June 30, 2008

Be vewwy vewwy quiet, I'm hunting bunny wabbits

My obsession with the Wii Fit Balance Board has reached a new fevered pitch. I’ve called the game stores, I’ve stalked the web, and now I’m hounding friends who have anything to do with retail. One potentially successful link is a general manager of a very large retail store of the red-circular-logo variety. Please oh please oh please. This isn’t the first time that I’ve set my eye on something gadgety and worked at it like a dog on a bone.

Once I wanted a little iPod shuffle, but wanted it at a discount. I scoured for coupons, checked prices online got frustrated when the price would suddenly popup up. Then when I did order it, I tracked its online progress. “Sweet, it’s in Indiana!” When I really could have just gone and picked it up at the store. The shipping was FREE, though, and I couldn’t refuse an offer like that!

But, like many a hunter with many a dead animal trophy on their wall, I’m a bit bored with my catch when I’ve finally dragged it home. It’s the hunt, I realize, that I’m vested in. But the Wii has proven to be an allusive target and it’s maddening. Stores can’t keep the damn thing stocked. None of them. It appears that Nintendo preferred to send more to countries with stronger currency for more profits. DAMN YOU CAPITALISM! I thought that we had invented capitalism and now you use it against us? 
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