For those whose shopping lists still include Microsoft's Xbox 360 video game system, it's looking like a blue Christmas.
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Originally Posted by Yahoo! News
Most stores and online retailers are sold out of the system, which starts at $300, and don't expect new shipments to satisfy the demand. Auctions on eBay and Craigslist are being bidded up to $1,000; sites such as xbox.clambert.org have sprung up to track availability on the Net.
When word leaked out that Best Buy stores were to have a few systems Sunday, customers began lining up. "I was going to camp out (early Sunday), but when I got there I found people who had already gotten there at 7 p.m. Friday," says Joey Rouse, 31, of Denham Springs, La., who checked a store in Baton Rouge.
20-December-05, 11:03 AM
Santa runs short of Xbox 360 
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