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What a jackass, I posted my PS2 up on here a couple days ago the system, 2 games
and a a memory card for $485, about what everything cost with the games and memory
cards plus tax... and somebody bought it.  It is beyond me why people try and jack
one another.

Thomas O'Connell wrote:

> This assumes you know what kind of games you want.  The 3 games that
> come with the amazon bundles are some of the most popular ones... so
> it's not like Amazon is sticking you with crappy games just to get rid
> of them.  It actually helps those wanting to get a playstation for
> someone, but they themselves are out of touch with which games are
> good.
>
> But yes, the Amazon bundles not being discounted over what it would cost
> to buy seperately kind of sucks.  But, whether it's just because Amazon
> wants the dough, or if Sony has some say about this first round of games
> and what they go for I dunno.  Amazon usually isn't in the business of
> ripping people off (of course, that's why they aren't profitable, but I
> digress).
>
> And why am I asking for $800?  Ehh.. just a number I threw up there
> based on what is potentially viable on ebay.  There's room to negotiate.
>
> Thomas
>
> Kiki wrote:
> >
> > Kiki <tigress@havoc.gtf.org> elaborated:
> > : And Amazon and all those other people are able to rip people off for their
> > : prices (any package deal that doesn't let you pay less for the whole
> >
> > And let me add that if I'm already going to pay about 200-300 more for a
> > ps2 (about how much you'll pay on ebay), there's no way some one could get
> > me to buy their package deal. You can go on ebay, pay 200-300 more for
> > just the basic console, and spend the 200-300 you'd pay extra for this
> > guy's system on games and stuff you choose yourself (you're not saving any
> > money when you're paying same markup from this guy's thing as you wold on
> > a regular console).
> >
> > Let me put it this way.
> > 300 retail for ps2
> > 500-600 on ebay, so about 200-300 more
> > 500 for the amazon deal which already is a rip off (you pay more than the
> > invidual components together)
> > 800 for this guy's deal
> > That's 300-200 more than just buying the console. 300 would more than
> > cover for what this guy's offering you even if you want it, 200 might be
> > reasonable for what he's giving if you want everything he's offering. But
> > that is *if* you want all that he's offering. So you're better off looking
> > on ebay to get a console and use the extra 200-300 to get what you want.
> >
> > Tigress
>
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> Thomas O'Connell               Georgia Institute of Technology
> Graduate Research Assistant               College of Computing
> www.cc.gatech.edu/~thomas           www.cc.gatech.edu/fce/ahri