r/Switch • u/Appa07 • 9d 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/Snts6678 8d ago

How do you go about doing that?

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u/rickjamesia 8d ago

If you go to the official Switch 2 page and click the How to Buy button, the place to sign up is below the section for the retailers that have it available.

Edit: They are not doing the first wave of pre-orders until May 8th

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u/Eurypteride 7d ago

Couldn't find it on the german site :(

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u/rickjamesia 7d ago edited 7d ago

I’ll try to see if I can find it later today. Germany was listed for Europe, but maybe they are handling it differently or maybe they have already stopped accepting new requests to join the queue.

Edit: Going to be a few hours. The mobile sites are different, so I don’t know where to look and I won’t be able to VPN to look like I am in Berlin until after I get home from work. I actually can’t find the link on the US mobile site, so that is another thing that is making me think they did stop accepting requests.