticut, confronted 15 to 20 people standing outside a Wal-Mart store shortly after 3 a.m. and demanded money, said State Police Lt. J. Paul Vance.

"One of the patrons resisted. That patron was shot," Vance said.

He said the two gunmen fled after shooting a 21-year-old Massachusetts man in the chest and shoulder. The victim was taken to University of Massachusetts Medical Center in Worcester. There was no immediate word on his condition.

Vance said police were searching for the suspects, both believed to be in their teens. He said one was wearing a ski mask and brandishing a handgun, and the other had what appeared to be a shotgun.

Aside from the police tape, things had returned to normal by midmorning at the Wal-Mart store in rural Putnam, a town of about 9,000 residents near the Massachusetts and Rhode Island state lines.

Short supplies of the PS3 and strong demand led to lines of buyers, some waiting for days, outside stores across the country.

In Palmdale, California, authorities shut down a Super Wal-Mart after some shoppers got rowdy late Wednesday. In West Bend, Wisconsin, a 19-year-old man was injured when he ran into a pole racing with 50 others for one of 10 spots outside a Wal-Mart.

In Lexington, Kentucky, someone fired BB pellets from a passing vehicle at people waiting outside a Best Buy store, according to television station WKYT, whose own reporter said she was among four people grazed while she interviewed buyers in line.

A Best Buy in Boston, Massachusetts, aware it had only 140 of the consoles, got smart about the big sale -- its employees gave out tickets to the first 140 people in line so everyone could go home until the store opened.

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lol.
 
Originally posted by: isekii
alright, i give up on the costco.

too many errors and what not.

i doubt it'll go through now and i dont want to waste any more time sitting in front of the puter.
I do that all day at work 😛

I'm glad I picked up atleast 1 at my gamestop.

aww you greedy fsck glad you're outta my way 😉

edit: boo go back a couple pages 😛
 
Originally posted by: thawolfman
Originally posted by: isekii
alright, i give up on the costco.

too many errors and what not.

i doubt it'll go through now and i dont want to waste any more time sitting in front of the puter.
I do that all day at work 😛

I'm glad I picked up atleast 1 at my gamestop.

aww you greedy fsck glad you're outta my way 😉

edit: boo go back a couple pages 😛


lmao 😛
i was gonnacamp out my local target wednesday night and there were already like 25-30 heads there waiting in the rain.

so i didn't even bother.
the store received 8 units. Probably not all premiums, so a lot of people waited there for nothing 😀
 
Originally posted by: Boo025
PlayStation 3 shopper shot outside Wal-Mart
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/17/playstation.ap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories



A Best Buy in Boston, Massachusetts, aware it had only 140 of the consoles, got smart about the big sale -- its employees gave out tickets to the first 140 people in line so everyone could go home until the store opened.

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lol.


Pretty damn nice and intelligent of them.. too bad others couldn't do the same
 
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
costcos website says its sold out.

pfff....i don't get how it can be sold out. I have been refreshing ever ince 10:30....then boom, the site goes live. I start to order and everything is at an standstill.
 
Originally posted by: Gibson486
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
costcos website says its sold out.

pfff....i don't get how it can be sold out. I have been refreshing ever ince 10:30....then boom, the site goes live. I start to order and everything is at an standstill.

I got in it okay, with errors here and there, but it finally loaded and said ps3's all sold out.
 
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Originally posted by: Gibson486
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
costcos website says its sold out.

pfff....i don't get how it can be sold out. I have been refreshing ever ince 10:30....then boom, the site goes live. I start to order and everything is at an standstill.

I got in it okay, with errors here and there, but it finally loaded and said ps3's all sold out.

I added it to my cart, then it took ages to check out. It would just eventually time out and not do a thing.
 
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
Originally posted by: Gibson486
Originally posted by: ViviTheMage
costcos website says its sold out.

pfff....i don't get how it can be sold out. I have been refreshing ever ince 10:30....then boom, the site goes live. I start to order and everything is at an standstill.

my proof...I dont lie!

http://vivi.atotchat.org/tires/ps3.JPG


I know youa r etelling teh truth, i just do not understand how it can be sold when everyone couldn't get past the check out process. Waiting and getting nothing. It's teh story of my life today.
 
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