If you have PlayStation account you can sign up for random drawing to buy one directly from them. Did this about 4 months ago and yesterday the golden email arrived with link to get my shiny new PS5 starting at 2PM EST today and lasting to 7PM. After numerous attempts throughout the afternoon I was finally in..... at 6:30.
For half hour I slowly watched the yellow indicator grow larger, it's right there I'll be playing Hockey and Grand Turismo in Glorious 4K in a few days.
And then my dreams are smashed yet again.
The horror of first world problems.
“Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results! I have found several thousand things that won’t work.”
Attributed - Thomas Edison