About a month ago I was surfing the net for ways to be able to preorder a PS3 online.
Being that I wasn't able to go to a store to acquire one and it didn't really matter how I got one as long as I did got one, I kept on checking the countless online stores around the world when I stumble with YesAsia.com, I have ordered movies through this site before and overall I always have receive a great service at competitive prices.
Low and behold they were taking some sort of preorder-preorder, which meant that you would subscribe to a list and they would send you a notification by e-mail when they were able to take preorders, then you would have to place the preorder, BUT going to all this process did not guarantee that at the end of it you would 100% get one PS3. Subscription to this list included a $50 coupon for the 60GB PS3 edition at $599, which made it more juicy. So seeing I got nothing to lose I subscribed to the newsletter.
I woke up today to find out I received my notification that they were taking preorders... NOW. So I surfed faster than the Silver Surfer to YesAsia.com to place my preorder and just when I was about to do so I noticed a little detail. The price is not longer $599.00 minus my coupon, now it says $1,899.00!. Blood almost shot through my nose "a la Anime" when I saw that, I checked frantically everywhere wishing it would be a price put in some weird currency or it might be a typo. Well it wasn't, it was $1,899 AMERICAN DOLLARS!. So after much trouble trying to contact someone from YesAsia.com I finally got someone from their Headquarters in Hong Kong who confirmed that the price was "right", I wasn't going to yell or insult some person who only mistake was to answer my call and work for these, these... THIEVES!. So I gather my cool, and only said... "SO, just to get this straight, this is not a typo, it's not a mistake, and because of the price that your providers set for this consoles and because of the limited quantity you got of these same consoles, you are charging the TRIPLE for one PS3 60GB edition, is that correct?", and the guy stumbling a little said "mmm... yyes sir!, that's about it".
So there you go, a store that I thought was a serious and respected one, who cared for his customers, has gone all "Ebay" on me and lot of other people who subscribed to that "joke" of preorder list.
This is my sad story, and I thought in sharing it with you. Beware out there guys, it's either grab or get mug!
"Preorder" letter after the jump.
