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"PlayStation 2 - UK Allocation Reduced."

Just got in from work, and thought i would go and check my e-mail. There is one there from a friend at smart groups. com. In the e-mail there is a news story, and that news story said, PS2 numbers have been cut from 200,000 units before xmas, to 165,000 units before xmas. A shortfall of 35,000 units. Only a few of these units will be released on launch day, and unfortunately, an official pre-order, no matter what date you pre-ordered at, is no guarantee of a PS2 before xmas. Each retailer is going to feel the pinch, as all allocations will be reduced.

This information looks official, and is reputed to have come from SCEE themselves. Please anyone out there, PROVE THIS STORY WRONG. I am hoping beyond all hope that this is just a rumour.

ahh, maybe thas why they said sony would write to me, they asked if they wanted me to contact me through e-mail or post, i said e-mail, but my dad kept deleting mail that he didn't know was mine, anyway, i believe they will, and if they dont i'll just buy loads of accesories,

I really hope that you get one, but i wouldn't be happy unless i had an official BLUE FORM in my hand. But that's just me.

I have said in the past though, lots of these companies have been springing up around the net, so maybe that's where the 35,000 "lost" pre-order forms went.

Good luck.

yeah, i was gonna say how come some shops said not till march.

well i ordered mine agen at another shop and cancelled another one a little while ago.
They promised me i'll b getting one on launch, and said i could fill out the order form through e-mail because it will b much quicker then filling an order form out through the post. so i done all that. and i phoned agen the other day. and they said i will still definately be getting one on the 24th. soooooooooooooooo i guess i will, i hope, or i will flip at them and fill there nose, mouth and ears with superglue. um yea.

No, sorry if my post was misleading, what i am saying is according to Sony, anyone with an OFFICIAL pre-order form WILL get a console before Xmas. Only an official form will get you a PS2.

I hope that clears my point up.

you saying everyone who pre-ordered b4 today(yesterday) is getting a console on luanch?

The allocation has been reduced as was posted earlier, but it will not affect anyone who has pre-ordered before today, all well and good.

But one thing is puzzling me, if they released 200,000 forms to begin with, and they have been saying that the forms were all sold within days, where have the other 35,000 been all this time?

One story is that a few retailers didn't advertise the fact that they were having an allocation of PS2's, so the forms were left unused at the stores. Now if this is true, i'm sure that these firms will soon be parting company with their advertising executives. The key to a good sales campaign is good advertising.

Let's say for example, Retailer A had 10 stores, each of them stores had 5 pre-order forms, now that makes an allocation of 50 units, his allocation has a shelf value of £15,000. Let's now say that the retailer didn't bother with advertising the fact that his company was getting 50 consoles, so none of his stores sold their pre-order forms. Along comes Sony, and withdraws the forms, leaving the retailer with no units, and no profit.

If this story is to be believed, then these stores seem to have made a grave error in judgement. They will also suffer on the software front, as i am sure that most people will be buying their software and accesories from the same store that they will be getting their console from.

So in conclusion, if this story is right, a message to all those retailers who didn't advertise: OOPS !!!!

This always happens with big profile launches - chill.

Pulsed, i feel great today. Read my post "i got one", and i advise all of you to do the same as i did

i thought MGS:Sons of Liberty was awesome awesome awesome, he even had reactions on his face.
Zone of enders... looks like u r playing a FMV sequence you could move so many places is there such thing as 4d? if there is that is it.
hows it?
Novemeber 24th...

dreams come true

Yeah. The message about the video on the front of the P2 magazine. I got it, i watched it, i even watched it again, and thought it was great. Thanx for the tip mate.