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Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2013 05:23:30 No.13725484 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>13725493 >>13725500 >>13725545 >>13726082

I pre-ordered X at Target a few days ago. So my question is, how the fuck do pre-orders at Target work? I plan on leisurely going in on release day at like 12pm to get it. Are the "pre-orders" just for the pin and mean nothing else or am I actually guaranteed a game on release?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2013 05:25:33 No.13725493 Report

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>>13725484
Well, I'm doing the same thing, so I sure as shit hope I can just pick up the physical copy at opening on the 12th or my jimmies will be straight over-rustled.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2013 05:25:53 No.13725497 Report

Quoted By: >>13725514

lolwut

not like the games are gonna be sold out, even if they were you reserved yourself a copy... just go in the morning of release day and pick them up.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2013 05:26:18 No.13725498 Report

Quoted By: >>13725517

For that $1 preorder you are "guaranteed" the game on release plus you get $5 off the actual purchase of the game. As for the pin they should be taped to the back of that stupid card so you don't even need to buy the game if you just want the pin.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2013 05:27:02 No.13725500 Report

Quoted By: >>13725517

>>13725484
12 am? Not likely, target dont do that. Gamestop wouldve been more likely

And yes, you can jsut walk in and get it and you are guaranteed to get them. I did that personally for BW when they came out. Obviously though you have to finish the payment when you get them

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2013 05:29:26 No.13725514 Report

Quoted By: >>13725525 >>13725526

>>13725497
>not like the games are gonna be sold out, even if they were you reserved yourself a copy
Have you not been here for basically every single 3DS release

Fire Emblem and Animal Crossing were sold out of most stores within days. Any game that went digital gets less physical copies shipped to stores now because Nintendo's a bunch of jews who want more of your money.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2013 05:30:14 No.13725517 Report

Quoted By: >>13728935

>>13725500
I said pm, I was implying I'd come in at an actual time of day that a human would.
>>13725498
I was thinking that, I was mulling over snatching some extra pins while I was there, but I've been trying to quell my shoplifting urges recently. I just wanted to pre-order the game, I didn't even know about the pins as I went there originally. Also, the $1 payment for the card doesn't actually count towards the purchase of the game, apparently. You are pretty much paying extra for the pin/pre-order.

Anyway, thanks for the responses folks, googling only does so much, I just wanted some real responses from other people doing it for Pokemon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2013 05:31:14 No.13725525 Report

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>>13725514
i garentee that they won't be sold out, even GTA 5 wont be sold out and that has x5 the preorders

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2013 05:31:25 No.13725526 Report

Quoted By: >>13725535 >>13725558 >>13727187 >>13728475 >>13728964

>>13725514
Nintendo printed limited copies of those games because they didn't want to risk not selling enough. That shit is a gamble for a company as small as Nintendo but this is freaking pokemon. Of course they'll have enough copies.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2013 05:31:31 No.13725527 Report

Quoted By: >>13725530 >>13725589

>People who buy both X and Y
The human race must be cleansed

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2013 05:32:02 No.13725530 Report

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>>13725527
Nigger I found this shit on Google

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2013 05:32:35 No.13725535 Report

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>>13725526
Actually they seem to be doing that so that impatient little twats would go digital if anything.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2013 05:32:39 No.13725536 Report

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>>13725530
I figured, which is why I didn't specify OP

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2013 05:34:24 No.13725545 Report

Quoted By: >>13726049

>>13725484

>Preorders let them know how many copies to order for people who will actually get the game
>The they order another set (usually 15 copies)
>proceed to sell out within hours and not get any shipments for three fucking weeks

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2013 05:36:02 No.13725558 Report

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>>13725526
>Nintendo printed limited copies of those games because they didn't want to risk not selling enough.
There was 0 risk whatsoever with Animal Crossing. It outsold every single Mario game, including Mario Kart 7, several times over within months of release.
>That shit is a gamble for a company as small as Nintendo
Fucking what
Are we talking about the same Nintendo
The one taking up 60% of the best sold franchises of all time lists
With all that money from the fucking DS and Wii sales
Can you even name a single bigger video game company than Nintendo? When asked who can possibly buy them out at this point, people resort to thinking of fucking google.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2013 05:39:10 No.13725589 Report

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>>13725527
>Not ordering one and ordering the other as a gift.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2013 06:07:03 No.13725813 Report

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Your not getting the pins. Nintendo or target fucked up. They glued them onto the cards. People stole them all at my target. Also look at the serial cards for both x and y will be different but the serials are exactly the same. I can't even find my card because it dosnt matter

Dishonored Cow

Dishonored Cow Tue 10 Sep 2013 06:21:50 No.13725923 Report

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I got the X preorder card and the Xerneas pin. The clerk told me the game's guaranteed to be there on release day.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2013 06:37:41 No.13726049 Report

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>>13725545
It's a Pokemon game.

They order the pre-orders they need on top of their normal shipment of, let's say 50 copies of the game. Because Pokemon (like Madden, WoW, Call of Duty, Halo...) are guaranteed sellers, and people mock Gamestop for their shitty reserve policy, but honestly they gain nothing turning away sales, pre-order or not.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2013 06:41:10 No.13726082 Report

Quoted By: >>13726089

>>13725484
Just walk in and mention that you pre-ordered the games. Everything should be smooth sailing after that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2013 06:41:54 No.13726089 Report

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>>13726082
Meant game.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2013 10:03:35 No.13727187 Report

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>>13725526
>Nintendo
>small

Holy shit, how can people this retarded survive more than a few years?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2013 12:54:00 No.13728178 Report

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I work at Target back in electronics. Pretty much everyone, including myself, who works back there bought out or stashed all the reserve cards with the pins.

Gonna be great paying less for the game when we can sell it (team member discount plus red card discount). That god damn box filled to the brim with the games has been sitting in our lock-up for about a week. If I wasnt afraid of getting caught for stealing I already would be playing the game.

Also, my supervisor said we are having some sort of special deal going on when we sell the game. I think he said it was something like you get a $10 gift card with the purchase of the game. So I plan on getting Y with my reserve card, get $5 from the card, then get another $10 just from buying it and then save some more just for working there. Then Im going to use those gift cards to get X and still get my discount. Sometimes it's good to be a mindless wage slave when good game deals come out.

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Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2013 13:20:19 No.13728357 Report

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>go to best buy
>see friendly acquaintance from high school working the floor
>'dude whats up'
>'nothing bro'
>'pokemon is coming out soon'
>'lool pokemon?'
>'yea man shit is still cash'
>'ahahaha'
>'so you think when you get the shipment you can sell me an early copy. you know, before it releases?'
>'i dont wanna lose my job brah'
>'i bet your getting GTA 5 early'
>'lol shuddup thats for me'

how do i get this nigger into get my copy early? i know he can do it since hes doing it for gta5 for himself. fuuuck i just wanna play

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Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2013 13:30:44 No.13728475 Report

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>>13725526
>This shit is a gamble for a company as small as Nintendo
>for a company as small as Nintendo
>as small as Nintendo
>Nintendo
How the fuck does so much autism exist in one single person? Even Christian Weston Chandler knows Nintendo is a massive vidya game company. Get the fuck out of here with this shit
>B-But I was just pretending to be retarded! Le gr8 b8 m8 i r8 8/8 I'm ir8!
No you weren't, you're retarded as fuck, and everyone in this thread knows it now.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2013 14:23:44 No.13728935 Report

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>>13725517
>Stealing pins that are on $1 cards
brah, they're not even that amazing.

But as I'm sure people have already pointed out, Target will keep a copy of whatever game you preordered in store for you. For every one sold, they have to have at least one copy of the game available. Usually, they keep it for about a week, and then after that you lose the "holding" period.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 10 Sep 2013 14:26:32 No.13728964 Report

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>>13725526

>That shit is a gamble for a company as small as Nintendo

Fucking what

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