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Well I need to have a moan to get it out of my system, I wanted to get my grandson the new Xbox Series X for Christmas which he has set his stall out for but there is no stock anywhere it seems

Its not the retailers fault that there is no stock as Microsoft manufacturing has been affected by Covid 19 so not as many made as would have been.

It is however the retailers fault that their websites are just not up to the job, and don't have enough bandwidth to meet the demands of customers.

Amazon was crashed by a surge recently after announcing they had stock which would be released at a specific time on a certain date, my daughter waited in a long queue to eventually get through and actually had the X Box in her basket 3 times and 3 times was kicked out again before she could enter her payment details and of course when retrying was told it was now out of stock

Curry's have also had issues as when they were supposed to release stock the other day ,they moved the release time around a few times and then had to call it a day and released none as planned.

So today was Curry's re launch, I had an e mail from them telling me it was at 12 o'clock today so there I was waiting with mouse in hand and kept looking at the site but no sign of any Xbox series X anywhere on their site around 12.

I then checked the internet to find out Curry's were now releasing at 1pm today instead of 12 so the plan was myself, my daughter and my son in law would all log on and try to get one, but we all had the same experience, waiting in a queue to be connected to the Curry's website but when we got through there was no X Box series X console to be seen on the site despite searching several times, and eventually up comes a picture of the X Box to say it was sold out ! So none of us ever had a chance to buy one.

I suspect some skullduggery here as if they are sold out how come the people who were successful didn't have the same experience that we had, what sort of IT equipment do they have that I haven't ?

The console sells for £445 yet there are lots on E Bay for auction selling for £700+ so the scalpers as they are called are managing to get hold of them and make big bucks, but how ?

I looked on Amazon the other day just on the off chance and they had no stock but linked me to another option where someone wanted £999 !!

I don't mind paying a bit over the odds but am not going to be held to ransom so looks like I am going to have a disappointed grandson on my hands