Want a PS3? Try eBay.

As of this moment, there are over 30,000 36,000 PlayStation 3s for sale on eBay (just 1468 pages), with another 7,000 19,000 listings that are already completed (a completed listing just means the auction has ended -- it doesn't mean that the item sold, the buyer may have stopped the auction and relisted). The active listings on eBay comprise a over 15 percent of the entire North American allotment for launch day. Most of these are going for around $2,000 dollars, which I think of as an insane waste of money, especially given that the system is $600, and should be fairly commonplace this time next year.

The highest value one sold was the 99,999,999.00 PS3, which obviously was bid up as a joke, resulting in suspension of the ebay bidder. There are more in the 10-50,000 dollar range too, which are likely just as bogus.