I ordered a Wii for Christmas last year. I explained to my teenagers about the shortage and that I'm not going to pay loads of money to get one off ebay. I gave them the choice. I order it and they have to wait, or I cancel the order and get something else.

They waited. I ordered it on 12th November 2006, it finally turned up on February 26th 2007.

Not only did we have a great Christmas, we had a great Feb/March too.