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."

Comments

Sting Back

[ivan256]

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.

Re:Sting Back

[MBCook]

I agree completely. If they didn't have my console on launch day and that was when they told me they would have it, I would almost certainly ask for my money back. At most, I would give them a week to produce my console. At that point, I would get my money back. They didn't hold up their end of the bargain.

They are holding your money, making interest on it, not giving you the benefit of that interest, and not giving you your console.

Take the money, and go look at Costco, Target, Wal*Mart, Toys R Us, EB Games (that haven't become Gamestop's yet), Babbages (owned by GameStop), Radio Shack, ANYWHERE. But the console where you can find it, and keep checking until you find one. If GameStop is the first to get it in and let you buy it, then they can have your money.

But don't let them hold your money for free.

I like my local GameStop, but I wouldn't put up with this. I didn't back when Chips & Bits gave me the runaround about the Virtual Boy I ordered, and I would now.

Re:Sting Back

[Guppy06]

I found myself in a similar situation at the DS launch. I preordered one at my local EB and, once they came in, I was called and told that, because of the demand for the console, they weren't going to let me have the DS I paid for unless I also paid for their "extended warranty."

I got a refund instead and bought my DS in Wal-Mart.

Re:Sting Back

[The Eagle Maint]

As someone who worked for EB Games until recently, I have to say - if you ever have this happen again or anything like it, ask for the customer service number, take down the name of the person telling you that and file a complaint about them. That is strictly against company policy and I can assure you they would be severely reprimanded for that. I say this having left because I was sick of lying to customers to get sales, as this tactic isn't really that rare - but if you say something, you can be sure they will get in trouble for it.

Re:Xbox 360 owners are tards

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, I hear Geometry Wars is pretty good.

Re:Yeah, considering...

[Gojira Shipi-Taro]

I'd also recommend that in the future when one of these companies recommends pre-ordering, you remind them of this fiasco.

Stop doing the Manager's job (figuring out what to order) for him.

GameStop == Satan

[smaffei]

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."

Re:Cancelations

[natedog44]

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

meanwhile gamestop makes a cool 6% apr on preorder

[Hadlock]

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.

By March...

[Jim Hall]

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:

GameStop to Fill 360 Preorders by March

(Sorry for the rant)

Silver lining?

[Otis2222222]

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?