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  • silvercar
    silvercar Posts: 49,923 Ambassador
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    I am under instruction from my son to find him a wii, as he deposits 10 different vouchers from 8 different stores on me!.

    Anyone help? Also if anyone can tell me how much I (he!) should be paying without being ripped off.

    Can get around North London & north of London so Brent Cross or Watford Harlequin and anywhere in between.

    Thanks in advance.
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  • silkcutblue
    silkcutblue Posts: 635 Forumite
    I got mine the other day. I couldn't be bothered to mess about hunting around the shops so I just used the locator.

    http://www.wii-consoles.co.uk/wii_console_realtime.asp

    The pop up flashed when it was in stock. I ordered it. Amazon sent it. Charged me £1.50 for postage (approx, give or take 20p) and it was sent via Parcel Force two days later. Cost me standard price for sports package.
  • piggeh
    piggeh Posts: 1,723 Forumite
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    Just a tip about ebay - try looking at those within driving distance, and offering to pay to end early and to collect. The seller will avoid almost £10 in ebay fees, which you can factor into their selling price, and you get to see the console before handing over money.

    I done this a month ago, and picked it up with Zelda + sports for £230 (it was going for £260-207ish at the time, and retails for £220. so pretty good, and didnt have to wait for the auction to end).
    matched betting: £879.63
  • divadee
    divadee Posts: 10,609 Forumite
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    am i right in thinking that ANY sd memory card works in the wii?

    i have seen a 2gb one at ebuyer for £15 here was thinking that would be great for the wii console that we got on monday.

    also anyone know which shops have got wii play in at the moment?
  • divadee
    divadee Posts: 10,609 Forumite
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    scrap the wii play problem above, i looked last night on argos near me and nothing just checked now and its in stock :j
  • silvercar wrote: »
    I am under instruction from my son to find him a wii, as he deposits 10 different vouchers from 8 different stores on me!.

    Anyone help? Also if anyone can tell me how much I (he!) should be paying without being ripped off.

    Can get around North London & north of London so Brent Cross or Watford Harlequin and anywhere in between.

    Thanks in advance.

    Why not try selling the vouchers on ebay, might loose 10-20% of the value but might solve the problem. Other than that why not stalk some shoppers at the till offering them the vouchers for cash. :confused:
  • pennypuppy
    pennypuppy Posts: 722 Forumite
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    I went yesturday to game and put some money on one for Christmas (20 pounds) today they called me up asking did I want to come and get it!
  • Mack_3
    Mack_3 Posts: 142 Forumite
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    There does seem to be a rumour going around about massive availability soon for wii's. my manager ( at game) semi confirmed its what he heard from his boss.
    The PS3 preorders have been doing rubbish !! at least at my store, theres about 1/3 of what the wii took, and its been running alot nearer to the launch than Wii. though they did only start taking them a few weeks ago, but sony announced it so close to launch day. I really do think that PS3 will be the next GC of next gen consoles !

    I work for Argos and all the information i've seen also points to a mass avaliability from May onwards. My store recieved 18 yesterday, i nearly died of shock, they've all gone now tho! but i'd be guessing most other Argos stores recieved around the same amount.
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