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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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