Game Wii pre-order warning

[Baz]

Told at work today (sadly i work for game, at least until 31st December) that the company are at least 1000 units down on what was promised by supplier, with more potential stock short falls before xmas too! Because of this, your £10 deposit "no longer guarantee's you a unit."

My store is down 6 units for launch day, and this seems to be the case throughout my region (south west)

just a heads up to those with instore game pre-orders - phone up and make sure that yours is going to be there!

[Boffykins]

HMV came through for me - picking mine up 8:30 Friday morning :)

[Zatoichi.uK]

Anyone know anywhere that has them in stock at all? Stores or sites etc...

Probably hoping but you never know, I'm suddenly tempted to buy one.

[RocketKnight]

That sucks Baz, be down there at slut am in time for opening and DEMAND one!

I'm heading off to Tesco in a bit to see if my old boss will hold some games back for me.

[rick_2k]

gamestation having a midnight launch for me.

apparently they have 30 consoles in stock (im 14th)

[Hg]

we get ours anytime on friday we have paid fully for it from our local small chips store they have had three in and were third on the pre-order list.
but were be there for 8am

[Jez_Gafys]

Id recommend being careful if you preordered from hmv.co.uk they are expecting to be short of stock and state that many will not receive delivery until on or around the 10th Jan

[MaDmAx]

so is gameplay pre-ordered mine a few days (03/10/2006) after a mate of mine and i got this e-mail tonight...NOTE got this after my comfrimed "will be on ure door step on the day!" crap!



Recently we sent you an email confirming that you would be receiving
order 1822817 for release date on Friday 08/12/06.

This date was based on delivery of all of our launch stock arriving in
time for us to pick, pack and despatch to you. This is a precautionary
email as we are still awaiting part of our allocation from Nintendo to
arrive and subsequently, we won’t be able to ship your order in time
for Friday. We can assure you that a console will be with you within the
week and you should not be concerned if it is a Christmas gift. We will
continue to communicate with you regularly about availability over the
next 72 hours.

Our sincere apologies for this situation, please accept this £10 off
e-voucher for your next order, we understand this doesn’t come close to
the joy of receiving a new console but hope it will go some way to ease
the inconvenience caused from this delay.

£10 off e-voucher code

Once again, please accept our apologies for this situation and thanks
for your understanding.

Please note that obviously your card has not been charged for this
order and won't be until we despatch.

Regards

Gameplay Crew

customer.service@gameplay.co.uk

Please note that the phone lines are extremely busy at this time of
year and enquiries generated as result of the Wii launch may lead to call
delays. We will continue to update you by email with the latest news
but we appreciate your patience at this time.

Tel – 0845 345 4440 (local rate)

[Omnituens]

i think our game store is getting the full allocation.

[kr-dm1]

My Wii shipped from Game's online site tonight, looks like I made the right choice in not ordering in store now

[Wolfus]

Argh!! Why didn't i book a day off work.

*thinking of ringing up sick so i can fight my way to GAME to get my Wii

[Jez_Gafys]

The GAME in my town center I was in there just now and someone was picking up their console and the cashier told him that they had only received 10 or 11 consoles but were expecting stock before the 15th to more then cover all other pre-orders and we doing some special offer one games for those that pre-ordered but didnt get it today (not sure what deal though)

[Xilly]

Not sure how many the Game in leicester received, but I was number 133 on the list and I picked mine up this morning.

[Jamz]

picked mine up last night without even a hint of a pre order :D

[no friends]

Could of been worse, I mean pre-ordering through Curry's. In which their stores recieved none.

[phoenixology]

I picked mine up from game in basingstoke this morning.

They had 65 apparently.

[lothlorien7646]

Worth contacting GAME today, I worked there many moons ago, and preorders are held until miday on the next day and then put on shelves, or at least they used to be.

The 2 GAMEs in Wolverhampton expect to have a few this afternoon, if anyone else actually lives near this god forsaken place.

[RocketKnight]

I'd like to know how Argos did, they were guaranteeing units right up till the end as if Nintendo had promised them unlimited supplies.

[TimmyNoShoes]

Could of been worse, I mean pre-ordering through Curry's. In which their stores recieved none.

Yeah the whole dixons group didnt receive any :p

[Demondan]

Yeah the whole dixons group didnt receive any :p

I think they took the piss a bit with Nintendo so why bother...

Some stores had 1 unit coming in each...pointless when you are nintedo or the distributor to split up units that small.

[Semajal]

got mine on the day from gameplay :( just had to get early pre-order in.

[Omnituens]

Worth contacting GAME today, I worked there many moons ago, and preorders are held until miday on the next day and then put on shelves, or at least they used to be.

The 2 GAMEs in Wolverhampton expect to have a few this afternoon, if anyone else actually lives near this god forsaken place.

Its now 48h for new release consoles, as it is stated on the back of the deposit slip.

[Joolz]

Got mine at 7:30am on Friday, from Game.

Have to say tho - it appears HMV had the best package deal. You lucky git, Boff :P

Game had no package deals worth doing at all.

[lothlorien7646]

Its now 48h for new release consoles, as it is stated on the back of the deposit slip.

I stand corrected sir, I was talking like 13 years ago :eek: