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[shockdude]

Reposting since I think this is still relevant.

I've ordered from Walmart.com a couple months ago, and I might be able to explain the credit card cancellation issue.
Walmart's systems are overly strict; if you have a new account and the website doesn't like your credit card and/or your purchase, the website will cancel your order. You have to call Walmart customer support to get the website to accept your credit card, and then you can place the order.
The CS rep I had was great so it didn't take long, but it's obviously long enough for you to miss the pre-order.

I got lucky with my pre-order, visited GAF 20 minutes after the thread went up.

My order is still active, using the same card that I had previously used on Walmart.

 

[GifGafIsTheBestGaf]

man, so many cancels made me wanna check my amazonUK pre-order lol

 

[Rndom Grenadez]

Ordered mine last night within 5 minutes of it being put up..used my Discover card, ordered just 1 SNES, checked my Discover card online shows the amount as processing hope Im in the clear as well

None of us are in the clear until we open that sweet ass box.

 

[Chuckl3s]

For people who are getting cancellations, you should put what you did when you ordered, and about when you ordered. So like

Payment: Paypal
Ordered 1 (or 2) units
Store pickup or shipping
etc

I ordered mine to be shipped to my house, using a normal CC and ordered within 3 minutes of the post being made.

With CC, shipped to my place, within ten minutes of the thread. Walmart still hasn't canceled.

 

[Godcannon]

man, so many cancels made me wanna check my amazonUK pre-order lol

For real, I keep checking mine every few hours. LIVE. YOU WANT TO LIVE DAMN YOU.

 

[SwordStruck]

man, so many cancels made me wanna check my amazonUK pre-order lol

Are Amazon orders being cancelled or is it just Walmart?

 

[GifGafIsTheBestGaf]

For real, I keep checking mine every few hours. LIVE. YOU WANT TO LIVE DAMN YOU.

yeah lol

Are Amazon orders being cancelled or is it just Walmart?

it seems only walmart but reading updates on this thread is making me a bit paranoid

 

[AlexFlame116]

Man it really sucks for all of you guys who are getting your orders cancelled. Hopefully another store lets you preorder them with no issues.

Now I'm kinda glad that I didn't manage to score a preorder.

 

[gate stormer]

My order still shows processing.

Not sure yet if I'll be keeping mine when I get it. I might end up using it as trade bait.

 

[Burning Justice]

As far as I can tell, my Wal-Mart pre-order hasn't been cancelled. Hoping that's a good sign...

 

[Aztechnology]

Yea, my order is still processing but that doesn't mean anything. I had a Switch cancelled on me at Walmart the day before I was set to pick it up.

My only hope is that because I ordered within a minute of it going up that I'm ok.

 

[Frayed]

ordered 15 for the fam, they only cancelled 2

 

[Ash Sparrow]

Inexpensive, appealing look of the device, cost of all those games would cost way more, HDMI output, and no other place to legally have a full version of Star Fox 2.

Party on

 

[Lee Chaolan]

Really glad I used Paypal.

 

[leroidys]

Wait, did you confirm it was canceled then? When you preorder at Wal-Mart, it's a temporary hold on funds and then it goes back to you since you're not actually charged until it ships.

Yep, confirmed.

 

[Charadis]

Just checked, and my preorder is still up. Order confirmed at 11:04pm CDT (when email confirmation received), minutes before it sold out. Used debit card and different shipping address. Ordered just one.

 

[Rndom Grenadez]

ordered 15 for the fam, they only cancelled 2

You're trying too hard bro.

 

[Frayed]

You're trying too hard bro.

I actually was cautious and went slow just in case these don't end up being limited.

 

[Lakerchick4life]

None of us are in the clear until we open that sweet ass box.

I ordered the NES classic from walmart using the same card so will see what happens

 

[ZugZug123]

Kinda sad I missed the Walmart pre-order, was busy playing Splatoon 2 and did not pay attention to anything else during that time

 

[Hanmik]

First time ever I have preordered a Nintendo console.. Me and the wife played Super Mario World on the original snes, we unlocked a lot. And then our oldest daughter accidently kicked the console.. And the game saves got erased.. And super mario world is the ONLY video game my wife plays with me..

But it is quite expensive here.. Around $235 us dollars. And it won't arrive Before the 18th. Of October.

 

[bronk]

Pre ordered 2 and used paypal. Seems all good for me as of now. Holding out hope. One for myself and my nephew.

 

[Soi-Fong]

So far no cancels for my order from Walmart! *knock on wood

 

[AdventureMike]

Yep, my order is still a-okay. I see the money has come out of my checking account as well.

 

[eXMomoj]

No cancellations here and I placed two orders of one each.

 

[cucuchu]

First time I have preordered anything on Walmart but I'm looking forward to playing some of these games with my daughter and son just like my dad did with me all those years ago. I have great memories of playing Mario Kart and Secret of Mana with him.

Hope there is enough made for everyone that legit wants to just experience the classics to get one.

 

[Aztechnology]

Really glad I used Paypal.

Why is that?

 

[Agent_J]

No cancellation yet, and PayPal had already been charged. Hopefully all goes well because I'm bummed about missing the NES classic.

 

[Earthbound64]

None of us are in the clear until we open that sweet ass box.

Opening a sweet ass box?

I mean, I knew that people were into butts, but that seems a bit extreme.
But, hey, your kink's your kink, I guess.

 

[diablos991]

Why is that?

Haven't heard of any paypal orders being cancelled.

 

[terencecah]

Opening a sweet ass box?

I mean, I knew that people were into butts, but that seems a bit extreme.
But, hey, your kink's your kink, I guess.

Where can we pre-order ass boxes?

 

[NeOak]

Haven't heard of any paypal orders being cancelled.

Uh...

They said the payment couldn't be verified. Paid with PayPal. Recently moved and never changed my billing address, but that hasn't been a problem before.

My switch order was cancelled with PayPal payment too. To be safe Dont use PayPal.

ayyyy

 

[DaBargainHunta]

No cancellation yet, and PayPal had already been charged. Hopefully all goes well because I'm bummed about missing the NES classic.

Not to rain on anyone's parade, but that made no difference when Walmart had the Tekken 7 CE price mistake - those orders were still cancelled and refunded. :\

 

[Darkrider]

My Walmart order is still "in progress", fingers crossed.

 

[PerfectFlaw]

My Amazon and Walmart orders are still up. Leggo.

 

[DaBargainHunta]

My Amazon and Walmart orders are still up. Leggo.

Wait... When did Amazon do preorders?!

 

[SwordStruck]

Wait... When did Amazon do preorders?!

Amazon US hasn't.

 

[andymcc]

Wait... When did Amazon do preorders?!

Right?

My Walmart order is alive and well.

Preordered a few minutes after going up w/ PayPal..

 

[Juraash]

Wait... When did Amazon do preorders?!

I'm assuming he means UK or Europe since Amazon over there did them. Amazon US has not.

 

[crap monkey]

So I pretty much missed out on the preorders huh? Or did I interpret the OP and the following posts incorrectly?

 

[NeOak]

So I pretty much missed out on the preorders huh? Or did I interpret the OP and the following posts incorrectly?

read it again

 

[Madame M]

Still no cancellation email, I'm surprised

I hadn't ordered anything from walmart.com before so I had to spend time filling out a ton of shit before placing my order.

 

[crap monkey]

read it again

Ok yeah I was confused by all the people talking about Amazon stuff and assumed it was US site, still got a chance then. Did Nintendo say something about pre-orders starting soon for the SNES mini and that's why this post was created?

 

[NeOak]

Ok yeah I was confused by all the people talking about Amazon stuff and assumed it was us site, still got a chance then. Did Nintendo say something about pre-orders starting soon for the SNES mini and that's why this post was created?

No, Walmart started out of the blue for the US.

 

[Aztechnology]

Or the BotW Master Editions.

The normal collectors edition ones were another Item I got cancelled on me like the day before I was set to pick up. I should probably not set my preference to pick up in store... Have had terrible luck.

 

[Hero_of_the_Day]

So, are there people here saying they were told all walmart orders would be cancelled, or just repeating what they've read on the internet? I wanna see some chat logs.

 

[YuShtink]

Welp, mine got canceled. But I never received any confirmation e-mails. Wasted a bunch of time trying to find my order with customer support but they just told me it was canceled. So bummed.

 

[NeOak]

Still no cancellations here

 

[Rndom Grenadez]

Opening a sweet ass box?

I mean, I knew that people were into butts, but that seems a bit extreme.
But, hey, your kink's your kink, I guess.

Never heard of a box being a butt.

 

[Spacebar]

So, are there people here saying they were told all walmart orders would be cancelled, or just repeating what they've read on the internet? I wanna see some chat logs.

Someone posted a screen shot few pages back, but nothing is really definitive yet. It could be a photoshop of some salty person or a rep who wanted to get them off their back.

Watching gaf and the discord today I don't think that many people have had their orders cancelled. I imagine a lot of people were rushing to buy it last night (myself included) and probably entered in information wrong for their billing. WM also could have ran out and had to cancel orders so they didn't oversell what they think they're going to get.