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Friday, December 15, 2006

PS3 in stock?

Yesterday at 3:00pm at my circuit city where i work got a shipment of 5 PS3's.

supprised. we took down our "the PS3 is temporarily out of stock" sign and started telling customers who were shopping for playstation products that we did have them in stock.

at 11:00pm when we closed. we had 4 left.

employees are prohibited from purchasing PS3's at all, and even then we asked employees if they could, would they buy one of the PS3's we had in stock. all but one employee said "no"

there was one customer who was planning on getting a PS3, he was excited and had a bundle of games to purchase... unfortunately those games were just pre-order boxes and the only game he held that was actually a game was Resistance fall of Man.

when we pointed this out.. he had to think.. yes THINK about whether he wanted to continue with the purchase. he did anyway, and bought a pre-order for Oblivion.

does this make sense to anyone at all?

Today, i covered another employee from 8:00am to 5:00pm, we started with 4 PS3's in stock. thinking that since it was Friday, and there are many more customers than on a Thursday, we would be sold out fairly quickly of the few we did have.

we opened at 8:00am and I worked until 5:00pm
when i left, we had 2 PS3's in stock. An astounding 2 PS3's were sold in the 9 hours i worked.
so over the course of 26 hours, we sold 3 PS3's of our 5. thats a total of 17 hours that the store was opened.

now if you view my previous blogs, I'm not a fan of the PS3.. but even I find this very odd.
so to any of you looking for a PS3.. just call your local store (circuit city or not, it doesn't matter) and ask, they may just have one.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Its true. The PS3 is in stock everywhere now. The whole shortgage issue was a myth. The only people who ran out to buy the system, sold them on eBay. I just checked Target, Walmart & Bestbut. PS3's are just sitting on the shelves.