The Second Mouse Gets the Cheese

So people who know me also know I play World of Warcraft and people who play World of Warcraft know the much anticipated expansion kit came out earlier this month. While people flocked to pre-order this “upgrade” and stay up for midnight store openings to get their copy I stayed away, waiting for the craziness to end.

Long story short, I went online today and checked my local circuit city store for inventory and bingo, it said ready for pickup in 24 minutes! I ordered although I was pretty sure they didn’t have any. Showed up at the store and got the “sorry sir, there was a computer inventory issue” story. They did have 1 collector’s edition left though for $30 more. Well, I wasn’t going to pay $30 more, but I’d pay $6. You see if you order something online at circuit city and it’s not ready in 24 minutes you get a $24 gift card, even if it’s because of a “computer inventory glitch”. So downstairs sits a spanking new, still sealed Wrath of the Lich King, World of Warcraft Collector’s Edition.

It seems the expansion sold out however the “collector’s edition” did not. Apparently there was a shipping problem and while the regular version made it to the shelves for the pre-orders and midnight release party the collectors edition did not. So the uber-geeks likely picked up the regular edition and abandoned their pre-ordered collectors kit. Now my only dilemma is do I open it or sell it on ebay? Last time the collector’s edition fetched about $150.