digitaldevmike
Member
Well, I just put my entire collection up on Craigslist. Not feeling it anymore.
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Byron Bluth
Banned
Uhhhhhhhhh
GeekComplex
Neo Member
*sigh* Ness has been sold out for days...
spindashing
Banned
This is a dog eat dog world, we preorder for ourselves!
Lucent
Member
Umm what? Son of a ...he better come back. He's the one I've wanted the most. Really hope they bring out more. Don't want to have to pay more than $30.
Empyrean Heaven
Member
Waiting on Amazon's preorders.
Amazon could open up pre-orders anytime between now and the end of the universe.
He was a GameStop exclusive. They sold out of pre-orders in-store.
He's GameStop's exclusive. He sold out within hours of being put up for their WIS pre-orders. He never came up on their website.
GeekComplex
Neo Member
Well, there's a chance in hell I suppose.
Ness is still GS Exclusive and will likely be indefinitely.
If it's handled like Shulk, your options will be to check GS obsessively and hope they get one or a couple in store for purchase, or to get one from another seller, and likely pay more than your ideal price.
Empyrean Heaven
Member
Gamestop has taken his page down. All preorders have been fulfilled.
digitaldevmike
Member
He is exclusive to Gamestop in north America. Your only chance was to have gotten a web in store preorder a few days ago.
Edit: Beaten.
I didn't even know he HAD a page, since I never saw any Wave 4s listed.
spindashing
Banned
I don't think he even had a page up as far as out of the in-store system goes. I remember searching for "Ness" and it was autocorrected to "Nes."
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Diggeh
Unconfirmed Member
Interface23
Member
To be fair, Gamestop put Shulk up at launch too for a little while and are restocking him and Marth next month
Most European stores sold out months ago
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Diggeh
Unconfirmed Member
I don't think it's possible to even use good words and amiibo in the same sentence.
Oh yeah I forget that Shulk is having the spring restock... His pre-orders were open up nice and long
No. The report came from a toys are us representative. It's not polygon's fault that toys are us lied to them. It's TRS's fault.
DryEyeRelief
Member
I see. I stand corrected
Nathan_Drake
Member
Hey Amiibros. Here is my plea!
So I was in class and I had no chance of getting Ness. I have all the Smash ones so far and I got all the new ones secured minus Ness and JigglyPuff (I will wait in line 5/29 for that one). I can see no way of getting Ness without paying a scalper or the kindness of a Gaffer.
I am hoping my past helping of Gaffers with the same thing will bring me luck. I can provide references!
Anyways I would love a Ness for cost and shipping but I know that is unlikely.
I do have a Gold Mario mint in box that I wanted to keep but it is not my main collection.
I also have the Splatoon 3 pack ordered and again it is not my main collection so I could work something out with it.
Please let me know if you can assist through PM. Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely
Nick
So I was in class and I had no chance of getting Ness. I have all the Smash ones so far and I got all the new ones secured minus Ness and JigglyPuff (I will wait in line 5/29 for that one). I can see no way of getting Ness without paying a scalper or the kindness of a Gaffer.
I am hoping my past helping of Gaffers with the same thing will bring me luck. I can provide references!
Anyways I would love a Ness for cost and shipping but I know that is unlikely.
I do have a Gold Mario mint in box that I wanted to keep but it is not my main collection.
I also have the Splatoon 3 pack ordered and again it is not my main collection so I could work something out with it.
Please let me know if you can assist through PM. Thank you for your consideration.
Sincerely
Nick
The Amiibo situation has gotten so bad, even Forbes is reporting on it. Take notice, Nintendo!
http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/04/04/nintendo-needs-to-get-its-amiibo-act-together/
http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/04/04/nintendo-needs-to-get-its-amiibo-act-together/
GeekComplex
Neo Member
I take a different stance here.
As Polygon are still one of maybe half a dozen frequented game sites, they have an obligation to pick and choose what they report on, and be ABSOLUTELY SURE their sources are trustworthy, otherwise give us the disclaimer that they may not be.
I stayed up specifically because they've grown a reputation for talking out of their asses and not owning up to the backlash.
It's a shared responsibility, because had Polygon opted not to report, nobody would have been potentially misled.
If it was a redditor, and they were totally wrong, we'd blame them right? So why does it being Polygon change a damn thing?
Seems everyone jumped on that bandwagon this week.
Skiesofwonder
Walruses, camels, bears, rabbits, tigers and badgers.
Amiibo retail hunting isn't really fun anymore. I feel like there is now a very tiny chance of coming across any of the rare (or even non-common) amiibos. I guess things will pick up again in late May when Wave 4/Splatoon hits.
But will they hear our cry? I hope so.
GeekComplex
Neo Member
Given my limited time in the Amiibo game, my choice is gonna be to make retail hunts a more passive chore, at least until the holidays. By then we will have so many different Amiibo it will be a genuine surprise to find a couple certain ones here and there.
sergioalb64
Member
I like the attitude here. We should make the best of this situation by UNITE UP and trading within from what we each are able to get via preorders and on launch day. Together we can get what each needs!
That's how I got Goldie.
That's how I got Goldie.
Hopefully this gets their attention. A negative story like this from a place like Forbes can't go unnoticed by Nintendo to a small degree.
Saint Gregory
Member
I'm already well beyond that. I own waves 1-3 but I'm done hunting now after the experience of the last two days. It's just not worth it.
Honestly, I know this won't be all that popular to say here, especially now in the wake of how poorly the first few days and how cranky everyone is about it, but I really don't think the amiibo situation as a whole has been handled that badly. I know, I know, the experiences are horrible in search for certain figures (as lucky as I've been, even I didn't manage to get Captain Falcon), but for the most part, the majority of amiibos have been pretty widely available. Even some that started out hard to obtain have become common (Sonic, Mega Man, Toon Link, Shiek, etc).
It's not to say I think Nintendo doesn't deserve some shit or anything, but man, it just feels so overblown when you zoom out and realize the problem with amiibos is really in a relatively few amount.
It's not to say I think Nintendo doesn't deserve some shit or anything, but man, it just feels so overblown when you zoom out and realize the problem with amiibos is really in a relatively few amount.
Good afternoon everyone, I lucked out and got in on the web in stores for W4 but I have missed out on Greninja and Jigglypuff.
Anyone still have an extra ordered and is willing to trade? I have a Pit and Rosalina up for grabs. Send me a PM if you are willing to work something out.
Thanks,
Anyone still have an extra ordered and is willing to trade? I have a Pit and Rosalina up for grabs. Send me a PM if you are willing to work something out.
Thanks,
GeekComplex
Neo Member
Thing is, while it's "negative" press, it's doing nothing to impact the potential and inevitable sales of Amiibo. I will always believe Nintendo are losing out overall by not producing enough Amiibo to meet demand, but at the end of the day the Forbes article isn't gonna stop anyone who's this deep in from buying, the actual negative experience already has, however.
Nah, I think I agree with you. Aside from a couple of Amiibos, I've been able to get everything I've wanted simply by patiently waiting and them getting restocked here or there or somewhere.
I hope this will be the case in the future as well, but currently the entire wave 4 of Amiibos is unavailable anywhere.
*nods* Hopefully... Many Japanese companies are not very good with international business, so when such places are reporting things like this... yeah, you've done bad :/
At the very least, I believe Wario, Charizard, and Pac-Man will be relatively easy to get once they're actually out on store shelves. Preorders are selling out like mad for them primarily because of the rush, I assume. Robin, Lucina, and the exclusives are definitely gonna be hard to obtain though, no doubt.
I wonder about Splatoon though. The 3 pack was gone damn quickly at Best Buy (not sure if preorders went up anywhere else), not sure about the standalone Boy and Girl amiibos though. Being a new and unknown IP to most may make those characters easier to get.
It won't be a matter of ignoring the negative press as much as the flexibility of altering their production line.
Well, yeah, as of now all the preorders are gone. But I'm thinking more long term. Even if they aren't readily available now or in the beginning, I fully expect by mid-June to early July we'll see plenty of Charizards, Pacmans and probably Warios.
To me, the problem has always existed with the more niche characters. And that does make up a decent amount of the Smash line, admittedly, but when you look beyond that there's been little issue. I think at this point, for example, you can find just about any of the Super Mario Line (including the once rare Toad) without any problems.
It sucks ass for those who are either bigger fans of those niche characters or want those figures simply because they rarely get figures, definitely. And yes, Nintendo deserves the criticism for that. I guess what I'm trying to say, though, is that objectively speaking, I feel like we focus way too much on that whenever it comes to amiibos and make the whole situation seem a lot worse than it is, even if it's not a good situation.
Pretty much my experience, too. I didn't get my Shiek at first, but after a little while, she was easy to find.
It's a Forbes contributor.
It might as well be a Wordpress blog at this point.
DryEyeRelief
Member
by few you mean half?
Just counting on amazon's selection I would say 15 out of 35 are readily available.
laserlaser
Member
I just want ness and I'm out. How GS handled it is beyond bullshit.
Where's the twitter campaign(s) at? Where's the self-righteous boycotting?
Where's the twitter campaign(s) at? Where's the self-righteous boycotting?
Then Wave 4 happened. Ness. Jigglypuff. Greninja. You think those will be restocked? Robin, Lucina, those are both destined to be rare immediately and permanently as well, with most people never seeing one in person, due to the longer time it takes to make one, which then limits how many can be made within their few weeks of production before Nintendo has to move on to get started on the next one. So that's 5 out of 8 this round that are destined to be ebay exclusives.
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