PS3 on eBay pulls in $10,100

[wraggster]

A PlayStation 3 pre-order up for auction on eBay ended just 45 minutes ago as of the writing of this post, fetching over ten thousand dollars. If this guy doesn't get his pre-order, and we have a feeling that's going to be happening a lot tomorrow, can the winning bidder get out of it? Yes, according to the notes on the auction, although you still have to pay for shipping (wtf?). His wife is getting in on the bling action as well, "my wife is first in line at our local Walmart and she is also garunteed a PS3 so I will have 2 of them at midight."

We don't know anything about the winning bidder except he's apparently a Florida Gators fan. Let's hope he didn't type an accidental zero in there when bidding ... 10k for a PS3 is quite a stretch from the $600 asking price. We've emailed him for some answers, hopefully he hasn't had to hock his computer to pay for this baby.

The guy who is reselling 100 PS3s is probably crapping his pants right now. Just keep the receipts for the Ferrari and the yacht in Bermuda. Impulse buys can be a real bitch.

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[the_eternal_dark]

How in the hell do you get 100 ps3's? Didn't sony put the cap at 1 per person per store?

This $#@! annoys me, ripping people off at launch so they can get more money out of someone who waited 5 hours in line to get turned down while the 5 $#@!s in front of them are going to sell theirs on ebay.

Why does ebay/sony/microsoft/nintendo let this happen at every launch? I can understand ebay, they get percentages of sales, but it freaking annoying to those of us who are actually going to use ours and others who couldn't get their preorders.

[Video_freak]

Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooow!

[Roxas]

yeah Eternal has a point. Sony shouldn't let this happen neither other Game Companies,when 20-or more people line at the storefreezing ther butts n the 5-10 people on front get it, within thosepeople 70% of them will sell it online for an outrageses pricez. that just stupid....... that JUst BS Yes BS!!!!

[dagger89]

Thats nothing, look at this:
http://cgi.ebay.com/SONY-PLAYSTATION...QQcmdZViewItem

and it still has a few hours left, and the bids jump like crazy in the last few minutes (I've seen a $4000 one jump to $6000 in the last 2 minutes)

Edit: Get a load of this one, lol:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...MakeTrack=true

[Kramer]

Man. Think of the poor starving kids that could live of that money for the rest off their lives.

[kando]

psingley85( 15Feedback score is 10 to 49) US $99,999,999.00 Nov-16-06 23:41:13 PST

LOL

Edit: Get a load of this one, lol:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...keT rack=true

l m a o. check the bid history!!

[porchemasi]

lol these are all scams by buyers, simply buy a ps3 for $3000 get it and use it for a week then ship it back either empty box with magazenes weighting same wieght and u got urself a new ps3 and ur money back in paypal