Your PS3 Story................

Well I'll drop my story first.

Tuesday- 11/14/06

I went to union sqaure in NYC with my girl tuesday morning at 11am just to see ifa lined had formed and yet none had formed. So, we waited and eventually people came and sat in the park with us. I asked "Are you guys here for the PS3?" and they said "Yes". They then left, so I told my girl to get up and lets walk across the street where the Circuit City was because we saw like 2o people lined up in front of the Virgin Mega Store. I stayed online thinking this was the PS3 camp out line forming unbtil a kid came buy and asked what this line was for and a girl then replied "This line is for Tenacious D". I then looked at her and asked her..she then repeated the same thing "This line is for Tenacious D". I was a little relieved but felt like a d*** in my own way. Anyways, I then got off the line and stood in front of curcuit city qith my girl and then we formed our own line. People started lining up behind us and we all began talking and cracking jokes until a girl from curcuit city put a paper on the window saying the line for the camp out starts around the corner. Me and another guy checked around the corner and luckily we saw about 15 people that were there since Sunday(stinky f****) sitting in chairs. We then got behind them and now we were offically on the line. The guy who was number 1 gave out chairs to most of those on the line, so me and my girl did our first camp out.

Wednesday- 11/15/06

Here's where the drama starts. I came there with $360 due to the fact that I was getting paid on thursday from my job which I had quitthe week before. So later thatafternoon I called up my job from the celly and talked to a girl who said I could get my check. So I walked all the way from 14th street Union Square to 34th street. When I got inside do you know what the chick told me? She says "Oh you have to wait for the boss to come in tommorow because I can't give it to you" I wanted to smash her face through the f****** wall. So, I yelled at her a little bit and then walked back to the circuit city to get back online.I had also sent my girl home earlier so she could recharge my phone and this girl brings the phone back after about 9hrs AND IT WASN'T RECHARGED! I CUT IT ON AND THERE WAS 1 BAR! She left before I cut the phone back on...luckily. Oh yes, I was pissed!

Thursday- 11/16/06

The day of doooooooom. I woke up and told my friend to hold my spot since I had to go to my job. So, I took the train this time to my old job and went downstairs to ask for my check. My boss was there and I signed for my check. I then went my bank to cash my check...guess what happened. The job before this one which I didn't stay at too long had a bad problem with giving the employees bad checks, so when I went to go cash the check from my new spot the girl told me I owed the bank money because of the last job. So, I left and was going to cash my check at another bank until I realized that the girl from my bank wrote my account number on the back of my check so that I wouldn't try to cash it at any other bank. Yes...I was F***** with a capital F. I then called my boy up and tried to tell him my story, but guess what? The phone died and I knew he had to go see his girl at a specific time, so basicaly I had to speed walk it back to Union Square. I finally got there and told him what happened, so we asked one of the guys on line if he knew where a check cashing place was. The guy asked another guy and that guy told us there was one on 8th street. Just as we were about to walk off the guy who we asked first told us we had 30mins to get back because the police were going to put us in an offical line and there'd be no way I'd be allowed back in the line if I weren't there when they got there. So....me and my boy walked to 8th street and went into the check cashing spot. The girl inside shook her head and said the machine is down. I was crushed but I asked her if she knew of another check cashing spot and she said one on 6th. So we walked and did not find any check cashing spot AT ALL...we were in the villiage! Anyways, we then began walking around and we asked another girl if she knew where a check cashing spot was and she said near houston street . Me and my boy then began walking and he saw one...I WAS HAPPY! We then went inside and the guy told me I have to be from the neighborhood in order to cash this check. I'm not going to even go there, so lets keep moving. We basically kept walking back to 14street knowing I would be doomed until my boy pointed out a western union spot. We went inside and guess what.....THEY CASHED IT! They did't even care about the account number on the back. So, now even though I knew I only had enough cash for the 20gb I was still slightly happy & we made it back in time to be placed in the Offical line for the launch...I was #29. Just when all was going well the manager of the store came out and said there will be no 20gb PS3's only 60gb. My heart split and I looked at my girl but I still stayed on the line. Later on that night as it pored and rained a kid said he would offer me $400 If I would give up my spot...Yea right..Me? So, him to give the moey for the ps3 to my girl and she'll go in and buy it for him. NOW I HAD ENOUGH FOR MY PS3!!!!!!!!!! I was so freaking happy!

That's pretty darn close to missing a ps3.

Went to store.

Grabbed box.

Paid with credit card.

Exited store.

The end. :|

Went to store.

Grabbed box.

Paid with credit card.

Exited store.

The end.

WildTurkey00

I LIKE... LOL

Went to store.

Grabbed box.

Paid with credit card.

Exited store.

The end. :|

WildTurkey00

I pre-ordered mine months before.

I also have a Poland Spring water-cooler bottle (the big one) thatI throw change and cash in at the end of the week.

A week before the system dropped I cashed in the change, totalling close to $1100.00.

I waited for the store to call........

I found a shipment in anotherstore 2 1/2 weeks after the system first dropped.

I paid for it in cash there.

Then took it home.

When the first store called me about the one I pre-ordered, I bought it and sold it to one of my friends at the price I paid for it.

The End.

Well i was the proud owner of a 360 until it got the dreaded 3 red lights,luckily while still under warranty,so i got it fixed+sold it-lost faith in it.

Well was waiting for the Elite to come out,but in the meantime starting to become more+more interested in the specs of the PS3-especially coming with built in HD Blu Ray drive,unlike 360-where you got to buy one seperately.Then 1 day i saw 1 on Ebay-brand new+sealed for £79 less than shop price,so i just went ahead+ bought it+sold my classic 80s/90s Yamaha to pay for it.

Been playing Resistance+its just Great-controllers work so smoothly on this game+now im converted to the PS3+cant wait for games like MGS4+GTA4-Roll on the end of this year.

Well I'm 15 and my job doesn't pay as much as I would wish it too.

So I sold some of my studio equipment to a store named Galaxy, I was worried that they wouldn't give me enought but he gave me an estimate of $670.56. The PS3 had just dropped in price to the $499 so I had more than enought.

The guy said that the check could only be cashed at a Suntrust bank unless I wanted to wait a day to let the money go through. But I couldn't wait. But there was a problem, I hadn't seen a Suntrust in god knows how long.

We searched and searched and no luck.

My mother went into Publix to buy some groceries for the night and came back with the money. I guess Publix's now have Suntrust in them.

Went to the Gamestop store and they had none, So they sent me to a store about 15 minutes down the road.

Got there and the guy tried to convince we to buy a 360 [Obviously a Fan of Xbox] and I went ahead and bought the PS3.

THe only bad thing is that none of hte games I wanted were in stock and my mother was tired of running around for me and said no more trips to ANY store.

I got home unboxed it hoping i could go online and get some Demos but my stepfather wouldn't get off the internet so I could plug it up and I had forgotten the WEP Security code. I was bummed out the the max. =[

So the next day I went to Target and bought the games.

Finally, I could play my PS3.

12/24/06

2 of my buddies spent the night at my house on the 23rd. Next morning we woke up and my dad offered to take us out to breakfast. We ate at Friendly's. Friendly's isnt too far from Bestbuy which had some dvds I wanted to pick up. So we figure we'll go there for a little and look around maybe pick-up a dvd. Im just looking around in the videogame section when I look up and see an employee with a 60 gig PS3 in his hands walking it back to the videogame section. I was flabbergasted. I picked up a 360 previously because I never thought I would get my hands ona PS3, even though PS3 was the one I REALLY wanted. I asked the man is that for sale? And he said something like sure or yes. He said do you want it? I took the PS3, my dad said I could get it. I felt so happy. Apparently somebody had returned it becuase they couldn't sell it on EBAY but it was never opened. Thats my PS3 story. :)

Mine is a sad story. I moved from El Paso, TX to Chihuahua, Mex. because my wife took over her mom's store, so it was a drastic increase in money for our family. We took the car here first, my wife, my son, my dog, and myself so we could pick up a truck, drop of my son and dog with my wife's mom, and go get our stuff.

We returned to El Paso, on around Feb. 23, packed up the truck, and proceeded to make our move. On the way back to Chihuahua, we got a phone call saying the dog had gotten through the gate and was lost. This made me very upset of course, as I loved this dog.

On Feb, 26 (the day before my Birthday) my sister in law then told me my dog had actually been hit by a car, and nobody knew how to tell me, because they knew I loved my dog so much.

The next day for my birthday, my wife bought me a PS3 and a puppy (black lab), of course it didn't replace my old dog, but man I had wanted a PS3 so bad, and it was always WELL out of my price range.

It's hard to be sad when your standing there holding your unexpected brand new PS3.

Here's my story.

Read about the price drop. Went to bank. Withdrew $535. Drove to a nearby GameStop. Purchased the PLAYSTATION®3; received one penny in change. Left the store with the box. Went home. Unpacked box. Plugged in. Turned on. Set up.

Went to store.

Grabbed box.

Paid with credit card.

Exited store.

The end. :|

WildTurkey00

Same... except, I paid with cash. :P

Mom asked me if i wanted to sell my 360 to get a PS3.

i said no. she said okay.

we went into best buy the next day.

dude say they had it. other dude said they didn't.

they checked and came out with 2 PS3s.

I took one.

Bought it.

Left.

I went to Best Buy's site, selected the PS3, Resistance, Tomb Raider Anniversary and another game. Selected in store pickup, and waited around for the confirmation e-mail before drove in to pick it up.

Unfortunately, picking it up took a bit longer than I had wanted. Mostly due to the incompetence of the employee getting my order. That wouldn't have been so bad, except he kept acting defensive and generally pissy until he realized that he'd made a mistake. Every single time.

Went to store.

Grabbed box.

Paid with credit card.

Exited store.

The end. :|

WildTurkey00

lol basically the same wit me except i paid with cash