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    Really Annoying Me Now

    Well since a few months back when Game were first taking "interest" in the wii i put my name down because i knew i wanted one when the time came. Anyway time passes and i hear nothing until i phone them up and they say "sorry all of our pre-orders have been filled you should have said yes when we phoned you"

    Hold on... Phoned me?

    Basically they had it down as that they had phoned me and i had said no they then said i was a liar when i told them that it was bull.

    Ever since launch ive been looking for a wii everywhere, last sunday i went round every single place they sell electronics in nottingham. Took 4 and a half hours and nothing. Ive been checking Argos Game Amazon and Virgin daily for any updates. Yesterday morning i was awake at 7.30 and normally check the sites but didn't because i had to phone someone and Amazon had some in Missed that. I phoned up toys'r'us in Stevenage last week and they said they would definitely have some in this morning. So i think ok... ill go and get one at Toys'r'us.

    I wake up at 4am... drive over there... and thier all f**kin gone! thier not even open and they'd already given out tickets to people! So on the phone to directory inquiries and off to go to Watford at a fair rate of knotts... exactly the f**king same

    This is really starting to get me down now and im getting really p*ssed off when i see people on forums who have never played games in thier life saying "look what ive got" and showing it and they just walked into somewhere and got it. And dont even get me started on the price of stuff on ebay.

    Looks like ill be having that merry old sh*tmas afterall

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    LOADS of people expressed an interest if you knew you wanted it you should have put in proper preorder then you would probably have one now

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    i would have done if they had phoned me to let me know that they were taking pre-orders! i phoned em and it was too late!

    The fact is the manager lied to me and is doing nothing about it so im taking it to his superiors

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    I wouldn't worry about it mate, there are gonna be plenty to go round. Just might take a few weeks to get one.

    Anyway, even if you got one you'd be in the situation I'm in just now of having no games or other controllers because everywhere is sold out of them. I should have Zelda but the theiving b******s that work for the royal mail have 'lost' my copy.

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    pfft you should go to the game i went to.. they had everything, wii play, nunchuks a load of games including zelda and everything, but no console...

    I phoned up game HQ and thought i was getting somewhere, i was told by the lady that i was now "top priority after the current pre-orders" i thought great, they'll hold one for me now....

    wrong...

    IF they have any spare... ill be the first person they phone but if someone gets there first i wont get jack... and working 9-5 aint exactly going to help :|

    Only thing ive got left is my gf is going into game at 8.55 every morning next week to try and get one. Love her to bits

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    my mate qued up for 11 hours on the thursday (1PM-midnyt) in ASDA!lol, to get 1. tuk 2 ds's (2?..see below) and played with the other nintendo fans in the que while waiting.

    i purposely made the effort of going all the way there to point and laff at him calling him sad.

    we then tried to pursuade him to leve the que with bigmacs, but failed. and at about 23:55 (5mins left), we tryed to drag him out of the que with force. we would have succeeded if it wasnt for the eggyfied asda staff hu let him go back in at the same point!

    anyways...ye, he got 1!

    and fraggie....just to make u even more :@ at game...

    we saw a member of staff in game on the thursday (before release) sell one to some one, in exchange for £100 for their pocket. i guess i shouldnt say what store that was, or might get some one sacked

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    mate you couldn't get me any more :@ at game tbh

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    better off waiting til after christmas tbh gonna get a lot better offers about

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    i think your mistaking me for someone who's patient

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    Quote Originally Posted by fraggie View Post
    i think your mistaking me for someone who's patient

    soz always makes me laugh when new console comes out everyone reverts back to the mentality of a ten year old on christmas eve not wanting to wait til the next day for his presents

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    Quote Originally Posted by danroyle View Post
    soz always makes me laugh when new console comes out everyone reverts back to the mentality of a ten year old on christmas eve not wanting to wait til the next day for his presents
    Well I had mine on 2 days after release and have had to wait sooo long now!

    Luckily I got to play a little on my friend's but I want to play my own bad, I also want to play on the DSlite i bought the girlfriend (and she does want one because her friends have them!).

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    Sorry to hear about your predictament mate - hopefully something works out. Personally, I am resigned to getting one in the new year - that way, i can get the damn component cable that seems to be non existant as well...

    Which begs me to ask... How does this happen EVERY new console release? Do the companies consistently underestimate demand? Is there always a problem in the manufacturing process? Do you think they do it on purpose so that they drag out the demand?

    I would have thought that it would have been in their best interests to get enough stock in for everyone. Now I know that the economics of this arent exactly simple, but its not as if this is a new phenomenon is it. Oh well. Zelda can wait... (I have resorted to playing the N64 version again to get a fix!!!)

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    quite,

    Myself i was the one who really wanted one in the office, but thanks to them taking my lead 7 of our team have them.

    (the 'old' two have pissed off everyone else in their road in dullwich because their kids presents are now going to be eclipsed)

    But i had soo many pre-orders in the pipeline (hence why i had a spare which i let my mentor collect) only 1 made it through, and even then it was sat, not friday. However because of taking lunch late i happend to spot on the inq the wii's on amazon. Thats how the other 5 people in the office got theirs.

    So quit whinning, get more pro-active in precuring
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    I've just got rid of my wii

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    I'm going to wait before getting mine, although as my brother mannaged to get one from Toys R Us dinner time on launch, I'll still be able to play it (as long as I can kick him off it that is) Mind you, he's only just started playing Wind Waker on the GC so hopefully he'll try and complete that before going onto Twilight Princess
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