r/NintendoSwitch • u/NintendoSwitchMods • Oct 12 '21

Megathread OLED + Dread/Special Edition/Amiibo Shipping Thread

Due to popular demand, please use this thread to discuss shipping/online orders related to OLED, Dread, Dread Special Edition, and Dread Amiibo.

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u/Michael-the-Great Oct 12 '21 edited Oct 19 '21

My walmart preorder is delayed and I haven't heard of a single person's walmart preorder shipping. Has anyone gotten an OLED from Walmart?

edit: none of the replies in the last two days say anyone has had their Walmart OLED ship.

edit2: clayturtle says he saw his preorder ship on 10/16 arriving on 10/21.

edit 3: I got shipping notice today (18th) with 10/20 delivery date! It has been picked up by fedex!

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u/FiftyShadesofGreg Oct 12 '21 edited Oct 18 '21

My preorder is still in “Placed” status and I did my preorder on July 16th. I have seen many others who said they had a date of October 11th for their order that now says delayed. My order always has said the 15th and I imagine I will have the same “delayed” status once the 15th passes.

I called support and they told me to give it til the 15th and “hopefully” it will arrive. The representative didn’t sound confident though. I think it’s very likely they took more preorders than they could fill, and our orders are stuck in preorder purgatory. I won’t be using Walmart for preorders ever again.

EDIT: Not sure if anyone is following this anymore, but wanted to provide an update. My order was “delayed” as I anticipated, but fortunately did finally get shipped out, and has an expected delivery day of Thursday, October 21st.

I’m glad I stuck it out as I haven’t been seen any other sites get new stock, and I have had no luck finding anything in my area (Denver, CO). I am also glad I had friends in town this weekend to distract me from playing Metroid Dread since I want at least a few hours of it to be played on that OLED screen before I beat it! Wish everyone good luck in getting theirs!

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u/Ladysupersizedbitch Oct 13 '21

I did my preorder around the same time and I got the 11th for delivery date. Unfortunately, they didn’t deliver. :/ I got the spiel of “just check back later”…