Blink and you missed the elusive Sony PlayStation 5 , which made a brief appearance at Amazon this morning before rapidly selling out. That's been the unfortunate story since the game console launched back in November: It's in stock somewhere (GameStop, Walmart, Sony proper) and then, poof, it's gone. If you're still hoping to score one, there's not much you can do except to be patient -- and diligent. On the other hand, if you can't wait another minute, your only option right now is to pay obscene mark-ups on sites like eBay and StockX . On eBay, for example, we've seen the PS5 priced well over $1,000. The console has been otherwise virtually impossible to find, with at least one person waiting in line for 36 hours to snag one at a California GameStop. These days, Twitter is a popular source to check for restock news, even though we're seeing fewer high-profile inventory drops. Instead, retailers seem to be shifting to a policy of smaller, more frequent drops that … [Read more...] about PS5 restock news: Briefly in stock at Amazon, now gone again