GameStop is giving you another chance to secure a day-one purchase of Nintendo Switch. Throughout the day tomorrow, February 11, the retailer will be randomly selecting customers to pre-order one of 1,000 Nintendo Switch consoles – all of which will be available for pickup at launch on March 3. Read on below for GameStop’s statement in regard to this process:
“Tomorrow only, guests can stop by GameStop for a chance to pre-order one of 1000 Nintendo Switch consoles, which will be available at launch on 3/3. GameStop stores and guests will be selected at random throughout the day on Saturday. They just walk in and ask and don’t have to purchase anything. Also, it’s zero money down.”
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Translation: Gamestop just screwed 1000 people out of the chance to pre-order for the sake of a promotion.
Lol how?
I don’t think anyone should be too worried. There will be plenty ‘o’ switches in the near future…
roflmao mine is already paid off along with Zelda and just dance
I still owe money but at least I got it lol
Heck yeah, me too. I got lucky and also snagged the Pro Controller. ^^
Well thank you gamestop for giving us the privilege to fork over our hard earned 300 dollars to your store……
But a large portion, if not all, of that revenue is given to Nintendo not GameStop lol
Yeah but, what I’m trying to say is, it sounds like they are giving us the privilege of handing over our hard earned money.
This is so stupid. Luckily I already have my pre-ordered.
Mine*
If you plop down $600 for their stupid bundles I bet. Make you buy 4 games you don’t want
Pre ordered mine already, best part is it wasn’t at gamestop. I get a Switch, gamestop doesn’t earn anything from me, and people are becoming fed up with gamestop, seems like everything is going nicely. I dream of a gaming world without gamestop.
Personally i love gamestop. Nice people, close by, great service. Good trade in deals (i got over 150$ for just my Wii U even tho the gamepad didn’t work.) I don’t know why people don’t like them.
Well, I once traded in Sonic Colors (Wii), ZombiU, and Super Mario 3D Land, during a deal they had where you got 20% more value if it was towards Mario Kart 8 (which I was taking advantage of). Guess how much I got out of those 3.
$1.87.
I don’t trade to them anymore. I will still buy products from them, but trade-ins? Never again.
You got $1.87?! Like that’s not a typo or anything?! Holy shit! I feel like a king for when I got $15 for a game a few years ago… $1.87?!
Believe me, I wish I was kidding. But no, that is not a typo.
Damn dude. That’s some bullshit.
Lol, your better off just selling it some kid or family in the parking lot…
Yyyeah, I’ve figured that out. Luckily I have a friend who looks for games to add to her college’s budding gaming club- I’ve already sold them my copy of AC New Leaf for like $25 bucks.
||Because they want your personal identity number just for trade-ins, they wanted or probably already have implemented that costumers should give their fingerprints when buying products, soon they’ll ask for a DNA sample, not to mention their absurd expensive prices…||
What identity number? What are you talking about expensive prices? There the same as everyone elses, and they usually have the best preorder bonuses.
Really? So I can still trade in my refurbished Wii U even with my Gamepad’s charging port being a little busted? Sweet. It still charges as long as you’re careful when plugging it in. Now I just got to get the accounts I got on it off & then format that bitch. Oh & I got 116 bucks for all of my Wii U, PS4 games I didn’t need anymore since I got them digital on PS4, & Pokemon Y. Just got less than 130 bucks left on Switch & the Wii U being traded in should wipe the rest of that off.
Yeah my Gamepad didn’t charge period and they gave me full trade in price. I got 250+ dollars for my Wii U games alone. Everything accounted for i was able to get the Switch, Zelda, and Splatoon 2 while only paying 2$. It was awesome!
They can probably get the thing refurbished & fixed for a small fee themselves so that might be why they are still taking it as long as the console itself is fully functional. Not to mention they’ll most likely manage to sell them for 200 bucks so they probably get their 150 back & a little extra, anyway.
This is true. Still a good deal for me tho.
And me if my GameStop takes my refurbished Wii U since it’s possible your store only took it because the people working there are actually awesome people while mine could be ran by a greedy, corporate douchebag; sadly can’t rule out this as a possibility but I’ll cross that bridge when I come to it. Anyway, if I get 150 for mine, that’s awesome because then in a sense I would have only spent 50 bucks on my Switch since, as I said above, I only got around 130-140 left on it since the rest of the payment came from in-store credit.
That could be, the people at my GameStop are amazing!
Honestly, I can’t fully write GameStop, as a whole, off as being this greedy douchebag company robbing people since it honestly seems to be a case-by-case basis. While others voice how they had nothing but grief at theirs, others claim the exact opposite. Just one of those instances where the store you use is only as good as the people that work there.
That is very true. But that’s the same with pretty much all stores.
Also very true. lol
Lol
Might stop by one tomorrow now. :)
So basically fuck everyone that’s not on the west side of the US?
Wait.. I mean east, and fuck everyone else that didn’t pre order too.
Honestly, the ones that didn’t pre-order were the smart ones. They didn’t let Nintendo using flashy lights & mirrors trick them into getting yet another console that might be having a very bad first year with not much for day 1 buyers to play for a year. And this is coming from one of those suckers that pre-ordered his Switch the day after the presentation. @.@ (I mean me. I’m one of you suckers that got it day 1. Fool me once (Wii U,) shame on Nintendo. Fool me twice (Switch?,) shame on me.)
But it’s all good since I got a PS4 in case Switch flops as bad, if not possibly worse, than Wii U! :D
I’m still relying on my hope of finding a Switch in stores on launch. I signed up for a free membership at Gamestop the other day just for the sake of being notified when more Switch consoles would be available for preorder. I haven’t received ANY emails yet. And THIS should have been something that they let me know about. Even though I can’t go anyway (my stupid truck keeps stalling).
thos emails are bullcrap. Amazon got Switch orders in 3 days ago, they were gone in 1 hour, no email whatsoever sent to me
||90% will be Gamestopians themselves…||
GameStop has arcane policies and frankly poor value. I have long ago stopped dealing with them, i frankly get much better value/discounts/shipping/rewards etc from Amazon & BB. The only time i step foot is to grab a game that’s quite old and cheaper there. Just one of many things I’ve seen is them sell something as new, take the open case put the game back in and drop it in a plastic pouch close it and call that a “new sealed” copy. You definitely want catch me tooting their horn.
Is this why several people reported on GameStop canceling their orders?
Cancelling the orders themselves or getting them canceled by gamestop?
Orders cancelled by GameStop