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[AdanVC]

Did they ever think about just giving them to sites that can handle trafic? like amazon? would that be so hard.

It can't happen because that totally makes sense and it will ease this process.

 

[Taisaijin]

The salt get saltier whilst the in-store ad roll mocks us..

(Still no orders processed, mutinous mentality building.)

 

[PadWarrior]

Man well glad I stayed at the office on lunch

 

[eudaemonic]

Yeah, I'm fifth in line at mine. Being patient. But fuck all ya'll that talk about your 3DS but didn't bring it. >.>

 

[Plinko]

Thank you Best Buy for saving me from a Gamestop nightmare.

 

[kelik]

Was about to leave the office early too. Whew

 

[Gucci Messiah]

im sorry amiibo gaf but i am ready to nerd rage the fuck out

 

[TheSlySoul]

Yeah, I'm fifth in line at mine. Being patient. But fuck all ya'll that talk about your 3DS but didn't bring it. >.>

I would be like "Here is the regular new 3DS, NoA decided we should not have it. Isn't it lovely?"

 

[weevles]

The non-exclusive ones yes. Pages are up but you can't order yet, no one has any idea when they're going to take pre-orders there.

Was the link to the amazon pages posted? I can't seem to find them.

 

[CopperPuppy]

I keep getting a "service is unavailable" notification from EB Games.

 

[dallow_bg]

Store email came in: traffic is 85x Black Friday.

 

[DryvBy]

Ness EB Games Canada

https://www.ebgames.ca/Toys-Collectibles/Games/719568/ness-amiibo-figure

Wish I knew someone in Canada I could ship to.

 

[Sillution]

30 minutes of standing in front of the register right now still not working.

 

[Owari]

Thank you Best Buy for saving me from a Gamestop nightmare.

No ness at best buy

 

[atomsk]

30 minutes in line, not one sold yet

 

[friskykillface]

Maybe I should have got all of them from best buy

 

[JohnTinker]

the clerk at this store is mad at GS corporate for not being prepared for this, he's a super nice dude tbh. Line has grown to 15 people

 

[Windom Earle]

I got one!

Spoiler

is what I'd say if the servers were actually working

.

 

[LiK]

Ness EB Games Canada

https://www.ebgames.ca/Toys-Collectibles/Games/719568/ness-amiibo-figure

their site died too

 

[PadWarrior]

Store email came in: traffic is 85x Black Friday.

Wowza!

 

[Craig Majaski]

Because honestly on our end its much easier usually. We have a set number and keep track of sales 100% in real time and gage when to cut off. Its a lot easier to ensure we can meet and fulfill all reserves. It can be a bit of an inconvenience in some ways but is better than having to cancel people's pre orders because we ordered too many.

The downside however, is when pure insanity like this hits

When it comes to highly allocated product like this - the smart thing would be to assign each store a set number of reservations. They did this back with the Wii and PS3 launches and it worked great. Having been a manager for GameStop for 12 years (no longer at the moment) I can say this web in store stuff is a huge inconvenience for the customers. Plus they have to have the item shipped to their home - and if they want release date guarantee they have to pay extra shipping charges. Completely ridiculous.

 

[Plinko]

No ness at best buy

Could not care less. I was going to go in and preorder the bundle of all.

 

[Einbroch]

im sorry amiibo gaf but i am ready to nerd rage the fuck out

I got my popcorn.

 

[eudaemonic]

I would be like "Here is the regular new 3DS, NoA decided we should not have it. Isn't it lovely?"

As long as I can streetpass you, that's fine. I've made my peace with that.

 

[Xclash]

30 minutes of standing in front of the register right now still not working.

My exact experience as well.

 

[Ludist210]

On the bright side, maybe all of this Ness madness will convince Nintendo that they need to release Mother 3 (and Mother) over here.

Got the other five at Best Buy. Missed Jigglypuff by minutes.

 

[sonto340]

They're saying it's not sold out but the site is still hammered. Fun times.

 

[Armaly]

Apparently my gamestop got an email saying the entire Web in store system is down. Hm

 

[ChosenPredator]

man the pain to get these things

 

[volgihn]

My exact experience as well.

Same thing happening here

 

[rocketskates]

This is truly a nightmare.

First in line and all I want is Robin and Lucina.

Also refreshing Amazon every couple of seconds in case they go up while I'm waiting.

 

[dallow_bg]

Wowza!

Their advice was "keep trying". Lol

 

[LegendX48]

Store email came in: traffic is 85x Black Friday.

That's just nuts

 

[TheLastCandle]

Bleh. This is some tomfoolery.

 

[Pompadour]

I was 3rd in line and just now left. I'll be extra furious if the server fixes in the next 5 minutes.

 

[The Shogun]

Did they ever think about just giving them to sites that can handle trafic? like amazon? would that be so hard.

Amazon sells a lot less product than we do for Amiibo. If they are gonna give a really good exclusive like Ness its going to be to us.

 

[SalvaPot]

 

[Durock]

Same situation here in Long Beach, CA. 30 minutes and not a single one sold.

 

[Owari]

About to call it quits at GameStop. Gotta get to work at 1.

 

[Marty Chinn]

Someone left because they didn't want to wait anymore! Hurray!

Too bad they were behind me

 

[A Human Becoming]

Store email came in: traffic is 85x Black Friday.

The web-in-store?

 

[Beatboxtaun]

Yeah, I'm third in line and they haven't been able to finish the first person's order.

 

[JimJamJones]

I have to drive home at 5, and it takes me 20 minutes. I don't trust Amazon enough to leave my computer.

Welp, I guess I'm staying late at the office.

 

[mjc]

Wait, did Robin and Lucina go up for preorder too?

 

[Nathan_Drake]

Release the Ness! Just put it online for all of us. In store can use their phones

 

[//ARCANUM]

it's their own damn faults really (gamestop's)! they told everyone that ness would be available online at 2pm and then sent an internal memo saying he wouldn't but then didn't tell people. so now everyone is hitting their website hard which is causing the stores to not be able to place WIS orders.

this is what happens when you change shit at the last second and don't inform people.

 

[Beren the Empty-Handed]

They could have staggered this by releasing them at different times in each time zone, and then set a certain amount to each timezone. But that would have been too intelligent.

 

[Shadowhaxor]

I am so fired..... Thanks Gamestop!

 

[spindashing]

Wait, did Robin and Lucina go up for preorder too?

Yep. Earlier in the morning at Best Buy.

 

[B-Ri]

so all hope is lost now to get Ness?

Im done collecting these things anyway, if I can get my hands on charizard, wario, pacman, and ness (which sounds like a hard task) Im done,

this is just ridic. I was just collecting those that i enjoyed during my childhood, and ness is the last one.