A retail chain called Slackers is apparently skipping the middleman (the customers in the store) and putting their Wiis on eBay straight off the truck. If you live in Illinois or Missouri and you've been trying to get a Wii at Slackers for the past year, you can go ahead and stop. And start cursing, maybe.Someone purporting to be a Slackers employee told Ars Technica that "In the past year, none of the 12 [Slackers locations] have sold any Wiis except for a one-time promotional deal, where we did force customers to buy a game with it." A visit to the Slackers eBay store shows no Wiis currently in stock, but evidence of previously sold $400 Wiis can be found in the feedback. Also, they have a nice selection of Pico games.
Jerks scalping Wiis for profit is hardly news, but this is different. This is a retail chain scalping direct shipments from Nintendo instead of buying the things from store shelves themselves. With these guys, there is zero chance of finding one of these Wiis before it gets snapped up for eBay.
[Via Game|Life]
