xBox and nano shortages
December 15, 2005 by Mike Wendland
I visited a Wal-Mart the other day and got to talking with one of the stockers back in the toy department. He told me the store gets in a few xBox 360’s several times a week but they go so fast most never make the store shelves.
They typically arrive around 11 pm and "people are actually here waitng for them to get put out (from the back room)," said the clerk.
Meanwhile, the xBox 360 isn’t the only hard-to-get Christmas product this season. On eBay, people are willingly spending $100 over retail for the nano. Link: iPod nano shortage sends users to eBay.
I was at toys r us in ann arbor yesterday and they had at least a dozen xbox 360’s sitting on the shelf. None of the people in the video game section of the store were even checking it out, although people were trying the old xbox, ps2 and ds.