Who's The Jerk Selling Wiis on Ebay?

Feb. 1 9:51 AM by Lynxara

I kinda wonder why no one thought of doing this sooner-- I guess feeling about system flipping runs pretty high in the enthusiast press. Regardless, MSNBC actually found a Wii flipper and interviewed him about how he got into the "hobby" and why he doesn't feel bad about exploiting the impatient. He apparently is of the camp convinced that if you couldn't find a Wii in 2007, it's because you were stupid or lazy:

Q. How did you find these things? I've gotten dozens of e-mails from people--good people, decent, hard-working people--who waited in pre-dawn lines, in sleet and snow. Were you bribing people at the Fred Meyer?

A. I'm telling you, the whole point was the timing. These people were not waiting in line in mid-November. That's their problem. They might have been asking casually at the store, but they weren't systematically looking at when these stores got their shipments. People are told to start shopping for Christmas during Thanksgiving, and that's what people did.

Reading the interview, I was struck by how lousy the extra cash he was making had to be compared to the time and effort he was investing in flipping. $55 per bundle? Lousy.