>artificial shortage REEEEE!! >Nintendo should just mass

>>384541826
:3

>defending amibos

>>384541958
>missing the point
Sonyfriends

>be retail wageslave
>get an initial stock of like 10 switches
>haven't seen one since
>not a single SNES
>have to constantly explain to customers that we don't have them

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>>384541826
>Partaking in and defending anti-consumer practices that blatantly belittle you as a loyal customer and subject you to either waiting unecessary amounts of time for a product that's likely not even worth the wait while the only other option is to subject yourself to being scammed by scalpers.

Never change, /v/.

>>384541826
>blinking Diddy Kong is his pupil flattening

This is disgusting

>>384542734
>Have random Wednesday off from work (wageslave)
>Wake up early because My sleep schedule is still in weekday mode
>Go to target as it opens
>Just looking for curtains no intent or hope of buying a switch
>See one with the stupid color controllers
>Ask wageslave to get it out of case for me
>He says it's the first they've had in weeks
>As soon as I buy it and walk away he gets on his cell phone and I hear him say "someone bought the switch"
>Even people with friends who can hook them up can't get them around me

>>384542945
What anti consumer practice?? Not overstocking the market??

>>384543208
Knowingly selling small amounts of product so that it'll circulate through scalpers/day one buyers in order to increase the demand for your product at the expense of the majority of consumers. Exclusive gaming products as well, the gaming industry has a shit ton of anti-consumerist practices going on right now.

>>384543478
It works out well for Nintendo
They don't have to worry about overproduction, overstock and retail buy backs unless they make a grave miscalculation like they did with the Wii U

Honestly, Nintendo couldn't care less that some scalper sells it to you, because the scalper still bought it

>>384543478
>knowingly selling small amounts
>op pic show how its all about popularity and not some evil ploy to micro manage the market
Anon please

>>384543676
>>384543478
Actually it will be more about retailers than Nintendo blocking of scalpers, Nintendo sell it to retailerS, and retailers are the one tha willingly sell to scalpers

Retairlers can easily limit 1-2 per walk in person and 1-2 per adress/ credit card online

>>384543676
Yes, and that is anti-consumer, by definition. They are putting business priority over the consumer.

>>384543753
Yes, on new release items that they know people will eat up like hot cakes. Not long lasting items or items that they know will undersell, of course those are going to be in stock.

>>384543889
Really? I didn't know that. That's still a shitty practice in terms of consumer treatment. Glad I don't really buy into this kind of stuff anymore.

>>384541826
>Not a single game took advantage of the AC Amiibo
>Most just relied on the cards
>there will be landfills filled with these in a few months

>>384544349
It's remarkable how much Nintendo overestimated demand for the AC line.

>run an electronics dept at wally world.
>get 10 switches a week.
>moment they're up, entire group of scalpers are there. Each buy 2, all leave together.
Normies dont stand a chance. At least they make my sales spike.

>>384543050
The white stuff is fur around his eyes, like monkeys have. His official artwork depicts the white being both his eyes and not depending on the year.

>>384544540
Do you limit them to 2?

>>384541826
>while Disney infinity had to be put down
i thought they just ended it

>>384544597
I wantes to limit it to 1, but my bosses said minimum 2. At least I got that. Some stores just sell as many as the people want.
Its a team of scalpers in my area. Same 4 to 6 that show up every week. One asks, then within 5 minutes they're all there.

>>384544547
>>384543050
I think it's more in line with the Super Mario designs. I think Nintendo has been trying to fit the designs in with the Super Mario Characters for a while.
The Rare designs of Donkey Kong characters is truly trash.

>>384544640
They put right killed it

Do you guys think splatoon 2 release will drop enough switches to hurt the scalpers? How long do you think this will go on? Until christmas? For the entire life of the console?

>>384545031
I'm guessing they'll have a bit more stock by Black Friday-Christmas season. They probably have some stock also for Mario Odyssey and will keep trickling down a few units per store until the holidays.

>>384541826
But those are literally the most unpopular amiibos

Businesses only care about money, they don´t give a fuck about the customer. They will sell however many to whoever comes in because it´s profit. Some kid wants a switch or something when they are sold out, too fucking bad should have gotten there sooner. Businesses are not your friends.

>>384545031
They said they will increase the hardware count by this month,

New tuesday night is investors meeting so expect someone to ask about the hardware situation

>>384545159
Thats the point, articifial shortage is a meme to undermine the popularity of something
>Nintendo makes something
>it flies of the shelfs
>o-ofcourse it will sell out when nintendo only made 10 of it REEEE!!!

Sure, it's not hard to find pics of AC amiibos in bargain bins, but I'll believe amiibos are a failure when you can find me the same pics of Zelda/Fire Emblem ones

>>384542734
>work for target in a big college town
>summer, so no one's around
>walk past the electronics section everyday for two weeks, one single switch left in the case
>it's even the all-black version
>payday
>finally enough saved up to get it and still be able to eat
>get to store a few minutes before my shift to pick it up
>it's gone
this is what I get for prioritizing rent and food over video games, I guess

>>384545341

Edgy as fuck. A lot of businesses will limit sales of popular items to not fuck their customers over. Of course theyre not your friends. Thats why theyre called businesses instead of friends. What a stupid statement.

>>384545704
If you had said it was a Meijer, I would've apologized to you, as that was almost the exact scenario when I found my Switch.

>>384545678
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>>384545704
My local target been dry for months

>>384545704

>prioritizing food and rent over vidya

This is no place for casuals, get out. Seriously though, i hope you meant you have enough save for your minimum safety net. If you literally only had $300 you shouldnt have bought a switch. Although i understand, its a cool console for sure

>>384545706
But yet here we are in a thread where people think retailers should should limit products to keep random people happy and possibly lose out on money. If some guy wants to buy 5 of something and you limit him to 1, who´s to say the other 4 are going to sell anytime soon? They want to move the product as fast as possible to make sure they maximize profits because they can just order more the next week or two

>>384544640
It didn't really flop, more like Disney knows they can make way more money shitting out star wars and marvel games than trying to keep some toys to life line relevant. It made money, just not the insane amount of money they wanted.

>>384546045
Of you get to the point that yoy have to micro manage sales, then you know the product will sell
Its something you do on individual basis not for every single product

>>384546045

>whos to say the other four will sell

Do you expect me to believe you dont know what the word popular means?

Why does /v/ hate the red/blue joycons so much? Is it autism?

>>384546125
Sales were steady going down and selfs were fetting over stocked, they basically walked away before it became an bigger burden

>>384546019
I always keep a few extra hundred in savings in case of emergency car repairs or doctor visits (thankfully, I'm under 26, so I'm still on my parents' insurance, I only have to cover copay)
so, yeah, this was on top of that
honestly, though, target pays pretty well in the grand scheme of big retail chains, but even still
it's $10/hour
savings are pretty limited

>>384546251
doesn't fit my all-black entertainment center
I want the only focus to be on what's on the screen, not the pretty colors of the console underneath the tv

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>>384546251
The grip and the handheld look so much sleeker when you use the gray joy-cons.

>>384546386
The console is black either way. The joycons are in your hand.

I'll forgive them for now but I better find a damn Switch sometime next week.

>wake up march 3rd around 10am
>oh shit the switch came out today
>eat breakfast
>take shower
>drive to wal mart
>see people buying switches
>buy switch
>play zelda
You fags gotta be trollin

>>384546429
>not playing with the elite controller
don't talk to me, poorscum

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>america actually has trouble trying to buy switches because of scalpers

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>>384546878
What region do you live in?
Scalpers and the gray market are a legitimate problem in America, and retailers don't care enough to actually limit sales because they get money either way.

i got my red/blue one off some guy brand new still in the amazon shipping box.

>>384547193
this image makes me irrationally angry
I bet whoever got those sold em off on ebay for $500 apiece

>>384545704
>work in customer service for target
>some guy returns his switch cause his wife got pissed and told him to
>haven't had a switch shipped in for weeks and no word of anymore coming in anytime soon
>decide to clock out for lunch and buy it since it was payday
>mfw some schmuck comes in and asks if we have any switch consoles available

It's a retail hell job but sometimes it's totally worth it.
Also balls to you if you're living alone on retail pay.

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>>384542734
>Work at a FUCKING GAMESTOP
>Lady brings the display boxes for the switch, carrying case, pro controller, extra joy-cons, screen protector and Zelda up to counter
>Would have been $550+
>Tell her we don't have the switch in stock but there's a bundle that comes with all of this for $80 less, she'd just have to wait for it to get shipped
>Says she doesn't want it and storms out of the store

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>>384547363
>telling him you had one available

I 100% would have lied if there was no way of him knowing, I do it all the time at my job

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>>384547363
>forget to upload image

>>384547469
I told him we haven't had any for weeks. I forgot to mention that the guy came in like an hour after i bought it. It's late and i'm tired.

>>384547328
Probably a nigger. Scalpers are usually shitskins from my experience.

>>384546878
I had always planned to buy it in July to avoid defects that would have come early on, figured after a few months demand would drop enough so I could buy one... nope. But once I do finally get it, I'm going to splurge and buy 4-5 games at once.

>>384547363

>theres men so beta they take orders from their wife
>he wasnt ashamed enough of this to not tell you the truth about it

Jesus Christ

>>384542617
> b-b-but sony!
pathetic nintendo is shit for this they did the same for the nes/snes and tried the same for the n64 and got btfo

>>384543198
>he gets on his cell phone and I hear him say "someone bought the switch"
I don't understand the significance of this.

Ok switch bros i have zelda, mk8 and planning on getting splatoon2. Anything else i should get?

>>384548485
Telling his friend to not bother to come, he probably called him earlier to tell him there was one in stock

>>384548485
he was trying to keep the switch for his scumbag friend

>>384541826
man, Ninty really counted on Amiibo Festival top be big and it failed miserably.

It's amazing how they can make great games like BOTW, but completely and utterly misunderstand the Animal Crossing audience.

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>>384541826
What is this thread about? I liked the Infinity toys and was sad to see them end.

>>384549195
>the girl from Frozen that didn't actually do anything
>Disney made them spend man-hours on that instead of an exciting character like Hercules

>>384549669
I try not to think about what they could have made because they literally have rights to everything.

How the fuck does Disney fuck up when they have a selectable roster that is almost 2x the amount Nintendo has.

>>384546429
The joycons are never in my hand you roboautist. I literally held the joycons once since I bought my switch and that was when I placed it in the dock for the first time.

>tfw I actively scalp these and sell them for $400 on ebay

I'm sorry, but rent isn't going to pay itself.

>>384549840

It was making over 500 million, it just wasn't enough for Disney tho, so they axed the whole thing.

>>384550424
I don't blame you, you're just making up for market inefficiencies

Animal Crossing amiibos are like retail herpes

nobody wants them and they never go away

>>384550424
Maybe you should try getting a job

>>384541826
Nigger nobody wants the shit animal crossing ones
The ones people actually want they make -4 of

>>384550551
I do have job in retail, we need $15 an hour or so though for minimum wage, I only make barely enough money with $10 an hour minimum wage I have now to cover my expenses like food/rent.

>>384542734
>work at Target
>have to deal with around 30 moms a fucking day asking where they are
>have to explain each time that we don't have them in stock
Hold me back before I smack a bitch

>>384542734
>>384550675
>my mother wants go buy a Network Switch for her office
>I have to go in with her and convince the sales associate she actually doesn't want a nintendo switch because they assume all women are just there for that

>>384550530
The non-smash Mario amiibos are the same way. You can't even give them away.

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>Had some business early in the morning on March 3rd
>Decide to call around after its finished and find out Best Buy is the only place that has any
>Gamestop even says "we don't have any" before you say anything
>Buy a Switch and BoTW
>Wasn't very excited for BoTW because open world meme
>Turns out to be one of the most genuinely fun games I've ever played
I know it's cool and fun to just be full of hate and negativity but the Switch is such a promising system and I wish more people could get their hands on one. I'm not really sure what the stock situation is like at this point but hopefully it's not too bad. I lived in SD at the time and usually you can't shit, especially not on launch day, but somehow I lucked out for once and it was so worth it.

>>384550551
Okay, where?

>>384544515
it's remarkable how people aren't buying them up now for $3 a piece. you know they WILL make a new animal crossing game at some point right?

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>>384549840
I got a figure of my wife at the least

>>384541826
>caring this much about some figurines
nintendo menchildren should leave and never come back

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>>384551121
Me too.

Don't worry, those'll all be worth $80 when Animal Crossing comes out for Switch. Better buy 'em up while they're getting clearanced.

>>384550758
Yes, because gamestop sells networking equipment

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>tfw been looking for toon link and finally found one but have to pay scalpers $12 extra plus tip

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>>384554852
>tfw friend gifted me one

>>384541826
Everyone always says Nintendo doesn't know what they're doing but Disney is a perfect example of what happens when you're not conservative. What happened was that Disney produced way too many of them so it was a huge flop. Plus, Nintendo's amiibo is popular because it's been widely requested for decades because people want figures of their favorite characters.

>>384541826
What fucking reasonable store would stock THAT MANY animal crossing amiibos?

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>>384555846
Lucky.

>If some anon hadn't posted that Amazon had them a week or so ago I would still be Switch-less
That thread was nuked quick too. But I owe than guy a thanks.

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Who getting Bayo tomorrow?