does anyone have some insight into when the next shipment of PS3's hits the market and the best way to reserve

Answer 1

This gimmick happens every year and you fall for it. These game companies make so many thousands every year before Christmas. When the stores run out of the certain amount they send them, they do not get anymore until after Christmas. The stores end up lying to the customers saying that they are gone to get some more in when they really aren't. To answer your question, they are not going to come in until end of January or February. Be glad that you did not get one anyway because the game systems before Christmas are usually the trial ones in which they malfunction and the consumers end up taking them back. Just be cool!