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As we waited, we noticed how many Chinese people were waiting around us. In fact, it seemed like almost a majority of the people were Chinese. Ken, an Aussie whom we had met, spoke to one girl who confirmed that most of them were Chinese exchange students who were getting \10,000 each to stand in line and buy a machine. They were giving them to stores who would then resell them at a huge markup to gamers elsewhere in the world.
Aside from the Chinese exchange students, there were also a lot of homeless people who were getting paid by Japanese people to do the same thing. It sort of made me mad, that so many people were lining up who had no interest in a machine for any purpose other than to make money.
Samurai_Jerk wrote:Boohoo. So some fucking nerds have to wait a couple of weeks or maybe even -GASP- months before they can play with their wittle game.
Kuang_Grade wrote:
This guy may have gotten a $15,000 bill in auction fees from Ebay that he would then have to jump through hoops to get refunded.
IkemenTommy wrote:Serves him right.
Kuang_Grade wrote:http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=150059269467
The bid history of a $99 million auction for a PS3...it is currently 12 hours after the auction closed and most of the bidders have been booted off Ebay, even those with alright feedback levels.
Charles wrote:This isn't surprising. There was a public campaign to wreck PS3 auctions on Yahoo Japan, apparently people decided to do this on eBay too. Unfortunately YJ fixed the auctions almost instantly. It would have been hilarious if the PS3 greedheads got stuck with machines they couldn't sell.
Thieves stole 180 Sony PlayStation 3 video game consoles from a warehouse in northern Japan on Tuesday following the sellout launch of the console last month, police said. Transport company Meitetsu Golden Air Cargo left a shipment of PS3 consoles stacked in front of a warehouse and had planned to ship them to a retailer. But a worker noticed about four hours later that 180 of the consoles were missing, according to a policeman who gave only his family name, Iwabuchi. Police were investigating the theft, he said.
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