[Chernabog]

It's gonna be tough hun to find one around this time -- here are some tips:

Take a day to go around to your local stores which would carry the Wii. It is best to do this in the morning. ASK them if there are any in stock/in the back, or when the stock usually comes in, because there won't be any on the shelves.

Go to the usual stores -- Best Buy, Gamestop/EB Games, Circuit City, Target, Walmart -- but you may have better luck at stores where you wouldn't normally think of buying a Wii -- such as Kmart (where I found mine) and Sears.

When you do your Wii run, ask the sales clerk if there's a way to call in and see if there's any in stock. Sometimes when you call and there are systems in stock, they'll hold one for you for like, an hour (obviously this is dependent on the clerk).

If you do a "Wii run" every few days then eventually you will get lucky and find one in stock. Heck, it can even be fun since you'll be at stores where it's fun to look around. I got one last February, and it took a few weeks once I started looking... and again, found one at Kmart when I asked the clerk if there were any in stock -- she said there was one left and brought it out from the back.

There are places like "aaahs" that usually have one in stock -- but at a drastic markup (i.e. like how Amazon sellers are marking them up, ugh). The Wii costs $249.99 retail, period. If you pay more than that, you're getting ripped off.