Today was a shocking day. A TON of consoles were getting returned to WalMart. All consoles and both handhelds.

None of the consoles were even defective. I asked one customer returning a Wii and PS3 why they were returning them. Their responce "I need the money back, need to pay bills, I'll probably rebuy them in a few weeks or so."

Is the economy this bad that you return something you enjoy to pay your bills then when you finally get a scrap of money go back and buy them again??? There had to have been 15 Wiis, 20 PS3s, and maybe 17 360s returned today. (Numbers are estimates, I know there were less Wiis then the others and less 360s then PS3s). I have no idea on handhelds, all I saw was a decent sized pile by claims.

Well even during a recession, if you are smart about it you will not have to worry about money. People need to remember bills first fun later, i always set aside money for bills and i save up for fun.

In otherwords (and a more hostile approach). If you have to resort to returning stuff you recently bought, you fail at savings and need to learn about bills.

Ummm... why is only Wii listed in the topic title when by your own estimate they were returned the least?

That's crazy though. Was today that bizarre that everybody was returning stuff or does this happen usually just on a smaller scale?

with the soaring costs of living i am not surprised, i would never sell any of my babies though i mean consoles :)

people buying things they cant afford doesnt necessarily equate to bad economy. if they are going to buy them again then obviously they are being donkeys (for the most part) and not budgeting properly.

I think he meant to phrase it like:

"Even Wiis are getting returned?!!"

I'll be selling my wii soon cause I want to go to Dominican republic for a vacation... poor me :)

no I put the title as it is to get more attention to it

The topic title seems slightly trollish but I guess I'll take Montanas interpretation.

Anyway, your economy seems in a bad way. Can you still sell Wiis for more than full price on Ebay? If so returning them probably isn't the smartest idea.

Edit: Ahh so I guess the topic title was purely to be trollish. Nice SSJ.

Have you ever been poor ssj12? Ever filed for bankruptcy? Ever lost your house to a subprime mortgage?

Maybe people are waking up. Not being on the street comes first for most people. As bad as the US's recession is going to be, it's going to make a lot of people start thinking and caring about the right things again. I say it's about time.