I'm sure they are for sale somewhere, on sale, now that could be bit harder to find. You may have better odds finding an unopened bottle of Chivas Regal at Ted Kennedy's house.
One of my younger co-workers said he stopped by to see his friends on his way home last night. The friends had been camped outside an electronics store since Wednesday. The plan, as I understand it, is to purchase a PS3 and then sell it on EBay for eleventeen gajillion dollars. As of Friday night, most of the PS3s are going for under $2,000. Lets see, waiting in line in a sleeping bag for two days plus the cost of slurpies, nachos and assorted fast food for the opportunity to pay $600 buck plus tax and then pay EBay a commission to sell the thing, what is the hourly pay for the whole ordeal?
What do you think? Hmmm, 15 -18 dollars an hour?
Now that is good money for a high school kid or a twenty something slacker if they have the venture capital to make the deal happen.
Maybe I am all wet on this one. Its not stupid, its capitalism at its finest, with just a bit of foolishness thrown in for good measure.
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Pretty soon the price will come down and illegal immigrants will be camped in front of Best Buy instead of Home Depot, doing the work Americans will no longer do.
The funniest thing of all is the PS3 is not even a close 2nd to the X-Box 360, (According to my expert youngest son.)
It is funny how the "excitement" of insuring a "child" will have something he thinks he can't live without during the holidays, and especially Christmas, will drive people to do impulse silliness.
FAR.
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