"How else can we explain why it's offering one of the consoles for £1000 - more than three times' the recommend price?"

Given Pissy World's near legendary price-gouging on other kit, console or not (20 quid for a USB cable? Yeah, right) I'm struggling to work out how this is newsworthy ....

That's odd, PC World and Dixons both having a sale on the same day !

That's a pretty standard mark-up for the DSG stores.

You read it, didn't you?

Oooh what a coincidence. We're not in the run up to the Christmas byuing period are we?

browsing PC world on a MAC...lol

But where they really get you is on the shipping...

They'll sometimes put a new code on the system at a stupid price to make sure no one sells it before it's released. They'll bring the price down to the proper price once it's finalised and ready for release.

I imagine this might be the rumoured Wii with DVD playback functionality I'd heard about or even just a new bundle...

Whilst in PC World justtheotherday I noticed you could buy 2m of cat5 ethernet cable for a measly 17.99 (UKP). 'HOW MUCH?' I heard Arkwright shout.

Still that price is more than justified by their excellent A1 customer service.

*gag* *splutter*

Same post as before, except that I've now called them and found out they've got loads and you can get one free with a mobile connection.

This is a quite deliberate act of price gouging. There is plenty of stock in main land Europe, but now Amazon in France and Germany are refusing to take orders from the UK. This is surely against European law. Weren't VW fined €50M for making it difficult for Germans to buy their cars in Italy. I wonder what the EU will make of this blatant suppression of the open market.