Shopping for a Nintendo Wii: WIll it be in stock?

Yesterday, in a modest panic, my wife reminded me that our oldest son’s birthday is this week; he has been lobbying for a Wii for eons. So I jumped into action, scouring the Web for any clues on where I might find one. There are couple of services that automate this process, spidering retail sites and sending you an alert whenever they become available. Amazon (AMZN) had them for sale for a few brief minutes yesterday, but not long enough for me. A few other sites have them for sale, but only if you purchase an enormous pile of software to go along with it. In one bundle offered by Walmart.com (WMT), you had to pick seven additional titles; so the $249 Wii became something north of $700 once you added in tax and shipping. Seems like criminal behavior to me. And the price-gouging mom-and-pop retailers on eBay selling them for dramatically above the suggested retail price fall into the same dishonorable camp.