The *Official* When and Where Thread (READ THE RULES)

[Rich Yung Stars]

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for the guys in the new york city area.... lets all try to get in touch with each other through pm tomarra n maybe each call a few stores n relay the info back to each other.... jesus god this game has us all cracked out n i wouldnt have it any other way....

i cant sleep lol my fiance thinks im crazy but shes the one thats crazy

To be honest she is the crazy one lol

[dorismary]

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Can we please not quote Blzer's Odyssey anymore? I almost got carpal tunnel scrolling down this page.

I agreed but I really did like his better than Homer's
Im a bit guilty also but I wish we had another thread for those who actually found it only !

[rock85]

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Can we please not quote Blzer's Odyssey anymore? I almost got carpal tunnel scrolling down this page.

I hear you Rob, but you got to admit Blzer is one of a kind. Anyway my place said Saturday for both baseball games

[Rich Yung Stars]

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I hear you Rob, but you got to admit Blzer is one of a kind. Anyway my place said Saturday for both baseball games

Tomorrow some moms pop store should have it in nyc ...

[BZito75]

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To be honest she is the crazy one lol

lol thats what i said!

when you get a chance pm me i wanna exchange places with you that might have it tomorrow... my girl lives in howard beach so ill be in wueens all day

[supervelous]

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To all the NYC guys please post ASAP if/when you find so we can PM and ask where! I personally will post from my Iphone minutes after finding it.

[Mike Lowe]

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Any luck in the Chicagoland area? I'm in the NW 'burbs. I might have a lead later today but I doubt it would be for more than me unfortunately. I'll keep you all posted.

[NYYanks26]

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My copy is on the way.. Literally. Gotta love USPS Saturday Delivery with express overnight.

Should have it between noon - 3 pm. Will post pics and possibly answer questions in the impression thread later.

[green94]

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Can we please not quote Blzer's Odyssey anymore? I almost got carpal tunnel scrolling down this page.

LMAO, hilarious.

[green94]

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Any luck in the Chicagoland area? I'm in the NW 'burbs. I might have a lead later today but I doubt it would be for more than me unfortunately. I'll keep you all posted.

Don't do us like that!!!!

[albsur2003]

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Anybody got info on anyplace selling early in Houston?

[skinfan31]

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Okay, I'm finally back from what was perhaps the dumbest day of my life. Let's recap:



3:30 AM - Wake up to work at the front desk in my residence hall for two hours.

6:15 AM - Pick up my friend as we go to McDonald's for breakfast before I take him to the airport. Then go home, shower, and finish some homework.

9:00 AM - Only class of the day. I'm prepared to go up north after class.

10:00 AM - Attempt to withdraw $600 from my bank account to find out there's a day limit, so I head to a bank to get another $200 out as the $400 wasn't enough for the eight people I was also getting the game for. I also have a "second breakfast".

11:00 AM - I head out for LA. All seems good.

11:30 AM - I get tipped that places may not get it in today. Yet I persist... almost instantly after, I hit dead-stopped traffic. I mean literally, dead-stopped. I even ended up having a conversation with the car next to me, as all four of them first thought I was Tiger Woods. Turns out there was a grenade in the road or something, closing both ways. We were turned off the freeway eventually. That took an hour.

1:30 PM - I finally reach my destination. I ask them about the games, they say come back around 3:00. I take a 45 minute nap in my car, then come back and peruse the swap meet (too sketch).


3:00 - 4:30 PM

Here's the meat of the story, and the explanation for everything. So I finally go back to the little gaming hut and talk to the very kind woman working there, and she said (in her nice accent) that she needs to wait on a call from the person she gets her products from, who gets it from the wholesale distributors in the general LA area. If she gets word for games, she has her husband pick them up from the supplier. There's another small gaming store in there as well that flat-out said, "Monday," but they have to close down their place to pick up their shipments because there is only one guy that works there.

Anyway, I make small-talk with her and ask how this place is run, if she has regular customers and such, if she knows every game in her kiosk (which she does), which games she plays, etc. Then her husband comes and delivers food, and he makes one last call, confirming that they indeed wouldn't be getting in the games today, and instead Monday.

Here's his explanation: So basically, Modern Warfare 2 was a pretty hard stomp on Gamestop's foot as they had a lot of canceled pre-orders based on somehow nabbing games early (a lot of people here could probably attest to such a statement, including myself). Sony and Microsoft are able to target where certain people play online by whatever kind of demographics tracker they use to show who is online for what game, and what it showed was the thousands (yes, thousands) of people in Los Angeles that were already playing the game before Monday. This was a cause of concern for the parties involved, and the wholesale distributors (primarily in LA) were getting in trouble.

As a result, no one (and I mean no one) is given any copies of games from the warehouses, especially these smaller places that sell it early. They won't risk selling these games at $1, $2, or even $3 a title just to get in trouble again with any game that can connect online, this includes The Show and 2K10. The store got a game like Heavy Rain early, but that's because it isn't online. No harm this way. But then meanwhile, the basic premise of this is that no matter how many copies of the game and what asking price, they weren't going to sell any to retailers until Monday. Now remember, this is only for wholesale. Obviously other retailers have their own shippers, so they already have the game but won't sell it until Tuesday. Everywhere else, especially LA, will not sell a single copy until Monday.

Then the guy explained how companies may start coding their games to track the location of where discs are bought in case they are bought early, should this kind of business continue where Gamestop isn't getting their reserves. He even went on to explain how Sony is going the route that Nintendo did with the Wii and keeping supply low for higher demand, so that sometimes we'll even be hard-pressed to find PS3 games in stores unless we get them as early as possible. I don't really know what this had to do with the overall story, but that's what he was saying.

I know there is much more to say about it as the guy talked with me for over an hour, but that's the gist of it, and it's why you're not going to find the game until Monday, most unfortunately. He apologized to me for getting my hopes up as I explained how I was getting the game(s) for many of my friends, and I completely forgave him as they are nowhere close to blame. I headed out around 4:30 or a bit later and made my trek on home.

4:30 - 5:00 PM - I made phone calls to everyone's number that I have, apologizing to them and explaining the situation that I just explained above. I asked one of them to post this on OS, which I'm guessing he did. There is some moderate traffic getting out of LA.

5:00 - 6:00 PM - Heavy traffic for the most part. I take a nice quick road where I unfortunately had to pay a toll booth fee of $5.50 as a price. Then there was very heavy traffic to the point that I had to get off this main freeway (the same one with the grenade on it from earlier), and found the first east freeway to look for the next south freeway.

6:00 - 7:30 PM

It turned out to be the dumbest mistake I could have made. Instead of doing this:




I ended up doing this:





That may not look like much of a difference, but in total it ended up being an hour's difference. One is an actual freeway, the other is a 55 MPH road that has dozens of traffic lights and single lanes, and apparently is a very popular road at that time of night. For the longest time, I thought I was going out to the desert. I thought I was lost. Once I got off the "freeway", turns out I was still the same number of miles away from San Diego that I was before, if not more (and I was on that road for about 40 - 45 minutes).

I finally pulled in at 7:30 PM. I think my front tire is messed up too, it was moving wonky the whole trip. I'm so glad I didn't break down on that one trippy freeway. This was the worst trip ever, and I don't even get anything out of it. I filled up my gas tank only to be near empty again, and paid a $5.50 toll booth fee when... well, when that's just damn expensive.

Most of all, I wasted 8 1/2 hours of the day doing pretty much nothing but driving and hanging out in a ghetto section of the greater Los Angeles area. Not to mention that I couldn't stick to my promise of delivering The Show to you great OS members. I tried very hard in making sure that I was there all day in case it would ever come. I even stuck through the dead-stopped traffic instead of turning around and going home then and there, as being on that freeway hill with a stick-shift was just dreadful.

With that, I apologize that I couldn't come through. EG and countryboy, I know that I made a huge vow to get your games, but in the end it was all for naught. I'm really sorry, and I just hope that we can all have our games by Tuesday.

I gotta eat.

Sorry to hear about your crappy day. But it made for a great story for the rest of us. Nice work!

[Rich Yung Stars]

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Sorry to hear about your crappy day. But it made for a great story for the rest of us. Nice work!

They just said not to post this
but wow this guy wrote a book

[bronxbomber25]

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I tried calling Walmart again, but no luck. They just go and check the glass case and obviously, it isn't there.

[bronxbomber25]

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Can someone call their walmart and ask them if they have it and when they say no, ask if they have any copies in the back? I think it's worth a try. i would call, but they would know me considering I just called