I see people on Kijiji selling unopened day one Xbox One consoles for $1000 or more, double it's retail price.
I'm perfectly happy with my Wii U and didn't have to go through any hoops, so can you anser this: Wouldn't pretty much everybody have been so desperate that they were in line or preordered the Xbox one, or they intend to wait uintil it's in stock and/or the price goes down? If you're looking at online classifieds, then surely you would've been able to check around and see that semi-unconventional stores like Sears or toys-r-us would still have stock? It's not an iPhone, you had options.
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