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Even if you can find items out of state, sometimes consistency of pricing makes it useless. The last few days I was searching for a best price for Xbox 'Black Ops 2' for my son for Christmas. $60.00 across the board. I found one place a few dollars less but shipping put it over. Where's the competition for my money?

Mt10425, why should there be competition for "your" money. Is it somehow more valuable than say, "my" money.

BTW, Black Ops 2 sales reached $1 billion dollars in only 15 days. Clearly price is not any issue for their intended market.

Instead, I have local dealers with zero demo stock who have not even heard the product I want to buy. They know far less about the product than I do. Yes, they are willing to allow me to walk in, order the multi-thousand dollar product and let me pick it up (and carry to my car myself) when it arrives and only ask for a mere 40% of the sales price for their service. No thanks.

This is the key point. Why pay top dollar & a huge markup, just for the privledge of letting them order a product for you? It would be different if they had stock on hand, demo units, knew the products and could make educated recomendations, but they don't.

Onhwy61-'your money, my money', what are you talking about? Consumer dollars, jeez. I've heard the million in sales already argument. How about the Capitalism argument? Never mind.

Mt- what I think you are missing is that this IS capitalism at work. Huge demand coupled w at least some limits on supply (production and delivery capacity are have some practical limits) results in high price. If a retailer can sell every unit he can get this hands on at $60, why should he sell it for less? Not say that it's right, but that's they way an unregulated market operates. Wait a few months and as demand ratchets down, there will be more price competition. The fact that there are some vendors willing to sell for less shows that there is SOME degree of freedom to the vendors in setting price. The fact that you have to pay for shipping is not their problem. Oh, and who is not to say that the game manufacturer is not wholesaling them at a level that makes $60 the practical minimum a retailer can get and still make a profit.