Wii and Dodgy EB Dude

So I missed out at midnight, but hey, 16 hours later I got one anyway, and cheaper than I was expecting... though that's in a large part due to my wonderfully lovely girlfriend (hooray!)

So, dodgy EB Dude... I did a trade in thing, and it was 19 games + cube = cheaper Wii. I had 26 games that I wanted to part with, they were pretty much collecting dust and I wasn't really expecting to get much for them, and I didn't get much, but Alexis was like "Hey dude, you never scanned a bunch of games." So I got more moneys off the system, which rocks. Then we were like "Hmmm, can you price match for Wii Play?" And the dude was like "Heh! Nobody else around here has that game so I'm not price matching for you!" So we're like "Well, we'll go have a look anyway." And found it. Not more than 10m away in K-Mart. So Mr. Cocky won't be getting my business ever. Don't trust a dude in a pink shirt... though that's probably rather a broad generalisation... so if you know a trustworthy dude in a pink shirt (Like my friend Darrell) then it's probably ok.

Another dodgy thing was that I used my savings account with the card I usually swipe, he cancelled the deal and said that the transaction should have been void and money put on my card. He did the sale again (minus the extra money from the trade in) and I swip-ed the card through, PINed in and it said I hadn't enough moneys. If I had enough money for both transactions, I would have paid for the one system twice and probably not noticed.

After the whole thing, then my girl bought me lunch. Which was awesome. So, apart from the dodgy EB guy, it was a pretty good day.

She also made a gingerbread bumblebee man for me. It was delicious and cute. I took a photo before eating it, I'll probably put it up somewhere one day.

As for the Wii, it's a top system... bit odd at first, but fun. Played a bit of Wii Sports tennis with my sister and whupped her butt, then bowling, and she beat me! then played Wii Play and it was pretty even.

Wii, Australian Launch

So, I went to a midnight launch, which is a first for me. All in all it was pretty dull and uneventful and I made the mistake of not pre-ordering... so, next time whether I pre-order a new system or not, I think I'll give midnight launches a miss. Hope to be picking one up in the next couple of days, but the outlook isn't so good and I'm likely to find that the Wii is sold out considerably. :(

On the upside, a bunch of friends (my girlfriend especially) came to hang out with me while I hung around and waited to see if I could get a system. I couldn't, we drove home and went to bed. Hooray for sleep!