Did anyone bag a Mini SNES before they sold out?

Those who got from the original retailers like the above few posters, how did you do so.

Because they were sold out within 24 minutes. I will repeat that, between now and when preorders went live which is over a week ago, there was only stock for 24 minutes.

The people who succeeded would for one of these reasons.

1 - They got extremely lucky they just happened to check in the very small window stock was available, I calculated the odds of that happening to be similar to getting 5 numbers on the lottery.
2 - Was on nintendo new product announcement list, this of course means you get spam for a load of junk products as well but would allow you to know when stock went up on nintendos website.
3 - Following the right people on twitter or other social media and may have got lucky on the spread of info.
4 - Using an automated tool, this one a friend of mine has confessed how he managed to get one from amazon.
5 - Word of mouth from people you know so e.g. a work colleague just orders one then tells the person next to them.

I find it hard to believe you guys just casually checked to see if could buy a snes mini online and bam there was stock.

Tesco without warning, put up stock last night, it survived a bit longer than others, presumably because no one was expecting it but it still barely lasted an hour.

Argos have relisted the product and for 3 days have a page syaing "orders opening soon", soon i obviously a very vague word so isnt very useful, I dont know why none of the retailers can not specify a time and date when they will start taking orders.

I seem to be the only one on here who wants a mini snes but has failed to get one from any uk retailer, but I did order one from dutch retailer 'bol'.

Chrysalis wrote: »

1 - They got extremely lucky they just happened to check in the very small window stock was available, I calculated the odds of that happening to be similar to getting 5 numbers on the lottery.
2 - Was on nintendo new product announcement list, this of course means you get spam for a load of junk products as well but would allow you to know when stock went up on nintendos website.
3 - Following the right people on twitter or other social media and may have got lucky on the spread of info.
4 - Using an automated tool, this one a friend of mine has confessed how he managed to get one from amazon.
5 - Word of mouth from people you know so e.g. a work colleague just orders one then tells the person next to them.

The odds of 1 aren't the same as a lottery win. I imagine plenty of people have reserved stock by casually (albeit persistently) checking retailers. For most people though I expect it will be number 3. I managed to reserve one at Argos simply because I happened to check Facebook when a post went up about Argos, and I clicked through and ordered one probably within 5 or 10 minutes of the pre orders going live. So I was just lucky.

Though I did also put myself down for stock announcements from Nintendo, and my phone gives me an alert when I get a new email. As it happens I wasn't near my phone when I got that alert, and by the time I saw it the pre orders had all gone, but had I been near my phone I would have been able to reserve one with Nintendo.

Chrysalis wrote: »

Those who got from the original retailers like the above few posters, how did you do so.

Because they were sold out within 24 minutes. I will repeat that, between now and when preorders went live which is over a week ago, there was only stock for 24 minutes.

The people who succeeded would for one of these reasons.

1 - They got extremely lucky they just happened to check in the very small window stock was available, I calculated the odds of that happening to be similar to getting 5 numbers on the lottery.
2 - Was on nintendo new product announcement list, this of course means you get spam for a load of junk products as well but would allow you to know when stock went up on nintendos website.
3 - Following the right people on twitter or other social media and may have got lucky on the spread of info.
4 - Using an automated tool, this one a friend of mine has confessed how he managed to get one from amazon.
5 - Word of mouth from people you know so e.g. a work colleague just orders one then tells the person next to them.

I find it hard to believe you guys just casually checked to see if could buy a snes mini online and bam there was stock.

Tesco without warning, put up stock last night, it survived a bit longer than others, presumably because no one was expecting it but it still barely lasted an hour.

Argos have relisted the product and for 3 days have a page syaing "orders opening soon", soon i obviously a very vague word so isnt very useful, I dont know why none of the retailers can not specify a time and date when they will start taking orders.

I seem to be the only one on here who wants a mini snes but has failed to get one from any uk retailer, but I did order one from dutch retailer 'bol'.

I got one from the going to smyths website from the links in post 2 of these thread as they still had pre orders available

glentoran99 wrote: »

http://www.stockinformer.co.uk/checker-super-nintendo-entertainment-system-snes

Yes that site was open in my browser for a week.

It only sends out email notifications if stock lasts for at least 7 mins, it also didnt notify on all the first retailers because at that point the product wasnt added.

So in short this site wasnt any use for the day 1 first 24 mins, and of limited use after. It did allow me to get one from game uk tho 2 days ago, so after over a week it achieved something.

So now I have one from game uk and one from the dutch retailer bol as backup.

In my opinion people ordering 3+ are as bad as the scalpers.