PSA: The new series 5 amiibo cards pre-order have started!!!

[Pixori]

Not to bring up a topic that’s way back but I see people mentioning that they wouldn’t have gone to target to pick up the Sanrio cards bc they were online? That wasn’t the case for my area at all, nor a LOT of people in different locations. It was SUPPOSEDLY in-store pickup only. I called them the day before to see what the status of that would be because I’m physically disabled and online would have been an easier option. Not to mention my wife was constantly checking online even during the time and they never became available online. At all for my location.

So no it wasn’t as simple as fooling myself lol. I, and many others were told a specific thing and scalpers came and ruined it. Simple as that?? I feel a lil insulted by the implication but I’ll let it go now. Just had to clarify. ✌

 

[Aniko]

Can someone tell me how stores can enforce the 1 pack per household? Like is it you can only buy 1 pack at a time? What if you leave the store and come back? Will they somehow know you already purchased one earlier? What if my bf and I buy 1 each but we live together? I want to buy at least 8 so I can start trading. I'm so worried if I can only buy 1 on that day and then it sells out and becomes a rare unicorn, I don't want to end up buying from scalpers

I think it's just for the pre-order.

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I am going to wait a while until this dies down and then I will be able to get the amiibo cards for a decent price on Amazon. I was able to get the Sanrio Amiibo pack for only $12.99 several months ago (yes I got the full pack of Sanrio villagers). I don't trust these scalpers trying to drive up the price like crazy. I am going to play it smart and choose out the new amiibo villagers that I want personality.

I got the Sanrio pack for the original price in August when they restocked (without warning me) on Amazon (Canada).
And today it's available again at Bestbuy ($6.99). I think they will have restocks now and then.

 

[Khaelis]

Can someone tell me how stores can enforce the 1 pack per household? Like is it you can only buy 1 pack at a time? What if you leave the store and come back? Will they somehow know you already purchased one earlier? What if my bf and I buy 1 each but we live together? I want to buy at least 8 so I can start trading. I'm so worried if I can only buy 1 on that day and then it sells out and becomes a rare unicorn, I don't want to end up buying from scalpers

The limit likely only applies to online orders only, since you have to put in your address. There's a possibility that you can bypass it by sending orders to different addresses, but I'm unsure on that. Otherwise, I'm not sure if they'd enforce it in store. Really just depends on employees that day, but as long as you and people of the same household don't make it obvious you're together you can easily bypass any limit as well.

 

[maria110]

Ugh. Walmart says they are sold out and Best Buy says not available yet. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.

 

[Pixori]

Ugh. Walmart says they are sold out and Best Buy says not available yet. Ugh. Ugh. Ugh.

It really is a bummer. I keep checking in hopes that maybe?? But no.

 

[Fey]

Not to bring up a topic that’s way back but I see people mentioning that they wouldn’t have gone to target to pick up the Sanrio cards bc they were online? That wasn’t the case for my area at all, nor a LOT of people in different locations. It was SUPPOSEDLY in-store pickup only. I called them the day before to see what the status of that would be because I’m physically disabled and online would have been an easier option. Not to mention my wife was constantly checking online even during the time and they never became available online. At all for my location.

So no it wasn’t as simple as fooling myself lol. I, and many others were told a specific thing and scalpers came and ruined it. Simple as that?? I feel a lil insulted by the implication but I’ll let it go now. Just had to clarify. ✌

Seems like it was an all-round messed up situation, no matter which approach. Let’s hope it’ll work out better this time around.

 

[Pixori]

Seems like it was all-round messed up situation, no matter which approach. Let’s hope it’ll work out better this time around.

I sincerely hope so. I just want my little bit of serotonin when I open some card packs.

 

[Fey]

Can someone tell me how stores can enforce the 1 pack per household? Like is it you can only buy 1 pack at a time? What if you leave the store and come back? Will they somehow know you already purchased one earlier? What if my bf and I buy 1 each but we live together? I want to buy at least 8 so I can start trading. I'm so worried if I can only buy 1 on that day and then it sells out and becomes a rare unicorn, I don't want to end up buying from scalpers

I guess I’d prefer there to be a limit (maybe higher than 2 per person, but under 8) so that more people have a chance to pick up cards initially.

 

[TaylaJade]

I’m in Australia and was able to grab five packs for $4.95 AUD each from EB Games! They had a limit of five packs per customer, but doubt there’s anything from people just making multiple transactions!

 

[CanuckChick]

Apologies if I already posted this (too tired to go through my posts) lol, but there's an amazon placeholder for UK:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1450850553009950727

 

[Mint]

I live in Canada, but was able to place a pre-order through Amazon Germany. It's expensive though, so if Canada gets some better options other than BestBuy, I will cancel this pre-order. And if not.... well, I'd rather pay that price than scalper pricing.

 

[WaileaNoRei]

I just want to say that even though it looks a bit worrisome out, we are quite a ways out from the release, and don’t yet know how short on pack they will be. In my opinion it is a bit different than the Sanrio packs where each pack contained the full cards so they (if there was any actual thought to it, which may be giving a lot of credit, I admit) probably stocked less. These cards are designed for people to need more packs for collecting them all. So even though nintendo errs on the extreme conservative side, avoiding overstock at all costs, I think they will still be at least more stocked than the first run of Sanrio cards (again, with nintendo, this could be way off)

please don’t get desperate yet and buy from scalpers. The scalpers will still be there in a couple weeks when we know what the actual stock situation is. We’ve now seen that even though they don’t restock a lot, they do restock them.

and remember for those in the US that Amazon is not an official distributor. It’s only third party sellers on there, aka scalpers.

of course everyone can do what they want, I just worry about you all, and I think it is too early to panic and stress.

yes it may very likely end up being at least a little bit of a mess, but i don’t think the situation is hopeless.

for those in the US, the Best Buy preorder is coming in and out of stock. I just managed to buy 3 packs less than 5 min ago.

 

[Corry]

Bought 3 packs today from bestbuy. I seriously hope everyone can get their hands on them. Amazon hasn't had a listing for the cards yet and neither has Target as far as I know so please don't lose hope.. I just want Shino, Sasha, and Petri mostly but I wouldn't mind Ione either.

 

[Plainbluetees]

I really hope I can get my hands on two or three of the packs. I really want Sasha and Faith. I don’t really collect amiibos but I’d like to have them. I also wouldn’t mind having Raymond’s Amiibo so I could invite him back if I kick him out.

 

[LeAckerman]

If I can't get the cards online, I think i'll just wait until the hype dies for it and pick them up on my own time

 

[Fey]

For Walmart and BestBuy, where did it say what the limit was?

I didn’t see it when I placed my order with Walmart, and I only picked one pack just in case it would lose me time if I picked two and that wasn’t allowed.

 

[rip]

For Walmart and BestBuy, where did it say what the limit was?

I didn’t see it when I placed my order with Walmart, and I only picked one pack just in case it would lose me time if I picked two and that wasn’t allowed.

i think it was 2 for walmart, and it’s 3 for best buy.
this is assuming you’re talking about US orders

 

[xlisapisa]

For Walmart and BestBuy, where did it say what the limit was?

I don’t think there was a mention anywhere on either of the sites, but I know for Best Buy I tried to add the max number it would let me (which was 4) but then as I was trying to add it to my cart a pop up appeared and said the limit was 3 (in the US).

 

[StarlitGlitch]

Aaaaand they're gone

 

[Khaelis]

For Walmart and BestBuy, where did it say what the limit was?

I didn’t see it when I placed my order with Walmart, and I only picked one pack just in case it would lose me time if I picked two and that wasn’t allowed.

Not sure if its different for BestBuy US, but when I placed my order in at BestBuy Canada, the limit was stated in the checkout/cart.