<p>Okay…I’m not into this sort of thing, so I need help.</p>
<p>I’ve got to find one of these infernal Wii things for ldboy. He’s one of those unfortunates with a Christmas birthday and we always try to get him something special to compensate for all the years of poorly attended birthday parties during the Christmas school break. I know I should have looked long before now, but who would have thought there would be another shortage? (I guess I thought people would be ‘over it’ by now.)</p>
<p>Does anyone have any suggestions? Do I just give it up?</p>
<p>The only suggestion I can give you is to start ■■■■■■■■ the toy/game stores very early in the morning as often as you can. That’s how we got Zooserboy’s. I was too dumb to know how popular it was, walked past it in Sears and thought “oh, this looks nice” and bought it. Who knew? anyway, good luck!</p>
<p>I was in the same shoes last year This was supposed to be the first gaming system in our household. S has actually completed a task to earn it, for Christmas. Unfortunately, we could not find it.
My suggestions:
call stores like Target, Walmart, Best Buy, FYE, Circiut City daily at opening.
inquire at Costco, also at opening.
check your local classifieds, online ones are best. People will try to earn money on you, but it is still more affordable than e-bay.
*e-bay auctions them like every two minutes. Most expensive way to go.</p>
<p>Thanks guys…I’m going to go the early morning phone call route as suggested…seems like a good plan. And I pray I stumble across a batch like zoos! (Wow! What luck!! :))</p>
<p>Btw…I did look at ebay and I have nothing but good experiences on ebay…but I’d really, really like to buy from a vendor who will also sell me a replacement plan. I know some people think they are waste of money, but I can’t tell you how many times we have had such a plan save the day.</p>
<p>We got ours last February, by finding out what day new shipments arrive and arriving fairly (but not unreasonably) early in the morning. If you see extra controllers you might want to snap them up too.</p>
<p>Last week I was at Costco. I went in about 10:02. The people in front of me were already sad they hadn’t snagged one of the 50 Wii Costco had gotten that morning. The man with the cart of Wii said they were gone in 30 seconds. (I wasn’t in the market for a Wii)
We are looking for Guitar Hero 3 bundle for Xbox 360. Haven’t found it anywhere. The salesclerk at Software Etc said to call at 3 in the afternoon since that is when they get their deliveries. In light of that I would also call around and ask what time they get deliveries. Not all stores get them in the AM.
Good luck</p>
<p>Start checking the Sunday ad as soon as the paper arrives or if you are lucky enough to live somewhere that the Sunday ads come on Saturday, more power to you. Look at Circuit City, Best Buy, GameStop and ToysRUs. If they have an ad, get there at least an hour (even 2) before opening. When they open, most stores give you a ticket with a number which you take to the counter. Then you get your Wii. As you get closer to 12/25, you might want to get there earlier yet.</p>
<p>Just purchased one from an individual who got it in September (she just happened upon them as well!). And, while I paid a liitle more than the sticker price, I do have the original sales receipt! I was also in Wal-Mart this morning-they had them at 10 AM. Try to find out when stores might get shipments. Best Buy received a shipment and sold them on Sun morning–people waited in line, received tickets. When tickets ran out, there were no more to be sold. Told to come back again. Itrackr.com shows who has current stock of Wii. Good Luck!!</p>
<p>This is two Christmases in a row that it has required heroic measures (or extreme luck) to get one’s hands on these things. I just don’t get it. Why can’t they produce enough to satisfy at least most of the demand for them?</p>
<p>You have to be persistent, making phone calls, finding out when deliveries are expected.
I listened to two co-workers this week calling store after store…One was able to get it through her sister in Florida (mid-day) and the other one got hers today at Game Stop. The UPS driver was just delivering them and they had 12…she was number 11 in line. $279.99</p>
<p>Man I got mine about 10 months ago. I went to Best Buy, I was all set on buying a Nintendo DS to get a Super Mario itch I had to scratch. I go there and they had two Wiis sitting there, and I bought one. Coolest game system in the history of gaming. Tiger Woods is freaking awesome!</p>
<p>I bought ours in the Singapore Airport. It is the the U.S. system (110). No problem finding them, but it was much more expensive than the U.S. list price. Sometimes, Santa just has to suck it up.</p>
<p>Don’t feel bad about not looking earlier, I searched in California in August, and came up empty…</p>
<p>Everyone seems to have mentioned the major retailers, so I figured, worst comes to worst, check out Craigslist in your area. Also, I don’t know which stores are “less popular” in your area, but for us, it’s Sears; everyone forgets about them. They had a shipment of 3 only, and we got 1 of the 3 – the guy said they’d been there about a week. I’m not sure about K-Mart or any of the other giants, but call first to save yourself the trouble of going and finding out there aren’t any left.</p>
<p>Apologies for the digression, but is anyone else feeling a bit guilty, like me? We’re giving the H.S. kid and college kid the WII, but college kid won’t get to use it except for at Christmas Break. It doesn’t seem like much of a present…</p>
<p>I’m tempted to have them open the box next week when S. gets home from Uni.
But-opening presents before Christmas is NOT done in our house.</p>
<p>Last year I “won” the privelge of buying one from Amazon. I was spending as much time on their forums as I now spend on this one, and learned you could sign up for a chance to buy. The odds against were ENORMOUS but it was easy to sign up if you already had an account. Maybe they will do the same this year. If not, the folks who “haunt” the individual products ( little links on the bottom called customer discussions) always seem to have the lates scoop…</p>
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<p>Yes, I feel like I wish he could open it up–but----this is supposed to be a surprise! He now knows that they are extremely hard to come by and may not be on the list after all. Hubby and I are now trying to think of creative ways to wrap the Wii. We don’t just want to wrap the system alone. This is THE major gift. Also, have to agree with previous poster about production. Son was not interested last year in the Wii–system was just too new (bugs,maybe?) not to mention too difficult to find. Here we are a year later and everyone is still trying to scramble to find one. I just hope that it is really worth it–and by the way, I feel more guilty about having purchased the thing to begin with, when I know that there are many kids out there who will not have much of a Christmas at All. But, it is Christmas, he is a good kid and that is THE Gift this year!</p>
<p>ooo…that’s an idea. Hubby heads for Cairo via London. I’ll have him check airports for the Wii! Now this is starting to feel like a challenge…I’m getting that old Beanie Baby fever…lol.</p>
<p>Re: GuitarHero III, I’ve heard the game is good but the wireless guitar is not as good as the wired GHII version…kind of glitchy. I bought the GHII bundle and will add the GHIII game which I’ve seen everywhere unbundled.</p>
<p>I went through this last year. JC Penney online took my order told me it was coming then two weeks go by and I find out that they oversold. Arrgh. Went with ebay, paid more money. Not sure how much DS even plays it anymore.</p>
This was supposed to be the first gaming system in our household. S has actually completed a task to earn it, for Christmas. Unfortunately, we could not find it.