I know it’s a little early to even bring it up but I also know that stores already have their Christmas items out so to me it would make sense to start thinking about what I’m doing this year. I know, from the get go, that Sean and I are just going to pool our money together and buy each other a gift for Christmas. We’ve wanted a Wii for quite some time now and now that we’re doing pretty well with money we’ve decided to just put up about $250 each and buy either a bundle or just the console and a few extras to go with it. That’ll cover our gifts to each other considering we both actually want the product we’re hoping to get.
Now, naturally we’re not going to have the ability to find one for Christmas but we may wind up buying it earlier than Christmas and just calling it a day. Right now he’s surfing around eBay to see what he can come up with and there’s a bid that’s currently at like $200 with $30 shipping that ends in about 29 minutes. However, this doesn’t mean that there won’t be a bid war in the next half hour either. So our thinking we can handle $250 will now turn into a $500 purchase, it’d be cheaper just to buy the Wii Bundle that Wal-Mart is offering.
We’re more than likely going to upgrade the television in the living room, this could mean either buying a larger one for Karen this Christmas OR getting it earlier on and again, just calling it a day. Right now the TV in the living room is probably 21″ and for multiple people playing on the Wii we’re going to have to upgrade. The TV that I got for free for my dad is 27″ and retails at around $300 so I know that it’ll be easy to find a nice one without an overly-expensive price tag. Karen has trouble seeing anything on an LCD screen so we’re going to keep the tube aspect, just a flat screened front for better viewing. I figure finding something in the 27″ to 32″ range should be more than suitable. I found a few on Sears that looked pretty good. There was a 30″ wide screen for like $549, that’s a current sale though but I know they really drop prices around November.
Sean is punching some numbers and wants to get one from an eBay seller that has the buy now, I’ve just heard of people purchasing consoles and only getting the box because they didn’t fully read the description. He did find one from a game store somewhere in the mid-west with 100% positive reviews out of the 600 some-odd transactions that feedback was left for so I think we may actually wind up purchasing it now, I’m sure I’ll have more feedback on this in a little while.