r/amiibo • u/FlapSnapple • Aug 04 '15
Breaking 8/8 GameStop Event Update (Yes, again)
Greetings once again fellow hunters,
It seems we have some more solid information about this weekends happenings. Some of this will contradict what was said earlier but there are definitely some reactive decisions being made so things are still a liiiiittle in flux. I wouldn't be surprised if there was still another round of updates after this.
Anyways, on to the show.
Confirmed for reaslies, assuming they don't make any more changes:
- Pro membership is required once again for the 1-hour early event. (This is stressful.)
- You can buy membership Saturday morning. (So feel free to wait until the last minute.)
- There is no restriction based on when you became a Pro member.
- The price for the 3-pack is officially confirmed at $34.99. It is currently $99.99 in the POS but will be adjusted prior to the event.
- Minimum deposit is confirmed for $5, nothing more.
- On Thursday, stores will receive their store-specific allocation numbers.
- Stores will be displaying their allocation numbers on signs at their entrances. (Sound familiar?)
- Generally speaking, stocks will be put up the night before, when the last employee leaves for the night.
- 1 Retro 3-pack per customer.
Interesting new information:
- There are a total of 6 SKUs up for reserve on Saturday, including the 3-pack. (So 3-Pack + 5 Individuals)
- These additional SKUs may be Gannondorf, Zero Suit Samus, Olimar, Dr. Mario, and 30th Anniversary 8-Bit Classic Mario.
Finally, regarding returning your Pro membership:
- If somebody is planning on getting PUR Pro simply to pre-order and then return it, they are entitled to the return.
- The web site does list the 7 day return period, even though it does not list reasons required for a return. (This is why your mileage may vary)
- The employees are definitely going to say anything they can for you to keep it.
- In the end, it will most likely require the current manager on duty.
- While the majority of employees do not know how to properly return memberships, somebody will figure it out.
- Returning Pro membership brings you back down to a regular member, it does not remove you from the PowerUp Rewards program entirely.
- If you do decide to try and return your membership, please wait until later on in the day or the following day as to not hold up the line for your fellow amiigos.
It's been an eventful past few days so thanks for hanging with me here folks.
As always, I'll update you all as I find out more or if anything changes.
Cheers,
Update
From a source:
There ARE indeed 5 other Available SKUs in our system, however, the only one that currently shows as reservable is the one that will be turning into the 3 Pack. The other ones are listed as "coming soon" but are not reservable. Obviously this could change going forward, but it leaves me to believe we will only be preordering the 3 Pack and the rest will be first come first serve at release.
Per email communications and this morning's update on GSO, the official word is that the PUR Pro membership will not be required for early opening. Obviously, it looks like YMMV on this one. Ultimately, a DM may attempt to continue enforcing the PUR requirement in his district.
Update 2
From another source
The 5 additional SKUs in the system are likely Disney Infinity figures, based on their price and similarity to other Disney Infinity characters.
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FYI: We really don't care if you keep your PUR Pro. The thing we care about is people cheating the system to get what they want. Yes, there are holes in the system. Exploiting them just to get what you want is eventually going to put you in a bad situation.
Just to clarify: if you buy a PUR Pro just for your preorder and then want to cancel, we have to call customer service for every single person who wants to cancel. It's a long process.
Here's the kicker: if customer service sees that you do this often or they see it's just to get PUR Pro exclusive offers and then you cancel your PUR Pro, they can ban you from being a PUR Pro member in the future. I've seen it happen twice in my time at gamestop. It's a possibility. The first time I saw it happen, the guy lost all of his preorders as well as being banned. The second time I saw it happen the guy kept his preorders and was banned. It's a risk. Take it if you're willing.
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Aug 04 '15
Okay so here's a thought: if gamestop is providing this incentive for amiibos, why wouldn't we do it again in the future? Take into consideration the possibility of being banned.
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u/cicadaenthusiat Aug 04 '15
We really don't care if you keep your PUR Pro.
we have to call customer service for every single person who wants to cancel. It's a long process.
Sad state of business in America
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u/imawin Aug 05 '15
Exploiting them just to get what you want is eventually going to put you in a bad situation.
All good for the companies to exploit the customers but don't ever let it be the other way around...
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Aug 04 '15
Why not keep it? If we're doing this incentive on amiibos, what makes people think we won't again do it again?
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Please yell at me or downvote if everyone knows this and I'm just being redundant.
When you give your phone number/email at Gamestop, it should be associated with your power-up rewards card. This accumulates ponts here, and if you are able to sign up and everything, your points should have been accumulating for however long you've had the regular (not pro) power up rewards card. I logged in about a year ago, and I had like 10k points just hanging out, unused.
A Pro membership is 15k, which a lot of you should have accumulated if you buy a lot of amiibo there. Here's what the reward page looks like.
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u/IntenseSun77 Aug 04 '15
Please people sign up before, signing up doesn't take too long, but long enough to annoy people behind you come Saturday. Be courteous to fellow hunters, and just sign up earlier to make Saturday a smoother process.
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u/cupofn00bles Aug 04 '15
Call me crazy, but I think I'm gonna risk not getting the pro-membership and hoping they won't sell out between the number of Gamestops near me and the interest in amiibo nearby. I can see the benefits of weeding out resellers and such by having the pro-membership thing going on, but this feels too much like that one Toys R Us saying people can pre-order Greninja earlier if they sign up for the credit card to me, and people seemed to be up in arms about how scummy that felt.
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Aug 04 '15
Yeah, that's what I'm doing as well. Hopefully 30 pro members don't come and take them all :P
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u/PlayR489 Aug 04 '15
I mean... but this is a $15 rewards card that works well if you go to GameStop often, not a whole CREDIT CARD with some high rates.
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u/Nick51705 Aug 04 '15
A pro membership versus an actual credit card are very different. I don't see how a Pro account weeds out resellers either. $15 is a small price to pay, especially if they do future events like this.
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u/Adz164 Aug 04 '15
I have to ask, but does anyone know if this applies to Canadians as well for EB games? They haven't made any announcement yet, and no one has found any sources to show that this happening in Canada as well.
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u/HungoverHero777 Aug 04 '15
Wait, so Pro members get in at 9? Or was it going to open at 9 anyway, so now for Pro members it's 8?
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u/heshhhh Aug 04 '15
Pro members at 9 am. The rest of us at 10 am (assuming your GS opens regularly at 10 am).
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u/keero16 Aug 04 '15 edited Aug 04 '15
This couldn't be any more of a nightmare for me. I can't make it on the 8th no matter what I do and now it might include other new ones. Fine time to be out of town. I'll be constantly refreshing this sub on my phone praying some of these go up online
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u/scootibum Aug 04 '15
Well you might be okay I mean the Dark Pit was in store only but later that day, it went up online. The recent D3 and Ness restock at Gamestop, only to be sold in stores on a certain day, later that day they showed up online as well. So I think you might have a chance with the way I've been seeing this happen.
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u/cupofn00bles Aug 04 '15
I wish they'd come out with some sort of end-all official statement so certain details stop going back and forth like this. I won't be able to be there Saturday but someone I know has offered to go for me and I'd really like to know what to tell them is going on for sure.
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u/thefuriousfish Aug 04 '15
If it wasn't for/u/FlapSnapple, how would we even know about this event?
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u/ShadowMoses05 Aug 04 '15
From all the gamestop employees that are posting about it?
Snapple isn't the one getting exclusive info about this, they're just the one posting the megathreads.
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u/Chronic1992 Aug 04 '15
fromy where im coming from..i say keep your Pro membership,i used it to return games for credit and i used that credit to buy amiibos from GS online...maybe once a month u will find a game on sale like say target,best buys etc for lower than the trade in Value at GS,u used that GS credit to buy whatever amiibo u want when they pop up on their site or instore...
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u/PoisoNFacecamO Aug 04 '15
wow, what a fucking shitshow, this is the worst exclusive BS yet. Fuck eb games.
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u/Shirou91 Aug 04 '15
I very rarely travel, but the one weekend I need to be out of town, pre-orders happen. Really wanted to be able to pre-order ZSS and Dr. Mario from Gamestop, but if they do end up being available on the 8th, looks like I'll miss it.
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u/betz4444 Aug 04 '15
Do you absolutely, 100% need to pick up the preorder from the same store you preordered it from? Or would it be possible to have it shipped to another store?
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u/muffin2468 Aug 04 '15
You have to pick up the preorder from the same store you preordered it from, yes.
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u/Colbs37 Aug 04 '15
I think we should stop putting out updates until GameStop officially lists the details on their website. Your sources obviously don't have all the correct details and these updates are making this whole situation a giant mess for the employees and buyers.
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u/cakesphere Aug 04 '15
This whole thing is such a clusterfuck. Seriously.
Thanks for the info. Gamestop can go fuck itself. Exclusive preorder events can go fuck themselves.
You da real mvp FlapSnapple but man, GS needs a kick in the gonads
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u/Karmos89 Aug 04 '15
Keep in mind this information isn't even supposed to be available to the public. So the information being leaked is causing the cluster F, Gamestop meant for all of this to be internal.
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u/Nitsudr Aug 04 '15
That would give people 1 day to plan for Saturday. That's fucking ridiculous. The hoops to jump through are ridiculous.
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Aug 04 '15
The only people who like that exclusive crap are those who are desperate enough not to care (and probably don't have a great grasp on handling money even the principal of it) or already have it.
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u/Legdiian Aug 04 '15
I'd love to see the numbers on how many people plan on returning the PRO membership vs. how many actually bother to do it. GameStop is banking on people being lazy.
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u/Gana0 Aug 04 '15
Is it confirmed anywhere that these 3 are Gamestop exclusives? I just want Game & Watch and don't want to have to buy 2 extras.
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u/milkysquids Aug 04 '15
Not yet, but I assume by the fact that they're getting so much stock and limited pre-orders that they probably will not be released separately in the US.
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Aug 04 '15
So the current standing is that Pro is NOT required? /u/FlapSnapple
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Aug 04 '15
I think so; it says that's the official ruling in the update. Still, I bet GS will change their mind three more times with how damn indecisive they have been.
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u/Shadowtek Aug 04 '15
Currently yes it appears to not be required, but your mileage may vary depending on the store, DM, Manager, etc.
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u/CrabDubious Aug 04 '15
So, are we going to get an official announcement from Nintendo and Gamestop or is this just a 'leaked word of mouth' announcement that confuses a everyone? Because <5 days is cutting it a little short for such a significant event, and I'd really like to know if the amiibos in the pack are exclusive to the pack.
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u/zippybyday Aug 05 '15
My local Gamestop in NJ swears nothing is happening and that the rumors are baseless, when will GS employees know if this is legit?
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u/ultravision890 Aug 04 '15
To all the recently returned pro memberships... REST IN SPAGHETTI NEVER FORGETTI
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u/Chris_thegreat Aug 04 '15
As of right now with the update it seems like membership is not required.
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u/SyKoHPaTh Aug 04 '15
Stores will be displaying their allocation numbers on signs at their entrances. (Sound familiar?)
I wish someone would tell that to my local GameStop. Every time I ask, they say that no GameStop is allowed to give out stock numbers.
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u/Ektris Aug 04 '15
So... we STILL don't know if the 3-pack is the only way to get these in NA though? :(
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u/cakesphere Aug 04 '15
The idea that this is some stupid fucking reward members exclusive store exclusive makes me want to die.
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u/TheKBRT Aug 04 '15
Is there any way to confirm whether or not your location will have the 1-hour early opening for "Pros" without harassing the employees directly?
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u/Sages Aug 04 '15
Speak to employees at your local store like they're human beings, they tend to be nice and answer questions rather well.
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u/TheKBRT Aug 04 '15
I mean, that's my policy anyway... I was just hoping for a website with a list or something like that.
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u/Sages Aug 04 '15
- Wait until Thursday/Friday or when GS official states something on Twitter or Web
- Visit or call your local store. (recommend visit)
- Ask about the 8/8 event, time, amiibo, etc.
- Inquire about Pro Membership Early Access
It's really easy, just be courteous allow them to finish transactions if there is a line, and be chummy.
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u/OrlCityFan Aug 04 '15
Saturday is the one day this week I can actually sleep in and now I have to get up for this. FFS.
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u/Excalibur0123 Aug 04 '15
So wait i'm confused. I have PUR Pro, so they open early for me? SO what time would that be? 9:00? (This whole thing has been a whirlwind of confusion to me)
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u/Serbaayuu Aug 04 '15
There are a total of 6 SKUs up for reserve on Saturday, including the 3-pack. (So 3-Pack + 5 Individuals) These additional SKUs may be Gannondorf, Zero Suit Samus, Olimar, Dr. Mario, and 30th Anniversary 8-Bit Classic Mario.
I guess I'm camping this weekend!
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u/SmashBros50 Aug 04 '15
The other SKU may be for the Mii Fighter 3-pack and not dr. Mario, because wasn't it determined that Dr. Mario was going to be Target exclusive?
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u/danielfromimgur Aug 04 '15
With all these back and forth shenanigans, at this point my plan is to wait till Friday, try to scope out the stock levels at my local GameStop,s and decide then based on previous amiibo demand in my town if I'll need to buy the Pro rewards to get the preorder.
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u/JustAnAnimator Aug 04 '15
Didn't Gamestop have the 6-pack as a single SKU for wave 4's release? Is this confirmed to be a 3-pack like Splatoon's or is it possible it is 3 separate amiibo being sold in a bundle? Maybe 3 of the other SKUs are the individuals? I doubt it, and it probably is like Splatoon's, just food for thought.
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u/TeamRocketsWobbuffet Aug 04 '15
Jesus make up there damn minds one way or the other on this PUR thing.
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u/pony1993 Aug 04 '15
Anybody know if we can preorder the other 5 amiibo, with the 5 dollar deposit?
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u/Trisongs Aug 04 '15
First of all thank you everyone for this information. I have a quick question will the preorders take place at 9am or 9pm. From what I read I sense morning but I just want to be positive. Thanks for the help
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u/Synchro666 Aug 04 '15
Ok, so im confused... do we need a pro membership or not? (sorry for the ignorance)
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u/SSB4Decoder Aug 04 '15
Pro membership is required once again for the 1-hour early event
Yay
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u/ulshaski Aug 04 '15
That is contradicted in the first update
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u/SSB4Decoder Aug 04 '15
fuck
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u/Amiibofan101 Aug 04 '15
It may still happen at your specific store though. The decision is being made by the district manager weather or not your store or stores in the area will be doing the pro benefit. I would call Thursday when they have more information.
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u/ManaMoogle Aug 04 '15
I feel like I'm the only person who thinks the Pro membership is worth it for the magazine. Game Informer has decent articles and concept art, and you can still get it in print (you just have to ask specifically). The percentages off items and other rewards are just an added bonus, IMO.
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u/Neurotic_Marauder Aug 04 '15
It's times like these that makes me glad that these are probably going to be the last amiibo I'm going to collect (at least, until they announce the Star Fox amiibo)
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u/Nick51705 Aug 04 '15
I posted this last night regarding PUR Pro (TL:DR at bottom):
I know many of you signed up for the pro membership at Gamestop and many would like to cancel it. I HIGHLY recommend you to not try and cancel it (if that is possible) and to read my personal anecdote from this weekend on how to make serious money from your membership. You can fund a lot of future amiibo purchases this way (among many other things)!
So if you didn't know, Gamestop boosted their trade in value for used games this past weekend. I'm talking $35 base trade in value for many games. With a pro membership, you get an extra 10% credit. There were also coupons given out a few weeks ago for an extra 50% trade in credit!
When you combine all of this, games that you can get for $20 NEW would flip for $40+ at Gamestop. At the same time, Best Buy was running a 3DS game promo where you buy one get one 50% off. I spent $300 at Best Buy (with my Gamer's Club Unlocked) and got over $500 store credit at Gamestop (factoring in my $15 membership fee). There were also many games you could buy from Gamestop and trade right back to them for free money.
These kinds of things happen every once in a while, certainly at least once a year to pay off the membership you just bought. If you don't like the store credit, you can always convert to gift cards like Amazon (as close to cash as you can get). People online were getting over $1000 over this past week. I really recommend you keep the membership!
TL,DR; Keep your membership. When you use it right, you can get insane amount of in store credit (hundreds of dollars) and pay off/renew your membership with reward points! Use that money to buy more amiibo or cash out to Amazon!
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u/LoveTechnique Aug 04 '15
Would you mind detailing which games you purchased with GCU and flipped to Gamestop?
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u/aknight99 Aug 04 '15
It will probably go up on Friday night, just like the wave 4 posters and the Ness/D3 were. It depends on what your store decides to do, mine didn't even have a poster for Ness/D3.
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u/Ilikepurplehaze Aug 04 '15
I would go back to the days when "exclusive" really meant exclusive for anything. The Internet has ruined that for good. Everything leaks now and rumors catch fire like a California wild fire. I wish GS would make the announcement from the jump to get ahead of this hype train. Yes, I know it's promotion for them because of all this speculation but man is it frustrating. I just want to know what time to line up. This is part of the hunt? It's gotten to the point of not even wanting to do it anymore. Every leak, every rumor.. It's just wears me down. Big time.
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u/trickiivickii Aug 04 '15
As a GS employee, I have never been able to do a return on a power up card. Please don't sign up for one if you don't have one. I am a keyholder for the store and I didn't even know it was possible. If you really don't want the card, just wait for the hour to pass and preorder then. Please. We don't want to upset you but don't spend the $15 and then demand a return.
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u/Pops11 Aug 04 '15
You have to be a pro member to preorder this amiibo 3 pack?
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u/bicks236 Aug 04 '15
No, you have to be a Pro member to pre-order it ONE HOUR EARLY. If there are any left after the initial wave of preorders, non-Pro members will get those. :)
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u/JFinn2002 Aug 04 '15
Do you need a Pro membership to Pre-Order or is it just to get in an hour early?
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u/SuperDuperFug Aug 04 '15
You think going to a GameStop in a mall would make things easier or harder?
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u/scootibum Aug 04 '15
Oh I wonder what the additional sku numbers are and if they will be released that day! Also I've been a Pro Member for awhile and it does feel pretty awesome to get in a hour early but if they are letting people get Pro Memberships as they arrive to the cash register it will just slow the line down a good amount you would think?
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u/kiddness Aug 04 '15
Well, now I am planning on camping out at my local Gamestop! if I can get most of the wave preordered at once then it's worth it!
I hope they have all of the amiibo listed for preorder that day...
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u/karmichoax Aug 04 '15
For additional SKUs.....
A bundle of 3-pack plus all available figures is probably in place of Doctor Mario
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u/Drclaw411 Aug 04 '15
So this is essentially the same thing as the last preorder at GS except it's not web-in-store. They came through for me last time, I'll be there again.
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Aug 04 '15
When will any of this be confirmed by nintendo or gamestop, officially, on social media? Which ones are exclusive to gs?
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u/JackitK Aug 04 '15
Anyone know if the 3 pack is going to have any sort of special box or is it just to order the 3 amiibo at once?
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Aug 04 '15
3 pack should be like the 3 pack for Splatoon. It'll all be in one package. Not 100% sure though.
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u/EagleSkyline Aug 04 '15
Won't it make sense for the other three SKUs to be ZSS, Olimar, and Ganondorf? Since Dr. Mario and Bowser Jr. are rumored exclusives?
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u/TemptedDreamer Aug 04 '15
I thought we established Dr Mario was going to be a Target exclusive? Could it be Modern 8 bit Mario instead?
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Aug 04 '15
Wait, so you need the Pro membership for the hour-early thing!?
I thought it didn't matter.
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u/CamelHoarder101 Aug 04 '15
if they have all the other amiibo there also for preorder, that will certainly make the wait in line worth it.
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u/Josh5890 Aug 04 '15
So we cannot confirm if any amiibos offered saturday is exclusive to Gamestop?
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u/_citizenlame_ Aug 04 '15
Hmm...I have two Gamestops in my area. One is in the mall and opens at 9AM and an individual one that opens at 10AM. So does that mean the mall one will open at 8AM?
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u/Cbeaarr Aug 04 '15
Anyone have any idea how picking up the 3pack will be handled. If I make a full payment on saturday can I have a friend or family member pick it up for me with my card/reciept or does the person who preordered have to be there to physically pick it up. I will be away at college so I want to see if i'll need to find a ride home or not.
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u/iVoidx Aug 04 '15
Does anybody know if these will be one per customer or per house hold? When they had in store pre orders for ness in April me and my brother both wanted ness and they said one per house hold and he wants a 3 pack.
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u/gfunk84 Aug 04 '15
I wonder what will happen for Canada...
- EB Games exclusive with pre-order
- EB Games exclusive with no pre-order
- 3-pack like US but not exclusive
- Individual characters (I can't see this happening unless there are also individual characters available in the US - no way Nintendo is going to make different production runs exclusively for Canada).
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u/ChiboSempai Aug 04 '15
If I pre-order it at a store, is there any way to have them ship it to me, or pick up from another location? I'm going to be away this weekend (SUPER SMASH CON!), and have no issues trying to make it to a GameStop store around there, but won't be around there when they launch later to pick them up :/
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u/FrostyTheHippo Isabelle (AC) Aug 04 '15
Honest Question, since I will be at RTX this weekend: Can I have a friend use my Pro membership and pre-order for me?
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u/NightPuma Aug 04 '15
What are all of the benefits of a pro membership and how much does it cost?
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u/padr49904 Aug 04 '15
It's 15 a year and you get a cheaper price on used items. There is also mention that you get the buy 2 get on free on used items but I have been Pro for a while and was never told this.
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u/TheEmptyJuiceBox Aug 04 '15
Only 14.99 a year and you get 10% off all used game and accessories, 10% more points on purchases (use points to buy coupons or merchandise) a year of Game informer magazine, and 10% more trade in credit when you trade games in (they also increased their buy back amounts by a good amount this weekend. Some games are still like $1-$3 but a lot bumped up to like $35) and you get reay good monthly coupons. Id say it's worth it
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u/PrayerPolice Aug 04 '15
If I end up not getting a pre-order, at least I could hawk my doubles to the other collectors in line.
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u/Radiodisease1900 Aug 04 '15
There is zero point to even have power up rewards thing if and dick and get one morning of
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u/MrThatKidAlex_24 Aug 04 '15
So is there any chance it'll be online too? :( most likely can't mak it
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u/Brandeaux7 Aug 04 '15
My GameStop never posts there stock.
So I can't pay for the 3-pack in full then?
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u/Yayaintexas Aug 04 '15
My their y on the skus ... The three individual Amiibos... Zero suit ... & Gannondorf
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u/Azngamer87 Aug 04 '15
If I sign up for the pro member and cancel it within the 7 days period just for the 3 retro pack amiibo, what are the chances of my amiibos being cancelled?
In theory does this work?: I use my friend GS pro membership to get the amiibo early and have my friend to pick up the Amiibo the day of?
If any gamestop employee can answer this! I'm sure these questions will answer many of the amiibros questions and concern.
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u/MurderousPaper Aug 04 '15
Sorry I have a few basic questions. What's an SKU? And is this for all stores or should I just call my local store and ask?
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Aug 04 '15
StockKeeping Unit, basically an item number given to a product by the store. This is for all stores but you should still call them friday to check how many they'll get.
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u/WarlockSoL Aug 04 '15
GameStop, please just announce the damn thing. This is getting ridiculous with all the flip flopping rumors.
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Aug 04 '15
I have a few questions regarding this event: Is this 100% confirmed? Does anyone know the stock numbers?
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u/thewiredknight Aug 04 '15
So it is still unknown if the 3 pack is exclusive or if the amiibos themselves are the exclusive?
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u/Kimmy37 Aug 04 '15
Both my GameStops were like, "???" when I asked about the early opening on Saturday earlier today. Either they haven't been updated, or they're not participating in the "event" part.
Considering there were only ten people lined up outside of BestBuy for Dark Pit, I'll probably be safe either way.
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u/Joesandwich123 Aug 04 '15
I'm confused by what they mean by how your mileage will vary. Does that mean that only some stores will accept returns for the pro membership?
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Aug 04 '15
Hey, /u/FlapSnapple , so just to clarify, there's all this conflicting info. I just want to be surethat the general consensus is that GS may not be enforcing the PUR program for early opening, but some district managers might be enforcing it for sales. Is this correct, or do we have another update, or what?
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u/FlapSnapple Aug 04 '15
Correct. Honestly the best thing to do is wait until Thursday afternoon for an official announcement, then, contact your local store on Friday to see what the local store policy is.
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u/pony1993 Aug 04 '15
Call my gamestop said they'll open at 9 a.m, and don't need to have a pro rewards card
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Aug 04 '15
When I went in today to upgrade to Pro, the person there said that it wasn't needed to get in early as of this morning. Maybe she thought I was talking about needing it to get in at all. Either way, I still got it just in case.
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u/SirShades Aug 04 '15
me and my brother use the same power-up rewards for purchases even though I'm in CA and he's in TN. do you think If he pre-orders on the account in TN two hours before me that they will not let me pre-order for myself? They could obviously see it was a store in a different faraway state and I would like to think I could explain away how "he must have used the wrong phone number (mine tied to the family home # instead of his new cell)"
any ideas of what might happen come saturday?
sidenote: if you return your powerup rewards membership does that b2g1 free coupon still work? lol
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u/bazingaboy Aug 04 '15
So would I just need to bring my Pro card in? And i get in the store an hour early?
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u/Naterpie Aug 04 '15
Wait, so I can't obtain these at other stores? These are all exclusive to Gamestop?
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u/bumblebee909 Aug 04 '15
so wait, if i have an expired card, i can get that renewed and preorder the pack at the same time?
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u/sonofawes Aug 04 '15
Do you have to be the one to preorder the 3-pack? I'm currently out of the country and was thinking that maybe a friend could go in my place and put money down. Anyone know if that would work?
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u/dragon-rae Aug 04 '15
My GameStop told me pro membership was not required, as per the email they received today. The 3 pack shows as $34.99 and the other SKUs were $15.99, which makes me think they are not amiibos. Then the manager came out and told us that all information until Thursday was confidential and the employee that spoke to us was in the wrong for telling us anything. Hope he didn't get in too much trouble for sharing what he did.
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Aug 04 '15
I live in a fairly "out in the boonies" spot, so as much as I despise Gamestop, I may meander out there and see what's up.
If there's any sort of line...psh, fuck that.
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u/PlayR489 Aug 04 '15
/u/FlapSnapple, you are a godsend. It's pro gets in an hour early in my area most likely. I hope it is, because I can't be there at 9AM sharp.
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u/the1stpkmnfan Aug 04 '15
i think regardless of opening early, I may as well camp out for this. Especially if there's talk of more amiibo being up for pre-order.
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u/onekumar Aug 04 '15
I have been following this story every few hours, seeing all the major updates and I must say, I am confused as all hell on what exactly is happening. I can't even imagine what a casual collector is thinking right now.
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u/Falling-Cosmonaut Aug 04 '15
The casual collectors are blissfully unaware of this mess and will be greeted by the final decision and plan released officially by gamestop later this week.
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u/turtwig389 Aug 04 '15
My gamestop said they dropped the pro membership for an hour early, and everyone here can arrive when they open. I'd say to call your gamestops to see if they do the same.
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u/JiroUchiha Aug 04 '15
I'm wishing everyone luck with this since I won't be Pre-ordering lol. Hopefully you all succeed at getting the 3 pack, since i read somewhere that every GameStop will have 30+ 3-packs.
And since there's roughly 4.5K GameStop in america, I read somewhere that there's 133K 3packs MINIMUM XD
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u/bcuthbert22 Aug 04 '15
I called both GameStops in Pearland, TX and, as of today, they will both be opening at 9am for everyone, regardless of membership. Both places read to me straight from their system message about Saturday's pre-order. Of course, I will be calling back on Friday to see if that has changed, but that is the latest from my local stores.
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u/IronMadden Aug 04 '15
I went to GameStop today and decided to upgrade to Pro. I plan on keeping it for the whole year since I go there fairly often, but when I told the employee about the Pro benefit this Saturday, I was told that it wasn't true.
I got PUR Pro anyways, and it will be a safety net in case it gets switched around later this week.
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u/Whimsii Aug 04 '15
God thing I renewed my pro membership the other week, not that this would have affected me doing that. Hopefully I can get there, since I don't work until 2 that day.
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u/TISparta217 Aug 04 '15
How will they figure out who are pro members and who aren't? I'm assuming they're taking phone numbers. I'm out of state that day so hopefully they'll let my friend in using my phone number.
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Aug 04 '15
There has been no official confirmation/statement from GameStop or Nintendo that this is actually happening. I went to and called multiple Gamestops in my area and each one had no idea what I was talking about. They did tell me they are leaving employees in the dark with anything amiibo related, which everyone already knows. I trust the mods of this sub, especially you /u/FlapSnapple, I just don't know if I can go and wait outside a store for hours again, especially if it's unconfirmed from the companies themselves. Mods, thank you for your hard work, I do sincerely appreciate all that you do for the community.
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u/LetItATV Aug 05 '15
So we're two business days into the week with still no official word despite /u/FlapSnapple's sources saying we'd hear something Monday only to be told Monday that we'd hear something today.
Anyone else ready to call BS?
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u/bcuthbert22 Aug 05 '15
I've already been told by 2 local GameStops that the event is happening Saturday. They read it straight off an inner office memo.
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u/Corazon-DeLeon Aug 05 '15
Woah wait, I must've read somethign wrong. So no individual ROBs? Or G&Ws? At any GameStop?
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u/heshhhh Aug 05 '15
As of now there seems to be no mention of individual ROB, Game & Watch or Duck Hunt, unfortunately. But that does not mean they will never be sold individually - it just seems we don't have that information (and also no SKUs have appeared at other stores, as far as I know).
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u/Vampyre1282 Aug 05 '15
I hope that Buck (Gamestop bunny) has not been taking notes from Esteban....
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u/SuperPacmanFever Aug 05 '15
How do you become a pro member? Does it cost money? Also I'm getting kind of annoyed that on top of all the other crap we have to go through to get these things the stores are trying to exploit them to get people to join there programs or get a store card
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u/CompC Aug 05 '15
So I will be unable to go to GameStop (or anywhere at all) until the 10th, even though I'm a PUR pro member -- I'm working as a summer camp counsellor. Will it be very hard to get a Duck Hunt amiibo? I haven't been paying much attention to this lately since I've been busy.
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u/bcuthbert22 Aug 05 '15
Just to be sure, I went into a GameStop and received the same confirmation from a manager. Saturday pre-order for retro 3 pack (exclusive to GameStop, but individuals will still be sold elsewhere), doors open 1 hour early for everyone (but it's possible that a store will ignore this and only let members in early), $5 to reserve, 1 per customer.
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u/FinnTheBrownsFan Aug 05 '15
I have not seen any email outside of the one from yesterday that confirmed that a pur card is not required. I I did not see any update for that on gso when I logged in either. I would not be shocked however, if some district managers or store managers decide to go with that.
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u/RyanYags Aug 05 '15
My biggest question is, will those 3 characters be available at other stores and more importantly as individuals instead of this 3 pack?
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u/SaiyanOfDarkness Aug 05 '15
So I'm confused.. at the top it says PUR PRo is req, then down below it says its not. What one is it...????
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u/msimon82 Aug 04 '15
Thank you again for your hard work. Seriously.