Retail Store Scalping Wii Consoles on eBay

C0rinthian writes "ArsTechnica reports that the games retailer Slackers has been keeping their stock of the Nintendo Wii off their store shelves, and is instead selling the system on eBay for $400-500. (A $150-$250 markup)" This follows their look at the other side of the coin: why some retailers insist on Wii Bundles.

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[pembo13]

See the accused's website: http://slackers.com/

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[MMC Monster]

Then, the brand goes out of business, I have lost margin and as a small locally owned business have to lay off staff, and there is direct damage to the consumer because next year, Target has moved on, the brand is no longer in business, and I can't get it for my loyal customers. I just started buying at the local Target a few months ago. Do they really leave town that quickly? Isn't the cost of opening up and quickly closing a store of that size pretty enormous? One would think that they would go out of business, in stead of being a large chain.

BTW, I like Target, they have reasonable prices, and I would much rather buy from them than deal with the high markups at a specialty store unless they were adding some value-added services that Target doesn't supply (ie: Custom installation of A/V equipment, rare or out of stock games, etc.)