As everyone knows the Wii is the most innovative/creative system to date. With it's motion control, two handed interactivity and even now working with feet on Wii Fit it's no wonder that these machines are sold out everywhere. With games like Super Mario Galaxy and No More Heroes breathing fresh air into an at times stale adventure genre the system reigns supreme as the all age system.

I work at a Best Buy specifically in the gaming department. I know how many desperate people are daily trying to get their hands on one of these bad boys just to have the opprotunity to play something new and fun. This morning my store got about 30 Wii's in stock for the coming day. I knew they would go fast and most likely be gone well before noon. So my day was going as normal just selling systems and recommending titles when things went awry.

At about 11:00 AM or so a "kid", no older than me, 19, with a friend had asked for two systems and two Wii Plays; one for each. So of course I abided as it's my job to do so and they seemed like nice enough guys. I brought their systems up to the register for them, told them to enjoy it and went back to work. No more than five minutes later that same kid had the audacity to come up to me, now garbed in a new sweatshirt and hat, and asks me for a system. Since this "drought"of systems Best Buy has a relatively strict policy of "One Per Customer" which I explained to him. He apparently though I was dumb enough to try saying "That was my brother." I didn't budge, called my manager over, and has him leave.

About 20 minutes later my supervisor found this guy offering people $350.00 to go into the store and buy the system and give it to him. When he wouldn't leave the parking lot after nabbing up 6 systems the police had to escort him off the premises. I honestly didn't feel too bad about the situation until a little later in the day when we were sold out. A family of four came in with a boy and a girl, about 10, and I had to decline them the system. The kids were legitimently sad that they couldn't get one since the father called earlier and was told that the store had them. The dad told him how long they've been waiting for one, the son's birthday was in early september, and that he's been trying weekly since then and just getting horrible luck.

As enterprising as that person might of thought he was being by going on craigslist or ebay and selling them for $400.00 or more, he was just being a jerk. It's the people like this who think that the right way of doing things are by scamming others and making a profit and it is just plain wrong. The fact that many people, rightfully so, aren't willing to pay outrageous prices, try to do things the right way and still come up empty handed makes me incredibly uneasy.

What does this have to say about our society that takes away from others to turn a profit??? I couldn't really tell you. I'm no sociologist and I don't know how people think. But I do know it's the people like these who can ruin a good thing for everybody else. And it's people like these who are killing this game system for alot of kids.