The Real Market for PS3: eBay, For More than $2,000

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Stock Ticker: SNEOK, we all have seen the media covering the swarms and swarms of young adults waiting in line at electronics stores around the country waiting to get their hands on the Sony Play Station 3. We had note dthat these were being listed for $2,000 and $3,000 for the voucher on eBay last month. Well, the consoles are going for north of $2,000 on eBay right now.This is supposed to be THE big console with limited supply, but I can’t get past reading about how many of the systems do not integrate well with most of the older games and how many defects or glitches there were in pre-reviews this week. It was also pretty shocking when I was in a GameStop store two weeks ago and asking about the console and the younger adult working there said to be sure to give this at least 3 large series of US shipments to the U.S. before buying it so that the first machines with all the glitches had been worked out and the returned systems were out of the system. I asked how long that would really be and the guy said “4 to 6 months.” Now one thing that may trim that time down by a month or so is that these for now are being flown in by air freight, or at least so Sony claims. That was a stun to me what someone whose job is supposed to be to sell these systems.Take a look at what these are selling for on real bids on eBay as of 2:22 PM EST Today after typing in “PS3” search on eBay items:

9919 items found for

PS3

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SONY PS3 PLAYSTATION 3 60GB SYSTEM CONSOLE GUARANTEED!

This seller accepts PayPal 47 $3,450.00 $40.00 1m

PLAYSTATION 3 SYSTEM – 60GB PREMIUM SONY PS3 CONSOLE

This seller accepts PayPal 37 $2,650.00 $20.00 5m

PS3 Sony Playstation 3 NIB

This seller accepts PayPal 19 $2,025.02 $50.00 5m

SONY PLAYSTATION 3 PS3 20GB CONSOLE SYSTEM SHIPS NOV 17

This seller accepts PayPal 54 $2,425.00 $65.00 5m

Sony Playstation 3 PS3 60GB Premium System Console NR

This seller accepts PayPal 47 $2,425.00 Not specified 5m

PS3 Sony Playstation 3 60GB Console System -FREE EXTRAS

This seller accepts PayPal 14 $2,401.00 $35.00 5m

Playstation3 60Gb Pre-order ships on 11/17 PS3

This seller accepts PayPal 59 $4,361.00 Free 5m

PS3 Sony PLAYSTATION 3 60GB Premium Console FREE SHIP!

This seller accepts PayPal 37 $2,650.00 Free 6m

~SONY PLAYSTATION 3 PS3 PS 3 Premium 60 GB System~

Gift Services

This seller accepts PayPal 43 $2,477.69 Free 7m

SONY PLAYSTATION 3 PS3 CONSOLE 60GB system Pre-Sale

This seller accepts PayPal 55 $2,401.00 $40.00 11m

Sony PLAYSTATION 3 60GB Version – PS3 New in Box

This seller accepts PayPal 37 $2,025.00 Free 20m

*-* SONY PS3 PLAYSTATION 3 TOYS R US RECEIPT 60 GB ****

This seller accepts PayPal 34 $2,225.00 $80.00 21m

Sony PS3 Playstation 3 Console LCD HDTV + BONUSES

This seller accepts PayPal 30 $1,630.05 $52.60 23m
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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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