Yeah, I understand that. I'm a Night Owl, so I'm usually always up around 4 am or so EST when they put their pre-orders up, so I often hit it really luck with them. Having a bunch of buddies that all stalk them too, it's pretty easy to get things. Other than that, I agree completely, it's nothing easy to do for sane people.
In reality, it's not really easy to get this stuff from anywhere, at least for the price I'm willing to pay. At this point, I hardly buy anything unless it's 15-25% off from Hobby Search, AmiAmi, or HLJ...and considering I pretty much just axed HLJ off my list of shops to buy from, the pickings are slim.