The next chapter in my now comical quest to find a PlayStation 5 for my son...
Having now been shutout online and in person over and over, I’ve incrementally upped my game.
Followed a bunch of accounts that track restocks. Set alerts to get txts whenever they tweet.
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Also set up online shopping accounts at major resellers preconfigured for fast check out.
Downloaded all their apps.
And then I found an app that tracks actual store inventories. Not what their website says they have in inventory; what they actually have in the back room.
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I am now at CIA-level PS5 surveillance.
If a unit hits a shelf within the atomic blast radius of New York City, I know in minutes.
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Turns out Target stores got a trickle of units shipped in this week but they weren’t up for sale yet.
Hit up one of the stores. Get a confirm my info is correct. They’ve got 10 units in the back. Might go up for sale at midnight.
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So I stay up until 3:30 last night, hitting refresh and making sure no inventory went live at midnight east coast or west coast time.
Nothing.
Stores opened at 7 am, so I set the alarm for 6:50 in case they post the units for sale when stores open.
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Alarm goes off at 6:50. I reach over and check the backend inventory app.
The units...
They’re gone.
Every single one. And not just at the one store. At every store in a 50-mile radius that had them. 30 stores.
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I woke up at 6:50.
They went on sale around 6:45 - and sold out in a couple minutes.
I may cry. I’ve been waiting for these like a transplant patient watching for a helicopter.
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The only consolation is that I am earning major dad points in my tireless (and thus far, failed) quest to find one.
After I hit up Walmart at 3:30 am on Black Friday to no avail, my son made me french toast.
The little boy who would wake up early, climb out of bed and pitter-patter across the hardwood to climb under the covers with me... he’s a teenager now.
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The 5 lb 13 ounce peanut who arrived five weeks early and almost didn’t survive his first night...
The tiny little one who I would sing to sleep on my shoulder...
A teenager.
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When kids are little, people say “Don’t worry, it gets better.”
I never needed it to get better.
I loved when he was just a tiny bundle swaddled and asleep in my lap as I stayed up all night watching movies as his mom slept.
I loved the 2s, 3s and 4s. I have loved it all.
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My understanding is that Trump basically “lent” money to his Scottish golf courses for “improvements” and then upped the claimed value of the courses to offset the debt without making any readily apparent significant improvements.