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Which Amiibo did you get?

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Well, what I mean is even if you have no intention of reselling the amiibo, if there is a marth amiibo laying around you'd buy it. No matter which amiibo it is. Wouldn't you buy a amiibo which is going for hundreds of dollars on ebay even if you don't like it?

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And the children who don't care at all about prices, would buy the massively popular amiibo which are always in stock such as yoshi, mario, pikachu etc. The ones that are limited in stock are more necessarily for hard core nintendo fans such as characters from fire emblem, f zero, punch out, etc.
 
Yea. If i saw a Wii-fit trainer in stores randomly, I would buy it and then sell it because I have no intention on using the character and because others are looking for it. I wouldn't charge ridiculous prices though, maybe $25?
 
Danielkang2 said:
Well, what I mean is even if you have no intention of reselling the amiibo, if there is a marth amiibo laying around you'd buy it. No matter which amiibo it is. Wouldn't you buy a amiibo which is going for hundreds of dollars on ebay even if you don't like it?
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I don't even have any clue what you're trying to say here.

Danielkang2 said:
And the children who don't care at all about prices, would buy the massively popular amiibo which are always in stock such as yoshi, mario, pikachu etc. The ones that are limited in stock are more necessarily for hard core nintendo fans such as characters from fire emblem, f zero, punch out, etc.
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it sure isnt fun for parents though

also this is entirely based on assumption that none of them would care about the rarer characters. again, they surely won't be selling as much, but there's no reason for inventory to be as low as it is
 
LambdaDelta said:
I don't even have any clue what you're trying to say here.



it sure isnt fun for parents though

also this is entirely based on assumption that none of them would care about the rarer characters. again, they surely won't be selling as much, but there's no reason for inventory to be as low as it is
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Poor parents. I must suck for them on kids birthdays, cause the kids ask for an Amiibo that can't be found anywhere.


Nintendo would be making alot more money if they would have larger quantitys of these.
 
RosieThePeppyCat said:
Poor parents. I must suck for them on kids birthdays, cause the kids ask for an Amiibo that can't be found anywhere.


Nintendo would be making alot more money if they would have larger quantitys of these.
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Supply and Demand, Supply and Demand. Less the supply more the demand, more the supply less the demand.

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Nintendo did a good job by raising demand with the hard to get amiibo and having a lot of supply of the common amiibo.
 
Oh my god, and I went to sleep right around 2:45AM. Holy crap.

I just want a Robin and Lucina. Then I'll be happy. Come on, Nintendo. You and the retailers need to work this out and stop making everyone feel like crap if they can't quickly order something in one minute at ANY random time of day.
 
It's still frustrating though. Just waiting to preorder the Yarn Yoshi and Zero Suit Samus now. Then, the only Smash amiibos I'll want are Little Mac and Shulk - which are near enough IMPOSSIBLE to find now. :\ Sigh. So if it means I have to spend ?30+ just for one of them, then I will. But it is a shame though that scalpers are ruining the experience for everyone else, to be honest... Who knew that preordering figures would end up being such a stressful experience? Dx Ugh. I didn't even want to go to bed last night in case they went up for preorders and I missed out on them. Luckily enough, me and my friend are working together on it. I told him I really REALLY wanted the pink yarn Yoshi, so if I'm out and it's available, he'll preorder it for me. :') Since I managed to get him a Marth. So yeah. It's good to work together on it. But last time Game put up preorders for like the Lucina and Robin amiibos, they were available practically all day! So I'm so glad I managed to get them. :3 They'll be here at the end of this month actually! But yeah. I just am hoping I can get these Amiibos now.
 
Danielkang2 said:
Supply and Demand, Supply and Demand. Less the supply more the demand, more the supply less the demand.

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Nintendo did a good job by raising demand with the hard to get amiibo and having a lot of supply of the common amiibo.
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except there is clearly demand for amiibos with short supply too that has nothing to do with said supply being as small as it is. so if they printed more, they could effectively make money not only off of scalpers, but also people that just want them

also selling out of preorders as fast as these have been (Jiggly wasn't even up for 10 minutes, and there were multiple reports that people first in line at their local Gamestops couldn't get Robin or Lucina due to already being sold out, and etc) isn't supply and demand. its just utter bull****


supply and demand works both ways and would mean that if stuff is clearly selling, they would print MORE until sales slowed down to a point where its not worth it. it works in a balance, large supply with little demand and clear demand with little to no supply are both poor for business, and right now a good portion of amiibos have fallen into the latter camp
 
Approximately when will preorders for yarn yoshi and zss come up and which website(s)

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LambdaDelta said:
except there is clearly demand for amiibos with short supply too that has nothing to do with said supply being as small as it is. so if they printed more, they could effectively make money not only off of scalpers, but also people that just want them

also selling out of preorders as fast as these have been (Jiggly wasn't even up for 10 minutes, and there were multiple reports that people first in line at their local Gamestops couldn't get Robin or Lucina due to already being sold out, and etc) isn't supply and demand. its just utter bull****


supply and demand works both ways and would mean that if stuff is clearly selling, they would print MORE until sales slowed down to a point where its not worth it. it works in a balance, large supply with little demand and clear demand with little to no supply are both poor for business, and right now a good portion of amiibos have fallen into the latter camp
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Yes, I know there needs to be a balance but they do. The best selling amiibos like link, mario and pikachu are very common and less popular characters have little supply.
 
Danielkang2 said:
Approximately when will preorders for yarn yoshi and zss come up and which website(s)
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I don't think anything's been said yet, but I'm guessing it'll be a few months.

Danielkang2 said:
Yes, I know there needs to be a balance but they do. The best selling amiibos like link, mario and pikachu are very common and less popular characters have little supply.
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That's not creating a balance, it's just skewering. Mario and etc need to be cut down, rarer ones need to be bumped up.

Also your entire argument is based on the assumption that they wouldn't sell enough if kept in circulation for a time. Which if you pay attention to the online communities, its painfully clear that this is false.





mildly related too, just noticed that the Shulk amiibo has support for Xenoblade Chronicles 3D

SURE IS A GREAT THING THAT HE'S EASILY AVAILABLE
 
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they just got announced very recently, and iirc the majority of the current set of preorders was for stuff we've known about for months so

yeah
 
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The demand is extremely high and there's really no reason they can't offer a bit more supply to meet it. Since the first wave, sales were beyond what they expected, which is why some amiibo they expected not to sell much of at all ended up becoming really rare and valuable. They sold out quickly.
 
LambdaDelta said:
mildly related too, just noticed that the Shulk amiibo has support for Xenoblade Chronicles 3D

SURE IS A GREAT THING THAT HE'S EASILY AVAILABLE
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Maybe because of this they'll print more Shulk amiibos? I really hope so. I've been a fan of the Xeno series for a while, and I knew as soon as Amiibos were first announced I wanted Shulk, but I guess I just wasn't quick enough. :(
 
Aren't you s'posed to get some really good weapon for scanning Shulk into Xenoblade 3D?

Thanks based Nintendo, that's like adding Amiibo support to Kirby and the Rainbow Paintbrush (UK name ok) and they're all hard to get a hold of (Well Kirby isn't too hard but still)
 
RosieThePeppyCat said:
Nintendo seriously has to make larger stocks of Amiibo. It's ridiculous that someone that just wants a figure to use in their game has to be overrun with scalpers and they need to stalk the website/be in line first.
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Pls stop complaining.
Yea ok we get it, scalpers blah blsh blah but at least you actually have a chance of finding 80% of current amiibo in store.. Come to australia and all they have is pikachu. If you don't go on day 1 of each wave release you're ****ed. Be glad you can still find wave 1/2/3 amiibo in your stores.
I have literally not seen one peach (just to name one of the 59 I've never seen) in store, she is so ****ing common everywhere else
Like I get the point that more stock would mean this wouldn't be an issue in Australia but like, at least you can get amiibo either I store or on amazon...
ok bye
 
Just because people in different regions have different issues doesn't mean we can't all vent our frustrations with it and chide/berate Nintendo for their supply/demand failure, among other things.
 
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