MasterCheeze
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Nevermind, someone already posted about the Francis video!
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For the difference, it's not like you're paying for the figure, more like you're paying for the piece of mind that you won't have to worry about not being able to get that figure later.
And it's going to get worse. Scalper John, and Jane are having a field day.
ab.aeterno
Member
Not seeing the option to buy Shulk, Rosalina or Meta Knight. Sold out already?
Jawmuncher
Member
Considering how "hot" the products are they could tell retailers they need to limit purchases at least online where the problem is the biggest. Also there should be far more time to set things up. If nintendo allowed preorders far earlier like we had with Wave 3 so that they can get numbers to use and then add a cut off date later it would be better. Wave 3 was a pain to get in store but outside the exclusives, if you preordered them for the most part you got them.
ab.aeterno
Member
Do preorders through the online store system they already have in place, enforcing limits there?
The Finest Brew
Neo Member
Wave 4 went back up? Cause Play Asia usually puts up when pre order allocations are filled, and Ness just says Pre Orders coming soon.
That's what people were saying and that's what Rosalina's amiibo page said as well. Now it says it's gone so maybe they haven't opened it up just yet for him.
Managed to get Ike, Marth, Metaknight and Lucario, I'm one happy camper today.
Interceptor
Banned
Not into this amiibo thing but what's so difficult to just sell them in the eshop or on amazon?
Well, that sounds like a good idea and all, but I'm pretty sure that's a retailer decision, not Nintendo's. They can say/suggest/demand, but it doesn't really mean they have to listen. I mean, it's not like they don't know the situation.
The eShop is their digital storefront. They don't sell physical items there. And they are sold on Amazon. You can buy them there now. The pre-orders still sold out pretty quick for this wave, though.
Byron Bluth
Banned
They've been up since 4am EST.
Jawmuncher
Member
True since by now it's something that should have gone into affect.
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Ignition365
Member
Super easy. Unlimited preorders. They can realistically make like 10k per month? 1mil orders? Okay, yeah, a lot of them will be backordered, fill them as they can. Guess what? You can ramp up production once you know and in 3-4 months have enough made to meet that supply. That's how things work. You just produce more. Maybe they have to be made in different factories or you have to wait longer, but you can always make more.
The issue is that either Nintendo doesn't know what they are doing, or they aren't being transparent about what they are doing... or both. If Nintendo straight up said if preorders sell out they will make a second production of anything that presold out, I wouldn't worry and I wouldn't consider paying over retail... because I always have that second chance. And if that second run presells out? a third... then a fourth... then a fifth... and so on.
Hilarious. Basically sums up how I feel.
While this sounds perfect in theory, and I completely agree, retailers would lose their shit at Nintendo for direct sales. Nintendo need their retailers as much as they need their products.
Nintendo have an incredibly difficult task ahead of them: work with local and online retailers to satisfy 90% of the existing demand for 40 odd amiibos (each with their own demand levels), but also ensure that nothing is overstocked and made surplus; challenging to gauge when the market is skewed by resellers.
Adam Tyner
Member
Well, there's https://store.nintendo.com/ , which does sell physical items. The inventory's pretty tiny, and Club Nintendo would seem to suggest that NoA wouldn't be able to support Amiibo-style load, but it's not out of the realm of possibility.
Nintendo sells Amiibo directly through their online store in the UK: http://store.nintendo.co.uk/
Ignition365
Member
There was a misunderstanding there. I wasn't saying for Nintendo to directly take the orders. All of these websites have systems in place for backorders. They just are less commonly used nowadays. Nintendo and the retailers just need to communicate and be more transparent about the whole operation.
shanafan
Member
You know Francis is just a character that Boogie does right? No one should rage that much over amiibo
Yikes, a few Amiibo's I ordered from Target.com arrived in flimsy plastic packets without any protection whatsoever, unsurprisingly they were mangled. Another order for two were smashed together into a small box so they would fit. They were commons at least and I planned on opening those, but yeesh. :|
Just a heads up for those who got in on Jigglypuff, hopefully they're more careful. Was Rosalina much of an issue there?
Just a heads up for those who got in on Jigglypuff, hopefully they're more careful. Was Rosalina much of an issue there?
My Rosalina was very nicely packaged with plenty of cushioning, no problems at all. Kind of sad to hear they went backwards.
Sorceror12
Member
same here Rosalina was packed nicely
Fox Mulder
Member
Seems like no one cares about packing anything properly anymore.
You know Francis is just a character that Boogie does right? No one should rage that much over amiibo
What really??? Lol yeah man, I know that. He still makes really good points in the video and it's also a good summary, even while it is satire. And even though taken to the extreme, it does echo some of my own sentiments about how ridiculous the whole situation is. PRINT THE PRODUCTS SO WE CAN BUY THE PRODUCTS!!!
Kilau
Member
Dang, my Rosa and every other amiibo from target has come packed wonderfully...until now. Just checked the packing on my Zelda and Sheik that were on sale and both boxes are crushed, Sheik box is badly bent. Ugh.
bumpkin
Member
New page, more rage.
I'm so disheartened that I got screwed on wave 4 preorders across the board. The only one I was able to get was a Ness at GS and maybe a Wario through a friend. It's so bullshit that the retailers doing online preorders tossed them up at some ungodly hour and GS clearly wasn't allotted enough to handle preorder demand in-store. My wife said she was in line for almost an hour and a half with the objective of preordering them all; at one point they were down to Charizard, Ness and Wario. All were gone but Ness by the time she got to the counter.
They gave her and others a $5 gift card for the wait/inconvenience, but that's not good enough given the 15-30 dollar markup scalping assholes are charging.
I'm so disheartened that I got screwed on wave 4 preorders across the board. The only one I was able to get was a Ness at GS and maybe a Wario through a friend. It's so bullshit that the retailers doing online preorders tossed them up at some ungodly hour and GS clearly wasn't allotted enough to handle preorder demand in-store. My wife said she was in line for almost an hour and a half with the objective of preordering them all; at one point they were down to Charizard, Ness and Wario. All were gone but Ness by the time she got to the counter.
They gave her and others a $5 gift card for the wait/inconvenience, but that's not good enough given the 15-30 dollar markup scalping assholes are charging.
I think its just a case by case basis. Received a Fox from Best Buy that was more or less thrashed whereas when they sent 2 Meta Knights, they were pristine. Luck of the draw I guess.
You know I love the LINE system we have but I'm going to have to shut my phone down at night or turn down the volume. I was awoken at least twice last night, midnight and 4 am, just from people entering the dang room. Seems like it's been happening more and more in the middle of the night that I have been awoken by LINE. I hate to have another greninja situation but it's not worth losing sleep over. Took me at least an hour to fall back alseep at midnight.
You can turn those notifications off.
I only get actual chat alerts, but don't remember what the setting was.
Nathan_Drake
Member
You can turn those notifications off. It happened to all of us in the beginning but someone posted how to stop it on both Android and ios. Maybe just ask in the chat. The only notifications I get is alert channel comments. But then again I have been awoken by people accidentally chatting in there.
Well this would certainly be better. There are I think two options for turning off notifications but I didn't want to miss out on actual alerts. No idea what to turn off.
Nathan_Drake
Member
Contact Diggeh Ch4os or Gem for invite
shanafan
Member
I know you knew
I just thought it was ironic in the video that he is complaining about the amiibo shortage, yet he had a Meta Knight and Pit. Seemed like he was doing pretty well for himself!
Maybe he really did spend $40 on those.:3I know you knew
I just thought it was ironic in the video that he is complaining about the amiibo shortage, yet he had a Meta Knight and Pit. Seemed like he was doing pretty well for himself!
I know you knew
I just thought it was ironic in the video that he is complaining about the amiibo shortage, yet he had a Meta Knight and Pit. Seemed like he was doing pretty well for himself!
Lol oh ok sorry. That kind of hurt honestly to see them being thrown. And that is a good point but those two weren't hard to get if you preordered. The situation now though is insanely worse. I can't even get a Ness because they only did in store only while I was at work. Ridiculous.
ab.aeterno
Member
But they're inpossible to get now without having to try and import or buy from scalpers, and not everyone has been into them since day one.
Sorry to be salty, but it gets really god damn tiring to read people excusing stock issues by saying "oh if you wre on top of it and preordered at the beginning you were fine" because it's just a giant middle finger to people like me who didn't get into them until later. I had no idea stock issues would be a thing until I found myself without any way of getting a Lucario until I lucked out at a random store months later.
Dylan Sexbang
Banned
Will Amazon open their Inkling orders today? I don't know. I can't say. I don't like but I guess things happen this way.
Triple pack please!
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