blade02

So a quick search for "PS3 console" on Ebay returned roughly 4000 hits. (I did not filter for listings already sold, or were not actually the console itself) So roughly 1% of the 400,000 PS3's are on Ebay. Even taking into account things such as PS3's being auctioned off/sold else where and PS3's already sold, I find it hard to imagine that it all adds up to more than 5%.

From the ebay search results, I am more inclinded to think that most of the PS3's bought were for personal use and not to resell for profit. I would think that having an initial sales price of $2k would have A) had the gaming world laughing at them. B) Would have created huge ammounts of negative publicity and C) Would have resulted in lower sales.... remember 100% sold at $600, but right now (from the ebay search) less than 1% are selling for $2k.

edit: $2k figure is the highest bids I am seeing for the auctions that are the closest to ending. Though oddly, auctions with DAYS left before ending have prices upwards of $10k. (I'm not an ebay pro or anything, so I figure the auctions ending NOW have a more realistic price, someone feel free to correct if I am wrong on this.)