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greenmedic88 on 13 February 2011
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naznatips said:
JayWood2010 said:

Just pre-ordered mine on gamestop after reading this


Gamestop will take preorders long past the amount of stock they're getting. Enjoy fighting in a line for a device you already preordered only to find that they sold out an hour ago and you'll be waiting two weeks. 

This actually wouldn't surprise me. While I make no attempt to hide my general disapproval of the way GS runs its business (with profitability literally banking on the secondary market, discouraging customers from buying new, etc.) and consider myself biased against them, based upon my own personal experience, it does feel as though their pre-order system is not the best in business.

I don't know if that's because they order low inventory due to their dependence upon secondary market sales, or if it's because they get low preferential treatment from distributors, but it just strikes me as odd when a business chain that size keeps such low stock of new items at its local outlets.

That being said, I did get my pre-order for the MGS Peacewalker limited bundle from them (website, not local pick up), without problem and don't anticipate problems with my 3DS pre-order with them either.