I still think it's more than a little odd that he says, "but I lose money on this product and I only got 15 for the first two months of December!"

15 is a lot of consoles for two weeks for an independent retailer.  Why doesn't he just follow the rules?  Or refuse to carry them until late 2008 when the Wii will possibly be briefly in stock before the inevitable shortages of the holiday rush?

If you have a problem with people ebaying the Wii, then limit Wii purchases to one per credit card per year.  This would increase your attach ratio because then you'd have more people coming in to actually purchase the Wii.  And it wouldn't be breaking any rules. 

The big stores make $6 to $12. The indie stores pay more (i faced the same thing when I owned a small chain of indie record stores......). This sounds about right.

Damn, it's as if Toys R Us just picked the 10 worst selling games that they need to get rid of. That's pathetic.

I'll tell you who is really making out on this. The stores that sell used items. Theres a store in my city that buys used systems called Entertainmart. They will buy your used Wii for 400.00 then resell them for 500.00, and that's for a used system people. I went down to the store to see if the rumors are true. Not only was it true, but they had 40 Wii's in stock and there was 4 people in line to buy them! I asked one of the clerks and they said they can't hold on to them. He said that those 40 will be gone within the week! They have also given ridiculous amounts of money to people for each form of systems of the 360 and PS3. They have marked up those prices as well and they have sold great too.
To bad VGchartz can't track used numbers as well.

 I agree it would definitely impact his business which is why he is still doing it.  The point was that he has a choice and if the result is really so awful then don't do it.  The fact is that it does bring traffic and he makes money from that too.  

I'm sure he would prefer to make a bunch of profit on each system but onfortunately the retail business is extremely tough (like he mentioned) and these sorts of dynamics are common.  Lots of items sell at crappy margins but you sell them to bring in traffic.  At least the Wii isn't suffering from the other problem small retail chains hate...which is things that take up shelf space and never go anywhere...thats money and shelf space lost. 

 I think you are being unfair. Not every game in that bundle is crap. For example, you got Zak & Wiki and ... and ... and ... well ...

*run away* 

Even some of the bad bundles are better than going the reseller route. Not that I would ever do it, but I'd rather pay $400 and get a Wii and 3 mediocre to crappy games then pay $400 and just get the console.

/just saying

Look on the bright side: More Zack&Wiki sales. =P

What I find ironic is that Nintendo is complaining about "forced bundling".

The store owner should just buy the Wiis from Nintendo and then re-sell them on ebay, LOL.