Want a Wii?
Aziz P
I walk you through the process of finding one at Haibane.info. The key words are vigilance, and perseverance.
And if you still can't score a Wii, consider a Vii instead.
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If they eventually come up with a portable or smaller version of the Wii, they should call it the PiiWii.
Thank you, thank you.
Anyway, I was inordinately relieved to finally nab one of those suckers for my kids last week. Please excuse my lame attempts at humor.
Aziz, the one thing I would say that was probably true last year but is not true this year is that no one is advertising Wii consoles in the Sunday ad papers. Back in November, before Thanksgiving, they would often have them on Sundays (or so various retailers told me), but since Black Friday, there's no guarantee they'll have them for Sunday. There hasn't been a Wii in a Sunday ad since Thanksgiving.
After that bout with cosmic injustice, I started following "the method", calling and asking everywhere. I got up early on Sunday mornings to be there when the doors opened, but they didn't have any those days. It actually took me less than a week of calling around, and there were a few times when I heard "you just missed them."
I don't know about this week's Sunday circulars since I didn't check them all, but I know that the past few weeks, the consoles themselves have not been listed, just the games and accessories.
I think you're right that there are more around
this year than last, but they are doing very limited shipments, so timing is everything -- your ability to get to the store quickly is probably the most important thing.
Hey Dean -- have a good week ahead, OK?
I think that if you cast your net wide enough and are methodical, you will have success. Most of the people who are Wii hunting do so sporadically, but if you have a strategy you tilt the odds in your favor.
Of course we all lose our tempers now and then. Dean freely admits to being imperfect in this regard, which is why regulars to this establishment will generally be cut more slack than people who we don't know very well.
Still: behave like an adult, or go find somewhere else to play. Thanks.