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GameStop To Fill 360 Preorders by February
Gamespot reports that retailer GameStop expects to fill of of its Xbox 360 preorders by the end of February. From the article: "Gamers who thought they were getting the jump on the Xbox 360 shortage by preordering the system from retailers may have unknowingly stung themselves. Some of those who put down money up front for the next-gen console are still without their systems, as Microsoft continues to struggle to keep enough 360s in the channel to satisfy customers."
Ask for a refund.
If you're not going to get your console until the shortage is over, why should they get to keep your money until then. These stores should be punished for selling pre-orders before they knew the final pricing of the console, the release date, or whether they were going to be able to fulfill those pre-orders. Don't let them get away with it, and ask for your money back.
Also, next time, if they can't tell you exactly what day you're going to get your item when they're selling you the pre-order, don't buy the pre-order! These stores only get away with this shit because we let them.
So ...
The whole point of a Pre-Order system is to ensure that you recieve a product on the first day that it is released; that is you provide a deposit for (or outright purchase) a system well in advance of its release so that you don't have to wait or deal with shortage.
Now Gamespot decides to take in far more pre-orders than they have systems to fill those orders and is now saying they will have filled those orders by February; thus they failed to live up to their end of the contract. Why on earth would you pre-order anything from them ever again?
Does anyone else remember the Seinfeld episode where he reserved a car, and the car rental company didn't have the car he reserved? Yeah, this is kinda like that.
I would get a refund. I live in Calgary and I would guess that all the EB Games locations are sold out. I happened to be in BestBuy maybe a week ago and they had a small supply of 360s available, so why waste your time?
What is the point of a pre-ordering if you can pick up a console at another store well in advance of your pre-order arriving?
Yeah, I hear Geometry Wars is pretty good.
It is :)
I don't regret it. I got my 360 on launch day and have had zero problems.
This is mostly GameStop's fault. I put in a $50 pre-order in at FYE 2 weeks before Christmas and my $600 bundle arrived on Dec 24th.
GameStop has been giving web orders of their utimate bundles priorty over in-store pre-orders of just the console. Nothing but pure greed on their part is the cause of their backlog.
Anyway, who's stupid enough to give anyone full payment for something months in advance? I know some people want one bad, but where is the common sense? I guess that's why it's called "bait and switch."
Sure, Windows PCs dominate the market. But so do cheap toupees.
Bravo!
You're making the liddle xbots cry...
Microsoft must have pretty much passed anything through QA or the 360 hardware is just fundementally fucked.
Okaaaaay.
Do you even own a 360? I do, and it's a VERY solid system (it hasn't crashed once)
They've only shipped 600k units because that's all they've been able to make so far. If they'd been able to make more, they'd have sold more.
I'll in programming terms.... max(sales) <= Supply.total
Who are you to tell him what problems he personally does or does not experience?! And you really get your point across with the foul language! Thanks for contributing to the general crappiness that is the Slashdot Audience, AC!!
Do you get 3% off of your Xbox when they finally deliver it to you, since you let them sit on your (collective) 3 Billion dollars in preorders for 6 months? 6% is a pretty low number, I bet they make closer to 18% on new stores that are built in the long run on that money you helped them "invest" with for 6 months...
I never preorder. I'll collect interest on my money, thanks.
moox. for a new generation.
GameStop To Fill 360 Preorders by February
Actually, they expect to fill the pre-orders by end of February which means the title is a bit mis-leading. Should read:
(Sorry for the rant)
The one thing that I hope comes out of this fiasco is that people will start to realize what a crappy deal pre-ordering is. Maybe when the PS3 comes out people that got burned by the 360 pre-order will start to refuse to buy bundles. Forcing people to buy bundles is the scourge of the console industry, in my opinion. I'm hoping companies like GameStop really take it in the shorts the next time a big console launches. They probably would never admit it, but I bet they knew damn well that there wouldn't be enough consoles to meet pre-order demands but they continued to take the orders anyway. Weren't they one of the companies that started taking pre-orders for DNF five years ago?
Did anybody else read the title as: "Gamestop to fill 360(three hundred and sixty) preorders by February".
Their business must really be hurting if it's going to take them that long to fill a few hundred preorders.
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"Microsoft is just stupid. They have the means to produce so many more 360's than they have."
They may be stupid, but they haven't made many mistakes with the 360. It is hardly their fault that other manufacturers aren't keeping up with their SLA's.
.. some poor sods in the UK who pre-ordered from Special Reserve, a UK online retailer, paid in full for their consoles. And the company then went bust, leaving those who hadn't paid via credit card £270 out of pocket.
I still stand by those statements despite being marked as a troll. The beauty found in most of the 360 games, like DOA, is lost on standard televisions, making the system moot. This is probably going to be true for the PS3 and Rev also, and this makes me sad. One reason is it is another proof that developers are putting more time into graphics than game, which we all agree with. And I also stand by my statement that lack of inventory will now hurt MS as much as it helped them at the 360 launch.