Sam's Clubs' Nintendo Wii Family Bundle packs three controller pairs and a Wii for $224 on Black Friday
By Paul Miller 
posted Nov 12th 2008 9:40AM
posted Nov 12th 2008 9:40AM
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That will sell out in the first 3 hours........ This is gonna be the best black Friday ever!!
3hrs? more like 3 minutes haha.
Not a big fan of the Wii myself, but that's a damn good (tempting) deal.
Have you ever gone to a store on Black Friday? Seriously! In 3 hours the entire store will be sold out! You'll be lucky if you can get one of these 6 minutes after the store opens!
I think there might be someone waiting outside my local Sam's Club for this right now.
The number of parents looking to keep their spoiled children happy with this should far exceed supply. Plus the dudes looking to sell them on eBay for less profit than actually getting a real job.
Hehe, and don't forget slacker college students like me who do stuff like that for the hell of it :D
If it's a hobby, I suggest you find a new one. Or at least start using condoms.
YES!!! i have a Sam's club near my school. (SUNY binghamton, if anyone knows) Looking back, the wii used to sell upwards of $700 on ebay when it first came out... times have changed
I'm about an hour west of you (Corning)... there's Sam's here too. Well, technically it's in Big Flats... but who's counting?
Good god that is a crazy deal. The games aren't anything fantastic... but that's another $120 worth of controllers alone!
Now CB mentioned eBay there... and thing is, with this kind of deal, you could sell it all at retail price on eBay and make a fat profit.
Asshats have been warehousing them to drive up demand. Just a few weeks ago the mythical Wii all of sudden became easy to find. Nobody had them for almost a year and a half now they are offering all kinds of deals on them. You can go to almost any retailer and find 3 or 4 sitting on a shelf. It was all just to make sure they end the year in the Black.
There isn't anything wrong with that.
There is if you're doing it with something like medicine, food or petrol.
I was amazed to see a bunch of Wii boxes(filled ones, and they weren't WiiFits) last weekend at Best Buy. There it was, a stack of 'em. The last time I saw that many, it was 2 summers ago..in Akihabara(horaders). Only took 2 years to get a decent supply(ie not 2 or 3 for a period of 5 minutes) in stores, huh Nintendo?
You could score:
a sweet Wii deal
Or:
front row seats to the riot sure to follow
Can i get 2 tickets for the front row seats please? Could you also throw in an unlimited supply of popcorn?
A local Sam's has only had a "Out of Stock" sign on their big pile of fake cardboard Wii boxes ever since they came out. It is sad. They should just remove the fake boxes and signs and put something else in that shelf space if they can't get a decent supply.
You'll probably have SC employees hiding these until they can buy them on their lunch break and turn around and sell them to friends for an extra $100
This is a MAJOR black friday item for them, and management, in most cases, won't allow it. I used to work at an electronics retailer back in college, and black friday was 20-25% of the YEARLY gross sales. Black friday was a day you just did not mess with.
Of course there will always be exceptions...
They will have minimum 5 per store, and if you line up early, it ruins your chance of hitting any other store on BF for doorbusters.
Get all the BF ads here: http://blackfriday.gottadeal.com
That's a really good deal for that bundle. Too bad it isn't even near being worth getting up extra early on a Friday morning and waiting out in the cold for four hours. Working in retail really made me loathe this awful day.
I heard that. Worked at circuit for 3 years and worked each of the black Fridays. Each was a 16 hour shift and it started at 3 in the morning. Oh I am glad I sit at a desk and sell paper for a living.
@adamhibbles
I didn't know Dwight Schrute was a commentet on engadget!
Deal of the Century. Expect several fatalities on Friday morning as a direct result of this deal.
Already got a Wii so I'm good.
shoulda spent it on a car upgrade
Is it just me, or is that Wii kinda beat up?
I think the game is broken. Buy now get a years supply of mustard.
SO far this is the deal of the day for BF. If their smart SC will hand out tickets for them so they wont have a stampede. I know thats whet Best Buy did last year for there special sale they had for rewards members. That how I scored mine. Got there and got my ticket and was able to go eat, come back and shop at my leisure.
Rj
20 bucks says someone gets murdered over this.
I'm just trying to figure out what does Sam's club have to gain?
Besides getting tons of traffic, who will be disappointed, and maybe, just maybe purchase a fully priced bundle.
The flip side is, if there are only 100 bundles priced below MSRP, which get sold out in 3 mins, a lot of consumers are going to be very very angry. I can see all those ebay traders looking at making a killing. It's a free for all, even if its restricted to 1 per address.
Let the games begin. If anyone scores, please do make sure you tell us that it wasn't a scam.
Sam
http://www.noiZemag.com/
RE: That will sell out in the first 3 hours
Are you kidding? Have you ever seen these stores on Black Friday? There will be people in line hours before the store opens for these deals. They'll be gone before the doors even open.
Great deal but in reality few people will get their hands on it. Its really just a ploy to get you in the store. I've lost count how many times I read about these great deals, got to the store the second it opened, and found that they were all gone in the first few minutes.
Worst idea ever is bundling King of Clubs Mini Golf with the Wii. That game is absolutely horrible from all the reviews I've seen (some of the lowest scores ever). Nothing will turn people off faster than a bad game with a bundle for a first-time buyer - they get the impression that all the games suck.
It's like buying a new car (let's pick on Ford) and immediately you have problems with it. Chances are probably good that you would assume that all Fords suck and avoid buying a Ford again for a long, long time. (Disclaimer: I only chose Ford because its short)
Maybe the low price isn't an accident, but an evil plot by Microsoft and Sony! haha
I'm sure these won't be seen by anyone, but stories of finding them will be abundant. Same with every Black Friday huge-loss-leader
eBay system scalpers are exploitative scum no better then the corporations who manipulate product availability to drive up prices. Yes, a business is a business, but that doesn't make it wholesome (says the guy who works in advertising).
@ telepheedian
Looks like that's the texture of the scanned print ad.
Lined up at 3am? If you do that you'll be in the back of the line, try like 8pm! Or sooner! Except I usually go to Best Buy, but this is one heck of a deal!
i hate to rain on everyone's parade but that price is wrong
Wow. What a comment. Where is the rest of it?
Too bad for the 4th guy :-p
the bfads link now says it is $425 not $224????
http://bfads.net/Nintendo-Wii-Family-Bundle-Console-3-Wii-Remotes-3-Nunchuks-and-3-Games-at-Sams-Club
Sam's Club website has it priced at $425 not $224. Yuck - not such a deal now.
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I was unable to go to the Black Friday sale of the Wi-Fi Sports Bundle for $224.
Is there any way that I can pick one up on Saturday, Nov. 29, 2008? Please advise.
Kathy
I work for Sam's and that is a lie, wish I seen it before black friday! Some people are so bored they make up deals to scam people...sad