| Jazz2K said: I remember back in 2006 the day before the PS3 would come out a friend and I decided to camp in front of Walmarts to make sure we got one each (yeah in order to sell them on ebay). Camping on October-November isn't such a great idea in Canada since it's cold already. The girlfriend I had at that time wanted to come with us so we brought her. All Montreal's Walmarts already had campers in fron of the stores and it was only 4 in the after noon so we decided to change city. We went 150km farther to find 1 spot. My friend and I were depressed so I had the great idea to leave my girlfriend camping alone with the other people in that city (not such a great idea that was... I still hear about it even if we're not together anymore). We went all around the province of Quebec to our despair traveling more that 700km from town to town to being dissapointed everytime... there were campers all over the province. We even encountered other people looking for places but to no success. We ended up in a strip club in a city called Drummondville (what a dirty place that strip club was) and my frien almost had a fight with some fellas over a dance he kind of stole from a stripper, anyway. We continued the search taking pictures here and there of people camping. In the end we went back to the city my girlfriend was (she was so pissed alone in the cold with gamers all around) we found a convenience store that was still selling alcohol at 4 in the morning (after eleven it's illegal to sell alcohol) after we told our story to the guy... he laughed hard I'm telling you. Then came the morning, we were the firsts to enter, we got 1 PS3 which was mine (technically it was my girlfriend's) (the other campers got theirs). It was expansive as hell: $699 tx = $781. I tried to sell it on ebay the same day and failed. I ended up selling it for $900 3 weeks later... I was shocked and thought that this would never sell. I sincerely believed that the PS3 would die 1-2 years after it's release. Now we're almost 5 years later and it's still going. Geat job Sony, congrats. |
Funny ass story, mine is pretty good too but in the end I sold it for $1,400 profit. At least you know some people had a happy ending. Still had to win a lottery, race to line with crowds of people multiple times, line up for a staged race made up by Walmart employees for a joke on us crazy bastards. And stay in a layaway section and tire store in that walmart for 36 hours with a friend as shoppers stared at us sleeping on benches or playing games. I also wasn't stupid enough to bring my girlfriend she thought I was crazy. It was a pretty good time I will do it again when the next box or PS4 comes out. Probably keep it this time!
