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> Xbox is out of stock everywhere. Why didn't they prepare for the holiday
> season? This means a lot of lost sales. I know a few people who can't

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> it so they are getting something else.

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> "Bill" <msgdev@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:uV%23Ih135EHA.4008@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
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>
> Where's everywhere? They seem to have plenty at my local Walmart.
>
>

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>I called most Game stop's, Circuit city's, eb games, and best buy's in the
>Philly area. I stopped calling after that.
>
>
> "Jeff Fink" <jfinkjfink@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:%230MFP635EHA.1260@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
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>I called most Game stop's, Circuit city's, eb games, and

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>Philly area. I stopped calling after that.
>
>
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>"Bill" <msgdev@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:O1V%237v55EHA.1000@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
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>Check with WalMart. The local supercenter here has them in stock.

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> Xbox is out of stock everywhere. Why didn't they prepare for the holiday
> season? This means a lot of lost sales. I know a few people who can't get
> it so they are getting something else.
>

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>In article <OwU6X255EHA.1632@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl>,
>Chris H. <winxpnews@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>This is just me, and it's a free market so you can shop where you want...
>But I'd have to be pretty desperate before I'd buy anything from Wal-Mart.
>Their policy on music and videos aside, the idea that they bully
>manufacturers and distributors into cutting prices based solely on
>Wal-Mart's market presence leaves a bad taste in my mouth. And is it
>really worth undercutting their own employees (and putting illegal aliens
>to work) just so they can price games a quarter less than the Target down
>the street?
>
>I'm thinking about picking up a second Xbox, but I'm willing to wait until
>the supply is back to normal after the holidays. I think the fact that all
>the other stores are sold out says something about American shopping
>preferences, and that's a good thing. This is why competition is important
>to a free market.
>
>-KKC, who won't shop at Wal-Mart, who won't use eBay, and who won't ever
>buy a game from Electronic Arts. Vote with your wallet.

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> You could shop at CompUSA but its a wholly Mexican owned company.

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>Reply to message from kendrick@io.com (Kendrick Kerwin Chua) (Tue, 21 Dec
>2004 22:04:03) about ""Re: Out of stock"":
>
> k> -KKC, who won't shop at Wal-Mart, who won't use eBay, and who won't
> k> ever buy a game from Electronic Arts. Vote with your wallet.
>
>Your tagline size is apparently inversely proportional to your consumer
>options, and given the growing breadth of the post's epilog your choices
>are certainly sporting a negative trend ... perhaps it is the viewpoint
>that is the common thread?

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> In article <1103737041@xtennremovethispart.tds.net>,
> xTenn <xtennremovethispart@tds.net> wrote:
>
> Never let it be said that I'm not big enough to admit when I don't
> understand something. So, I don't understand something... I get that you
> disagree with part of my statement, but I'm not sure what part or what
> your counter argument. Are you saying that I don't have as many consumer
> choices as I think I do, and that I'm limiting myself? Or are you saying
> that I have a negative viewpoint about too many companies (without knowing
> what I think about other competitors of said organizations) and therefore
> am predisposed to dislike retailers? Or are you saying that you agree with
> me? I'm not sure what it is you're trying to communicate here.
>
> This much is not in dispute: It's a free market and a free society, and
> people can shop where they want and endorse whomever they want. But
> anybody who sees fit to endorse Wal-Mart in a public forum will see a
> polite but firm dissenting viewpoint from me. Until they clean up their
> act and make good on previous offenses, I'm going to do everything I can
> to discourage people from shopping at Wal-Mart. Again, that's just my own
> point of view and you're free to disagree.
>

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>"Kendrick Kerwin Chua" <kendrick@io.com> wrote in message
>news:jpmdnV64g6w_TVTcRVn-qw@io.com...
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>
>All the above (great writeup - I can tell you have spent some time thinking
>about it) plus I am wondering exactly how big your tagline could grow if
>Kroger stops having double coupon day... ;)

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>
> This is just me, and it's a free market so you can shop where you want...

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> But I'd have to be pretty desperate before I'd buy anything from Wal-Mart.
> Their policy on music and videos aside, the idea that they bully

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> manufacturers and distributors into cutting prices based solely on
> Wal-Mart's market presence leaves a bad taste in my mouth. And is it
> really worth undercutting their own employees (and putting illegal aliens
> to work) just so they can price games a quarter less than the Target down
> the street?

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> In article <#jWdVWG6EHA.3612@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl>,
> xTenn <xTennRemovePart@tds.net> wrote:
>
> Ah, you're just baiting me even though you agree with me. Never mind then.
>
> But in my defense, let me say this... You may think I take the idea of
> boycotting a retailer too seriously. But a free market is like any other
> part of a free society, it only works if we participate. If you just take
> whatever they put in front of you, then you deserve everything that you
> get. Ask California how much they like deregulated electricity, or ask the
> people who invested in WorldCom how much they like the Internet backbone.
>

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>"Kendrick Kerwin Chua" <kendrick@io.com> wrote in message
>news:RZydnf-N88yOS1XcRVn-gA@io.com...
>
>Thank you.

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>
>Wal mart forces vendors to produce a 'Walmart' version. Something more
>family oriented. (No blood, sex, etc.). That is why I don't buy any
>software, music, or vidieos from them.

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>
>The reason people in the store work for nothing is because they didn't
>bother to get an education or any training at all. They think that minimum
>wage will pay their bills. I don't feel sorry for them at all. It was their
>choice.

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>BTW, I think that Microsoft is running Xbox out of stock so it can empty
>their warehouses and then sell Xbox2. Who would buy an Xbox if Xbox2 is on
>the market? Just MHO

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> Wal mart forces vendors to produce a 'Walmart' version. Something more
> family oriented. (No blood, sex, etc.). That is why I don't buy any
> software, music, or vidieos from them.
>

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>
> The reason people in the store work for nothing is because they didn't
> bother to get an education or any training at all. They think that
> minimum wage will pay their bills. I don't feel sorry for them at all.
> It was their choice.

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> Andrew wrote:
>
>
> Same here. I also avoid Kmart for the same reason. I just find the
> "family orientation" at Walmart to be hypocritical given their other
> business practices.

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>
> And what about people like me, who have a college education, through no
> fault of my own, other than the economy going in the tank, having family

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> in the state I was born in that is/was dependant on me, and unable to find
> a job in my field after being laid off. While I didn't get hired

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> by Wal-mart I was hired by another large retailer, though more localized
> to the Northern Mid-west, Meijer. Pretty much all discount department
> store chains pay crap. But I took my crap pay until I could find a job

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> that paid better. It beat having to live on the street, which I was

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> still close to doing, and am now two years later finally almost digging
> myself out of debt. In that time period, I had to sell my house, settle
> for a car that I didn't want, eat nothing but ramen noodles and rice til
> the proliferation of the dollar menu, and do without alot of what most

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> people take for granted. Working at Wal-mart is not necessarily a choice.
> It's business practices like Wal-mart's that force other companies who
> paid more and treated their employees better to close their doors. The
> only thing I will somewhat credit walmart with is that they employ people
> that don't have alot of options due to being

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> Handicapped, or elderly and can't do much else other than be a greeter,
> due to their physical limitations.

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> The compettion is now world wide. Why do you think Japan can make a
> car, ship it 4-5000 miles and it is a better and cheaper product than
> Detroit can make? Could it be that some union idiot gets $30/hour for
> putting on lug nuts whose actual cost is only $5/hr? He can 'say' he
> gets $30/hr, but he's out of work and his union forbids him to work
> for what lug installers make.

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> Andrew wrote:
>
>
> I agreed with everything up to this paragraph. I feel that Detroit makes a
> better car than the japanese.
> --
> Brian Kvalheim
> Microsoft Publisher MVP
> http://www.publishermvps.com
> Windows Marketplace Moderator
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
> confers no rights.
>

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>
> "Leo Johnson" <leo@voyager.net> wrote in message
> news:u90qzPO6EHA.1260@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>
>
>
> What does Wal-Mart do different than any other discount chain? Your
> elected officials thought it was a great idea when they (you) voted them
> in.

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>
> I didn't know that Kmart forces a change in a product. Is that true?
>

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>
>
> Just out of curiosity, what do you have a degree in that prevented you
> from moving sideways or just a step down in the income department? The
> papers are filled with jobs, and I assumed you've been net-working with
> your peers?
>

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>
>
> Maybe you should have taken into account your own employability when
> choosing your field of education?

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>
>
>
> All retail generally pays nothing. Think of a retail worker as a high
> school or maybe a college kid helping to pay his tuition. I simply can't
> understand why people think flipping burgers should be a way to pay for
> the upkeep of a family, and the real workers should pay the difference.

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>
>
>
>
> I see you don't plan your finances practically well. That's not my
> fault. Nor do I feel any obligation to pay for you.

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>
>
>
> Sniff, sniff.
>
>
>
> The compettion is now world wide. Why do you think Japan can make a car,
> ship it 4-5000 miles and it is a better and cheaper product than Detroit
> can make? Could it be that some union idiot gets $30/hour for putting on
> lug nuts whose actual cost is only $5/hr? He can 'say' he gets $30/hr,
> but he's out of work and his union forbids him to work for what lug
> installers make.
>

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>
>

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>
> Actually the government (that's you) pays for it.
>

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> LOL! Have to laugh, Brian, because if you're a Ford or Chevy man the
> engines are made in Canada. Not saying the U.S. makes bad cars, but
> if you want a real motor machine, you do need to look to Porsche,
> Ferrari or Lamborghini - none of which are manufactured in the U.S. Gee
> whiz, Xbox manufacturing is done in Mexico. 8-)

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>
> Sorry Chris, but that is not entirely true. MANY engines are still being
> made here in the U.S. and they are expanding their engine plants in the
> U.S. As for your Porsche, Ferrari or Lamborghini, I will take the 2006
> Corvette Z06 built by Chevrolet. The LS7 engine is hand built here in the
> US of A sporting 512 unrated horsepower, 500ft.lbs of torque with a 0-60
> rating of 3.5 seconds and tops speed exceeding 200mph for $60,000 and can
> easily keep up with the cars you mention which are up to 4 times the
> price. Spank you very much
> --
> Brian Kvalheim
> Microsoft Publisher MVP
> http://www.publishermvps.com
> Windows Marketplace Moderator
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
> confers no rights.
>

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> Reply to message from "Chris H." <winxpnews@hotmail.com> (Thu, 23 Dec 2004
> 21:23:10) about ""Re: Out of stock"":
>
> CH> LOL! Have to laugh, Brian, because if you're a Ford or Chevy man the
> CH> engines are made in Canada.
>
>
> You seem to forget about Ford's engine plant#2, in Cleveland. You know,
> where the porsche killing hurricane V8 engines are slated to be built,
> among other more docile engines currently manufactured...
>
> And GM just announced this month of a $300 million expansion to their
> Flint
> South engine plant.
>
> CH> Not
> CH> saying the U.S. makes bad cars, but if you want a real motor machine,
> CH> you do need to look to Porsche, Ferrari or Lamborghini - none of which
> CH> are manufactured in the U.S. Gee whiz, Xbox manufacturing is done in
> CH> Mexico.
> CH> 8-)
>
> Some of the "real machines" you mention do not even have weatherstripping
> they are babied so much. Show me a real car that has most of its original
> parts after 200k miles of daily beating in rain, snow, ice, grocery carts
> and more and I will show you engineering. Not to mention that some of the
> grocery getters manufactured today are getting slalom times and lateral g
> forces approaching that of the supercars of the recent past. Tomorrow's
> "muscle" car is an efficient, green friendly technological marvel with fun
> and durability in mind, and American companies are poised better than any
> other to deliver that in the none too distant future.

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> Jeep with 278k miles and still kicking.
>

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> Jeep with 278k miles and still kicking.

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> I've got a '95 Grand Cherokee LTD with about 95,000 on it. Our "luxury"
> vehicle is a 2002 Windstar van. 8-)
> --
> Chris H.
> Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
> Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
> Associate Expert
> Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>
>
> "Daniel Cayea {325956}" <dpcayealmc@westelcom.com> wrote in message
> news:41cf1e4e$0$19033$38cefb40@news.westelcom.com...
>
>

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> So Chris
>
> I bought an XBOX though my Dell EPP connection and its on backorder, think
> they'll actually fulfill it or stiff me and tell me tough?
>
> -D
>
> "Chris H." <winxpnews@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:O8Mr%23W56EHA.1408@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>
>

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>vehicles? They do 0-60 in under four seconds. So far, according to the
> television news, no one has attempted to run away from one.

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> LOL! Did you see the Italian highway patrols have gone to some
> Lamborghini vehicles? They do 0-60 in under four seconds. So far,
> according to the television news, no one has attempted to run away from
> one.
>
> Happy Holidays!
> --
> Chris H.
> Microsoft Windows MVP/Tablet PC
> Tablet Creations - http://nicecreations.us/
> Associate Expert
> Expert Zone - www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
>
>
> "Brian Kvalheim [MSFT MVP]" <ic@ntellu.com> wrote in message
> news:e98wCwe6EHA.3944@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>
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