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Which Amiibo did you get?

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GameStop tends to be good to me. Mostly because I show up way too often when I get bored on the weekend. The guy texted me to warn me about pre-orders and got really mad when my bundle was removed from my cart. The poor guy had worked his ass off to try to make sure I got what I wanted but the whole system they use for pre-orders was crapping out on them so by the 5th order the bundle was already sold out. I was 4th but system loading slowly woot woot.

I know someone who works there mentioned in this thread that some GameStops didn't even get a chance to push one bundle order through. Aiieeee.
 
dapperlace said:
GameStop tends to be good to me. Mostly because I show up way too often when I get bored on the weekend. The guy texted me to warn me about pre-orders and got really mad when my bundle was removed from my cart. The poor guy had worked his ass off to try to make sure I got what I wanted but the whole system they use for pre-orders was crapping out on them so by the 5th order the bundle was already sold out. I was 4th but system loading slowly woot woot.

I know someone who works there mentioned in this thread that some GameStops didn't even get a chance to push one bundle order through. Aiieeee.
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Wait you tried to pre order it online yourself? Or the person at GameStop did it?
 
Dasbreenee said:
Wait you tried to pre order it online yourself? Or the person at GameStop did it?
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I was at GameStop before the orders online were supposed to go up. According to what they told me, there was supposed to be a 2-hour gap? But they ran out even before that time was up. I was just unfortunate enough to be fourth. The person ahead of me, and behind me both got their orders. The computer I was being serviced on just happened to take a bit longer, so the guy behind me got serviced by his respective employee faster.

He was pretty upset with the way the system worked, since it seemed to be a country-wide pool, instead of per-store pre-orders, which probably wouldn't have destroyed the system like that for 40 minutes (at least, that's how long it was at our stores in SoCal).
 
We've got some more CPSIA certificates coming in and those two mysterious unnamed amiibo are revealed to be Jigglypuff and Greninja.

Both of them were produced within two months and are manufactured in April 3rd 2015. Sounds like these guys are going to be moderately rare.
 
Dasbreenee said:
Wait you tried to pre order it online yourself? Or the person at GameStop did it?
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Gamestop hasn't put the online preorders up yet.

And the upper management insisted on using their web-in-store system to do the preorders while also not telling people at home that online orders wouldn't go up until after the in-store orders were done. Which combine every Gamestop trying to place an order all at once in addition to people at home refreshing the store so they can place their online order, and the system was effectively DDoS'd.


Oh, and did I mention how they seemingly ran though their entire preorder stock, even though they're meant to hold a certain amount for online orders? The entire situation was just hilariously mismanaged from top to bottom, and by far the worst so far for these preorders.

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TheBigJC7777777 said:
We've got some more CPSIA certificates coming in and those two mysterious unnamed amiibo are revealed to be Jigglypuff and Greninja.

Both of them were produced within two months and are manufactured in April 3rd 2015. Sounds like these guys are going to be moderately rare.
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ur2slo

Jigglypuff is Target exclusive and sold out on preorder in 7 ****ing minutes

Greninja is Toys"R"Us exclusive and is also sold out on preorder at like 4-6 ****ing hours earlier than they said he'd be put up when most people would've been asleep
 
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LambdaDelta said:
Gamestop hasn't put the online preorders up yet.

And the upper management insisted on using their web-in-store system to do the preorders while also not telling people at home that online orders wouldn't go up until after the in-store orders were done. Which combine every Gamestop trying to place an order all at once in addition to people at home refreshing the store so they can place their online order, and the system was effectively DDoS'd.


Oh, and did I mention how they seemingly ran though their entire preorder stock, even though they're meant to hold a certain amount for online orders? The entire situation was just hilariously mismanaged from top to bottom, and by far the worst so far for these preorders.

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ur2slo

Jigglypuff is Target exclusive and sold out on preorder in 7 ****ing minutes

Greninja is Toys"R"Us exclusive and is also sold out on preorder at like 4-6 ****ing hours earlier than they said he'd be put up when most people would've been asleep
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Oh, lovely. So I had the wonderful luck of getting the worst pre-orders, for the two Amiibo I've been waiting for since I knew Amiibo/the characters were going to be a thing. My consolation is that the guy was just as upset as I was, possibly more, because he went out of his way to make sure that I would stand a fighting chance with this stuff, and the system just crapped out on us both.
 
LambdaDelta said:
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ur2slo

Jigglypuff is Target exclusive and sold out on preorder in 7 ****ing minutes

Greninja is Toys"R"Us exclusive and is also sold out on preorder at like 4-6 ****ing hours earlier than they said he'd be put up when most people would've been asleep
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I don't entirely consider the preorders as a measurement to their rarity, since these stores might be intentionally holding a lot of them so they can make these amiibo available only by visiting these stores. I've seen some that were previously difficult to place a preorder before and they ended up being relatively easy to find in stores.
 
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TheBigJC7777777 said:
I don't entirely consider the preorders as a measurement to their rarity, since these stores might be intentionally holding a lot of them so they can make these amiibo available only by visiting these stores. I've seen some that were previously difficult to place a preorder before and they ended up being relatively easy to find in stores.
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too bad there's no store within reasonable distance for me

my point is its awfully managed
 
TheBigJC7777777 said:
I don't entirely consider the preorders as a measurement to their rarity, since these stores might be intentionally holding a lot of them so they can make these amiibo available only by visiting these stores. I've seen some that were previously difficult to place a preorder before and they ended up being relatively easy to find in stores.
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Unless they were store exclusives. Nobody has ever seen them.
 
Do you think amiibo from this recent wave will actually be available to purchase in store? Like, I could walk into a Target and pick up any of them?

I'm just starting to wonder if all later waves will only be available through 5 minute preorder windows.
 
abby534534 said:
Do you think amiibo from this recent wave will actually be available to purchase in store? Like, I could walk into a Target and pick up any of them?

I'm just starting to wonder if all later waves will only be available through 5 minute preorder windows.
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I highly doubt it. Now the demand for these figures are huge, I don't think you will ever be able to walk into the store and buy an Amiibo other then the common ones like Mario, Link And Pikachu.
 
There's tons of yoshi, kirby, peach too. :p

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I want Yarn Yoshi soooo bad!!!
 
dapperlace said:
I was at GameStop before the orders online were supposed to go up. According to what they told me, there was supposed to be a 2-hour gap? But they ran out even before that time was up. I was just unfortunate enough to be fourth. The person ahead of me, and behind me both got their orders. The computer I was being serviced on just happened to take a bit longer, so the guy behind me got serviced by his respective employee faster.

He was pretty upset with the way the system worked, since it seemed to be a country-wide pool, instead of per-store pre-orders, which probably wouldn't have destroyed the system like that for 40 minutes (at least, that's how long it was at our stores in SoCal).
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That's really odd that that would happen. Because when pre ordering anything at GameStop (when you do it in store) there is no "cart". The cashier literally types it in and clicks reserve and done. So that's really weird that it wouldn't work. Especially with the new computer system and layouts it makes it even faster to pre order as well.

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LambdaDelta said:
Gamestop hasn't put the online preorders up yet.

And the upper management insisted on using their web-in-store system to do the preorders while also not telling people at home that online orders wouldn't go up until after the in-store orders were done. Which combine every Gamestop trying to place an order all at once in addition to people at home refreshing the store so they can place their online order, and the system was effectively DDoS'd.


Oh, and did I mention how they seemingly ran though their entire preorder stock, even though they're meant to hold a certain amount for online orders? The entire situation was just hilariously mismanaged from top to bottom, and by far the worst so far for these preorders.

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ur2slo

Jigglypuff is Target exclusive and sold out on preorder in 7 ****ing minutes

Greninja is Toys"R"Us exclusive and is also sold out on preorder at like 4-6 ****ing hours earlier than they said he'd be put up when most people would've been asleep
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Web-in-store isn't used as a pre order system. That's why I was asking. Web-in-store is only used if an item is out of stock at that store and you want to order it.
I was asking them because If they tried to pre order in store there is literally no reason the pre order shouldn't have gone through.
 
Dasbreenee said:
That's really odd that that would happen. Because when pre ordering anything at GameStop (when you do it in store) there is no "cart". The cashier literally types it in and clicks reserve and done. So that's really weird that it wouldn't work. Especially with the new computer system and layouts it makes it even faster to pre order as well.
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I don't know that he ever called it a cart, but when he hit submit, the computer processed my order, and told him the bundle had been removed because the bundle was no longer in stock. It was seconds after the guy next to me had gotten his order.

I just can't get over the fact that if I had been either 3rd or 5th in line, I would have gotten it, but I had the luck of getting stuck to the register that I did, and it did not take my order fast enough. 1,2,3, and 5 all got their orders just fine and I'll be pouting about that until I find a way to get my hands on Robin and Lucina, lol.
 
I got Yoshi, Toon Link (I voted Link since there isn't a "Toon" Link), and Pikachu. They all fight with me on 8 player smash and we are team cute. I, the leader, aren't cute, but pretty. THe leader must be pretty. Rules for team cute.
 
Dasbreenee said:
Web-in-store isn't used as a pre order system. That's why I was asking. Web-in-store is only used if an item is out of stock at that store and you want to order it.
I was asking them because If they tried to pre order in store there is literally no reason the pre order shouldn't have gone through.
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well thats what the upper management decided to use

doesn't matter what its normally for
 
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