PS3 midnight madness at Best Buy Fenway aborted

Starting yesterday (Wednesday,) quite a few people started lining up and camping out for PS3s, which were going on sale tonight (Thursday) at midnight.

Some time today, Best Buy employees told the crowd that the "official" line would open up at noon today.

Somewhere between noon today and 4 pm today, Best Buy employees sold slips to everyone in line at that point which entitled them to one PS3. "Get off my lawn, kids!"

There were more people than there were slips, though - even though this Best Buy received more PS3s than rumors had given prospective buyers any right to excpect. As a result, some folks who had been waiting for more than a day were left in the cold. "Best Buy screwed us," said one would-be PS3 buyer, who had arrived yesterday but left in advance of the new noon wait time.

Still, he left unhappily, but willingly. No such luck everywhere, though: one Boston Police officer said things were going nuts in South Bay. And that poor guy may not be out of luck just yet: when asked what percentage of systems sold today would be on eBay by tonight, a Best Buy employee responded "probably 90%."

We don't think he was joking.