The Nintendo Amiibo Discussion Thread - Page 5

KnightOfTruth · #1 12-24-2014, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by MaXXimus5000

Greetings, ive contemplated getting the amiibo to only the ones i wanted but after seeing how nicely theyre sculpted i had to do like pokemon and gotta catch em all. I am currently living in Australia but was born n raised in the states, the amiibo craze is barely starting to hit now. I prefer getting the amiibos here as opposed to the states. I got wave 1 & 2 complete, although i was lucky to get nearly all of wave 1 on the shelf a day after release all minus Marth which i had to pay a premium for. Wave 2 preordered luckily and have in hand.

Wave 3..., idk where to start. I luckily preordered all the figures that were going to be "exclusive" to retailers (dumb idea imo) back in the states. The rest i decided to preorder and have those shipped to my usa address. The store i preordered the rest were...toys r us. Now if you havent been reading of this youll know that tru sent a massive wave of cancelled preorders due to technical matters. Tru are trying to correct the situation by reinstating orders ONLY if you paid by cc, if you paid by paypal they couldnt legally reinstate your order why idk.

Anyway in the next few days they are supposedly going to resend an email to be able to reorder them again. I feel its too late to order them at this stage and ill miss out on the figures but the discount they had fir buy one get one 40%off. So after i got the cancellation i went nuts trying to preorder the ones im missing. I went to the eb games here, they said as of 9am that morning preordered placed prior would get their figures the rest were sol. They said they had limited amount available online so i rushed back home to order. Was able to get all but ike which was sold out.

Went searching online and preordered at walmart which had all including ike. I placed the order and so thats where i am right now i have half guaranteed whereas the others its up in the air due to demand. I have 2 sets of preorders placed in case one gets cancelled. I dont know what tru are planning to do but if they allow me to order guaranteed figures discounted ill cancel the others but at this point i really dont trust tru, so im wondering wth to do with all of these orders. I hate that amiibo have taken off, happy for Nintendo but not for regular customers/fans looking to get a hold of their favorite fjgure due to scalpers.

Sorry for the long post lol

Hey bud, a lot of us are in the same boat. While I think TRU will do their best to honor the pre-orders that were made with them, I seriously doubt they'll honor the discount that you (and I and others) were able to take advantage of during that sale. While you might not trust TRU (understandably so) they're pretty much the most robust (stock-wise) supplier here in The States. None of the other retailers even come close to having the level of stock that they do (maybe with the exception of the Nintendo World Store in NYC but they don't do online orders).

The only more reliable company I'd trust (pre-order wise) would be Gamestop since I've NEVER ONCE had them not be able to deliver on a pre-order, they have a good idea of what they've got in stock and how many pre-orders they've got, the issue with them is that they won't have any (or nearly any) extra stock for those who are trying to do an in-store purchase, but that shouldn't effect you at all.

Fox · #2 12-24-2014, 08:00 AM

I was one of the stupid ones who thought this will be like skylanders rererereleasing so I missed getting an amiibo or two. Glad some of these will have some collector value.

Ryu Kazama · #3 12-30-2014, 11:29 PM

If anyone needs a Marth, I have one or two spare (one has a slightly damaged box, though!)

Crimson_Dragon92 · #4 12-30-2014, 11:30 PM

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Crimson_Dragon92 · #5 12-30-2014, 11:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Ryu Kazama

If anyone needs a Marth, I have one or two spare (one has a slightly damaged box, though!)

Interested. Can you PM me the details please? I'm looking for a US version and sealed for collection purposes.

Ryu Kazama · #6 12-30-2014, 11:41 PM

Ah. Before I PM, mine are UK versions, so the back description is slightly different to US, from what I know.

Likey · #7 12-31-2014, 12:40 AM

Ryu, please reserve me a Marth if you don't mind? I'm in London if it helps? Plus, we've met a couple of times before.

PM me if that's OK?

Ideally the one without the dent please.

Ryu Kazama · #8 12-31-2014, 11:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Likey

Ryu, please reserve me a Marth if you don't mind? I'm in London if it helps? Plus, we've met a couple of times before.

PM me if that's OK?

Ideally the one without the dent please.

That can be arranged can also just meet you locally to save on shipping. I will drop you a PM.

0329liuken · #9 01-02-2015, 03:49 PM

So I pre-ordered the Lucario amiibo from ToysRUs, my order was cancelled a few days ago, and TRU sent me a code to pre-order other amiibos for 10.99. I pre-ordered Pit and Captain Falcon, but I just received an cancellation email for these two a few minutes ago... They let me pre-order the new ones as apology, and then cancelled my pre-order of the new ones...

This is my first and last time buy from TRU...

KnightOfTruth · #10 01-02-2015, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by 0329liuken

So I pre-ordered the Lucario amiibo from ToysRUs, my order was cancelled a few days ago, and TRU sent me a code to pre-order other amiibos for 10.99. I pre-ordered Pit and Captain Falcon, but I just received an cancellation email for these two a few minutes ago... They let me pre-order the new ones as apology, and then cancelled my pre-order of the new ones...

This is my first and last time buy from TRU...

Yeah, a lot of others on Reddit are saying the same thing. They really screwed things up this time, that's for sure. Stinks that some people like yourself are on the amiibo roller-coaster with these. Maybe they'll just start giving them to you for free now?? Its funny though because they can't really cancel in-store orders like this (they can just not hold some if they wanted to), but in-store pre-orders seems to have been saved from the massive cancellation fests from what I've heard.

Either way, I just pre-ordered all the non-exclusives at GS as well as I'm tired of trying to hunt things down and didn't want to have to wait outside the door at TRU when they launch (or a week before as that's how they've been releasing them it seems!). Got my in-store for Lucario, got a hook up for Rosalina, and I'll have to hunt/fight/scavenge/send in a swat-team/etc. to get myself a MetaKnight.

Still sick that they've announced "even MORE retailer exclusives" with Wave4 and are excited about it-- seriously!??