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[RobFox64tm]

Second in line, but still waiting.

 

[Plinko]

I just want Pac-Man... If i miss out on him. Man.

He'll be a common for sure.

 

[zulux21]

I'm afraid to even go get something from the fridge in case I miss Amazon preorders.

as long as it takes less than 30 seconds you should be ok.

 

[TheSlySoul]

Gamestop.com down again.

IDK why Nintendo keeps partnering with Gamestop. They are like Billy from Billy and Mandy.

 

[LiK]

I give up. i'll just buy them from resellers. cuz this is fruitless and frustrating.

 

[Marty Chinn]

People are starting to leave. Sadly the scalpers are the ones with nowhere to go.

 

[The Shogun]

Not right now

Haha too true ;-)

 

[Danthrax]

My take:


Gamestop did the in-store thing today because:

1) There isn't enough Ness supply, and the margins are not high enough to justify the hit to their systems by just having people placing online orders right away.

2) Given that, get people in stores so they buy more stuff along with the pre-orders. It's pay-on-order, so there's no risk. Postpone online preorders.

except that their website is down for everyone

go ahead, try to go to www.gamestop.com

 

[DryvBy]

Anyone know the item number for Ness? I wonder if you could just manually find it if you knew that.

 

[RootCause]

How does someone sleep at night knowing they make you pay for an amiibo 6x over?

A fucking PAYMENT plan.

Very easly I'd imagine.

 

[JimJamJones]

From Twitter.

 

[Matteoj8]

People complaining about Nintendo and the stuff hasn't even released yet. Chill out, for now aim your frustration at retailers. When wave 4 is released and there's none in the store then you should complain.

 

[hawk2025]

except that their website is down for everyone

go ahead, try to go to www.gamestop.com

Hey, I'm not saying the idea worked! Partly due to miscommunication, both the website AND the in-store system are down.

I was trying to think what their rationale could be. Having their systems and website down for nearly an hour now is extremely costly.

 

[Jobbs]

I'm afraid to even go get something from the fridge in case I miss Amazon preorders.

if I had to guess, I'd say charizard, pacman, wario, and splatoon amiibos will not be hard to get.

 

[JohnTinker]

From Twitter.

These are the old Japanese stands & not amiibos, just to avoid confusion

 

[thecouncil]

How does someone sleep at night knowing they make you pay for an amiibo 6x over?

A fucking PAYMENT plan.

How? On a pile of money.

 

[The Shogun]

IDK why Nintendo keeps partnering with Gamestop. They are like Billy from Billy and Mandy.

Number 1 retailer

 

[zroid]

fuck's sake, EB... can't even handle traffic from a country that's largely unpopulated arctic tundra?

 

[Tabasco]

How does someone sleep at night knowing they make you pay for an amiibo 6x over?

A fucking PAYMENT plan.

I'm just shocked at the fact that seller has more than 10 of them.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

People complaining about Nintendo and the stuff hasn't even released yet. Chill out, for now aim your frustration at retailers. When wave 4 is released and there's none in the store then you should complain.

Having been through this with Shulk and Pit, I'm pretty sure I know who to blame.

 

[scrambles]

Pointless

 

[TheSlySoul]

Number 1 retailer

This makes me quite sad...

 

[JimJamJones]

These are the old Japanese stands & not amiibos, just to avoid confusion

Of course. But imagine if they ever made these into amiibos... the bloodbath...

 

[O.v.e.rlord]

So yeah, at GS and everything is crashing.

 

[Einbroch]

People complaining about Nintendo and the stuff hasn't even released yet. Chill out, for now aim your frustration at retailers. When wave 4 is released and there's none in the store then you should complain.

Nah, it's Nintendo. Nintendo controls the stock. Maybe last winter you could blame retailers because they were tentative. Now they know demand, and so does Nintendo, so they likely ordered as many as Nintendo would let them order.

Sorry, it's all on Nintendo now. Except maybe this current system outage, but that also is partially Nintendo's fault.

 

[Lee Chaolan]

I give up. i'll just buy them from resellers. cuz this is fruitless and frustrating.

Time = Money, so we're all getting ripped off waiting to buy them at retail

 

[dallow_bg]

Getting soooo close.

 

[friskykillface]

Some guy left

I'm close to leaving but my worthless life can wait

 

[A Human Becoming]

Amazon pls

 

[WhiteRabbitEXE]

Having been through this with Shulk and Pit, I'm pretty sure I know who to blame.

But Shulk was very easy to preorder out the gate, for like 2 weeks. Even the May restock orders lasted hours.

 

[Mesoian]

 

[spindashing]

 

[ZiggyPalffyLA]

Was it ever confirmed whether that retail-version Ness Amiibo (not the prototype) with fucked-up eyes was real or not?

 

[JohnTinker]

Just left GS empty handed

Have to get back to work

 

[Finale Fireworker]

Who in Canada is willing to order me a Ness amiibo from EB games? Got all the way to checkout and they would only accept Canadian addresses.

 

[Comet]

Amazn pls

if Amazon lets me down, I retire from the Amiibo-game. With only Mega Man lol

 

[RootCause]

People complaining about Nintendo and the stuff hasn't even released yet. Chill out, for now aim your frustration at retailers. When wave 4 is released and there's none in the store then you should complain.

I get were you're coming from, but we know how the story will go. It's all on nintendo as far as I'm concerned.

 

[careksims]

But Shulk was very easy to preorder out the gate, for like 2 weeks. Even the May restock orders lasted hours.

Totally agree. Compared to this, Shulk was all too easy.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

if I had to guess, I'd say charizard, pacman, wario, and splatoon amiibos will not be hard to get.

Unfortunately, I want Ness and Lucina.

And I don't even want them because they're rare or whatever. It's that I like those characters the most. And then they just happened to be the rarest ones because Nintendo has a fascinating way of punishing liking them.

 

[DryvBy]

Marketing genius GameStop:

Yes, go to this link while you wait for your game. I mean toy.

 

[EroticSushi]

2nd order went through in the past 50 minutes.

 

[JimJamJones]

if Amazon lets me down, I retire from the Amiibo-game. With only Mega Man lol

Same, but with Link.

Spoiler

And the four older ones I bought today.

 

[Niraj]

Guy told us to write our name and number down and he'd get back to us if anything happened. So guess I'm hoping for Robin and Lucina on Amazon and pretending like Ness doesn't exist.

 

[Joe Prodigy]

Ugh. I need to go back to work soon.

 

[Chucker]

Just left GS empty handed

Have to get back to work

Same. Even then I was 10 minutes late. Ugh, I hate this

 

[Danthrax]

Hey, I'm not saying the idea worked! Partly due to miscommunication, both the website AND the in-store system are down.

I was trying to think what their rationale could be. Having their systems and website down for nearly an hour now is extremely costly.

yeah I suppose.

and your second idea isn't working out for them, either, because there's probably very little selling going on in stores. every GameStop in the country has been tied up with trying to preorder Ness for customers in store. meanwhile, no one is able to buy other things, unless there's a second employee on a register who isn't ALSO trying to do Ness preorders.

GameStop basically lost a shit ton of money today.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Truly, this is the Ultimate Despair.

This is not a thing I would have done.

 

[otakuderek]

The in store order system just went back up here in Virginia Beach. Got done finally after 45 mins of waiting. Good luck everyone!

 

[spookyfish]

I get were you're coming from, but we know how the story will go. It's all on nintendo as far as I'm concerned.

Nintendo keeps doing the same thing and expecting different results. In my mind, they know there's a problem, and they aren't even attempting to solve it. Each wave keeps getting successively worse. That's not how this should go.

I'm about done with this, which doesn't matter, because they'll sell all they make, only to supply a sub-market that doesn't a) help them or b) the consumer.

 

[Stencil]

Why the fuck is NESS GS exclusive?! Of all the amiibos, they chose NESS to be exclusive. I don't know whose idea that was but fuck them. Good thing it's only lame adults like myself who will care, I doubt any kids will be too disappointed.

But fack, man.