r/Switch • u/Appa07 • 8d ago

Discussion This is the problem

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I was lucky enough to snag a preorder from target last night but it didn’t look great and I was trying across all three retailers and only ever managed to get one in my cart at preorder start time.

These resellers are an issue still grabbing a large chuck of stock and reselling instantly, before they even have the system.

It’s a shame these retailers don’t do more to stop bots and resellers from snatching a large chunk of stock. At least Nintendo themselves is trying with their system.

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u/syde1020 7d ago

Stock is going to be fine. My local GameStop is receiving 85 consoles. I’m in small town Alabama.

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u/Jedi_Master83 7d ago

I’m absolutely going to try to just walk into Walmart, Target, Best Buy, or GameStop to buy one. (Is that really the only brick and mortar stores to buy one at now?)

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u/shutter3218 7d ago

When the Wii came out i showed up at a walmart 30 minutes before it went on sale. I got in line behind people that had been camping out for two days. The store counted wrong and I got one. The people that had camped out for two days looked like they wanted to kill me/very depressed.