The issue was that we were given this opportunity to pick them up through our company as opposed to waiting in line at the stores. I had a first shipment xbox reservation at Gamestop which I canceled when this offer arrived.
If it makes you feel any better I work for a well known video game developer as a designer and we still failed at getting all of the xbox consoles we were promised. It's quite interesting to be promised X xbox's at release only to find out that our office would basically be holding a lottery to decide where the boxes that we did get would go. As a side note, each employee was originally selected by an internal promotion and lottery to be accepted to receive one in the first place. These employees then sent checks to pay the full price for the boxes. Then not enough arrived. Oh joyous day. But in lue of the anarchy resulting from Microsoft's fiendishly evil leap of faith in that their faulty system wouldn't anger people enough to sue I don't feel so bad that I didn't get one. I feel really bad for all those crazy individuals who blew 1k+ on a box because "they absolutely needed one for Christmas". How's it feel people to spend $1200 on a system which will most likely melt itself into your entertainment center. ^_^
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The issue was that we were given this opportunity to pick them up through our company as opposed to waiting in line at the stores. I had a first shipment xbox reservation at Gamestop which I canceled when this offer arrived.
If it makes you feel any better I work for a well known video game developer as a designer and we still failed at getting all of the xbox consoles we were promised. It's quite interesting to be promised X xbox's at release only to find out that our office would basically be holding a lottery to decide where the boxes that we did get would go. As a side note, each employee was originally selected by an internal promotion and lottery to be accepted to receive one in the first place. These employees then sent checks to pay the full price for the boxes. Then not enough arrived. Oh joyous day. But in lue of the anarchy resulting from Microsoft's fiendishly evil leap of faith in that their faulty system wouldn't anger people enough to sue I don't feel so bad that I didn't get one. I feel really bad for all those crazy individuals who blew 1k+ on a box because "they absolutely needed one for Christmas". How's it feel people to spend $1200 on a system which will most likely melt itself into your entertainment center. ^_^