I believe that consumers are onto these "resellers" which don't add any value to the package and are driven purely by greed. The day after pre-orders opened up for the Wii U, I saw a listing on eBay for the basic set with a "Buy It Now" price of $1,100. I wrote the guy and told him his price was a bit nuts as most others currently on eBay were in the $500-$600 range. He seemed confident that he'd get his asking price, so I marked the item to watch it and it didn't sell. Why people think that the hour it took for them to go to Game Stop and pre-order something is worth $800 I'll never get....it again boils down to greed. If Nintendo had a first wave shipment of 400,000 and then there were gong to be no more until after Christmas, then I think you'd see these people getting more for the systems. Thing is, they aren't that hard to find. That is in part to the fact that it didn't get the buzz that the original Wii got and the price is higher. The Wii was sold out around me for the first three Christmas's which I've never seen anthing like that
When the PS3 was released, there were long line for them and people were trying to sell them for thousands on eBay and just a few short weeks later (before Christman) there were stacks of them in our local Best Buy and Game Stop stores just sitting there and they didn't sell out agin the rest of the year. One month after the 3DS released in the USA, I saw them for retail on eBay and worse yet was a month after release of the Vita in the USA, I saw them selling for less than retail. I think that most people now know it's stupid to pay these "resellers" highly inflated prices when the manufactures are still making more units.
Stop hating and start playing.
