{"id":259287,"date":"2010-02-01T10:00:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T15:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001385"},"modified":"2010-01-31T23:07:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-01T04:07:02","slug":"wii-fit-plus-shortage-may-be-rocking-the-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/259287","title":{"rendered":"Wii Fit Plus Shortage May Be Rocking The Nation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/wiifit-thumb-504x335-36550.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Marcus wants a Wii Fit Plus game that includes the balance board and retails for $100. Problem is, he can&#8217;t find it anywhere. Third-party sellers are charging <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Wii-Fit-Plus-Balance-Board-Nintendo\/dp\/B002BSA3EM\/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&#038;s=videogames&#038;qid=1264996543&#038;sr=1-2\">$150 and more<\/a> on Amazon for the exercise game, which was the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/gamelife\/2010\/01\/december-npd-the-nintendo-that-stole-christmas\/\">second-best seller in December<\/a>, and everywhere he checks seems to be out of stock.<\/p>\n<p>He writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just thought I would bring your attention to a potential story.  Every since after Christmas the Wii Fit Plus w\/ Balance Board has been almost impossible to find.  When you do find one in stock online, it is priced at roughly 140% &#8211; 150% of the normal price of $99; and 200% &#8211; 214% of the cheapest sales price of $70 that Dell was selling it for before Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on, but I wanted to buy one, but at those inflated prices I have no interest at being ripped off, just to find that some artificial shortage has driven up the prices.<\/p>\n<p>Do you have any insight into what is going on with Wii Fit Plus stocks?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you bought the game recently, where did you find it and how much did you have to pay?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcus wants a Wii Fit Plus game that includes the balance board and retails for $100. Problem is, he can&#8217;t find it anywhere. Third-party sellers are charging $150 and more on Amazon for the exercise game, which was the second-best seller in December, and everywhere he checks seems to be out of stock. He writes: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4514,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-259287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4514"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}