PS3 Pre-order Horror Story

I still don’t understand why people pre-order stuff. I have never felt the desire to pay money in advance for any other piece of consumer electronics and I refuse to help fuel the retarded EBGameStop machine. But some people really have to be the first to have something new, like the PlayStation 3.

Waiting in line at 6am on a cold Kansas morning, three brothers shiver in anticipation frigid temperatures to be among the first to pay the $100 to reserve their PS3. Here’s just part of the horror story:

“As the doors opened we shuffled in stiff from the cold and glad to be inside. 15 preorders were all that were allowed, well 16 if you count the guy behind the counter who was magically first on the list. I was first. Paying my 100 dollars and getting my receipt along with a small slip that informed me that they couldn’t guarantee anything due to limited reserves at launch. A small blurb at the bottom mentioned that they were limiting pre orders to one per household. My older brother was next, the successful one of the family he had moved out and gotten married 2 years ago, the man behind the counter recognized our not so common last name and immediately informed him that it was only one per household. “We all live in different places”, said my brother as he paid his 100 dollars and moved out of the way. My little brother went next, once again he mentioned that it was only 1 per household, once again he was met with the more than obvious fact that we don’t live together, even offering his driver’s license as proof his location was different. Everything was well and good and we went on our marry way knowing that soon we would be killing each other from 100 miles away.

Then the next day it happened. I received an email from my older brother telling me that we were “Screwed”.” Read the full post here.

Good luck guys, you’re in that terrible gray area where district and regional managers go insane with their tiny amount of power and pull all kinds of ridiculous moves.