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Originally Posted by Locobot
When you succumb to this type of forced price inflation you're only encouraging them to do it more often. Why didn't you just purchase this online and avoid this problem, sales tax, and a trip to the mall (blech)?
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If you try to order this online, most sites give an estimated shipping date sometime in February.
We usually get 6-8 Nintendo DSes in once a week. We don't take reservations. We don't have a call list. We don't allow customers to prepay. If we did, our store would end up like the online sites, and you'd be prepaying for the right to buy the unit sometime next spring. I've had literally over a hundred people offer to drop the $150 up front for the chance to prepay for one in the next shipment. And that's just me personally, there are 9 other employees in the store.
If the OP didn't buy the DS, the next person in line would have. With an item in this much demand, with this little supply, there's no such thing as "teaching the retailer a lesson." You either accept their terms, or you don't get a DS and someone else is more than happy to take yours. We don't even bother taking consoles out of the box this time of year... PS2s, Xboxes, and DSes sell faster than we'd be able to put price tags on them (although we have some 40 Gamecubes in stock... anyone want to buy about 10?).
It would save me quite a bit of time and energy to be able to answer the phone with "Thank you for calling Gamestop where we do not have any PS2s, Xboxes, or DSes in stock, this is XXXX, did you have a different question?"