I'm looking to buy one for my son for xmas but the shops don't have them and it's looking like there will be shortage for the 25th.

I'm thinking of buying from ebay, there is pretty good deals from a German seller considering it's ebay £220 and £20pp.the seller has few and i remember seeing lots peeps selling from there before offering good deals.

Has anybody bought from these types of sellers in this country and if they did has there been any problems ?

thanks Bush

Would have thought the USA was a better place to look. You will save about 60% according to the BBC. And they have availability.
WG

Try argos phone reservation line. they seem to be coming in in small batches.
I finally got 1 last week had been trying for 4 weeks atb.

Hi Weed Genie, i'll keep what you said in mind, but i think i'll try the Argos reservation line, cheers for the info bluetot

If you get a foreign Wii you may be restricted to only buying foreign games for it

Why don't Nintendo just make more Wiis ?

No you're not.
WG

If you buy from America or Japan you are. Germany is ok though (I just checked)

so they can control the ridiculous prices they charge for them, ripoff merchants

Argos is where i got mine.

It's great fun, but not for the serious gamer.


A Wii is best if you have friends round a lot as its more of a social console, you do feel a bit stupid sitting there waving your arms all over the place, plus the graphics aint all that. however if its for the kids then go for it.
otherwise go for an xbox 360.

CluelessTurtle brought his 360 and a load of games up, however we ended up becoming addicted to Call of Duty 3 playing Capture the flag, most of the time we stayed as riflemen, The allies have the best rifle as it repeats, however the axis rifle is better for long distance shots.

hope you get what your looking for

T1

hi T1, you are right about it being more about fun than serious gaming,

My mrs is looking forward to getting it so she can get involved with us boys, my young lad has had a 360 for 2yrs but mum has to sit and watch me and the young lad play it , because she doesn't have clue


speedom i have checked amazon and peeps are wanting big money so i'll just keep trying to get 1 for a decent price.

and thanks to everybody. Bush

i've just took a brainwave and went and ordered 1 from the German Amazon, the site was in German obviously and this man is here is obviously stoned cos i seemed to be able to read it

so hopefully i understood it enough, well put it this way i managed to get them to take 250 euros off the mrs mastercard

the mrs is through in glasgow at some indoor snowboarding place at breahead, so she doesn't even know about it yet

i think i better not tell her until it arrives cos she'll just freak thinking i've fecked it up

Thanks for that. Could have made a big mistake there!
WG

just thought i'd let peeps know that the Wii was delivered this morning Bush