Black Friday, the start to the holiday shopping season, takes place in a week.
Stores are already starting to offer deals on TVs, Amazon Echo speakers, Sony PlayStations, iPads, and other electronics that kids of all ages would want to see underneath the Christmas tree.
But the most desirable gadgets this Christmas won't be easy to get.
They probably won't be available in stores, unless you line up in the early hours of the morning.
This season, some of the most interesting electronics — from companies like Nintendo and Apple — will be incredibly hard to buy, in short supply, and will require queueing up, or getting into an Ebay bidding war, or knowing someone who works for Apple.
Here are the three rarest electronics gadgets that you probably won't be able to find this Christmas:
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Snapchat Spectacles
Retail price: $129
Ebay price: $600+
Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, started to roll out its new face computer earlier this month.
The Spectacles are super fun. They're well-designed, stylish, and because they're so rare, they attract attention. A camera mounted on the sunglasses takes short videos from a first-person view that will certainly get attention on Snapchat.
They're also very hard to get a hold of. Snap is only selling them through a single vending machine that it moves to a random location every other day.
The vending machine spits out about 300 pairs per day, we've guessed, so there are perhaps only about 1000 pairs of Spectacles out in the world.
The vending machine has made appearances in LA and Tulsa, Oklahoma.
They retail for $129, but you can get a pair on Ebay for about $600 or more.
Apple AirPods
Retail price: $159
Ebay price: Not available
The perfect gift to give alongside a headphone-jack free iPhone 7 will be hard to find this season.
In September, Apple debuted AirPods, a new set of wireless earbuds that pair instantaneously with Apple products and look like an iconic pair of the Apple EarPods with their cords cut off.
They were supposed to go on sale in October, but Apple delayed them, saying that they weren't ready, and hasn't set an official release date for them.
The latest word suggests that mass production will start in December, which means that they might not go on sale before Christmas. Even if they do go on sale, it's a safe assumption that they will be in short supply, so if you want a pair, you'll have to try to buy them as soon as they go on sale or line up outside of an Apple Store.
Some people already have AirPods — analysts and journalists have them so they can review them, and we've spotted Apple employees rocking them in San Francisco.
When they do go on sale, they will cost $159 from Apple. There don't seem to be any AirPods for immediate shipping available on Ebay.
Nintendo NES Classic Edition
Retail price: $60
Ebay price: $200+
A great gift for Nintendo fans is the NES Classic Edition. It might just be a perfect gift for adults who want to replay the classic games they played as children.
Maybe nostalgia is the reason that people on Ebay are paying $200 or more for the $60 console, which is hard to find.
The pocket-sized NES is basically a modern computer that does nothing but emulate and look like the original Nintendo Entertainment System, which first launched in 1985. But it plugs in to your flatscreen with HDMI.
It can play 30 classic NES games, including "Final Fantasy," all three "Super Mario Bros.," and the "Legend of Zelda." It even comes with a cute modern version of the classic NES controller.
When a batch of NES Classics went on sale on Amazon earlier this month, the demand crashed the product page.
If you'd like to get your hands on one at its retail price, online retailers like Walmart and Amazon are announcing occasional supply drops — log on at the appropriate time, usually 5 p.m. ET, get your refresh clicker finger on the ready, and hope you get lucky.
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