mutterings of a cynic

Thursday, December 07, 2006

campers suck

This morning I walked to the tram stop to go to work, but there was no tram in sight, so I thought I'd catch the bus instead. I walked to the bus stop and having arrived there I noticed I had just missed a bus. Although this is Switzerland so the next one was probably only 90 seconds away, I am incredibly impatient so I wandered down to Marktplatz to catch a different tram. I sometimes like going that way because there's a fantastic set of stairs that you can bound down and relive your childhood dreams of flying.

Anyway..

Since it was only 8.40am I thought I'd go to starbucks to get a coffee rather than hop on the first tram. This decision took me past Manor, a rather large department store. So to cut this rather verbose story short, I'll get to the point. In the main entrance of Manor there were 2 wii kiosks and a pile of wiis.



I asked the guy that was guarding them and he told me that it was launch day. I briefly thought of people in the US and UK camping out for days to get their wiis and smiled. Am I lucky to live in switzerland or are they just foolish? Probably both.


8 Comments:

  • Yeah, both. How much were they selling them for?

    K

    By Blogger Kevin, at 9:07 pm  

  • They cost CHF 399, which is about EUR 250. And I almost bought one, but thought I didn't have the money, only to come home and discover that I'm getting an EUR 500 tax return. Wii!

    If you jump onto my site, I posted a few pictures of entire aisles of boxed Wiis still untouched, at the Inter Discount Zürich (Sihlstrasse).

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9:11 pm  

  • 400 CHF indeed.

    I went back at lunch time and they still had plenty left - seems like wii-mania hasn't really hit ch yet.

    As far as I can remember, the wiimote was 50chf and the nunchuck a further 35

    By Blogger nj, at 9:29 pm  

  • By Blogger nj, at 10:14 pm  

  • Fame indeed, it's how I found your blog at least :) I think you have me semi-convinced to go out tomorrow to do my part in the materialistic machinery that is our consumer society and purchase a shiny Wii.

    Oh, and you know interesting people, my feed reader says hello to you and Rahel. Which is my girlfriend's name, too! This day's surprises, they be not ceasink!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 11:20 pm  

  • Speaking of surprises, I think that rahel would be rather shocked at the thought of being my girlfriend, perhaps even more shocked than her husband, or even my wife!

    Good guess, but rahel is just a friend of mine ;)

    Enjoy your wii if you do decide to flash your cash

    By Blogger nj, at 10:02 am  

  • They were gone by the end of the day, I remember seeing them at lunchtime and then didn't see another one on a shelf again until two weeks ago.

    By Blogger stx, at 1:35 pm  

  • Really? I didn't know the demand was also high here. I'm actually quite surprised

    By Blogger nj, at 1:38 pm  

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