While visiting Toys ‘R Us for the seventh or eighth time, I overheard one of the employees telling another Wii hunter that they would be receiving a shipment of 40 Wiis late Saturday night. And the frustration on the faces of the clerks was evident, from having to answer the same Wii questions over and over.īut Lady Luck then threw me a bone. Typical responses included, “We may get some, we may not,” “We never know when they’re going to arrive,” and “Check back periodically.” I often wasn’t the only poor player standing around staring at the empty Plexiglas Wii cabinet. Panic began to rise.Īfter coming away empty-handed multiple times from the multiple stores I was now frequenting, I found myself seeking intelligence, chatting it up with the good folks at Target, Costco, Toys ‘R’ Us, Best Buy, desperately trying to gather any inside knowledge that might lead to victory in my quest for the Wii. My shot to win a Wii in a contest on Amazon failed. It’s not about the price you’re willing to pay but what the market will bear. Then there was Craig’s List and eBay – $400, $500, $600.
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But messages declaring “sold out” were all I could find except for cleverly packaged “Wii Bundles” which upped the ante from $249.50 or so to the mid-$600s and higher. My initial Wii search started online, of course. I wish I could say, now, that they were stupid. Several hundred people allegedly showed up at the field to find it was just a gag.
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The plane would scan your card from above and then drop you your Cabbage Patch Doll. I remember one story where a radio station announced that a plane would be flying over a particular field and all you needed to do was stand in the field with your credit card raised to the sky. But my new nemesis, this Wii, changed all that.īefore I became a dad, I’d laugh at the news stories about those people desperately trying to get a Tickle Me Elmo or Cabbage Patch doll. at Wal-Mart the morning after Thanksgiving.
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In fact, only through necessity have I ever “shopped.” You would never find me in line at 4 a.m. We quickly found, however, that Bigfoot or the Loch Ness monster is easier to locate than the elusive Wii, especially one on sale. Thinking we were comfortably on top of this humble request, my wife and I began searching for the Wii two weeks before Thanksgiving. After all, they’ve been very good little girls. Since then it has been their hope that Santa Claus might deliver them a Wii of their own this Christmas. My two young daughters first experienced the Nintendo Wii in August while visiting their cousins in San Jose. I try to push my distress aside and continue forward, hoping for the best. I am in shock – a general faced by a force he has badly underestimated, his troops and cavalry retreating over the horizon behind him.
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There aren’t just the campers in front of the store, no, but a line of people attached to them stretching around the corner of the building. But as I approach, a bugle suddenly blasts in my mind, bringing me to a halt: arrival is early enough.Ĭareful not to spill what remains of my coffee, I charge through the gloom. I can’t recall the last time I’ve been up this early on a Sunday.Īs anticipated, I do see some shoppers more hard-core than me camped in the darkness at the entrance of the store. ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER – Following my battle plan, I wheel into the Toys ‘R’ Us parking lot around 6 a.m.