Nintendo definitely needs some commercials for this game. I know a few people that don't have their Wii hooked up to the internet, so they won't see this preview channel.
So Premiums with HDMI are being seen in the wild now:
http://www.joystiq.com/2007/08/08/hdmi-premium-xbox-360-potentially-caught-on-film/
People are still waiting to see if it has the new 65nm chip as well.
I was curious and checked the manufacturer's date on some of the 360s at work. The elites were from June of 2007, but the Premiums bundled with Top Spin 2 were made in June of 2006.
Ahh, good ol' MMORPGs.. you do so much work to gear up your character, only to have to do it again in a future expansion.
I used to play on Arthas. lvl 57 Rogue that I solo'd most of the time, except when I needed to go in an instance dungeon for a quest or whatever.
Any fleamarkets around your area? Where I live we have a pretty famous fleamarket. We're lucky enough to have a pretty cool game store. It's called the Video Game Dungeon
So yeah, I'd try a fleamarket.
There's also one of those privately owned game stores a few mins from my house that has a bunch of old/new games/systems that they sell.
I think I'm kind of glad I stop playing this game and other MMOs(maybe for good). There's just so much other stuff I do now instead of playing these all day. Although they were good times, there's just not much time to dedicate like I used to say back in high school. Maybe I'm just burnt out from MMOs since I've played them since middle school(10+ years).
I can't even imagine how much time it must have taken to get those swords though if the first person got them only days ago. Those are sick though.