76 Wiis in One Shipment!!!

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#1 DrummerDude1010
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I have had my Wii for a couple of months now, but i just recently joined gamespot which is why i am posting this so late. This is my Wii story. After almost being forced to rip myself off buying a wii for $350 off ebay, i found out that Target was getting their next shipment of Wiis on Sunday. They would hand out tickets at 7:00 a.m. (basically means you have a wii reserved so there is no mad rush to rip them off the shelves), and you can get them when it opened. I arrived at 5:00 in the morning and was second in line. Even though it was still cold outside, it wasnt so bad because me and my brother had 20 minute shifts (i would wait in line for 20 min, then my brother would come for 20 min while i am in the heated car and so on). Well it turned out they had 76 Wiis for that shipment. Only about 30 people were their at the time the store opened. I didnt have to wait 2 hours, but it was well worth it cause for all i knew, they could have only ordered 10. It was still a rush to get a extra remote and nunchuck, but we snagged a pair along with Zelda. Whats your Wii story?
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#2 LINKloco
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Walked into my local Walmart on a Sunday morning in February and stumbled onto 5 Wiis in stock. Stumbled back out of the store with one in my posession. It was cake =)
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#3 Lasden
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Casually walked into my local Gametraders and went to the counter.
"One preordered Wii please" i said
"Why certainly sir"
"Thank you kind fellow"

And away i went with my Wii
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#4 gorilazandgames
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well i went to Target too but like this lwas like 30 minutes before it opened.... so i arrive and there are already liek 10 people in front of us I'm like damn... n owii for mii... and san diego is fricking wii-less too and I would be fored to get a wii from Gamestop(ewww) so i was like hell no! so we waited and finaly the store opened the lady gave us a ticket with the number 15 on it and we(my brother and i) promptly skidded to our brand nw wii!!!
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#5 Skeleten3
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Three weeks ago i walked into gamespot and they had 13 wiis in stock and i walked out with one.

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#6 kdawgg262k
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My wii story(again)

So basically its the friday before last June 15th. and I call Toys R Us on 42nd street in Manhattan. I asked them if they had the wii and to my surprise they said yes. (Mind you, this is about 11 am while I am at work). Knowing that I wouldnt be able to make it over there while I was at work, I knew I would have to wait until I got off to get the wii. So I called them every half hour to see if they still had wii's left because I didn't want to waste my time going over there. When I called at about 5:45, 15 mins before I was going to leave, they said " We have some left, but not much." I was like "oh no." I flew over there as fast I could, making it there at about 6:30. These tool'd @ Toys R US, had about 100 wii's by the time I got there, and I'm all breathing heavy n stuff while the cashier is like "who told you we were running out." Anyway, thats my wii story. Right now I have accumulated 4 controllers, 2 nunchucks, paper mario, wii play, zelda, mario party 8, and of course wii sports...Anyway, good luck to everyone else out there trying to find a wii. If your in NY, check 42nd street!

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#7 blaster16
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a bit late but cool btw where do you live because how is it stil cold its freakin summer lol
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#8 kingsy_the_one
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Casually walked into my local Gametraders and went to the counter.
"One preordered Wii please" i said
"Why certainly sir"
"Thank you kind fellow"

And away i went with my Wii
Lasden

:lol: Same.. Just not those exact words.. :P
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#9 Can-o-Mark
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- I was watching the E3 2006 Wiivideos.
- Went to the website of a Dutch toystore and pre-ordered the Wii.
- Got an email saying my Wii was ready to be shipped a couple of days before the launch.
- Confirmed that I wanted a Wii
- One day before the launch they delivered my Wii.

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#10 Shadow338
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I went to Toys R US to check if they had any Wiis(this was 2 days after Christmas). I didn't see any, so I was like "F**K it, at least I can still get TP". There was a guy ahead of me in line who was returning his 360 because it broke. The cashier said he couldn't return his 360, because they were out of the core 360s, then the cashier said "But we have some wiis in stock". I was like Thank God!!. I asked for the Wii, and he went all the way in the back to get it lol.

But yea, that's my story

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#11 InfinitySamurai
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At one random point before the Wii was released, I preordered it off Amazon. Apparently, they were only taking preorders for several hours before they were overwhelmed and stopped offering them . . . in other words, I got extremely lucky!
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#12 ChinoJamesKeene
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they are not worth that much, good thing you waited.
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#13 creativeminded
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Casually walked into my local Gametraders and went to the counter.
"One preordered Wii please" i said
"Why certainly sir"
"Thank you kind fellow"

And away i went with my Wii
Lasden

Same but at Toys R us

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#14 volume_three
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a bit late but cool btw where do you live because how is it stil cold its freakin summer lolblaster16

Considering this in an Australian thread, I'm going out on a limbandgoing withAustralia?

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#15 christian1993
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called gamestop they had one. i went to gamestop and got it.YEAH!!!!
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#16 reyad-u
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Casually walked into my local Gametraders and went to the counter.
"One preordered Wii please" i said
"Why certainly sir"
"Thank you kind fellow"

And away i went with my Wii
Lasden
must have been an adventurous journey ;)
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#17 ultra_mc
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So I didnt get a wii at launch date....2 peole away!!! ANyway after that i would phone anykind of electronics store to see if they had any....no luck. A week after, i heard there were some at the walmart closest to me but there was a huge lignup:(. So i went to another walmart. Sold out an hour ago! I knew there was only one spot left....the last walwart 30 mins away!!!!.SoI phoned them and they had like 40!!. finally got one with zelda.

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#18 mabyrne
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After quite a while searching round shops trying to found one in stock I forced my self to buy a bundle deal on the internet. I overpaid and got some games I didn't want, but I couldn't wait any longer.

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#19 Linkthedueler
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Went to Toysrus at around uh...8 i think...in april...they had 45 wiis:D sadly this little kid and his family, who arrived around 5AM and were 2nd in line, card got declined...i don't know if that little 5/4 year old got his wii:(...