UPS delivery drivers in danger of Wii stalkers
Category: Wii, Posted: 12/06/2007 at 09:23PM CST by Frank Ling, Editorial Director
Just how bad can it get with these Wii shortages? Plenty. According to gonintendo.com your friendly brown-clad UPS delivery person is now the target of Wii-stalkers.
These unsavory individuals (not the drivers, the stalkers) learn the shipping dates from their local GameStop stores, note and memorize the UPS delivery routines and intercept the drivers on the day of delivery in the hopes that they'll be the first in line to score a Wii.
As a result, delivery dates for Wiis are being withheld from some GameStop stores in order to thwart these Wii-maniacs.
Come to think about it, I know my neighborhood delivery guy pretty well, so...
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Creepy.
Couldn't have said it better myself. I'm sure plenty of people know i don't enjoy nintendo games (except NES), but why stalk the wii? Newegg has your computer supplies and gamestop has your xbox supplies. Why you have those two, what else do you need?
I agree, bu11eT.
Let me put it this way...
If the WII was the only gaming console. I would be a PC gamer for sure. The only reason I'm not a PC gamer now is because I work on a computer all day, almost everyday. My hand gets cramped from using a mouse so much. I like to kick back and relax, away from the computer.
Good thing everyone's freaking out about the Wii. 'Means all the cooler stuff isn't being watched...
Simple solution:
Just tell the UPS guy if he doesn't have a Wii in the truck, there's no reason to keep him alive.
I'm just kiddin, I love the brown.
Well, not really.
I love the brown too. It feels good ...oh wait >_
LOL sodev
My friends actually a driver for the ups, and he delivers to GAmestop, two of them on his route.
I already got a wii
Last year.
Ah ha! So that's how you scored a Wii! Me? I lucked out by showing up at the Circuit City website exactly when they offered the Wiis...and it wasn't a published or advertised sale. Just happened to be there when it happened.
Clearly the solution is to invest millions in the development of stealth delivery vans ...or ramp up Wii production. I know which choice would be more fun!
Could turn into a fatal attraction.
Quasar, i got my wii through a series of events rly.
The local Toys r us by my dads work had a pre order list, that was full by the time my dad got there. He was dissapointed, and didnt want to tell me. SO as luck turns out, (my dad is a floor manager at a car repair shop) the head manager of that toys r us cam in with a problem with her car. MY dad is always really nice, and after he got her car fixed, she said "Is there anything i could do for you?" (my dad having helped this lady before, she makes some darn good cookies, goes in for the kill) "Well, theres a reserve list, could you put me at the top?"
So Novbember 17th rolls around, and i was up until midnight hoping my parents would come out fot ehre room to say "LETS DO THIS!!"
They didnt.
So i was really dissapointed, i was garunteed i would get it on the 17th. SO the day progresses, i was just slouching aorund, and then when the female parental arrived home from her job, she called me into her room,. and there it was!!!!!
The only downer, i was stuck with wii sports for 3 hours, and iw anted some FPS action. I scored red steel. MAN DID IT ROCK, for 2 hours, then i saw all the flaws. Got COD 3 and then was fully satisfied.
There we go.