With staggered international launches for both PS3 and Wii due over the coming months, desperate gamers should prepare themselves for plenty of auction site evil. Digg.com managed to cache this Wii scam before Ebay took it down. The seller, who claims to work for a 'gamer magazine' is offering a pre-production Wii for sale with immediate delivery promised. In a very small font half-way through the product description, however, are the words:
"You are bidding on a picture of the system and not the system itself."
Not the most ingenious piece of confidence trickery, but rest-assured, there will be smarter versions out there. When the Xbox 360 was launched, there were several sellers apparently offering the hard to get hold of machine - but the small print revealed that you were actually bidding on empty packaging.
All part of the fun of the modern console launch...
