From my good friends at Best Buy:

Dear Best Buy Customer,

Thank you for your Xbox 360 order on BestBuy.com.

Due to high demand, we oversold our limited allocation from Microsoft. Your Xbox 360 is on backorder and will not be available for delivery by December 23. Backorders will be fulfilled in the order in which they were taken when future allocations of the console are received from the supplier.

We apologize for any inconvenience. If you would like to cancel this item from your order, modify the shipping address or have any questions, call us toll-free at 1-888-BEST BUY (1-888-237-8289). We will not be able to modify your order to in-store pickup. For faster service, tell us the order number when you contact us.

Thank You.
Best Buy Customer Care

Well, I’m glad they appreciate my order. I’m also glad they’ve already put a hold on my credit card for it. Thanks guys!

So, here’s the question — will they eventually ship it to me, or will I stay in limbo forever? My guess is I will be in limbo forever. I love that all the thugs at the D.C. Best Buy who harassed me and the other losers in line have the system and can play it on their crappy, non-HD standard NTSC television sets, but I’m stuck with all my old games in crummy 480p on my HD set.

But wait, something’s wrong, here. It’s not that I don’t own an XBOX 360, they did charge me for it.

Here’s my favorite part of the email:

“Your Xbox 360 is on backorder and will not be available for delivery by December 23.”

So, I do own an XBOX 360 — I was charged for it after all. It’s just that, well, it’s on backorder. So, I’m going to sit back and use my machine telepathy to communicate with my XBOX 360, sitting on an assembly line somewhere across North America and the Pacific Ocean in the magic land of China where all electronics are made.

But wait, my machine telepathy tells me that my XBOX 360 hasn’t even been manufactured, yet! Why, its component parts don’t even exist.

Even so, it is mine. Best Buy said I have one, so it must be true.