| thx1139 said: BMaker11...As many have said before "sold out" at retailers doesnt mean you cant find one at a retailer (or several) somewhere. Your picture stating it is from BF and ms speaking 5 days later means that picture is useless. MS spoke days after. You dont even know when on BF that picture was taken. How do you know that store had more than the average store? Do you know how many the average BB had? Do you know when the picture was taken? You dont know any of that. So stop trying to invent some sort of conspiracy. |
Funny how you ignored the whole context of the quote, stating that every unit they've made, they've sold and that demand is "far surpassing" supply.
And the store is obviously open in that pic because there's a kid in the background. Here's another BF pic, this one from Toys 'R Us http://img.ibtimes.com/www/data/images/full/2013/12/05/433461.jpg, all the people around yet that stack is high.
I may not know the exact hh:mm:ss that these pics were taken, but on the biggest shopping day of the year, on an item that's supposed to be in high demand, you'd expect them to be gone in minutes.
You're asking for impossible details. Btw, MS was speaking only 4 days after BF, actually. The article in the OP is actually a day after the Ars Tech article that was originally reported, and is just a summarization. I'm not inventing a conspiracy. Yusuf said "we're selling every one we make" yet several are found on shelves in many places. Why can't you just accept that the MS rep made an incorrect statement? I mean, you said my photographic evidence was useless since it's a few days old....yet a few posts before, you guys were grilling me saying that MS doesn't have day to day inventory tracking with retailers. I've shown you that they haven't sold out, yet MS says they have, only 4 days later. So, what? Do they have this day to day inventory tracking, now that it's beneficial on your behalf? They would certainly need that in order to make the statement "we're selling every one we make" yet I've shown you that many of the ones they've made haven't sold. Hell, even Day 1 Editions at the Best Buy in Times Square aren't sold out yet. Now, you may be able to pull the "that's just one employee at a store" but the Best Buy in Times Square is HUGE. And that article was written the same day Yusuf made his comment.
And, btw, a fraternity brother of mine works at Target Corporate, and another friend works at Best Buy. My friend that works at Best Buy may not be the best source, since he can only represent one store, but he said his store got about 11 or 12 units. But my friend who works at at corporate said that most Targets got about 15 for BF. Only reason I asked them was because I was looking to get a PS4. Anyway, if a large retailer like Target is only getting about 15 units, I can take that as an average. Not to mention the ones I saw at my local Walmart for BF.
