So what's more surprising:
1. People who have the cash/credit to buy one or more PS3s for ~$600 a pop, also have the ability to waste two days waiting inline outside a store to buy them..
2. That there are people willing to buy these things at an incredible markup on eBay?
To be honest, I'm surprised that Sony and its retailers just don't cut out the middle man, and just offer the damn things for around $2,000, which is apparently about what they are going for on eBay. Yes People will pay strangers on the intarweb $2,000 for a first rev gaming system, when they could just wait six months for the larger supply and pay $600. Oh well, no one gets hurt, right? [ As I read this, KRON-4 news was doing a report about a "stampede" at a store in Wisconsin where a man had his jaw broken when he was slammed into a light poll in a parking lot while waiting to buy one of these units.]
Edit: This article discusses some good old fashioned teenage violence, and also sums up some other PS3-related violence including two different robberies.
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