About a week ago Timber decided that it was finally time to try and get a Nintendo Wii. We had heard from people that Best Buy puts out the new shipments of Wiis first thing on Sunday morning. So we decided to head to Best Buy on Sunday morning and try our luck. We saw on the website that they open at 11 AM on Sundays. I also took the step to call around 10:15 AM to see if they were open, but the recording said that they were closed, and that they open at 10 AM on Sundays. Huh? You're closed right now, at 10:15 AM, yet you open at 10 AM on Sundays? At any rate we high tailed it to Best Buy and sure enough they do open at 10 AM on Sundays. We saw people walking out of the store with lots of goodies and we were dreading the possibility that they were all walking out with Nintendo Wiis. So we rushed into the store, went straight back to the video game section, and then didn't see any. So I asked a salesperson who told me to go up to the front and ask for them. When we got up there and asked the guy said they had two left. We said we wanted one, and were happy to see a few seconds later a real bonafide Nintendo Wii in the box. Woohoo! He asked if we wanted any games to go with it and we said yes, but I asked if we should buy the Wii now and go back to get the games and buy them separately or if they could hold it for us up front while we picked out some games. He said that it wouldn't be a problem to hold the Wii for us, and I was a little worried and wanted to tell him my name and Timber's name so he would remember us, but figured I shouldn't worry and ran to the back to pick up the games. We got the Wii Play game which game with an extra controller and an extra nunchuck. When we went back up to the front we put our stuff on the counter and the guy rang the stuff up and said that the total was $75. We stammered a little bit and said we wanted the Wii with that stuff and he gave us a questioning look and said he wasn't sure if they have any more Wii's in stock. I kind of laughed and gave a groan and said that I thought he put a Wii under his counter for us. He looked down and gave a surprised look to see that there was in fact a Wii under the counter. He happy rang us up and we were out of there. It was literally 5 minutes between the time he put our Wii under the counter and the time we came back to buy it. But we got it home, set it up, and the rest has been history.
Posted by troutm8 at September 30, 2007 09:30 PM