PiNPOiNT

Let us not forget, that an earlier use of the travelling gnome turning up in weird places was used in the famous french movie Amelié. Travelocity stole the gnome from it.

Hey guys!!!!

I have to tell you all about my PS3 camping adventures!!!!

I decided to call around to find out where i could get a ps3 to sell on ebay, because pre sales were going for thousands of dollars. So i called a bunch of places and they all said they only had about 10 units each and there were people lining up days before. Then i found one last futureshop that had only a few people outside, but only 12 units. It was a bit of a way aways, but i thought i'd go check it out. When i got there (thursday at 11:30 am) i found that they had 11 people in line and only 12 units :) CHA CHING!!!!!! I began my camping.

4 of the people had been there since tuesday at 10 pm. So i was lucky to score a place in line (although only for the remaining 20gb system) This futureshop did everything RIGHT. We had the most amazing Sales managed who made our wait over night incredibly amazing!!!!. He setup a xbox 360 with gears of war inside the store and lent us 2 wireless controllers so we could play through the window ALL NIGHT LONG. He also bought us hot chocolate several times, and constantly kept us up to date as to what accessories and games etc were coming into the store etc, and how they were going to handle the sales and the line etc.

The group of people in line were amazing, we all got along really well, played games, goofed around, bought beer and pizza (delivered to the line directly) and played video games all night (in the rain).

All night people drove up asking if there were any more spots left. We must have turned away over 200 people all throughout the night. I was full of adreniline i couldn't get to sleep at all, infact im still awake (going on 37 hours now). I can't fall asleep lol. We had lighting and thunder and one point. A car that got stuck on a curb which gave it a flat tire. AND a drive by Moon-ing !!!!! Apparently the guys over at the Best Buy line thought it would be funny :) They were jealous of our TV we had setup provided by futureshop :)

During the night we got interview by several news stations ( i fielded most of them cause no one else really wanted to appear as a uber geek (and several guys were skipping work to be there). So you might have seen me TV on several stations :)

Everyone in the line (except one guy) was planning on reselling the system on ebay. The average price for a ps3 right now according to some gaming site is $2600 USD which is what people are actually paying for. I'm jumping on that bandwagon. I'll keep you posted on how my final sale goes.

What a crazy night !!!!!!!

WOW, you just killed santa claus for me, i was pimping this game as much as you were when you first read about the potential. The graphics i've seen before look 1000 times better then this video. This looks like SWG or something OLD. My Dreams are dashed forever!

Master Chief HAS no face!

In some places in canada, they have the odacity to charge us $2 or ever $2.50 for a bottle of coke from those machines if your near any type of touristy area.

Usually $1.50 though

If i want pop for a quarter, i have to go with a good old Royal Crown :)

#2 - your assuming the sales from used video games go back to the publishers, however once the game is purchased once, they don't make any new money. Not to mention how much of a mark up used games sales are sold for by the store to begin with.

I can't wait for the system to malfunction and think and incoming plane is a missle.

Once they modify this technology to use any type of protein and to a spray format, then i can put it on my monitor screen, i can accomplish 2 things at once. relieve stress AND increase my collection storage size of my porn.

I agree, the demo was terrible and im glad i tried the demo first, because it changed my decision to buy the game. It must be a very difficult task for the publishers/studios to decide on if they should release a demo of a game before it hits stores shelves... On one hand you can add to the hype and drive up sales, providing the demo is good (and bug free). On the other hand, if its a dud, then you've lost a bunch of potential sales. With the cost of games these days, its no doubt that unless a game gets amazing reviews, people will try it on a friends machine, or rent it first before buying something. Now if a company waits till after the initial release of a game and once the hype dies down a bit, THEN releases a demo. They can potentially scoop up people sitting on the fence, (hopefully along with good reviews by gaming sites). A demo delivered after a poor launch and bad reviews would just be a waste of time. Especially those demos that come out like 6 months after the game did. Who's running these studios?

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