PS3 Sleazebag Award Nominees

[Kitten in the box]

That sounds like child endangerment to me. THREE months old??? A child that young can't even stand, let alone crawl or walk.

WTF indeed.

OH, HELL NO please say that is a joke...3 month old baby saving a place in line for the parents I assume??? What's wrong with standing in line THEMSELVES??!! STUPID MUTHA ASSHOLES!!

[Crosshair]

Oh yea, I forgot to post this. When they where going to start handing them out, mom with the 3 month old runs to the front of the line and tries to get one for both her and her baby. Management says h*ll no and sells the family only one. The 3 guys from Fargo got the other 3 and 6 rainchecks where given out. (Management refused to give mom and baby a raincheck after they pulled that crap.)

[ForestDragon]

Like many of the people here who want a PS3, I'm going to wait to get one until the price goes down and we can be reasonably sure any bugs were taken care of. I am wondering though, does it come with a game included? My PS2 did, but it was a game of a genre I had (if it's possible) negative interest in. I like RPGs, platformers, action/adventures - I do not like racing games of any stamp, thankyewvurramuch.

[Shacky Whacky]

I was watching the morning news today, (I gotta keep up on events ) and I witnessed footage of two guys tackling each other over this thing. I also just read a article about a guy who got shot over this thing.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

[HawaiianShirts]

With the PS3 releasing Friday morning, we had people lining up as early as Wednesday afternoon, which I understand is relatively late compared to other places. But it was getting unruly already. Our store got 26 systems. By about 10PM Wednesday, we had over 70 people milling about trying to figure out for themselves where the line should be.

There were some arguments. Then someone decided to get violent. So someone else called the police. Cops came by (several cruisers and a K9 unit), cuffed one guy and stuck him in a car, then came in to talk to a manager. They made us raffle off tickets to everyone who wanted a PS3. The 26 who won gave us their names and were told to come back at 7AM Friday (we opened at 8AM) to take their places in line. They had to bring ID so we could match them to the names on our list. If they weren't there by 8AM, their places would be given to someone else. So there was no line until early Friday, and then the line was only about 30 long. One guy didn't show, and his system went to someone else.

The fun part for me was my evening shift that day. Some snobby rich guy waltzes in around 5PM. He walks right past the gaming section and into computers. There's strike one against his intelligence. I was the first associate he saw (though he passed several others on his way in). He approached me, whips out a handful of cash, waves it at me, and says, "I'm ready to buy my PS3."
Me: I'm sorry, sir, we're sold out.
Snob: (overly confident) But I've got the money right here. You have to sell me one.
Me: I don't have any PS3s to sell you. We're out.
Snob: But I'm ready to buy it. Right now. I've got the cash.
Me: I see that. We got 26 systems. They were all sold by about 8:30 this morning to people who lined up to get them Wednesday night.
Snob: (still somehow confident) I'm ready to buy! Right now!
Me: Good for you. We're sold out.
Snob: But I've got the cash right here! Don't you want my business?
Me: If I don't have the product, I can't have your business. I'm going to go take care of my other customers. If you hang on to that cash for a few weeks, perhaps we'll get another shipment. Have a good evening, sir.
Snob: (as I walk away) This is outrageous!

So, when do we announce the winners of this Sleazebag award?

Edit: Found this on another forum.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...5788&rd=1&rd=1

[MadMike]

Snob: (still somehow confident) I'm ready to buy! Right now!
Me: Good for you. We're sold out.
Snob: But I've got the cash right here! Don't you want my business?

At times like that, I'm sure you curse the fact that you're not allowed to say something like, "What do you want me to do, pull one out of my ass?"

[Mike Taylor]

Well, nothing happened at our Best Buy in Naples FL. Everyone who had a ticket for their PS3 got theirs without incident. One of my coworkers was nice enough to bring them cups of coffee the morning before the launch.

On the other hand, the Wal-Mart over in Ft Myers FL was the scene of some minor asshattery. They had 14 units on hand and 14 people in line. Well, some jerk decided cut in front of the last guy in line. Wal-Mart management brought everybody into the store, talked to everyone who witnessed it and had the asshat tossed.

Then there was the BB gun drive by at the Ft Myers Best Buy.

[Bliss]

Ooookk, Seeying the responses here to what I pay for rent, and the post in the other topic admiting to my old consumption of drugs I don't want you all suddenly thinking I'm a degenerated ex-adict living in a trailer park amongs bugs and fleas and stuff. I msut clarify I live in Venezuela, south america. What I make is very little for the work I do but it's still 3 times the minimum wage, and that my apartment is frozen because the building is very old, and the person I live with (my boyfriend) and his family have liven in this apartment for the last 36 years so they're protected by certain laws.

[Jet]

We had one person get 11 of our 26 systems, he paid homeless people to line up like 3-4 days in advance and buy the systems for him. The news taped him having them loading them up into his van afterwards. It was pretty disgusting to tell you the truth

[CrazedClerk]

Ohhh I so would've shot that dude's tires out given the chance.

[HYHYBT]

I still don't get why it would be *good* business sense to limit the supply before Christmas. It's the peak time of the year for buying that sort of thing, and a competing system is being released at almost the same time. By the time Christmas is over, anyone undecided on which to get or who wanted the Playstation more but couldn't find one will have spent their money on a Wii instead. Which is great for Nintendo, but I don't see how it does Sony any good.

As for me, the only new game I want is the new Zelda. Which, if I understand rightly, will still be for the Game Cube, so I'll just get it back from my brother I mostly play SNES or older anyway.

[KaeZoo]

I still don't get why it would be *good* business sense to limit the supply before Christmas. It's the peak time of the year for buying that sort of thing, and a competing system is being released at almost the same time.

I won't pretend to understand Sony's marketing strategy, but I will note that a private lab took a PS3 apart and estimated it costs Sony $830 to build each one. Therefore, at least for now, Sony loses money on each console it sells.

[blas]

People waiting just a couple days before the launch?

I got ya beat.

Driving past Best Buy on my way to the mall to get mommy and daddy's Christmas presents.......tents in the fricken Best Buy parking lot! (and Best Buy is in a strip mall with about 10 other stores)...oh and this wasn't a Wednesday, this was a MONDAY.

*cough, Losers, cough*

I would bet an entire paycheck my loser ex boyfriend had probably been camping out since the Monday BEFORE that. He hasn't been at work for a couple of weeks (granted a lot of people took extra vacation time for the holiday)

Those of you on my myspace list, the asswipe that left a lot of his crap at my apartment? That's who I'm talking about. See, I may be judgemental, but I rarely ever see gamer boys that aren't 6 feet tall and 90 pounds, face full of either zits or scars/pits/craters from zits, a horrible speech impediment, or smell really foul.
I would pay to see a hot, NORMAL gamer guy. I always see gamers as losers who can't get girls to save their lives.

On break last week, one of my guy friends (who, consequently, is a tall, skinny, zitty nerd, lol, and a game freak) who bought a PS3 said that my ex had bought 2 (he didn't need 2, he'll just tell everyone because it makes him look rich and important, hence someone else on here's idea of the SUV of game consoles). My friend was also talking about he and his friends, well, about how they'd been camping out at Best Buy since that Wednesday.

And people make fun of me for liking Star Wars and say I am a total hopeless geek.

[protege]

Driving past Best Buy on my way to the mall to get mommy and daddy's Christmas presents.......tents in the fricken Best Buy parking lot! (and Best Buy is in a strip mall with about 10 other stores)...oh and this wasn't a Wednesday, this was a MONDAY.

*cough, Losers, cough*

After seeing people camped out at the local Best Buy, Circuit City, and other stores the night before...I had the same reaction. It was damp and cold that night, and these idiots were in tents...and whining about how cold and damp it was. Don't want to get sick/cold? Here's a radical thought--stay the hell home! It's not like *not* getting a PS3 is going to kill you. Besides, the prices on them *will* come down eventually.

[Bliss]

Kaezoo, all or most all consoles lose money during launch time, it's not until a lot latter that high production leves enable them to make money over the console. They do so to be able to place the console faster on the market and benefit from the sale of games and licenses to corporations.