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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Phillysoul11" data-source="post: 57176" data-attributes="member: 577">Best Buy Lying to Customers About 'Last' WiiBy Susan Arendt November 14, 2007 | 10:02:35 AMCategories: Console Games    The Best Buy in Princeton, NJ has been pulling a bit of a fast one on customers, repeatedly selling the store's "last Wii" over and over again.A reader of The Consumerist reports that while he was shopping in the store over the weekend, he saw a Best Buy employee walk by with a Wii held over his head, announcing that it was the store's last one. A couple eagerly snatched it up, commenting how happy their kids would be. About a half hour later, a different employee came by with a Wii, as an announcement went out over the store's PA that this was the store's last Wii:I was now in the store solely to witness more of this sales technique. The second Wii took just over 15 minutes to sell - I overheard two manager-types (one in a suit, the other a yellow shirt) discussing it, the suit asking "Did Julie sell that Wii, yet? How long?" And then "Wait 40 minutes and send out the next one."This can't be a gimmick to make sure that Wiis will sell--Best Buy has to know that they could put their entire stock out on the floor and it would be gone in a few hours at most. So why the act? Perhaps to get people to linger in the store longer, picking up $900 camcorders on a whim, I don't know.http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/11/best-buy-lying-.htmlwhat a cheap scheme lol</blockquote>

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