I first took it to the local 'buy back' place, thinking I could get a deal. When they offered me $35 for the whole lot, and told me all the on-board games would be lost (they have to do a factory reset before reselling) I knew I would have to find a buyer on my own.
I put it up on Craigslist, and almost immediately got a hit. Someone was interested, but wasn't free until Tuesday (4 days from now). After some back-and-forth, I decided to keep it for him.
Tuesday came along, and they wanted to meet at the local Home Depot. Why? No fucking idea. I waited, and about 20 minutes later a car finally pulled up next to me.
The person I was dealing with was named Raul. The person exiting the car looked more like Consuela from Family Guy, and didn't speak a lick of English.
She starts talking to someone, in Spanish. I don't speak Spanish really well, but I understand enough of it to hear she was trying to 'get a deal from the white boy.'
She hands me the phone. It's Raul.
Raul is TEN YEARS OLD and starts negotiating with me...
I didn't budge, he started to whine, and thought he could win me over. So he asked me to give the phone back to his mom. They talked, mom kept saying 'try THIS on the white boy, try THAT on the white boy.'
She hands me the phone again. The kid starts to negotiate again. I respond, in my white-boy spanish, "Stop playing around, child. Do you want this Wii or not?" Mom shits herself then and there. Kid hangs up. Mom pays full price, and glares at me while driving away.
It was fantastic.
Sorry peeps, I grew up in the California ghetto. I'm not your average corn-fed Idahoan... That shit doesn't fly with me.
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