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F/S Sony Playstation 3 20GB

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arzoo:
I have no problem with what eschmunk is doing – supply and demand, capitalism, bla bla bla. My question is; why is there a limited supply in the first place? Does Sony do this on purpose, or can they truly not produce enough units? I’m guessing it’s intentional. I’m just not sure what the financial benefit is – by keeping low supply and high demand, do they sell more over the long run? Or maybe they really are factory limited. Just seems odd that every new console game system to come out lately has the same scenario.

ChadTower:

Almost no other products produce a demand of millions of units on the first day.  It probably really is a manufacturing shortage.  There isn't much profit in not satsifying consumer demand here.

Thenasty:
I think like a new program/hardware, they need guinne pigs to try it out so they work out the bugs and fix it. They don't want millions of product for re-call, so just make a limited batch so any re-calls will be quickly replaced. But thats how I see things.

Anyway, if you get stuck with yours and willing to get rid of for $50.00 (maybe 6 months or 1 year) I get first dibs :)

2PacMan:
I just didn't like the line about him saying "make someone happy for Christmas and buy this"

I always thought members of the BYOAC board sort of looked out for each other.  We try not to price gouge each other like that.   We are always selling things to each other at good prices and oftentimes give things away for free to help the hobby of arcade collecting.  Just doesn't seem like a real nice gesture, especially around the holidays.  I guess i don't mind so much the fact of him trying to sell it at whatever price he wants, but it irks me that he brought it to this board trying to price gouge one of our own.  I know other times when new people post things like "Working Capcom Bowling game, rare, $2000.00", they get flamed like crazy, this feels like the same thing to me.

p.s.--i'm seeing tons of these on cragslist and ebay on a daily basis for under 1000.00, so i'm not sure how 'rare' these PS3s are anymore.

eschmunk:
Alright everyone,

Here is the deal I waited in line for 35 hours for a unit that cost $500 plus tax.  Let me turn around and offer it up for $250 to the first bidder because I am looking out for everyone elses interest and not my own.

Later

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