subject: Tips On How To Get A Cheap Playstation 3 [print this page] The Sony PlayStation 3 has been available to American buyers since late 2006 and it has certainly extracted a lot of positive response from buyers who think nothing about waiting in line outside stores hoping to be lucky enough to find a PS3 in stock. As you may well expect, the demand for the PlayStation 3 far exceeds the supply and thus far from being able to find a reasonably priced PlayStation 3, chances are that you will end up having to pay quite a steep price for whichever PS3 becomes available to you.
Places to Look for A Cheap PlayStation 3
Because prices of the PS3 have certainly gone through the roof in the previous year or two, it would indeed be rare to be able to find a cheap PlayStation 3 - at least not at the retail stores. To be sure, right now it is mostly available at online auction sites and in the classified sections of various newspapers and magazines and of course, there are also individuals selling their PS3s.
Finding a cheap PlayStation 3 is quite difficult and will require that you expend a great deal of energy and effort in looking for a good deal and it is certainly a lot more involved than just signing up as a registrant who is pre-ordering a PS3. No doubt, at one time it was best to pre-order the PS3 since it gave you a good chance of at least being able to buy a list price PlayStation 3 - if not a cheap PlayStation 3. It certainly meant you could reserve a console that was limited to one per household and you were also obliged to make a down payment.
Unfortunately, many people were not able to avail of the pre-registration process while others were not in a position to make pre-payments or pre-order their own console. This obviously meant that they had to look for some better means of obtaining a cheap PlayStation 3 which in turn led to people forming long lines outside of the retail stores in order to be the first to enter the stores when they opened up with their limited stocks of PlayStation 3s.
In addition, some people simply began to buy the PlayStation 3 without any intention of using them and these people then began to resell their PlayStation 3s on eBay and at other online auction sites. What that meant was that if you were to try hard enough you would still find it possible to get hold of a cheap PlayStation 3 provided you were also adept at making winning bids and in addition it also meant you needed to be good at negotiating favourable deals for you.
One good option for finding a cheap PlayStation 3 is to look for one on Craigslist where local sellers generally will give you an option to buy the PlayStation 3 without your having to pay an arm and a leg for it. No doubt, it will mean that you must also be competitive and willing to face challenges. Though, at the same time it is also a lot of fun as well. However, you also will need to be careful that your quest to buy a cheap PlayStation 3 does not make you fall into a trap set by unlawful sellers.
The bottom line is that you must never exceed your budgeted amount. If you feel that the price is not what a cheap PlayStation 3 should cost you then simply pass the offer by.
