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Originally Posted by forddude7

I haven't looked on Ebay about the PSIII, I just might. Maybe a guy can score one at walmart and go on ebay for a quick turnaround.

I would imagine that any place that plans on selling them has already sold out on pre-orders. There is always the chance that you could get lucky. You will make quite a bundle if you manage to get one and list it on ebay. They are going for over $1000 on there, and I have seen several at the $1500 + range.

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There's this type of person who buys a new console not to play it, but to re-sell it. This 'type' of person compounds supply issues by buying up stock at retail price not strictly to make a fast buck. Meanwhile the eager game system fanboy looses out because he has to pay 3,4,5 times the retail price to get that system now because 1/2 the supply is up on eBay for sale to the highest bidder.

We saw this with the Xbox360 and it's only going to be worse with the Playstation 3. Remember all those scams on eBay last year? A few people were selling just their Xbox360 box so they had a photo of just the box and people were bidding 600, 700 bucks for it. Some clown had a brown cardboard box and with marker drew an X on it and put it up online as an X box and it drew a stupid amount of money in bidding frenzy.

Well... eBay feels your pain and has put rules in place well in advance to stop some of the insanity. Effective immediately eBay has set in place the following rules for Playstation 3 and Wii auctions:

* Only one of each console can be listed per seller at a time prior to the system launch dates.
* The seller must only accept PayPal payments and have a minimum of 50 feedback and a rating of 98% or higher to qualify for PayPal Buyer Protection.
* The pre-sale can only be in Auction format, no Buy It Now listings will be accepted
* The listing must include a clear photo of the pre-order receipt in the description of your auction

That all sounds like a pretty good step forward. Except I'm a bit suspicious on the PayPal thing. eBay stands to make a lot of money double dipping fees because they make money on the auction closing amount as well as they make 3% basically on the PayPal transaction. It does however help prevent wire and check fraud.

http://www.2old2play.com/News/eBay_r...d_Wii_Auctions

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wow I see your still talking about Playstation....*yawns* I'm bored.

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Originally Posted by Whipcream_Nympho

wow I see your still talking about Playstation....*yawns* I'm bored.

Have you tried strapping some fireworks to a cat? I've heard that can be great fun.

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somehow the only animal torture that i could get into was stuffing cheese curls with alka seltzer and feeding them to pigeons and seagulls, but they have all flown the coop, really to torture kitties well thats not my style. I like kitties they taste like chicken, No Really give me some real entertainment.

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Originally Posted by Whipcream_Nympho

somehow the only animal torture that i could get into was stuffing cheese curls with alka seltzer and feeding them to pigeons and seagulls, but they have all flown the coop, really to torture kitties well thats not my style. I like kitties they taste like chicken, No Really give me some real entertainment.

alka seltzer and pigeons does not sound like a good combination.

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its fun to watch their innards shoot out their butts. *nod*

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wow....
im speechless...


on a completely unrelated note.
have you ever noticed you have 1032 posts?

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Originally Posted by folta

wow....
im speechless...


on a completely unrelated note.
have you ever noticed you have 1032 posts?

Yes yes I know I am a freebie society junkie. I have many posts mainly because I am freebie fanatic

is this happenening to anyone else everytime I enter this thread I get a gear.free4me network password login box?

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Originally Posted by Whipcream_Nympho

is this happenening to anyone else everytime I enter this thread I get a gear.free4me network password login box?

That happened to me once. I was like "what the frack?".