Reading these posts are really making me worry about my BB pre-order. I was planning on just showing up at midnight to get my in store pick up but now I am worrying that I STILL need to camp out in line to pick up something I pre-ordered. Uggh

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I asked my dude at my local BB what the deal was about how the preorders would be filled. He told me that his manager had just attended some meeting about the holiday season. He said the preorders are supposed to be given out in the order they were preordered if they can't fulfill all of them, but he said because they cut off the preorders they should have enough.

I'm going to keep on them about it (I suggest you do the same). I preordered at 10:20 am the day they went live, and I'll be damned if they expect me to stand in line all night to get one.

Originally Posted by Wompdevil Reading these posts are really making me worry about my BB pre-order. I was planning on just showing up at midnight to get my in store pick up but now I am worrying that I STILL need to camp out in line to pick up something I pre-ordered. Uggh

If you get there at midnight and there are 200 people in line in front of you, you still have to wait till they have helped each one of those 200 people first. Maybe by some miracle, some clueless employee won't give away your pre-order by mistake.

Originally Posted by bbedwards I asked my dude at my local BB what the deal was about how the preorders would be filled. He told me that his manager had just attended some meeting about the holiday season. He said the preorders are supposed to be given out in the order they were preordered if they can't fulfill all of them, but he said because they cut off the preorders they should have enough. I'm going to keep on them about it (I suggest you do the same). I preordered at 10:20 am the day they went live, and I'll be damned if they expect me to stand in line all night to get one.

If there are 100 people in line in front of you that have also pre-ordered, they have to help those 100 people first. You are still going to stand in a line at some point.

Just want to say sorry was just a powerup member card not a pro account, just another thing to keep track of my purchases that I won't be using....

Originally Posted by bbedwards I asked my dude at my local BB what the deal was about how the preorders would be filled. He told me that his manager had just attended some meeting about the holiday season. He said the preorders are supposed to be given out in the order they were preordered if they can't fulfill all of them, but he said because they cut off the preorders they should have enough. I'm going to keep on them about it (I suggest you do the same). I preordered at 10:20 am the day they went live, and I'll be damned if they expect me to stand in line all night to get one.

Lol your gonna have to stand in line. Best Buy pre-orders dont use I.D's or anything, so the only thing they might have on you is your Reward Zone info. Only way to have possibly avoided the line was to do an instore pickup from the website, even then who knows.

Guys, all I am saying is I'm glad they will have preorders reserved in the order received in case they can't fulfill all preorders. I just don't want to be forced to camp out early to be guaranteed a console when I already have a preorder

Im gonna camp out at my Gamestop just for the fun of it.
Im not gonna want to do anything besides play the Wii U anyway so yeah....might as well be near it.

I was at Wal-mart just now and they had a Wii controller out for sale in the Wii U box art. Nothing big, just thought that was a little odd.

I don't really care about order, if even 1 person that pre ordered doesn't get their system, it ain't right. I know it'll happen, but I hope whoever it happens to gets compensated by the store.

Originally Posted by therealdanhill I don't really care about order, if even 1 person that pre ordered doesn't get their system, it ain't right. I know it'll happen, but I hope whoever it happens to gets compensated by the store.

Likely scenario: "Sorry we sold out of Wii U's, here's a 5$ Gift Card, try again in a month"

Originally Posted by Deader2818 I was at Wal-mart just now and they had a Wii controller out for sale in the Wii U box art. Nothing big, just thought that was a little odd.

Walmart started getting wii mote plus in the wii u box art last week, this week we started to get the wii nunchuck with the wii u box art

Yeah, I figure if I show up at midnight at BB I would be waiting in line which I don't mind at all. I just don't want to find out they sold them to people who are trying to pick them up at midnight and didn't bother to set aside the in-store pick up pre-orders. Times like this I wish Amazon and Nintendo weren't having their little cat fight. At least Amazon is really good CS wise when issues like this would happen. Ah well, we shall see

Just pay the whole preorder off and they literally cannot give it to someone else. Unless they want to lose their job.

Originally Posted by Eggman Just pay the whole preorder off and they literally cannot give it to someone else. Unless they want to lose their job.

You can do that? I have never been allowed to put more than 5$ down here

Even then....I'm pretty sure your logic is flawed. One time my store only got 3 copies of a C.E in, one for each system. I got there first and had an in-store pre-order for 5$, so they had to sell it to me instead of the guy who did an Instore Pickup.

I think the important thing here isn't whether you put money down.. it's to get there FIRST even if you pre-ordered. I wonder if there will be separate line for ppl who preordered. Who knows what will happen to my pre-order if I go in after all those ppl lined up outside..

I did the Best Buy pre-order with store pickup. i was even signed up to receive the email from Best Buy letting me know when pre-orders were available and i managed to get my pre-order in BEFORE that email went out.

Regardless, I'm not going until I get the email that says my Wii U is ready for pickup, like any other Best Buy online order with in-store pickup. I don't see the point of going during all of the mayhem until i know it's waiting for me, nor would it make sense for them to give out pre-orders based on anything EXCEPT the order in which the pre-order was made.

I pray it all works out. But I just do not believe Nintendo is being open with retailers on how many systems they will ACTUALLY receive at launch.

The totally legit sounding wiishopexpress is taking preorders fur a bundle packed with useless poop.

http://www.wiishopexpress.com/Nintendo-Wii-U-Bundle-with-Wii-Fit-U-p/WUCWFB.htm?gclid=CKGSoLGf6rICFVGd4Aodf0gA0Q

Originally Posted by Eggman Just pay the whole preorder off and they literally cannot give it to someone else. Unless they want to lose their job.

Money is money, they're getting the same amount no matter who it comes from. All they have to do is say "sorry, we oversold" and give you your money back. You're not entitled to anything except a spot in line.

Mine is getting shipped from Target hopefully. Got my order in ten minutes after they started taking preorders online. No lines and waiting outside this time!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!