To Needweed Re: PS2 Slims

The last time I purchased a PlayStation 2 it cost me $99.99.

At about their lowest point they were like $79 new in my travels and you're right, they seem to be going up and up. So the question then becomes: What kind of a deal did you get on your slims?BlendThree

[QUOTE="BlendThree"]At about their lowest point they were like $79 new in my travels and you're right, they seem to be going up and up. So the question then becomes: What kind of a deal did you get on your slims?StatusShuffle

You're outside the US if you're able to find factory-sealed PS2s still on the shelf...

[QUOTE="StatusShuffle"][QUOTE="BlendThree"]At about their lowest point they were like $79 new in my travels and you're right, they seem to be going up and up. So the question then becomes: What kind of a deal did you get on your slims?MonkeySpot

You're outside the US if you're able to find factory-sealed PS2s still on the shelf...

[QUOTE="StatusShuffle"][QUOTE="BlendThree"]At about their lowest point they were like $79 new in my travels and you're right, they seem to be going up and up. So the question then becomes: What kind of a deal did you get on your slims?MonkeySpot

You're outside the US if you're able to find factory-sealed PS2s still on the shelf...

its quite annoying, Amazon.co.uk currently sells new PS2s for £130...

yes, £130 , thats around 200 US dollars,

www.amazon.co.uk/Sony-PlayStation-Slimline-Console-Black/dp/B00023HUMG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1346315789&sr=8-1

its really quite shameful that somone is selling a 12 year old console for this amount, and its what keeps me from buying a replacement PS2 for my original brick PS2 (which works most of the time, but Id rather have something that works all the time

I went to Radio Popular the other day and pick up some games, and saw at least 15-20 of them for 70 euros a pop. Didn't have the spare cash to put up one, I really want to get a backup PS2.Dudersaper

I wish I could just wander into a store and find that many PlayStation 2 systems just sitting there! :O Here in Canada I haven't seen one for so long. If I did stumble upon a unit with luck one of these days, I think I'd actually buy it.

I went to Radio Popular the other day and pick up some games, and saw at least 15-20 of them for 70 euros a pop. Didn't have the spare cash to put up one, I really want to get a backup PS2.Dudersaper

I wish I could just wander into a store and find that many PlayStation 2 systems just sitting there! :O Here in Canada I haven't seen one for so long. If I did stumble upon a unit with luck one of these days, I think I'd actually buy it.

[QUOTE="StatusShuffle"][QUOTE="BlendThree"]At about their lowest point they were like $79 new in my travels and you're right, they seem to be going up and up. So the question then becomes: What kind of a deal did you get on your slims?MonkeySpot

You're outside the US if you're able to find factory-sealed PS2s still on the shelf...

The last one I found in a store, I purchased. I travel for a living, roughly 200 days per year, and I don't see them in US retail stores. I don't know where anyone is seeing these systems in-store, so to anyone who claims to be tripping over them in their local electronics store, I say, prove it.Post a pic. Or give me the store's phone number, so that I can order one from them or pick it up next time I swing through town.

I ask, too. I don't just walk in and because I don't SEE them I assume they're not there. I ask if they have any "old-new" (factory sealed) stock, any laying around in the back room, proping a door open, holding a paper down in a breeze, etc.

If I could find another new PS2, I'd buy it.

(Certainly not for 130 pounds-sterling, but you take my meaning).