dubyateeeff
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How early did you start camping for the launch of Xbox360? Did you get one? How big was the line/queue and how big is the store?
360 camping, how early did you start camping for the launch?
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10pm Monday night with the store opening at 9:00am Tuesday. Store was getting 38 premiums, 12 cores....I was #35 in line for a premium. We had 50 people in line from midnight to opening....with a bunch showing up 30 minutes before the store opened and then complaining to management that it was unfair that they didn't get one 
I heard the people at the front of the line started camping at 3:30 - 4:00pm that Monday.
Tom Crews
(hadn't really planned on camping out...but a friend of mine was in line and kept calling me saying "we still have spots for premium systems").
I heard the people at the front of the line started camping at 3:30 - 4:00pm that Monday.
Tom Crews
(hadn't really planned on camping out...but a friend of mine was in line and kept calling me saying "we still have spots for premium systems").
scooby_dooby
Legend
Woke up at 6am, went to walmart they were all sold out. Got a hint to check out superstore, was in line by 6:45. I was #12 and recieved the last of 12 premiums. The 4 people behind me all got cores.
My buddy also got up at 6 and managed to get one on the southside.
My buddy also got up at 6 and managed to get one on the southside.
Went to my Gamestop at 11PM, saw no one outside and waited in the car with my friend.
Then I saw people outside then I walked out and saw it was just a kid and his mom. My friend finally joined me and we kinda got bored. We asked the Gamestop guy inside for playing cards and he happened to have a deck in the counter and gave it to use, as well as xbox 360 T-Shirts. After that everyone showed up all of a sudden. Apparently everyone just parked outside even before I arrived and waited in the lot, since the store was only getting 35 units and I was number 35. They let the first three in 5 minutes before midnight so we can get our stuff ans at midnight when the register opened they processed people 3 at a time.
Then I saw people outside then I walked out and saw it was just a kid and his mom. My friend finally joined me and we kinda got bored. We asked the Gamestop guy inside for playing cards and he happened to have a deck in the counter and gave it to use, as well as xbox 360 T-Shirts. After that everyone showed up all of a sudden. Apparently everyone just parked outside even before I arrived and waited in the lot, since the store was only getting 35 units and I was number 35. They let the first three in 5 minutes before midnight so we can get our stuff ans at midnight when the register opened they processed people 3 at a time.
I started camping 14hours before Best Buy doors opened and i was number 37 in line. There were only 44 premium consoles and 65 in total at the store.
I was lucky...I went to buy supplies for my campout and say the line already forming and hoped into place rather than coming back later.
Anyway I got a premium but then the darn thing was broke when I got it home and of course there's not a replacement console in town to be be found. Needless to say I wasn't happy and I won't be until my X360 is sent back to me.
I was lucky...I went to buy supplies for my campout and say the line already forming and hoped into place rather than coming back later.
Anyway I got a premium but then the darn thing was broke when I got it home and of course there's not a replacement console in town to be be found. Needless to say I wasn't happy and I won't be until my X360 is sent back to me.
Around 9:30 PM.
There was about 60 people. Inside a Wal Mart.
It grew to probably 100 by the end.
All in all I timed things fairly well. I probably could have gotten there as late as ten thirty though and still gotten one. But that's just quibbling. I was quite amazed at the line though.
The store got 46 I believe, and I heard someone say there were 8 left I think when I got mine. The line numbers dont add up because there were many small groups or families of 2-3 that only bought one console.
There was about 60 people. Inside a Wal Mart.
It grew to probably 100 by the end.
All in all I timed things fairly well. I probably could have gotten there as late as ten thirty though and still gotten one. But that's just quibbling. I was quite amazed at the line though.
The store got 46 I believe, and I heard someone say there were 8 left I think when I got mine. The line numbers dont add up because there were many small groups or families of 2-3 that only bought one console.
