Recent content by GreenArmadillo

I actually sold my Xbox One X to BB via UPS and just got my trade credit one week after dropping it at the UPS store. You don't get a coupon if you do mail in, but they pay the postage and you don't need to wait inside the store for them to test it. For how I personally value my time...

Tiniest bit of movement on my Target.com pre-order accepted 9/22 11:11 AM. Still hasn't shipped per website, app, or FedEX, but at least now there is a pending charge placed at 11:40 PM last night. At least my total was only $480 after Red Card and a 5% Circle coupon that was active on that day...

The initial estimate was 11-16 Nov.

The FedEX guy just rolled up and dropped off... My Target pre-order copy of Valhalla, two days before street date. My Target pre-order console (ordered in the initial batch) still hasn't shipped or charged. Email pops from Target.... Informing me that my order for the copy of Valhalla has been...

In a related story, BB reward certificates no longer work on gift cards. (This was always technically what it said, but the last time I tried to buy anything from BB it still worked.)

Technically there are controllers but yeah, discs also won't work for X-Cloud. That $200 trade in value on the Xbox One X sounded too good to be true and I'm glad at least the strings attached became visible before I went to a store. Thanks Gamestop for helping me accept that it makes no sense...

Having never traded a console for a new console pre-order before, what are the steps? Does the whole process need to be done in store, or can you secure an order online for store pickup and go in later with your trade stuff? The website says the hardware values are good through 11/30, does that...

Note that only the primary Amazon Prime account holder is eligible for Twitch Prime. My wife has the primary Amazon account, I can share shipping benefits on my Amazon accounts, but my Amazon account cannot be linked to Twitch. I had at some point linked my wife's Amazon to my Twitch since she...

Irritating to hear all these stories about physical stores that still have figures and aren't even charging for them while my Black Friday online order sits in "open" status.  I'm just assuming I effectively paid $25 for the Sonic pack and an unsuccessful gamble for a chance at the Green Arrow. ...

Out of curiosity, do you remember about what time you placed your order? I placed my order around 4 PM Eastern on the 24th. Got a shipping confirmation on Sonic around midnight of the 26-27th (i.e. nearly 48 hours ago). The order still says open, but I am skeptical. The terms of the promo...

When did you place your order? Mine went in around 5 PM Eastern on Thanksgiving Day (after having checked the site earlier, before the promo was live). The other item I ordered (Sonic pack) has now shipped, the Green Arrow says it has not. Didn't have a lot of good options, don't have access...

Target shipped half of the Wave 6 stuff and is preparing the other half (ended up on two orders for some reason).  Clearly this is a company that is dwelling on having offered an incorrect deal a few months ago, as the Target website currently says you can do the B1G1 on the wave 7 fun pack...

Buyer beware on these Amazon out of stock price matches. I've had more than one that didn't ship for over two months, with no notice, just a silently slipping ship date on my order page. If this was a product that still existed I would have more confidence, but this is end of life clearance...

Today's Target ad is live with 40% off dimensions including Wave 6 preorders. 

Those practices aren't incompetence, those are intentional efforts to manipulate the psychology of children to sell more toys. When you see shelves full of undesirable figures like transformers you have never heard of, first order storm troopers wearing outfits I don't even remember from the...