Best PS3 Prices
Posted on October 27, 2008
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Have you looked in the sale papers for a PS3? It seems that the demand is high enough that most stores don’t run sales or when they do it’s not much of a discount. It can sometimes be frustrating if you’re on a tight budget.
I’m right there with you! I have tried to justify the item in so many ways for so long. To start building a PS3 fund I thought I would begin by selling my old PS2 games. I’ve thought about going through my closet and digging out my old jeans to see what they might fetch on eBay. I even cleaned out the garage scrounging for old tools and junk that I haven’t used in years so I could sell them on eBay. We even put our stuff in a neighborhood sale to come up with the funds to buy a PS3. Not including my time I made about $50. I don’t recommend garage sales as you’ll end up getting less money for your stuff! I definitely recommend auctioning your old stuff off on eBay, you’ll make much more money.
In days gone by I felt the same way. There really is no comparison with other gaming consoles. I was sold when I found it was Blu-Ray. Not only are all the games HD but now my movies are too. Good luck getting that point past the wife! Truthfully, once I got my wife hooked on Hi-Def TV we’ve never looked back. At the end of the day it turned out to be easy to persuade her to get the PS3 on every front except the price.
I’ve done some research and what I’ve found is that if you want the best gaming console on the market and you want to play Blu-Ray DVDs there simply isn’t a better value than the PS3. Even when it’s not on sale! You’ll spend $200-250 bucks on a basic Blu-Ray player anyway. While XBox does offer HD it is not the preferred format. For me it was all about the hunt and getting the PS3 at a true sale price.
I searched on eBay and some other traditional auction sites and found that there really aren’t any PS3 Sale Prices out there. They make you spend much more than you would for just the console by throwing in all these games and accessories. The goal here is to spend as little money as possible, not more.
Ultimately, I had to think outside the box. Somebody told me about unique bid auction sites and I started researching them. There are a few decent ones out there but the one that stands out to me is www.auctions4acause.com. The selection they have for affordable items is far superior to the other sites. The majority of the other sites like it zero in on really expensive things like cars, land and motorcycles. You can pretty it up all you want but I just want the PS3!
After I found that site I know it was exactly what I needed. Two thumbs up as they had the exact item I wanted and I could get it for cheap. I visited the site and setup an account. I made 3 entries and hoped I had outsmarted the other bidders. Alas, I didn’t win the first time around. It was another week before I could bid on another one. I bid 3 or 4 more times, said my prayers and waited. Bingo! I won this time. About 6 days later I was unpacking the new PS3. All I had spent on it was $59.64. Not bad, huh?
It can take a few minutes of reading to truly grasp the concept of the lowest unique bid auction style. But once you get it, it can be addicting. Since that time that I won the PS3 I’ve bid on and won 3 other items including an iPod Nano (they have the best iPod Prices) and $400 gas card. I’ve won over $1,200 worth of stuff for about $350 in bid fees.
So don’t go searching at Best Buy or Circuit City or Walmart for the best prices on the things you want. Go register at Auctions4aCause and get a great deal.
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