It seems that nowadays every Christmas there becomes one toy that every kid thinks they NEED. And some dumb parents agree with them. The first year i remember this happening was with "tickle me elmo". You rememeber seeing it on the news...a store would get a shipment of them in, and crazy parents would stand in line outside waiting for the doors to open. When they did, it was an all out brawl between insane parents trying to get there hands on one. The ones that weren't lucky enough to push themselves to the front of the line then went home and bought them on E-bay for hundreads of dollars.
For a stupid DOLL that laughted when you touched it!!!
Then last year (and this year to a lesser extent) it was the Wii Console. Fights break out, people get hospitalized, and a few even die by being trampled. And for what? Do these people think they would be bad parents if their kid didn't get the newest trend?
And these big companies don't do much to help either...they spend huge dollars on marketing, then claim they "can't meet the demand". No, it's not that they can't meet the demand, it's that if they purposley don't ship as many as they need, so that the value of the product skyockets. And dumb people fall for it hook line and sinker. Take this year for example... in september every store had wii's for sale. It was easy to buy one for a cheap price. People were selling them used pretty cheap as well. Then toward the end of November...stores started running out, and now people fight over them, and pay top dollar to get one. Did Nintendo not know that it is Christmas time? Did their production manager just totally forget that they'd need more during this time? Is there no Christmas in Japan? I doubt it.
Don't get me wrong, i don't blame these companies. They are just doing whatever they can to sell their product. That's what companies do. What i do blame is lack of common scense fromt the buyers. People are nuts.
When i was a kid, i don't remember any of this happeneing. I don't remember there being fights over kids toys, or lines outside stores. Maybe there was...
-chuck out
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it's also funny how the 15 year-old kid finally gets the Wii, and he plays it for the first hour or so of the day, runs through every single game he gets, and then he runs into that moment where he's already getting a bit bored and doesn't really feel like playing anymore, and his buddies are out there playing road hockey, and that pretty much just sums up the video game experience. and I guarantee that over the next 3 days, he plays it each day for about another hour, and then after that, it's basically a once a week thing for about a month, and then he's just plugging his Playstation 2 back in because it can be used as a DVD player.
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