I am sorry but is playstation 3 really going to nab $4000 on eBay? Never in my life I have seen more news coverage covering this topic! Everytime I heard about this, people camping out and waiting for days for this product...I just cringed. Was it knowing that I only saw pretty much men camping in line.....was it knowing maybe these men gave up sick days to stand in line.....I wondered about their wives or kids, what did they all think of this? Was it knowing that in three months another hotter product will steal our fancy? In our area it has rained since Monday. How miserable. Most of the folks looked like hungry, tired and worn out souls.
I guess we live in a free market society.
We have choices. I certainly was not forced to wait in line. No one made me stand there for days on end. In a way I guess we could look at it as a good thing. I tried to imagine this happening overseas or in the middle east. I remember the drama of the Iraqi people getting to vote....they risked their very lives to be part of history! Freedom can mean life or death.
Freedom comes in many forms and in many degrees. We have freedom to celebrate a religious holiday as we choose. We have freedom to stand and wait for days on end for an electronic item. Those who got a PS3, have freedom to pay for it and keep it or pay for it and re-sell....we have freedom to purchase it or not. We have freedom to spend over and over and go into debt -doing so by our own choosing. We have freedom to live life high on the hog or to save and plan ahead for tougher darker financial times that I predict are just around the bend.
Perhaps at times, we have way too much freedom so lives are detroyed and people go astray.
Freedom is never to be taken for granted. Freedom is to be cherished. It must keep us humbled and grateful at what we do have and in my own personal case, on my knees at times.
Dear Santa - Please bring me a $4000 toy
November 17th, 2006 at 03:46 pm
November 17th, 2006 at 06:51 pm 1163789484
It would not surprise me at all if it did. Seriously. The shortage is unbelievably embarassing for Sony, but early adopter will do just about anything to get their hands on this one.
In fact, in a related article I read, one guy admitted that he called out sick for two weeks to plan and camp out for the PS3. Another one admitted that he's using money he's planning the money he was going to buy his "fiance" her engagement ring to buy the PS3.
Campers themselves have also become victims as well. Some were injured or even shot at (with a BB gun) for being able to camp out for their pre-orders whereas they were not.
I love video games too, but all this is obssession just makes no sense to me. Admittedly, given the chance, I would not be above e-baying my units though. Some early-adopters are camping out to do exactly that.
It's not worth it for me though.
November 18th, 2006 at 09:25 pm 1163885140