BMaker11 said:
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. |
Last time and I am done.
Store is open because there is a kid in the background. So what do you know how long it had been open? Could it be immediatly after opening? Could it be they let people in the store before they allowed purchases. I was at a Walmart in Arkansas last year that allowed just that. We could walk in and see all the stuff, but we could not purchase any of it until midnight. You dont know so you dont know the context. The TRU only shows me that for the BF event that TRU had great supply. Doesnt tell me they didnt sell out 20 or minutes later or 2 days later now does it?
I love the article about the Best Buy. Some employee says they have Day One editions still. So they call and someone answers. You have no idea if that person even knows what the Day One edition is. They could simply think yea we have some Xbox Ones. So yea we have them.
Yeah an an ex-employee of mine works in the Xbox Division of Microsoft. So what does that matter. And why does it matter what the average is. Do you think that a Target/Best Buy/Walmart in an afluent area gets more allocated by the corporate office then a Target/Best Buy/Walmart in a poorer area?
Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.
