Wtf why would Nintendo have pre-orders so early instead the morning when most people aren't even awake yet. Good ol: Nintendo
Seriously, mine did that too, add to cart, check out, sold outLive at Wal-Mart. Ggoogogogggf
EDIT: Damn, added it to my cart. Hit checkout, became unavailable. They add tax anyways... I'm hoping to get it from B&H Photo.
This is why I don't try for these things anymore. The systems these companies use are just awful. Why allow me to add this to my cart if you don't have inventory? Why tell me the reason my payment failed is due to an error instead of the fact that you're out of inventory?
My Target experience was basically futility. Add preorder to cart. Smoothly sail to payment. Payment fails. 5x. Try a different card. Payment fails 5x. Then item just disappears from cart.
New school gaming experience there.
I also enjoy that Gamestop sends me a text telling me they're in stock with a link that takes me to the page where I can ask to be notified when in stock. And I can't find the product on the site anywhere.
Seriously, mine did that too, add to cart, check out, sold out
And did the same thing on Target, added to cart, wouldn't let me check out and it's gone.
I don't understand how people can even get something that fast when I was literally refreshing Walmart and Target non stop and its sold out in literal seconds
I'm thinking the professional scalpers have a system in place to jerry rig it in their favor by automatically buying a product in multiples the very split second they go live. How else do you explain these Ebay pictures of the original NES Classic where they have some 50 units stacked together like a pyramid?Seriously, mine did that too, add to cart, check out, sold out
And did the same thing on Target, added to cart, wouldn't let me check out and it's gone.
I don't understand how people can even get something that fast when I was literally refreshing Walmart and Target non stop and its sold out in literal seconds
Live at Wal-Mart. Ggoogogogggf
EDIT: Damn, added it to my cart. Hit checkout, became unavailable. They add tax anyways... I'm hoping to get it from B&H Photo.
It's a shame Nintendo supply constrains these items to the point they are a prime target for scalpers using bots to buy them all out and flip them for 300% of MSRP. I put the blame on Nintendo more than the scalpers. They could make more. Hell, they could make more of the NES Classics from last year and probably sell a few million more. Maybe they don't like making money?
Retailers generally didn't allow one person to purchase multiple units for NES Classic. The only way scalpers get dozens of units is by having inside connections (most likely employees of retailers and distributors).I don't know... I feel like we're blaming Nintendo without having enough information. Although, if I was a scalper, I'd definitely try to get my hands on these and as many as I could. They already have a great idea of how well they'll sell out as we've already seen the Nintendo Classic last year. Scalpers will pretty much get anything that may be popular... especially if they can just return without a fee it if it doesn't end up selling. For them, it's a bit of effort (to buy and list on eBay or Craigslist) and a minor monetary investment with no tangible losses if it doesn't work (only the time to buy and sell).
bestbuy.com wasn't limiting quantities at online checkout.Retailers generally didn't allow one person to purchase multiple units for NES Classic. The only way scalpers get dozens of units is by having inside connections (most likely employees of retailers and distributors).
Probably an oversight. Probably that tried to order 3 or more would get an email from Best Buy saying they'll only be allowed to purchase 1 or 2 or have the order canceled.bestbuy.com wasn't limiting quantities at online checkout.