GraveX1
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Any of the emails go to prime members?
Yes, I'm a long time Prime member. My Amazon account was created in 2001. I think they're sending that email out to everyone who preordered.
Any of the emails go to prime members?
This is where physical Retail stores still matter. I Physically went to my local gamestop and preordered instore. I will pick it up at launch, not as convenient as online shopping, but still more reliable.
They probably had a number of units from Sony but they let it pre-order way more to tell Sony "We got all these pre-orders so you need to send more units to us".Note that "may not" does not mean "won't."
Sony will allocate Europe shipment to USIt's alright guys. You'll just get it when the guys from Europe get it. It's only a week long wait after all.
Good thing you held on to your other order.Amazon does this shit all the time.
I go the email as well. Luckily I kept my Target order. Hopefully if delayed it won't be for too long.
Any of the emails go to prime members?
Im just saying more things can go wrong, thats all.Those places are not exempt from this happening. They don't have PS5s in the storeroom right now. I've had local stores fuck up and oversell games before, not consoles, but it's not impossible.
This is where physical Retail stores still matter. I Physically went to my local gamestop and preordered instore. I will pick it up at launch, not as convenient as online shopping, but still more reliable.
Demmand > Supply.How does this even happen with an initial preorder shipment? Did they manufacture like 10 PS5s per retailer?
MS might win the holidays by virtue of Sony kicking themselves in the nuts—simply having available boxes for Cyberpunk and Call of Doody.
No surprise at all. They left their pre orders open way too long.
How does this even happen with an initial preorder shipment? Did they manufacture like 10 PS5s per retailer?
Demmand > Supply.
And probably won't be enough.They’ve been manufacturing these things for months now though. I don’t think it’s that simple “if” there turns out to be supply issues. (We don’t know yet so let’s not Chicken Little.)
Those places are not exempt from this happening. They don't have PS5s in the storeroom right now. I've had local stores fuck up and oversell games before, not consoles, but it's not impossible.
we'll see ppl tear each other down to get a preorder before we see the console tear down.LMAO I am just thinking, we have yet to see a physical instance of the console, a tear down or many other things and we're all in here bitching about our PRE orders possibly not being fulfilled. Sigh...
I'll skip the in person brick and mortar pre ordering insanity thanks. I will watch it though.we'll see ppl tear each other down to get a preorder before we see the console tear down.
What probably happened was 10,000,000people hit the site at the same time and the site didn't cut them off in time. This is the problem with online preordering. There has to be a smoother method of either giving existing customers with verified psn/xbx accounts first dibs or making some kind of lottery like how comic con does it.
What probably happened was 10,000,000people hit the site at the same time and the site didn't cut them off in time. This is the problem with online preordering. There has to be a smoother method of either giving existing customers with verified psn/xbx accounts first dibs or making some kind of lottery like how comic con does it.
I don't understand that logic. Admittedly I am coming from a position of ignorance on how these things work but shouldn't the Amazon computers have an inventory limit and once that's reached, orders are cut off? I am in the hospitality industry and hotels routinely oversell room inventory as there is always attrition from cancels and no shows, but even if Amazon oversold to a degree, you would think they would have been savvy enough to cut off the orders at a certain threshold.
My order was made through that link . I think we sold it out before the ps5 actually went liveI don’t think it was quite that many lol but you may be right - weren’t the Amazon orders all made through some shady leaked link?
And you are absolutely right, there has to be a better way.
I agree they should have some type of governor in place to cut off after a certain # of sales but it's possible because what how fast the site got hammered they their server just couldn't deal with so many clicks on the same page. Look at what happened to best buy, the site was dead for hours. It's also possible they sold preorders they don't actually have yet but being they are amazon they know they will have eventually and since they don't charge the cost upfront no one actually loses any money in the process if the preorder falls through
I was under the impression they never actually opened their pre-orders to begin with, someone figured out a backdoor to hit a pre-order screen and it spread around the net.No surprise at all. They left their pre orders open way too long.