{"id":65,"date":"2007-11-23T11:29:56","date_gmt":"2007-11-23T16:29:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nowinstock.net\/news\/amazons-black-friday-wii-early-surprise\/"},"modified":"2007-11-23T11:29:56","modified_gmt":"2007-11-23T16:29:56","slug":"amazons-black-friday-wii-early-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nowinstock.net\/news\/amazons-black-friday-wii-early-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon’s Black Friday Wii Early Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I woke up this morning to the check out NowInStock.net’s status, I noticed at 2:58 A.M. this morning Wii alerts<\/a> were shot off to everyone that Amazon had the Wii in stock<\/a>. A little surprised and thinking that this might have been an error, I verified my cached snapshot (I store a snapshot every time I see stock available), and sure enough they had stock available<\/strong>!<\/p>\n

The really odd thing about this was the fact it was 3:00 AM when stock was available. Amazon never releases Wii’s at this time of day. Their typical release time is around 12:00 PM or 1:00 PM. I assume this is to give the west coast equal opportunity at acquiring one. But 3:00 AM!<\/p>\n

So I beg to question, why this was done? Was this left over stock from the day before? <\/p>\n

Yesterday, on Thanksgiving, they began their 6 Days – Amazon Customer Vote<\/strong> deals. Were these the leftovers? It happened at 3:00 AM EST, which is 12:00 AM PST and when the Customer Vote deals would have expired. So all the unclaimed $79 Wii’s from Thanksgiving, might have been thrown back into the pot and released at standard cost.<\/p>\n

The other option is that Amazon wanted to beat the majority of other stores that opened up early for Black Friday. JCPenny opened up at 4:00 AM! As a result, those early risers getting ready to crash the doors on Black Friday got a really early Black Friday surprise of Wii’s In Stock! (Thank you Amazon, now I can go back to bed.)<\/p>\n

I like to think of it as a little of both. Some may think it was coincidence that Amazon ran their $79 Wii, $319 PS3, or $219 Xbox 360 Customer Vote deal on Thanksgiving, but I feel it was strategic and a good strategy at that. You knew the Wii would win, which it did. You also know that not all of those randomly selected to receive a Wii would claim it. It was Thanksgiving! All unclaimed Wii’s get released as soon as the deal expires which happens to be 3:00 AM EST or 12:00 AM PST on Black Friday.<\/p>\n

I maybe stepping out on the limb on this one, as it does sound to be a little too good to be true, but it happened just like that. I guess the real question is how many Wii’s were available this morning<\/em> and how many went unclaimed yesterday? Something we will never know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As I woke up this morning to the check out NowInStock.net’s status, I noticed at 2:58 A.M. this morning Wii alerts were shot off to everyone that Amazon had the Wii in stock. A little surprised and thinking that this might have been an error, I verified my cached snapshot (I store a snapshot every […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wii"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t