# Roughly $500 later... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 15, 2001, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roughly-500-later/93468 "2001-11-15T05:08:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roughly-500-later/93468/21 "2001-11-16T06:35:27Z")
\ I went out and bought 2… so $777 later, I have a new toy 🙂 Damn, it rocks some ass! 😃 Sam ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roughly-500-later/93468/22 "2001-11-16T13:40:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by GaWd \* > **\ I went out and bought 2** ??? for that neat, 3-D special effect? My son (age 13) has one thing on his christmas wish list. Four letters, begins and ends with an ‘x’. I’d rather get him $500 worth of games for his Playstation, for which he has two games. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roughly-500-later/93468/23 "2001-11-16T14:24:44Z")
**Maeglin** , get it _after_ Londope. They’ll be cheaper or something by then. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roughly-500-later/93468/24 "2001-11-16T15:34:46Z")
I am now wishing I had done the retail thing. I put in a preorder with an online toy store about 6 weeks ago, and now I’m being told that “it will ship in the next 7-14 days”. ---
**Author:** ![GaWd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f08c70/32.png) [@GaWd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaWd)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roughly-500-later/93468/25 "2001-11-16T17:06:26Z")
No Ethilrist, I bought it out of greed \ I am selling the sucker on Ebay ☹ I’m a bad person. And damn this thing rocks so bad! 😃 All you nay-sayers can kiss my arse. I’ve been told by a developer from Nvidia who developed the graphics card that the software designers have under-developed the first wave of games to test out the hardware…the graphics should get way more unreal in a few months. Can’t wait. Sam ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Defense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Civil\_Defense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Defense)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roughly-500-later/93468/26 "2001-11-16T18:03:44Z")
> [@](#): > > No Ethilrist, I bought it out of greed \ I am selling the sucker on Ebay I’m a bad person. Well, look on the bright side- you’re not nearly as bad of a person as some of us Best Buy lackeys. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![bernse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@bernse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bernse)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2001, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roughly-500-later/93468/27 "2001-11-16T19:59:29Z")
Heh. I’m debating of selling mine off, too. At first it sounded like they were going to be pretty rare by Xmas but there are conflicting reports of how many are going to make it out. I think I won’t open mine for a couple days yet and see where the market is going. If a person can make a couple hundred bucks because someone else couldn’t wait another month or two, why not? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/roughly-500-later/93468.md?page=1)