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[Ellite25]

And now target says out of stock. Fml

 

[oakenhild]

Had it in my cart at Walmart. Coworker tapped me on the shoulder and asked for help right when I was going to check out, so I missed the approximate 90 seconds of availability.

Had the product page loaded at Target. Added to cart and checked out immediately when I got Wario's tweet. Site errored out. Wasn't able to get one.

Wow, fuck this mess.

Walmart was more like 10-15 seconds of availability. Was a lottery just getting one immediately.

 

[VetrexKnight]

Missed the amazon pre orders guess that means yet again no mini... maybe Nintendo will be smart enough to give us a fucking VC on the Switch but I doubt we will be able to play Starfox 2.

 

[motherxwolf]

is toys r us even gonna bother? i can't find the snes page yet lol

 

[Shizza]

Got through to the final step at Target and it errored out. Fuck all of this.

Same. What a fiasco this whole thing is. The frustrating part is that this isn't even for me, but a Christmas gift for my cousin

 

[Wanderer5]

So is that it? BB, Amazon, WM, Target all gone. What's left?

Amazon orders went up?

 

[smokeymicpot]

Odd question can you pay over the phone for gamestop preordering?

 

[Sillution]

Well I cannot get to a gamestop right now so thats out of the question...

 

[blackMamba1187]

Got all the way to finalizing order at target and then..."problem with your cart" ffs

 

[SolidSnakeUS]

gamestop pre-ordering is in-store apparently

no online for them

Oh fuck that. Fuck off with that shit Gamestop. Jesus.

Seriously, I think the total supply of SNES Classics is under 100K. I'm betting you fucking money that it's AT MOST 100K...

 

[shira]

Had my order submitted on Target. Spun for like 5 minutes. Took my back to the review order page.

FUCK.

THIS.

SHIT.

 

[The Ummah]

SO CLOSE WITH TARGET!

FUCK this!

 

[Living the Dream]

Odd question can you pay over the phone for gamestop preordering?

No

 

[BTA]

Fuck it.

I'll get an Uber and go to a physical Gamestop right now. Worst case I wasted 20 minutes of my lunch break.

 

[apieceofstrange]

got cart jacked on target cause the damn site took too long to process, gg

 

[BobTheFork]

Fuck you Target, took my cart item away and now it's out of stock.

FFS

 

[Wingfan19]

WTF? I got all the way through the Target one, and now I don't have anything in my "past orders" list...

 

[Instro]

Of course Target had to do that stupid shit, "Please enter your CC info so we know it's you" even though I had just pre-entered everything before this.

Yup

 

[Cess007]

Amazon orders went up?

At like 1.30am today. Great, isn't it?

 

[Kusagari]

GameStop store says their system is down so they can't do anything right now lol

LOL

This happened back during the peak Amiibo phrase. Took them hours to fix it.

Gamestop's architecture is SHIT

 

[Kadin]

Odd question can you pay over the phone for gamestop preordering?

I've never known them to do that.

 

[Zen Aku]

I remember hearing/reading somewhere that they are just super risk averse when it comes to production, to a fault, which is understandable with anything other than a fucking SNES Classic.

or the damn Switch. Hell the only thing in recent memory that they produced way too much of was the Wii U.

 

[SpecX]

Fuck, I'm stuck in a meeting for the next 30 mins, Gamestop will be soldout for me

 

[theechrisfox]

dammit, im at work and can't go.

Target and Walmart both screwed me

Nintendo is spreading that good will and cheer to all their retail partners!

 

[rudger]

Oh damn. GS preorders are in store.

https://twitter.com/GameStop/status/900043899208687617

That ad is surprisingly on point for how they probably feel right now

 

[superdeluxe]

Target took all my info and then said nope

 

[Sulik2]

Cart bugged out now out of stock at target.

 

[Dr_LucienSanchez]

I tried with Target almost exactly when they went up (before the wario tweet). Still got an error when I hit submit at checkout.

This is entirely nonsense though and so much blame needs to placed on Nintendo. Absolute shambles.

 

[maxcriden]

Target didn't work on my browser. Then it let me add one on mobile. Then it made me verify everything a bunch of times and then it cart jacked me. -___-

 

[YankeeDonB]

Just preordered one at my local gamestop! Wooooooo! Get your ass to an actual store asap!

All stores are about 20 minutes from me. Guessing this would be a fool's errand...

 

[charpunk]

Awesome that I was logged into target and they made me enter my security code again so I missed this shit. Fuck everything right now.

 

[Rookhelm]

had it in my cart at Target, realized it was an old card, tried to switch to Paypal, which took longer...got an error on checkout, then out of stock, then cart cleared

 

[Kildrek]

I went to B&M Gamestop and secured one!!

 

[DocEmmettBrown]

Same experience with Walmart and Target. Get the item in my cart, can't make it through check out.

 

[ornery]

Target fucked me.

This is stupid.

 

[smokeymicpot]

No

Fuck.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

Just got one at Circuit City

 

[HomerSimpson-Man]

WTF, Target you have to re-enter your credit card into, having it on file is pointless.

 

[Fox Mulder]

So fucking sick of Nintendo's shit. This is so stressful just to order one god damn item.

just let it go. They don't respect you as a customer so fuck them. I'm done jumping through hoops for their plastic shit and the nes classic broke me free. I'll spend the money on other things.

 

[OmegaFax]

It's inexcusable that Nintendo is even giving the system the time of day with advertisement spotlight when they know they have a small quality and aren't communicating at all to retailers or customers. It's a NES/Switch/3DS LE system/Amiibo/Literally Anything Nintendo produces situation all over again.

I'd even go as far as saying YouTube channels and social media aren't helping the problem. I mean, at least Wario64 and some other pages are at least trying their best to give people a heads-up that are genuinely interested in getting one. My point is ... I think random, nearly unaffiliated people to Nintendo are doing more, if not all the advertising, marketing, and sales legwork and getting anything out of it.

Nintendo only seems to keep a hands-off, "fuck y'all, we produce them and don't give a shit what happens to them after they leave the factory" approach. They leave retailers and customers out to dry. Seriously, what's up with their machiavellian, viral through viterol fueled approach to marketing. What's so damn hard about saying "We're working with retailers to coordinate pre-order availability in a timely manner. Don't worry. Thanks for your interest in our product. We appreciate it" ...

Instead, it's "Well you should have been up F5ing at 1AM-4AM"

Sorry about the rant. Vulcan out.

 

[motherxwolf]

aite y'all i have a european on preorder from amazon UK i guess i'll trade for a US one because that's the console i grew up with, if anyone wants to trade hit me up lol this is a circus

 

[Tawney Bomb]

I'm just going to keep my $80 at this point. This is too much hassle.

 

[Saint Gregory]

Same thing just happened to me at Target as at Walmart. My fault for not updating my info on these sites after I moved

 

[Jmille99]

Well....that went as expected.

Fuck off Nintendo. You knew and didnt give two shits about your stock.

 

[jviggy43]

I think I'm not gonna do the N64 one. This is too much crap.

You seriously think thats going to be any better? That might even be worse

 

[Clockwork]

Why don't the retailer systems deduct stock based on when it is added to the cart vs when the sale goes through? If someone doesn't complete the checkout process then remove it at that time and add back to inventory (or after a set period of time).

This cart jacking business is completely unnecessary.

More load on the server. Ping when added to card -> database query -> Ping when bought -> confirm database

vs: Ping when bought -> remove database.

Still seems like the appropriate we to do things. That is how I would do it if I was an online retailer.

 

[burgerdog]

Amazon orders went up?

They went up when most people were sleeping.

 

[Warnen]

Tried to get one at target but website kept crashing at checkout now sold out. Oh well.

 

[IronRinn]

Welp, guess I'm gonna have to hope I can get one after the New Year like with the NES Classic. This whole process is so fucking stupid.

 

[Armoured Priest]

I spammed refresh on Target. Saw it was up. Added to cart. Did checkout as fast as I could. Wasn't fast enough.

I text my wife that I didn't check out fast enough and I couldn't get one and she replies...

"Ya well I did!!!"

You have an awesome wife.

e/