Wii reseller OWNED

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yesterday they had Wii's in my local Best Buy and one of the workers recognized this older guy who has bought a Wii at least 6 times (tried to buy 3 last time they had them in stock) ...with one credit card but had his wife and mother(mother inlaw?)

when he asked about buying a Wii the clerk refused him and confronted him and his history of buying Wii's
he also hits up the Best Buy a couple of towns over
and they know him and warned him about buying more than his share of Wii's

this makes me sick
when there are people and mostly little kids who want just one system and we have scalpers out there buying 6+ systems and more if he could get away with it

well the clerk made the manager aware of him and he left empty handed
 
I don't see anything wrong with what that guy is doing. Why shouldn't he be allowed to buy as many Wiis as he can get his hands on? If someone wants a Wii so bad maybe they should put some effort into locating one. It's really not that hard.
 
They could probably impose a one per person/per family/per buying group limit, anyways I think this falls under the retail law "we can refuse service to anyone if we choose to do so".
 
[quote name='SaraAB']They could probably impose a one per person/per family/per buying group limit, anyways I think this falls under the retail law "we can refuse service to anyone if we choose to do so".[/quote]

I hate/love that rule. Now that I don't work in retail I hate it, but I once loved it lol
 
[quote name='CombatCraig']While I agree that guy is lame - can BB refuse to sell him something based on one CSR's word?[/quote]

all retailers/restartaunts/most every where to my knowledge all reserve the right to refuse service to anyone.
 
Look at it from the LOCAL BRICK AND MORTAR store's point of view.

Reseller buys a Wii. Reseller puts it up on Ebay. Wii is purchased by someone far away from the Brick and Mortar store in question.

The local store loses sales of accessories and games. Ideally, their chances of having local sales of accessories and games goes up if they can sell most of the Wiis to local customers.
 
All I'm saying is that this kind of thread comes up literally every two months and it adds nothing to the forum when people can be talking about games like No More Heroes, Endless Ocean, Brawl, Galaxy, and Zack & Wiki.

It's sensationalist message board trash.

OMG! Someone is reselling their Wii!

Why does it matter and who the fuck cares?
 
I passionately despise hoarders and I think more stores should call out people trying to bring along family members while trying to exploit the "one per customer" stipulation, but this certainly seems to fall into a much greyer area, especially if he's buying one Wii at a time on totally separate business days.

That said, I'm glad someone is standing up to these people, no matter how much this decision conforms to store policy. I have to assume that the ratio of store managers who would do the same in this situation is no better than 1:100. (Sales are sales, fear of customer complaint quagmire, eventual loss of job, etc.) These people are just perpetuating this shortage to ridiculous lengths, as if Nintendo needs any help with that.

Hey-yo!
 
[quote name='jman619']I think that is most of the problem. People buying them to resell instead of letting someone get one that actually wants to play them.[/quote]

But doesn't the person who eventually buys it actually want to play it? I would think so and probably even moreso than the lazy person who won't call the store, stand on line, etc. in order to get one.
 
It admittedly is amazing how people will stand in a line for two hours for an amusement park ride--a two or three minute experience--in an environment filled with screaming children and endlessly looping obnoxious noises, but just find sitting outside of a store (in the relative quiet of the early morning) for three or four hours (at this point) for a console that's going to provide hours of entertainment* so 'beneath them'.

I tipped my friend off to the Wal-Mart availability of Wii a couple Sundays ago, and he texted me "I can't believe I'm actually doing this" while sitting inside the fucking climate-controlled store. He waited less than three hours, and got to see the second half of the Jaguars-Steelers game on a big screen in front of him. And I guess they had chips 'n' shit for those sitting. I almost wanted to call the store manager to tell him to kick the guy out for 'excessive petulance'.

*--As in, at least two. (Rimshot)
 
I personally have mixed feelings about hoarders. They aren't breaking any laws or hurting anybody. Obviously they're selling the Wii's so somebody somewhere is getting them. They simply seem to be exploiting a situation created by Nintendo's inability to make their supply match demand.

On the other hand, it does seem...Grinchish...morally repugnant that they're taking what could have gone to a happy kid that afternoon, and selling it to somone on ebay for hundreds of dollars more than they paid.

Meh, it is free enterprise thats for sure but still seems like you'd have to be an ass to do it.
 
It's funny that the Best Buy employee is stopping the guy from buying Wiis to make money while at the same time the Best Buy employee is selling Wiis so his company can make money.
 
[quote name='kevlar51']It's funny that the Best Buy employee is stopping the guy from buying Wiis to make money while at the same time the Best Buy employee is selling Wiis so his company can make money.[/quote]

No the Best Buy employee is a crusader for justice making sure no one hawks wii's so that deprived little children of BB shoppers can get one there.
 
[quote name='pittpizza']No the Best Buy employee is a crusader for justice making sure no one hawks wii's so that deprived little children of BB shoppers can get one there.[/quote]

Oh. Nevermind then.
 
[quote name='pittpizza']I personally have mixed feelings about hoarders. They aren't breaking any laws or hurting anybody. Obviously they're selling the Wii's so somebody somewhere is getting them. They simply seem to be exploiting a situation created by Nintendo's inability to make their supply match demand.

On the other hand, it does seem...Grinchish...morally repugnant that they're taking what could have gone to a happy kid that afternoon, and selling it to somone on ebay for hundreds of dollars more than they paid.

Meh, it is free enterprise thats for sure but still seems like you'd have to be an ass to do it.[/QUOTE]

That's exactly my take on it. I don't rail against it too much as it's not illegal or anything, and it's not there fault that theres a market of idiots willing to pay above MSRP for stuff on ebay.

But it is kind of prickish, and I just in general don't like people that just do anything they can to make a buck at every turn.
 
[quote name='jollydwarf']It admittedly is amazing how people will stand in a line for two hours for an amusement park ride--a two or three minute experience--in an environment filled with screaming children and endlessly looping obnoxious noises, but just find sitting outside of a store (in the relative quiet of the early morning) for three or four hours (at this point) for a console that's going to provide hours of entertainment* so 'beneath them'.
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There are three flaws to this.

1. Your assuming that people who are willing to wait in line for 2 hours for a ride at the amusement pact are the SAME people unwilling to wait for a console. There's no way to know that, those could be the people who do camp to buy shit as well.

2. Time of day. Lines in amusement parks rides don't start before sun rise.

3. Weather. Console demand is highest around the holidays, and many places it's cold as balls during that time of year, especially in the predawn hours. Most cold weather amusement parks close for winter.
 
[quote name='Zen Davis']All I'm saying is that this kind of thread comes up literally every two months and it adds nothing to the forum ...blah..blah...blah[/QUOTE]

Thanks for sharing. Now how about learning to just not click on, much less post in topics that annoy you pretending to be some kind of deputy moderator who can tell people what they can post here.
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']Thanks for sharing. Now how about learning to just not click on, much less post in topics that annoy you pretending to be some kind of deputy moderator who can tell people what they can post here.[/quote]

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzing!
 
I don't see how he got owned.

If the scenario was like this: Wii reseller gets mugged and loses all his wiis, his house burnt down down, he caught his wife cheating on him with a retarded midget and the reseller gets AIDs, then I can see how he got owned.
 
[quote name='pittpizza']No the Best Buy employee is a crusader for justice making sure no one hawks wii's so that deprived little children of BB shoppers can get one there.[/quote]
Brilliant! :applause:

[quote name='dmaul1114']Thanks for sharing. Now how about learning to just not click on, much less post in topics that annoy you pretending to be some kind of deputy moderator who can tell people what they can post here.[/quote]
Now how about learning to just edit, instead of making double and triple posts all over the place. Look, two quotes in one post, it's not magic.
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']There are three flaws to this.

1. Your assuming that people who are willing to wait in line for 2 hours for a ride at the amusement pact are the SAME people unwilling to wait for a console. There's no way to know that, those could be the people who do camp to buy shit as well.

2. Time of day. Lines in amusement parks rides don't start before sun rise.

3. Weather. Console demand is highest around the holidays, and many places it's cold as balls during that time of year, especially in the predawn hours. Most cold weather amusement parks close for winter.[/QUOTE]


Hey, look, I used the "Quote" feature!

Those are all true, but given the collective lamenting from everyone from non-gamers to barely-gamers to even Luke Smith (circa a year ago on "1up Yours"), so many people just seem to be dead set against linesitting for anything for any length of time. It's a stigmatization thing, I know it is. It's socially acceptable to go to the theme park or Disneyland or wherever and partake in standing around in the sweltering sun and collective B.O. It's not 'cool', however, to stand/sit outside a retail store for a game system. Only losers and greasy types do that stuff, right?

I'm also pretty certain that quite a few of the people in serpentine amusement park lines are the same people that poo-poo linesitting for consoles. At the end of the day, all I'm saying is that it's yet another sociologically-influenced double standard, and that the 'reward' is much more disproportionate for the one most 'normal' people find acceptable than the one they don't. Also, people will sit at football games for three-plus hours, risking hypothermia. I'm sure for every seat filled in Lambeau Field last weekend, there were three more people that would've gladly paid over face value for that ticket.* If they want something badly enough, they'll adapt (although I have to cut some slack for those that say "No thanks!" when the roads are impassable or the weather goes from just uncomfortable to downright dangerous--no system is worth risking those conditions).

*--And how badly did that suck for Packers fans in attendance?
 
I don't know about the stigmatization.

I'm not much for doing it as I don't need to own anything bad enough to wait out in the cold for it.

I did wait for my Wii preorder, but that was inside a mall and only for an hour and a half. So I don't care about line sitting, as long as it's not very long and not outside in poor weather.

Otherwise, I'll just wait or buy something else in place of the scarce item.
 
[quote name='ChibiJosh']
Now how about learning to just edit, instead of making double and triple posts all over the place. Look, two quotes in one post, it's not magic.[/QUOTE]

Wow, another deputy mod. :roll:

I use multiple quotes sometimes, but usually I'm too lazy to fuck with the cutting and pasting or manual quote insertion.
 
[quote name='Zen Davis']All I'm saying is that this kind of thread comes up literally every two months and it adds nothing to the forum when people can be talking about games like No More Heroes, Endless Ocean, Brawl, Galaxy, and Zack & Wiki.

It's sensationalist message board trash.

OMG! Someone is reselling their Wii!

Why does it matter and who the fuck cares?[/quote]
He should have made him buy something like Zack&Wiki / no more heroes / Endless ocean to support third party's who take a chance. There!
 
I did wait for my Wii preorder, but that was inside a mall and only for an hour and a half. So I don't care about line sitting, as long as it's not very long and not outside in poor weather.

Some people don't even want to do that. I remember how the Gamestop I waited outside (albeit a 'strip plaza' one) had a last-minute surge of people showing up on the morning of the Wii preorders. There's also an element of people less 'enthusiastic' about games than us continuously underestimating the amount of time required to wait, but with the Wii, you'd think by now there'd be a lot more erring on the side of caution.

Until further notice, if people want one of these consoles, they're either going to have to be pretty lucky with their timing (B&M or online) or be ready to put in at least three or four hours on the appropriate days. The elements will always be a factor to varying degrees, but I believe that for many, the basic premise of waiting for a full-price console is something they feel inherently compromises their overall respectability. To them I say "Thanks for feeding the hoarders!"
 
[quote name='jollydwarf']The elements will always be a factor to varying degrees, but I believe that for many, the basic premise of waiting for a full-price console is something they feel inherently compromises their overall respectability. [/QUOTE]

I agree with all of that except that for most that they won't do it out of damaging their respectability.

I think more people just don't care enough to wait in line to spend their money on a game console. Especially when there are two others (plus two portables) that you can buy with no waiting.

I'm sure there are some who feel they're too "cool" to wait in line, but I have a hard time imagining that as the #1 reason people don't wait.

People work hard for their money, and have busy ass lives. Waiting in line to spend said hard earned money on something as banal as a video game console is just a hard pill to swallow to many people--worry about their image aside.
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']I don't know about the stigmatization.

I'm not much for doing it as I don't need to own anything bad enough to wait out in the cold for it.

I did wait for my Wii preorder, but that was inside a mall and only for an hour and a half. So I don't care about line sitting, as long as it's not very long and not outside in poor weather.

Otherwise, I'll just wait or buy something else in place of the scarce item.[/quote]
This is exactly how I feel. Several times last fall, my numerous non gamer friends would ask me (with a smirk) if I was going to line up for a Wii.

I always replied that there are some things worth being out in the cold for over night. Such as bread when you are starving, or for a chance to escape Nazi Germany.

I guess I'm also one of those freaks who doesn't enjoy waiting in lines for a roller coaster. I don't even like waiting in line at the Post Office.

As for 'helping the horders' by not standing out in the cold?

I bought my Wii when I happened to be at a Target for something else. They just happened to have some. I was willing to wait until I got one without having to /work/ to pay money. If that never happened, it wouldn't bother me to miss out on a generation of Nintendo games.

Perhaps /patience/ is more of a virtue than being willing to sit in a lawn chair for three or more hours?
... Nah.
 
But so often the people complaining the loudest about the difficulty of not getting a Wii are the same ones that are the most aversive towards any sort of waiting for any significant duration (for whatever reasons they have). I'm NOT saying that everyone who refuses to linesit falls into my generalization. Some are very willing to just let it happens when it happens (as you demonstrated).

Also, this is a one-shot deal. How many people are so busy that they haven't been able to get up super-early on one Sunday morning (year 'round, including warm Summer months, mind you, as The Shortage never really did subside last year) and wait around for a handful of hours? It's NOT on impracticality nearly as much as it is on people being stubborn. But I think we can all agree that many need to chose: either wait, or stop bitching.

It's worth noting that I don't enjoy linesitting, but I have no problem with sitting around for a few hours every few years to get a console sooner than later, if not Day One. As it turns out, the last four consoles I got on Day One, the Dreamcast*, the PS2, the 360, and the Wii, I put in about five or six total hours, as I actually waited for the preorder slips on the PS2 (Toys R Us) and Wii (GS) and just walked into a Best Buy and Gamestop to preorder the other two well in advance. Oh--and I'm now officially "too old for this shit", so as far as me practicing what I preach in November of '10 or '11...not gonna happen. I will just wait, let the kinks and the crap get worked out, and not complain.

*--I'm not even sure they sold out the preorders for this one back then. I think more people were there for Final Fantasy VIII, it seemed.
 
[quote name='jollydwarf']But so often the people complaining the loudest about the difficulty of not getting a Wii are the same ones that are the most aversive towards any sort of waiting for any significant duration (for whatever reasons they have). [/QUOTE]

Oh, I agree with that. I just disagree that the reason was thinking it nerdy to wait in line.

People who don't want to wait, shouldn't complain so much. If they want it bad enough to complain about it repeatedly, they should just wait once and get it over with.

Or just buy a DS or one of the other consoles if they're just wanting to game and are totally unwilling to wait.

I mean, if you're going to waste time bitching about it, then you might as well waste some more in line so you can stop bitching about it.
 
Legally Best Buy cant prevent him from buying the WII's.

When I worked at Gamesetop, everytime a truck came in with WII's the same asshat would buy a WII every week and come back every week, it went on for like 3 months.

I couldnt stop it, I talked to the DM (I was a manager at the time) and we arent allowed to refuse service. Its shit.

So sad to see, Best buy can't refuse him the WII, morally it may be wrong, but I think they were over the line in refusing to sell it to him.
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']Thanks for sharing. Now how about learning to just not click on, much less post in topics that annoy you pretending to be some kind of deputy moderator who can tell people what they can post here.[/quote]

Aren't you, just then, doing what you are preaching against?

Anyway, I hate Wiisellers*. It is really hard to find Wiis+. I have seen only a few Wiis since November 2006 in the wild. My friend was looking for one and couldn't. He got a guitar amp instead. But that is not relavant#. I am glad they flexed their right of refusal.

*--Buying Wiis to resell.
+--In my area.
#--Look at me, I am Jolly Dwarf!:lol:
 
While I disagree with the idea of hoarding he was perfectly within his rights to attempt to grab as many Wiis as he could. I may not agree with it, but there's nothing I'm really going to do to stop him. If he wants to put forth the investment and time in doing so, so be it.

On the other hand, the store is completely within their right to refuse service for almost any reason, except discriminatory, so they could refuse to sell him for their given reasons, but not because he was a male, or white, or a midget, or a eunuch. While it's generally bad business practice to refuse a sale, it is perfectly legal to do so.
 
[quote name='Kendal']Aren't you, just then, doing what you are preaching against?
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Touche!

I really don't care what people post on the net, but the pet peeves I have is people who take the time to post about how certain topics are pointless and shouldn't be posted, and people who aren't mods telling people how to post.

If they're that fucking pointless, don't waste your time clicking on them, much less responding to them! And if you think they really aren't worthy of posting, then report the post to the real mods.
 
[quote name='Ritched']I don't see how he got owned.

If the scenario was like this: Wii reseller gets mugged and loses all his wiis, his house burnt down down, he caught his wife cheating on him with a retarded midget and the reseller gets AIDs, then I can see how he got owned.[/quote]

That's ownage 4 times over.
 
[quote name='dmaul1114']Touche!

I really don't care what people post on the net, but the pet peeves I have is people who take the time to post about how certain topics are pointless and shouldn't be posted, and people who aren't mods telling people how to post.

If they're that fucking pointless, don't waste your time clicking on them, much less responding to them! And if you think they really aren't worthy of posting, then report the post to the real mods.[/quote]

Sorry, I was just really being an asshat. :D I know what you mean. It is hard to point out shit like that and not get called on it yourself sometimes.
 
[quote name='D_Icon']The wii is overrated.[/quote]

Your face is overrated....


...yeah I'm just trying to avoid work at the moment, sorry
 
[quote name='CombatCraig']Your face is overrated....


...yeah I'm just trying to avoid work at the moment, sorry[/quote]
When the fudge have you seen my face.





A friend has a wii, I played the boxing wii sports game and its nothing big. The only reason I'd get a Wii would be for my bro hes 9 and liked the game. For now hes happy with the DS.
 
[quote name='Ritched']
If the scenario was like this: Wii reseller gets mugged and loses all his wiis, his house burnt down down, he caught his wife cheating on him with a retarded midget and the reseller gets AIDs, then I can see how he got owned.[/quote]

I think...by some freak chance....

We have finally discovered the difference between getting owned and getting pwnd.
 
Maybe this guy was buying Wii's and donating them to local charities. No one knows for sure.

Regardless of his reasons, you crybabies need something else to worry about. You should all take your self-righteous indignation and spend it worrying about abused spouses in the local women's shelter instead of which old guy keeps buying Wiis. Maybe think about donating your time to a big brother association instead of worrying who doesn't have a Wii yet.

It's not like he was buying too much fresh water while little kids were outside dying of thirst. They're freaking videogames. Yes, this man was stopped, stopped from buying too many videogame consoles. Good. Now the world is a much better place - FOR ASSfuckERS LIKE YOU !
 
Alright, I think we've had enough to say about this topic. My first Forum Guide act in Nintendo area will be to close this here thread ;).
 
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