Do you have any Crazy Launch Stories?

I do, it's quite simple really, I pre-ordered from EB Games, then while everyone was outside freezing lined up at Best Buy 3 days in advance, I laughed about how crazy that was while I was nice & toasty not wondering if I would get one or if I was wasting my time. Then on launch day, it arrived, I was pleased, no longer cared about those who froze waiting in line & went home empty handed. I had mine without puttin any effort into it at all. It was great.RaptorVenom

[QUOTE="RaptorVenom"]I do, it's quite simple really, I pre-ordered from EB Games, then while everyone was outside freezing lined up at Best Buy 3 days in advance, I laughed about how crazy that was while I was nice & toasty not wondering if I would get one or if I was wasting my time. Then on launch day, it arrived, I was pleased, no longer cared about those who froze waiting in line & went home empty handed. I had mine without puttin any effort into it at all. It was great.Alyxm1

Well, I was waiting patiently for the PS3 pre-order to take place at EB here in Winnipeg. I was calling my manager friend every week to see if he heard anything. Well 1 week before I am suppose to leave for Punta Cana he tells me they are taking pre-orders on Monday Oct 16th. Sadly I will be out of town and he cant do anything for me.

So there went my only secure way to get a PS3.

Nov 16 arrives. I was planning on camping at Superstore here as it is not too well though of as a place for electronics. Well by 5pm there are already 5 people camped out at my local Superstore, I drive all over the city, by 7 pm there was no places left in line, anywhere. We tried to bribe someone for their spot in line, no luck. We came across a place, Zellers, whom I called in the afternoon, and they told me they were getting 5 systems, and only had 3 pre-orders. To our surprise, there was no one camped there. So we stked a claim and waited. Around 1 am some electicians came out for a smoke, and we got tot talking, we told them why we were here, and they agreed to go talk to some people inside and see how many PS3's they got. Well the overnight shelf stoking supervisor came to have a chat with us, and informed us they only got 3 systems in instead of the 5 expected, and they were all to go to pre-orders. UGH! 5 hours wasted for nothing.... Now there was no where to go, at all.

We headed home, dejected.

The next morning I tried from 6am - 9am to get the systems Futureshop and Best buy were offering online. Best I could do is get halfway through the transaction before the website was overloading. So no dice either.

10am Launch day we head to Costco, rumor has it they will be stoking systems as well. Tried their website before we left but they were all sold out. Grabbed my uncles Costco card and headed out. Waited until almost opening and got to talk to one of the guys there. Well turns out none of the stores are carying them, only online for now. UGH! that was my last hope.

I called my Eb again just in case some marical happened. No luck, they had 1 extra 20 gig but were told it had to go to another store as they got short shipped. DAMNIT!!!! Oh well, I put in a last minute request then for a Wii for Sunday, and my best gal there put one aside for me with Zelda.

I struck a deal with my wife that I would get a Wii now, and when the PS3 came in I wouyld use the rest of my credit (about 500 dollars) and she would pay the rest, and I would get a PS3 for Xmas, if the happen to get one in before then.

Well did that come back to bite me in the ass. I got a call on Tuesday the 21st and my EB got 1 20 gig in to replace the one that was shipped to another store. My gal held it for me and I rush out and grabbed it on the 21st.

Ok, I'll tell my story.

Day- 11/14/06

Place- Circuit City. 14th Street Union Square Manhattan NYC.

Well, Me and my girl were waiting in the park across the street from the curcuit city and noticed people starting to crowd around the store. (I'm skipping some of the non important stuff) We ran across the street to find out Jack Black was signing autographs at the virgin mega store, so the PS3 line hadn't formed yet. As it started to get dark people started coming and asking me and my girl is the line for the PS3 over here and since I "Thought" I was the first one there I said yea. Low and behold about 7 people formed up and we found out that the true line was around the corner. Lol..thank god it was only about 10 people there, so we were good. The messed up thing was that whole night we were being told that all the raffle tickets were given out sunday and there were no more, so we should go home. We paid no attention to the people claiming that nonsense and stayed online that whole night. Eventually we were given chairs, so we were good.

11/15/06- Nothing major happened. I almost got into a fight but nothing MAJOR happened. Well, except for the fact that when I called my job so I could pick up my check..they told me to come in and when I came in they said I had to wait until tommorow. Yea, that sucked.

11/16/07(The day that nearly destroyed me)

So, it was pay day and I had quit my previous job and was expecting to get my check today. I had my friend hold my spot down while I went to pick up my check and once I got my check I went to commerce bank on 34th street. I went there and gave them my check and they told me I couldn't cash it. They said I owed them money...Oh yea I forgot to mention my last job sucked big time! They had our checks bouncing..they were giving us bad checks to cash. So, anyways I only had like $300 & change on me, so the check was suppose to help!!! What did I do? Well, I walked back to 14th street to meet up with my boy to find out they were going to start starting the offical line in 20mins, so we went all around the village looking for a check cashing spot. We finally found one and the Smuck told he I couldn't cash it because I didn't live in the area. WHAT?! So, now we were running out of time to get back to the line and I thought we wouldn't find any place to cash my check. Oh, I almost forgot that the girl in commerce put my account number on the back of the check so no bank or check cashing spot would cash it. THAT *****!!! So, we finally came across a Western Union and they cashed my check even thought the account number was on the back. Lol...I actually changed some of the numbers anyways so even if they did look it up it would've came up with no answer because of the fake account number. Lol, so anyways we came back and got on the line and since now I had a total of $560 something I had planned on getting the 20gb PS3. The store manager then came out and told us that there were no 20gb PS3's. My heart was crushed and I was hurt, but I still stayed online.

11/16/06(Evening)-11/17/06(12am)

I was online with my girl and towards the night time it started poring. We were all on tv and stuff, but it was still nasty outside. Ummmmm, so yea, a guy wanted to get ahead online and was willing do dish out $300 to get online. Heh he heh heh heh...What did I do? Well, I told my girl to get off the line and I was going to let the kid on, but some kids started complaining to the police officers, so the kid had to get offline. Sooooooooooo.....I did this...I told him that my girl would go in and get it for him, so he could still get it. SO WHAT HAPPENED?! HE GAVE ME $300 for letting my girl get it for him and now I had more than enough to get the 60gb!!!! Well all in all I got my 60gb PS3 and he got his system and I prayed my a** off that night I tell ya. God was with me because so many things could've went wrong.

That's my story. Had you on the edge of your seat, huh?