Current Events > Did you land a pre-order of the SNES Classic?

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Yep for me, gamestop instore baby
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I pre-ordered through Best Buy last night.
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When did it go up on target??
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Bloodmoon77 posted...

When did it go up on target??

Last night and a few times this morning.
But it seems most that tried, failed.
Even if you threw it in the cart within 30 seconds of the preorder opening, it would just give a sold out message at checkout.
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I thought the justification for preorders was to ensure that everyone who wanted to buy something can. Preorders are supposed to happen before manufacturing so they know how many to make. If the preorders are allocated before they're even taken, it completely defeats the purpose.
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GameStop. I have the best wife ever.

Got to complete order with walmart and target and then got the sold out thing. Walmart was 2 minutes after it went up. Crazy, but whatever because I got one.
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DemonBuffet posted...

Bloodmoon77 posted...

When did it go up on target??

Last night and a few times this morning.
But it seems most that tried, failed.
Even if you threw it in the cart within 30 seconds of the preorder opening, it would just give a sold out message at checkout.

Wooow that sucks. I guess my best hope is to pick one up during my opening shift once they start selling at target.
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Bloodmoon77 posted...

DemonBuffet posted...

Bloodmoon77 posted...

When did it go up on target??

Last night and a few times this morning.
But it seems most that tried, failed.
Even if you threw it in the cart within 30 seconds of the preorder opening, it would just give a sold out message at checkout.

Wooow that sucks. I guess my best hope is to pick one up during my opening shift once they start selling at target.

You work at Target?

When they announced the NES classic was being discontinued I tried like hell to get one through brickseek. Long story short but one night I saw after Target had closed it came up on BS that they had 9 in stock. So I woke up early and camped out before the store opened. I was 7th in line. Two more people showed up after me for exactly 9 right before the store opened.

It was actually a good group on the line we all agreed regardless of how it went down we'd keep it one per person, if someone randomly tried to cut in front of us we'd kick their ass etc Everyone gets one and we all go home happy.

Anyways the store opens, there's no ticket or anyone from the store guiding us to where they are or frankly anything to prevent potential anarchy. But we all keep our cool, walk single file together to the electronic section. We get there and they have em out, the guy behind the counter says 1 per person which is cool cause we all agreed to keep it that way.

There's only 9 so it's the one guy checking each purchase out one by one, but then some fucking BITCH who worked at target appeared out of nowhere to "help". The guy had already rung up the first two, but then as she "helps" ring out the rest of us, she keeps asking the few people ahead "just the one?" as if they could buy more than one, trying to fuck us.

Anyways, I finally get mine, there's two left. But as she's ringing me out, I notice she takes one, and pretends to cover it with a bunch of empty plastic bags. I pay for mine. And then the last guy gets up to pay and she goes "oh were all out". He starts freaking out, cause there where 9, magically one "disappeared". I called her out to her face about trying to hide it, and she pretended it was an "accident". The dude got his, and she looked fucking REKT.

Anyways, some scummy ass shit.

nope, got a Raspberry Pi.
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TheDarkCircle posted...

Bloodmoon77 posted...

DemonBuffet posted...

Bloodmoon77 posted...

When did it go up on target??

Last night and a few times this morning.
But it seems most that tried, failed.
Even if you threw it in the cart within 30 seconds of the preorder opening, it would just give a sold out message at checkout.

Wooow that sucks. I guess my best hope is to pick one up during my opening shift once they start selling at target.

You work at Target?

When they announced the NES classic was being discontinued I tried like hell to get one through brickseek. Long story short but one night I saw after Target had closed it came up on BS that they had 9 in stock. So I woke up early and camped out before the store opened. I was 7th in line. Two more people showed up after me for exactly 9 right before the store opened.

It was actually a good group on the line we all agreed regardless of how it went down we'd keep it one per person, if someone randomly tried to cut in front of us we'd kick their ass etc Everyone gets one and we all go home happy.

Anyways the store opens, there's no ticket or anyone from the store guiding us to where they are or frankly anything to prevent potential anarchy. But we all keep our cool, walk single file together to the electronic section. We get there and they have em out, the guy behind the counter says 1 per person which is cool cause we all agreed to keep it that way.

There's only 9 so it's the one guy checking each purchase out one by one, but then some fucking BITCH who worked at target appeared out of nowhere to "help". The guy had already rung up the first two, but then as she "helps" ring out the rest of us, she keeps asking the few people ahead "just the one?" as if they could buy more than one, trying to fuck us.

Anyways, I finally get mine, there's two left. But as she's ringing me out, I notice she takes one, and pretends to cover it with a bunch of empty plastic bags. I pay for mine. And then the last guy gets up to pay and she goes "oh were all out". He starts freaking out, cause there where 9, magically one "disappeared". I called her out to her face about trying to hide it, and she pretended it was an "accident". The dude got his, and she looked fucking REKT.

Anyways, some scummy ass shit.

Yeah I work in the electronics department too. It's gonna be extremely rough seeing them all disappear before my eyes. I go through it with the switch on a weekly basis. I'm going to be irritated if my leads pull more bullshit like they did with the NES. Two of them each bought 2 when they were the ones enforcing the 1 per customer rule in the first place. Workplace politics suck.
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Bloodmoon77 posted...

Yeah I work in the electronics department too. It's gonna be extremely rough seeing them all disappear before my eyes. I go through it with the switch on a weekly basis. I'm going to be irritated if my leads pull more bullshit like they did with the NES. Two of them each bought 2 when they were the ones enforcing the 1 per customer rule in the first place. Workplace politics suck.

Yeah thats scummy as hell. If you even wanna snag one per worker I get it. Perk of the job. but hoarding them is such bs.

I created a TRU account. Added my card and address info so I wouldn't have to do it later, and waited patiently. Fifteen minutes later, I saw on twitter that they aren't taking preorders.
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lol nah. I have a PSP with component cables. and DKC2, 3, MMX2, 3, Chrono Trigger, etc :P
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