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

[zumhaus]

This is what I've been seeing when the "Pre-Order" button shows up. (except one case yesterday where I was able to throw them in my cart) This was the case around 6:43ish and 7:20ish CST last night, and this was the case about two minutes ago.
Obviously this gets you nowhere when trying to check out. After seeing this occur multiple times, I'm erring on the side of 'site glitch'.
Who knows, the bots could just be that quick

edit: it's the 'unavailable for pickup, unavailable for shipping' thing.

 

[solace]

Well, its Friday! Normally I would think they want a full stock, but with these sporadic releases dates/times, I can't deduce the drop times. The only consistent time frame is around 8AM-9AM PDT. Hopefully, one of the retailers received a shipment over the night and the inventory will post today!

Hope we have a better day, and good luck everyone!

 

[Fey]

Can report that BestBuy did its first 30 seconds open slot for the day!
For anybody who missed the thrill of almost being able to make a purchase, I’m sure there’ll be plenty more opportunities for disappointment later on!

 

[ACJedi]

I am new to the forum; having just discovered it because I have a script running a google search for the product ID of the series 5 cards and someone must have posted it here in this thread and Google indexed it.

These cards will be as ridiculous (moreso) than Playstation5 because the cost for a pack if so much lower.

FWIW I got an email from Target at 10:24AM EST this morning telling me the series 4 cards were back in stock (they were not, couldn't add to cart)

 

[canary:)]

Fnac France is available to buy cards, i have more than enough now cant wait to get them and trade with you guys our duplicates ☺

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So now i over did it, but most likely i will have my first amiibo card collectiom i eill havr to trade the duplicates


Do you know this instagram meme;

“Dont do it girl, its not worth it, dont do it.

Nah im not going to do it !

i did it ...

”

Congratulations Happy for you
I am also interested in exchanging duplicates too especially European cards.

 

[Sara?]

BTW, how cool is it that one of the new community by far popular villager "shino" birthday is on the 31st of october! i really find it cool

Congratulations Happy for you
I am also interested in exchanging duplicates too especially European cards.

Yai, we partners in crime

 

[ACJedi]

I really think it's bots. Normal people don't have the time or energy to constantly check for availability. I was shocked to see the pre order button up honestly. Althought it is really weird how random it is

I know GameStop has a system in place that will ban your IP address for as many as 5 months from refreshing too much. Problem is the scalper bots use VPNs that give them a new IP it gets banned and resumes the incessant refreshing/buying when available.The URL where GameStop will post them is easy enough to figure out but I don’t want to ban my address by checking for the series 5 cards too much. Guess I’d need a VPN too. I’m hoping though this community is going to help all the good people that want the cards for the fun of it to actually have a chance at purchasing the cards.

 

[Fey]

I know GameStop has a system in place that will ban your IP address for as many as 5 months from refreshing too much. Problem is the scalper bots use VPNs that give them a new IP it gets banned and resumes the incessant refreshing/buying when available.The URL where GameStop will post them is easy enough to figure out but I don’t want to ban my address by checking for the series 5 cards too much. Guess I’d need a VPN too. I’m hoping though this community is going to help all the good people that want the cards for the fun of it to actually have a chance at purchasing the cards.

That’s almost hilariously unfair if true—block the regular people desperately scrambling to get a hold of some cards, while still letting all the scalpers through to snatch them away.

Great to see a new member here though—welcome to TBT, I hope you stick around a bit!

 

[ACJedi]

That’s almost hilariously unfair if true—block the regular people desperately scrambling to get a hold of some cards, while still letting all the scalpers through to snatch them away.

Great to see a new member here though—welcome to TBT, I hope you stick around a bit!

Unfortunately true. Happened to me but only 48 hours while trying to get. a PS5. I was clearing cookies/cache and getting a connection refused message so I started googling and saw entire Reddit threads on this happening to people. I understand why they are doing it but us real people might accidentally trigger the ban on our IP just trying to see if the cards are up for sale. What we could do is get like 30 of us here with a PC up all day checking the URL once every 30 minutes (or less if you are feeling adventurous) and maybe not trigger a ban. Of course when someone gets an alert they need to post it here. I’m using a Chrome extension called watchlist. You click add and it asks you the page you want to monitor and then you click the add elements and try to find something on the page that would change if a product goes in stock like the search URL for NVLEMA6E and on that page of course you get a “product not found result” so you select that text as ‘your element’, create the alert and then set it how often you want it to check and pick the alert sound you want to hear if that page/element changes. That’s how I found this forum. Someone posted NCLEMA6E a couple pages back and the WatchList alert I setup at Google to look for that told me I was getting 5 results instead of 4 (hence the alert). Now that I just posted this whenever Google indexes this site again it’s going to give me an alert. I’m actually going to see how long it takes Google to index as I submit this (should get an alert for this page now… lol)

BTW thanks for the warm welcome. Judging by the posts here you all seem like good, honest people!

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I’ve got one running at Target for ‘Amiibo’ and the Metroid Dread one pops in every now and then but I’ve never been able to cart it.

 

[Bluebonez]

I'm rooting for everyone here to be able to get some, if there's away to turn on notifications for the listings you guys should try and do that to try and out do the bots

 

[saltypotato]

how is everyone holding up today?

 

[Dunquixote]

no luck still. a friend mentioned that now people can easily get hold of the sanrio cards, so i hope eventually the same will happen to this series. i like everyone though would like it asap since i still am wary of waiting too long like i did with the WAs and now none can be found.

 

[Tiffany]

Here we go again. The preorder popped up on bestbuy again and again not available in store not available for shipping. sigh, this is just cruel

 

[CelestialRaine]

Hi, been browsing here for a little while because I'm hoping to be able to get some Series 5 Amiibo cards myself but I've never bought any amiibo cards before, and it seems like Nintendo has issues with stocking them, which is a pain. I've been checking on Best Buy as well and every time it says a pre-order is available, it now shows " All of our pre-orders have been claimed, but we’ll email you when yours is ready for shipping or pickup." Does that mean that only those who preordered will get an e-mail, or will I be e-mailed once they come back in stock? I also don't think I'll have much luck with buying them on their date of release. Either way, this all is a bit frustrating.

 

[Tiffany]

Hi, been browsing here for a little while because I'm hoping to be able to get some Series 5 Amiibo cards myself but I've never bought any amiibo cards before, and it seems like Nintendo has issues with stocking them, which is a pain. I've been checking on Best Buy as well and every time it says a pre-order is available, it now shows " All of our pre-orders have been claimed, but we’ll email you when yours is ready for shipping or pickup." Does that mean that only those who preordered will get an e-mail, or will I be e-mailed once they come back in stock? I also don't think I'll have much luck with buying them on their date of release. Either way, this all is a bit frustrating.View attachment 405357

i got that the first time i tried to order them and when i clicked purchase it changed to none available in store and none available online.

 

[Fey]

how is everyone holding up today?

I am so tired. I think getting up early these last few days has finally caught up with me. Aside from that one brief sighting this morning, nothing.

 

[Khaelis]

All these issues with Best Buy... Is this with Best Buy US, or Best Buy Canada? I must have gotten really lucky getting mine, or just that its a lot easier to get them from Best Buy Canada since there's a limit of 1.

 

[Tiffany]

All these issues with Best Buy... Is this with Best Buy US, or Best Buy Canada? I must have gotten really lucky getting mine, or just that its a lot easier to get them from Best Buy Canada since there's a limit of 1.

best buy us

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if it's the site glitching i wish best buyt would just tell everyone so we can stop hoping and refreshing

 

[azurill]

All these issues with Best Buy... Is this with Best Buy US, or Best Buy Canada? I must have gotten really lucky getting mine, or just that its a lot easier to get them from Best Buy Canada since there's a limit of 1.

Best Buy US . I think at this point I give up
On Best Buy for now . Maybe after the release they will restock.

 

[Khaelis]

Best Buy US . I think at this point I give up
On Best Buy for now . Maybe after the release they will restock.

Man, makes me kinda glad I'm from Canada. Granted the downside of that is I have to pay astronomically high 'expedited' shipping fees that'll end up being late anyways because Canada Post is often unreliable lol.

Almost 15 bucks for six cardboard cards, ftw!