PS3 going fast

[ndsimm]

but it ain't worth this much!!! and I don't need it this bad...
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-SONY-PLAYSTA...QQcmdZViewItem

[swanny338]

holy crap... 15k... and I thought someone offering me 1500 for my Wii was good...

[Daniel Bates]

Holy ****.



I guess if you really want it... Me, I have better uses for $15,100.00.

[Gordon]

Originally Posted by swanny338

holy crap... 15k... and I thought someone offering me 1500 for my Wii was good...

Aren't there plenty of Wii's out there ? You should have taken it :)

[swanny338]

I am to proud of my Wii to let someone else have what I got up at 5 in the morning to pre-order... :-P

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

looks like most of the 60's are selling in the $2,400 range or about 3.5 times retail on ebay.

[Nocturnus]

I think the dude bumped his price up easy. Look at the bidders. Not registered and someone with a 1.... Dont trust that.

There are also 97 new PS3 ad's on austin's craigslist.

[rages4calm]

lol look at this one http://cgi.ebay.com/SONY-PLAYSTATION...QQcmdZViewItem

[chano]

i think the markup is a joke. i mean who cant wait a few months to buy one at any retail store? We all know when the xbox360 came out..it had problems. you can only expect the same thing..and most likely more problems with the PS3. ....PS2 had alot of problems......even years after its release.......... im almost thinkin that people who ask for too much money...arent going to get any buyers.

[Duffy Pratt]

My question is: how can Sony marketing screw up so badly? They should either make more units to keep close to demand, or they should bump their own prices and take in the extra money that is out there chasing these things.

Think of it as an IPO. If the IPO goes through and the price of the stock drops, then the Bankers did a lousy job. If the price soars on the release, it also means the Bankers screwed up. They should have offered what was available at a higher initial price to raise more money for the company. The ideal in an IPO is for the stock to go up say 10-20% the first day. That way, everyone is left happy.

With PS3, it makes no sense at all to be selling these machines for 1/3 what people are willing to pay for them. If Sony had simply anticipated the market, they could have doubled the initial supply, and still charged 50% more for them than what they are now getting.

Duffy

[Gordon]

World shortage of blue laser diodes, needed for the media drive.

Pretty much every new console launch has had the same issues. The shops sell them in bundle deals for a huge markup. The Wii hasn't had the same problems because it's a rebranded gamecube with a remote control ;)


Sony are selling them at a loss anyway, planning to make profit on the game licenses.

I see that they are expecting to have another 700,000 units to ship in North America before the end of the year now...

[DEMDeepEllumMusic]

Originally Posted by Duffy Pratt

My question is: how can Sony marketing screw up so badly? They should either make more units to keep close to demand, or they should bump their own prices and take in the extra money that is out there chasing these things.

Think of it as an IPO. If the IPO goes through and the price of the stock drops, then the Bankers did a lousy job. If the price soars on the release, it also means the Bankers screwed up. They should have offered what was available at a higher initial price to raise more money for the company. The ideal in an IPO is for the stock to go up say 10-20% the first day. That way, everyone is left happy.

With PS3, it makes no sense at all to be selling these machines for 1/3 what people are willing to pay for them. If Sony had simply anticipated the market, they could have doubled the initial supply, and still charged 50% more for them than what they are now getting.

Duffy

Only way that Sony could have handled this in your manner would have been to have a Dutch Auction. Really looking at what is being sold on auction sites vs the number of units being released with the initial group is comparing peanuts to watermelons.

I bet Ebay may handle 1,000 to 2,000 units over the next few days vs the 300,000+ released at retail. That high price would not have held up over that large of a quantity and you have the additional handling costs of distributing the product vs the shipping of several pallet loads to major cities and then subdeviding that out to the stores.

I bet the DFW area had several thousand units shipped to it, some stores had over 100 units sent to them of both sizes.

The guys who cleaned up are the retailers because they have money tied up in that inventory for less than 24 hours and those selling prices are fuill markup!
Bet the sales staff were trying to talk the buyers into upgrading their monitors/tv systems!

[rages4calm]

Well I dunno about yall but i got my money on the Nintendo Wii that comes out tonight at midnight.. the good news is.. i don't have to be there at midnight because there will be enough units to please everyone :)

[chano]

heres somethin cool to chek out..

http://www.planetboredom.net/video.php?id=2944


or

http://www.smashmyps3.com

[mivy00]

I got one today .... I bought the xbox 360's the day they came out too ... console releases have helped me pay down quite a bit on my credit cards ....I made 3500.00 off of 3 xbox 360's ...expect i will make 1000.00 off of the one playstation i was able to get. I dont know who pays this much for them, but im happy they do.