I think maybe in the future you just need to learn how to be prepared instead of just acting all lazy about it and not knowing what you're doing ;)

It was pretty much impossible not to get a Wii if you weren't lazy.

Don't try to act as if you know my situation is. The fact is, you don't. I live in a College town where 99% of all Wii buyers are eBayers that I've seen in the majority of lines I've been through (college students and eBay profit. Put two and two together and you got one massive scalper coming through).

Even the entire Target store seemed to be overrun with these scalpers, given that when they got their shipment in on Wednesday, all of them were miraculously reserved for people, despite the fact that they couldn't do that and they wouldn't even tell me how to receive the same treatment, given they would make up a different story every time I asked someone else. The manager even told me to "check every morning" (what I've been doing for the past month) despite the clear fact that the shipment had arrived in the middle of the day. Everyone who I saw walk out with one was either a Target employee (except they removed their tags to "disguise" themselves despite the fact that they still had their usual employee attire on), or a scalper I had already seen in a past Sunday-shipment line.

The fact is, in MY situation, you can't get a Wii. Just impossible. And it's all due to the college scalpers I'm surrounded with. I've done calls every day, every time. I waited over 20 hours in different lines. I've argued to the Target manager about unfair reservations while seeing the Wiis being bought right in front of me. I tried the Amazon selling of Wiis yesterday all morning, running a page reloader while watching the screen for two hours, only to fail because when I clicked on the "add to cart" or "1-click checkout" button, all it did was refresh the page. I tried calling other, larger cities to see if I could get one there.

In short, I've practically done everything I can do, and every single time something has come up to impede my way, the majority of the time blocked by scalpers. And yet I see scalpers who have over 10 Wiis sitting at their houses, seeing if you can pay THEM money for something that they just stole out of YOU (some of these Wiis on eBay were from my town, information courtesy of Wiiseeker). So don't tell me I'm lazy and I haven't tried. The fact is, the reason I (and many other gamers) don't get one is due to the scalpers wanting to make a fess buck, and that's the only reason. Be prepared? I've been well over "prepared" several times. Not act lazy? I've done everything you can humanly do. Know what you're doing? By god I know very well what the Hell I'm doing. And it's still impossible for me and many other people due to this "capitalism" of yours (it's not really capitalism. It's people ripping off others and disguising it as "capitalism"). So please, don't act as if you know I was lazy and I'm complaining out of nowhere. Believe me, I've tried. I've probably tried twice as hard as you have and I have yet to get one. ONE. And you can thank THAT to scalpers.