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Re:Retail Arbitrage at Walmart [video] by colonelxc on Friday November 30, 2018 @01:22PM (#18571206)
Do you mean PS4? PS3s were very hard to get at the start.

3 PS3s guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sjhjFOw4Ok

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Re:Retail Arbitrage at Walmart [video] by neaden on Friday November 30, 2018 @01:49PM (#18571476)
No, it was PS3s. Here is an article about it from the time: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2006/12/6406/ the Wii unexpectedly ended up being the real in demand system that Christmas.
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Re:Retail Arbitrage at Walmart [video] by zeroname on Friday November 30, 2018 @03:02PM (#18572118)
> No, it was PS3s. Here is an article about it from the time: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2006/12/6406/

It doesn't say they had to sell at a loss, just that they didn't get the ridiculous markup they hoped for.

The PS3 really was in short supply and prices did remain elevated. The article mentions that.

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