Wow -- Wii with Wii Play now fetching $500+ on Ebay

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epsilon72 on 26 November 2007

darendt said:
Thats just stupid. Why would anyone pay that much more than retail for it. Amazon is the same way right now. All the sellers just bought up the stock cause Nintendo said there would be a shortage. Now they can sell them for whatever suckers are willing to pay.

It's simple - because the Wii is worth that $500 to them, and they consider cheaper ones hard enough to find so that the msrp is a non-issue when they decide to drop that sort of money to get one. If it wasn't worth that much to them, they wouldn't have bought it for that much. Aahhh, supply and demand....how I wish I had an extra Wii to sell on ebay

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allstarr35 on 26 November 2007

I was just looking at Amazon and there selling starting from $549.99 wtf.... not even the ps3 is selling for that much it really doesn't make any sense.

edit but i guess that's all been implied

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misterd on 26 November 2007

Yep, this fad will DIE ANY DAY NOW!

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globster2000 on 26 November 2007

i believe that parents would do anything to buy what their children want. Especially since wii is popular with children. I am curious to how many wii's were sold this past friday or this past weekend in general. However, 500+ for a wii is quite a big chunk of change that scalpers are earning.

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eugene on 26 November 2007

The irony is astounding. The Wii almost doubled its value 1 years time and the PS3 lost almost half its value in 1 years time and the 360 stayed relatively flat.