They keep sucking you in with the freebies

I pre-ordered to get the t-shirt (and I'm waiting to be disappointed on delivery date AGAIN) with GameStop.com a month or two back. At this point I really need to get serious about batting cleanup on some of my games. With Halo 2 and Metroid Prime 2 just around the corner I really should finish their predecessors. Oh, and I should probably start Paper Mario so that I can buy Paper Mario 2. Man...what a great time of the year for games!!

Oh, and another thing which I've recently started doing to overcome the pre-order curse is to pre-order for the goodies and buy on or just after the release date in stores. You can get the pre-order bonus for cheap if you sell the pre-order copy of the game for $1-2 under the retail price on Amazon.com as long as you don't open the wrapper. You might still be able to get that t-shirt...