PS3 - How much are YOU willing to pay?

PS3 News by Lyndon M STAFF 582 days ago

So, how much are you willing to pay for Sony´s Next Generation Console? $500? $750? $1000?
It seems that the auction site ebay has been inundated with sellers trying to offload their pre-ordered PS3 consoles at inflated prices.

The average price for a console off of ebay is currently around the $1500 mark.
Some people have managed to get more than 1 pre-order in, which will guarantee them more than one console.
An example of this is an ebay member, Dubamoinc, who states, ¨I waited in line at GameStop this morning (10/06/2006) and i am the number one person on the pre-sale list which means i am guranteed a PS3 on november (sic) 17th 2006. I have 4 pre-orders in and I am guranteed (sic) ALL of them that day¨.

This is just one of many, who are willing to part with their pre-orders to make a small fortune. Economically speaking, you can understand their reasoning behind such a move, but with so few PS3´s available at launch, why were people able to pre-order more than one console, and, more importantly, selling their pre-orders online ruins it for other people who didn´t manage to get one. Personally, I think ebay should ban practices like this, but, as long as ebay is making money, they don´t care what gets sold.

On another note, one seller is hoping that they will somehow make a massive fortune. The person has apparently put a Buy-It Now price on a PS3 pre-order rumoured to be $100,000. If anyone chooses to buy it at that price then they are either VERY rich, VERY desperate, or more than like both.

So if you desperately want a PS3 at launch, and have an extra $1000 laying around the place (that could actually be put toward a half-decent HDTV to play your PS3 on) then head over to ebay.
Ebay, definitely the sellers site...

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