Nintendo Wii Fanboy

I wonder how fast will these people get Wiis, and it would be a bit unfortunate for those who go to the store on the 22nd to find that the Wiis have been given to those who had rainchecks.

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Well Gamestop will perform one of their magically bad business moves and suddenly promise either:
[a] more rainchecks then systems
[b] you must preorder a raincheck for a system

It honestly doesn't matter to me, I purchased my Wii on opening day last year, but it does seem like a waste of profit for Nintendo to offer rainchecks to individuals that might not receive a console until many months afterwards.

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Hmm... I'm interested to know how this turns out. My fiancee's family is looking for a Wii for Christmas. Wonder if they'll settle for this.

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I'm just glad I'm not the first person to assume that Gamestop will require pre-ordering the rain checks.

This sounds like another Gamestop scheme to rip off gamers.

They're very good at that, look at their stock prices. Damn good for specialty retail.

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Soon we will begin to see these rainchecks going up on eBay and being sold at a significant profit margin...

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Why GameStop? Why????

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Are these rainchecks going to be like the Wii gift cards from W@la-mart and Target last year, the ones you bought in December and could'nt redeeem it till like April or May because of no stock? Great idea, I am so grateful I already have a Wii.

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Each store can only logically sell as many rainchecks as wii systems that it will physically get in its store.

Now instead of running around to gamestop stores and/or lining up for wii systems, people will be running around to gamestop stores and/or lining up for wii rainchecks.

Until there is more supply, nothing will change about how people are aquiring Wiis. I just really hope a raincheck is tied specifically to a person's name/ID, so that they cannot be resold for profit by ebayers.

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Perhaps they plan on rainchecks for the rainchecks.

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I'll do it...
I know exactly how they'll do it too:
1. You give them your payment methond (Credit Card, Gift Card, $$)
2. You give them you Name & Phone #
3. They'll call telling you that they've gotten a new shipment and give you a time limit to get there before they sell it to another "rainchecker".
4. You rush down to the store and pray that they still have one by the time you get there.

I'm still going to do it...

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All the major retailers are supposed to have some in this weekend so I'll try my luck but if I don't manage to snag one I'll be getting a raincheck. You're supposedly guaranteed to get it by the end of January so long as I have a Wii before Brawl comes out I'll be happy.

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Lol, that's just what every kid wants for Christmas, a raincheck :P

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There is a website called play2text.com that will be giving away 20 nintendo wii's on Dec 17th.It is a text messaging trivia site and it costs 99 cents to enter.Being that it is a new site there are not that many entries so the odds are pretty good.A friend of mine won an xbox earlier in the week.

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Shouldn't that image read "Wii O U"?

Come on Wii Fanboy, you're not even trying anymore...

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