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A certain brick and mortar store (rhymes with West Cry) WILL NOT honor pre-orders!!!!! My youngest daughter missed out on her Christmas day gift because of this store. They sent me an "out of stock" email the day before Christmas Eve on a "big ticket" item I ordered in November of that year (the day it went on pre-sale at ****_***). She handled it way better than I did. I've not bought another thing from them and never will.

Their prices are a rip-off anyway.

YMMV

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i have actually heard horror stories from that store selling the 360's, PS3, and Wii's to their employees first come first serve prior to release causing shortages on pre-orders.

I did my XB1 pre-order through Amazon this time around.
 
A certain brick and mortar store (rhymes with West Cry) WILL NOT honor pre-orders!!!!! My youngest daughter missed out on her Christmas day gift because of this store. They sent me an "out of stock" email the day before Christmas Eve on a "big ticket" item I ordered in November of that year (the day it went on pre-sale at ****_***). She handled it way better than I did. I've not bought another thing from them and never will.

Their prices are a rip-off anyway.

YMMV

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Was this a console? I don't get it.
 
i have actually heard horror stories from that store selling the 360's, PS3, and Wii's to their employees first come first serve prior to release causing shortages on pre-orders.

I did my XB1 pre-order through Amazon this time around.
That happened..but at my store it was only the entertainment section employees that were able to get one.
 
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That happened..but at my store it was only the entertainment section employees that were able to get one.

A guy I worked with did a part time gig at BB for a while over the holidays.. at our store they had an "employee pre-order" that superceded the consumers pre-order, but did not count towards the ordered total.. so when the employee picked up his two or three Wii's, then the customers were assed out. Sorry, look elsewhere. Anecdotal evidence sure, but this guy i knew for a long time.

Additionally, on a non-console front, I stood in line on a black friday sale there once.. starting at 9pm the night before, store opened at 6 am. I was in line about 200 people back waiting for a laptop they were selling for 199.99. 6 am rolled around and they started letting us get slips for what we wanted to buy, dude in blue said the laptops were gone before the store opened. He flat out told all of us what happened.
 
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A guy I worked with did a part time gig at BB for a while over the holidays.. at our store they had an "employee pre-order" that superceded the consumers pre-order, but did not count towards the ordered total.. so when the employee picked up his two or three Wii's, then the customers were assed out. Sorry, look elsewhere. Anecdotal evidence sure, but this guy i knew for a long time.

Additionally, on a non-console front, I stood in line on a black friday sale there once.. starting at 9pm the night before, store opened at 6 am. I was in line about 200 people back waiting for a laptop they were selling for 199.99. 6 am rolled around and they started letting us get slips for what we wanted to buy, dude in blue said the laptops were gone before the store opened. He flat out told all of us what happened.
Yup, it happens. More than people would like to think.
 
I camped out for like 22 hours outside of best buy for a 360.

If people really want one, they can do the same.

It was pretty fun even though it was like 35 degrees outside.
 
Being as how i hate pre-ordering online, I had no choice at the time because I just didn't have the $100 (at the time) to plop down for gamestops deposit. I do know that I am 3rd in line for a day one edition, so hopefully that will be good enough.
 
I am gonna state that every brick and mortar retailer will do this. A pre-order is not a sale. If you wait until the 23 to avoid the crowd, the retailer is going to sell your console to the guy there standing in the store with the $500 in his hand wanting to spend it, rather than hope you show up to collect your console.

A bird in hand is worth two in bush and all that.
 
Transformer Prime Tablet. Maybe they do better for customers buying game consoles. I hope so for gamer's sake.

Best Buy has screwed me only once - but it was my fault. I thought an online order with in-store pick-up allowed me to pick up my game at midnight. In the case of Xbox One, Best Buy has specifically stated that online pre-orders will be fulfilled at midnight. I hope it's true.
 
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I ordered from the Xbox store, and I already have my delivery confirmation. Im not stressed out by this at all.
 
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i have actually heard horror stories from that store selling the 360's, PS3, and Wii's to their employees first come first serve prior to release causing shortages on pre-orders.

I did my XB1 pre-order through Amazon this time around.

Same here , With release day delivery.
They've never let me down.
 
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I have my PS4 pre-ordered at both Amazon and Best Buy. I'd rather get it from Best Buy at midnight launch but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't worried about getting screwed. I'll wait until a week before launch and try to get some info from my store about online pre-orders with store pickup. Either way I pre-ordered from Best Buy the day the console was announced and before the PS4 page was even completely updated, so I have to be close to the top of the list anyways.
 
Reserved mine from BestBuy.com yesterday and feel pretty good about picking it up at midnight on launch. Also have a PS4 on Amazon.com that I'll likely be selling or just cancelling. Had good luck with both places though.
 
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That's why all shopping should just be done through Amazon. I see no reason to take my business anywhere else.
 
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Just my luck. I was about to pull the trigger on Costco Canada and it's now out of stock. For weeks X1 was available for ordering! lol