Best Buy was literally a tweet from Wario that's how we knew.
Then people just kinda assumed amazon would go up at some point.
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Best Buy was literally a tweet from Wario that's how we knew.
Then people just kinda assumed amazon would go up at some point.
bananafactory
Banned
None?
sixteen-bit
Member
no official advance notice as far as I'm aware
there was a security breach last year that compromised cards. use paypal.
thehellofitall
Member
I had no trouble preordering one with Game, back when it was first announced. The trouble others are having is making me worried though. Game aren't exactly reliable, and I wouldn't be at all surprised to find I won't actually be getting one for some stupid reason.
CharminUltra
Member
Even tho I managed to get a US pre-order, I think I'll keep my EU backup pre-order as well. I grew up with the US design, but I find dat EU design much sexier.
superdeluxe
Member
Obvious tip for newish folks: put Wario on twitter notification. He posts a ton of stuff, but you will be thankful for the snes
Hope you enjoy paying some homely scalper for his valuable time.
Haha, I totally am with you there. I was actually asleep and it woke me up. I almost always turn it off while I sleep.
molnizzle
Member
No wonder I missed threads. I generally don't browse GAF when I'm asleep.
Ugh, fuck Nintendo so much for this. Such a piece of shit company when it comes to hardware.
sixteen-bit
Member
plus, redundancy is safety; just in case either one gets walmarted
Schucky Ducky
Banned
Also, he's great for price glitches. He's the reason I was able to get all those crazy discounts on Prime Day.
ThanksVision
Member
had this in my amazon cart then dropped it when i thought of my nes classic that has gone untouched for months... this thing is dumb, nintendo is dumb, i'm gonna use that money to buy mario and rabbids i reckon. good luck to those that want to acquire one of these, i know it isn't easy
superdeluxe
Member
I killed the vibrating function and just did the banners, I'm up around 19 hours a day (thanks toddler that doesn't sleep!), and my phone is always by me.
I don't when I sleep either. But the discord sent like 10 notifications and woke me up. Gonna be a long day at work, but worth it.
SARCASM
Setzer
Member
This. And fuck Best Buy and Amazon too for giving no advance notice when their pre-orders were going live.
dragonyeuw
Member
It's definitely to drive headlines. This is Nintendo's tickle me elmo, beanie babies, or whatever other popular toy there was driving people into a foaming animalistic frenzy. They have people scoping the popular social media sites and forums for feedback, including this site I'm sure. They know exactly what they're doing.
lifeexpectancy
Member
so no east coasters can confirm if gamestop is doing in store preorders???
NyMartin90
Member
So let's say when this Gamestop announcement happens, do they do online preorders for this? I never bought something from Gamestop's website before.
ShadowKingpin
Member
One or two pages back. Still waiting.
Vyse The Legend
Member
Not yet. Gamestop told their employees there would be an announcement later today. No ETA yet.
Yes, online and in-store.
Euphoria14
Member
$250 bundle with console, special edition book, carrying case and various amiibos from SNES franchises.
NyMartin90
Member
special announcement happening later today.
I don't see why not. Preorders are preorders.
ShadowKingpin
Member
No way they would be that generous. It would be plushies that only cost them 25 cents alongside a keychain that has Mario holding a SNES Mini and saying, "Got my SNES Mini.
Got yours?"
friskykillface
Banned
They have lots of ness amiibos from the restock 👀
We are lucky there's no animal crossing snes or we'd get bundles with every animal crossing amiibo
I got the stock alert text before I saw Wario's tweet.
Euphoria14
Member
"Get your Super Ness Classic today, only at GameStop!"
G A M E S T O P B U N D L E B O I Z
lifeexpectancy
Member
jesus fucking christ its like they are taking cues from Nintendo. Why not just give us a damn TIME? Some of us have shit to do and cant sit around all day refreshing goddamn web pages and twitter.
Sometimes I am tempted to just pay scalper prices for the simpme convenienceof not dealing with this anti-co sumer horseshit.
CLICKCLICK
Member
Yes, he had the time also for the Xbox One X press conference. I feel confident in this as long as Wal-Mart's preorder doesn't go up before that by accident.
CollectedDust
Member
uh... they have... and you were.
I'm surprised you haven't coded up a Python bot yet
They already did. :/
Euphoria14
Member
Ghost Lynx
Member
You may want to sit down for what I have to tell you...
You were. It dropped at 5am EST this morning.
sixteen-bit
Member
Is this post from the past? Amazon dropped the preorder like 6 hours ago.
CLICKCLICK
Member
In regards to the above, my original post said that the Walmart preorders are going up at 10 am PST, my buddy works for Walmarts e-commerce division.
Just wanted to surface this again since a lot of people are asking.
Just wanted to surface this again since a lot of people are asking.
I was. It set the tone for my day so far.
TheSuperSakura
Member
I signed up for email alerts when the item was made available and I never received any from Amazon or best buy so I'm not relying on those anymore.
reelbigtink
Member
Don't use email trackers. Use nowinstock's texting service.