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For those of you still on the hunt, this guy has been all over it.

Also, I've found https://www.nowinstock.net/ to be really helpful.  Not so much for the actual alerts (incomplete and buggy) but to monitor the chats.  That's how I got my series X.

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    Quick story. Took truck in for oil change this morning. Place is in front of a Walmart, so wife and I kill time in the store because she needs fabric to recover a bench cushion. As she is messing arou

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6 hours ago, MillerEP said:

Let me know how it goes. Every time I have been in one, I wait the entire time just to get back to the Out of Stock page I've always been on.

 

6 hours ago, hornbri said:

I was in that queue as well...nothing burger again 

Nothing. Again. 

Wal-Mart is going to have stock again tomorrow. Might as well try again. 

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Crossing my fingers it won't be a complete clusterfuck like last time. If I have the damn thing in my cart, it better stay there. Hopefully they spent all of last week implementing a way to combat bots.

1 hour ago, MillerEP said:

Crossing my fingers it won't be a complete clusterfuck like last time. If I have the damn thing in my cart, it better stay there. Hopefully they spent all of last week implementing a way to combat bots.

Walmart doesn't care if bots are buying them, a sale is a sale.

Gamestop.com supposedly has some PS5 bundles available, though it's not letting me add to cart, so maybe just trolling.

Almost had it on walmart.com.  Added to cart.  Was already logged in with payment info saved.  Fucking system kept hanging up on me trying to "verify delivery address".  By the time the server finally got past that, the consoles were out of stock.  Their shopping cart system is fucking stupid.

I had the damn thing in my cart and then it sent me into and endless capta of crosswalks and traffic lights. JFC79a2ceaf2a0280214474d479399204d5.jpg

2 hours ago, bernorange said:

Almost had it on walmart.com.  Added to cart.  Was already logged in with payment info saved.  Fucking system kept hanging up on me trying to "verify delivery address".  By the time the server finally got past that, the consoles were out of stock.  Their shopping cart system is fucking stupid.

Same

I got a confirmation number on a series X today. We’ll see. Had shipping and billing loaded up and smashed the next button.

I got a confirmation number on a series X today. We’ll see. Had shipping and billing loaded up and smashed the next button.
Walmart?
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9 minutes ago, VolenteHawk said:
I got a confirmation number on a series X today. We’ll see. Had shipping and billing loaded up and smashed the next button.

Walmart?

Yep. I had it done by 2:02 going as fast as possible.

7 hours ago, bernorange said:

Gamestop.com supposedly has some PS5 bundles available, though it's not letting me add to cart, so maybe just trolling.

I scored the digital bundle from GameStop.  It wouldn’t let me add either and I pretty much gave up. Then a few minutes later decided to try one more time and it went through. That was at about 1:45, so for shits and giggles I decided to see if I could get one from wal mart at 2. It instantly went to out of stock. 

Supposedly on Reddit they are saying the Sony Direct Queue-It tech is designed to combat bots by making the queue random, so it's not first come first serve. Which totally makes sense, because I was one of those who setup an extension to refresh every 5 seconds until I landed in the queue. So I knew that I was in the queue within the first 10 seconds it went live tops (including 5 seconds of refresh and the captcha test), and never saw anything other than "More than an hour."

So apparently it doesn't really matter when you get in the queue, it doesn't start immediately after it goes live. As long as you get there before they press the start button, you can be randomly assigned anywhere. So your odds might be better jumping in the queue a tad later than usual, hoping you get hit it around the time they press the start button.

I have never worked so hard to spend $500 in my life!

4 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

Supposedly on Reddit they are saying the Sony Direct Queue-It tech is designed to combat bots by making the queue random, so it's not first come first serve. Which totally makes sense, because I was one of those who setup an extension to refresh every 5 seconds until I landed in the queue. So I knew that I was in the queue within the first 10 seconds it went live tops (including 5 seconds of refresh and the captcha test), and never saw anything other than "More than an hour."

So apparently it doesn't really matter when you get in the queue, it doesn't start immediately after it goes live. As long as you get there before they press the start button, you can be randomly assigned anywhere. So your odds might be better jumping in the queue a tad later than usual, hoping you get hit it around the time they press the start button.

Been in the Q 4 times. No dice. Feels like the Masters lotto. 

10 minutes ago, bernorange said:

What is this queue you are talking about ( @MillerEP ) .  All I see is "Out of stock":  https://direct.playstation.com/en-us/consoles/console/playstation5-console.3005816

Sony opens a queue once a day during weekdays for people to order a PS5 directly from Sony. They don't announce when it'll go live, so you have to randomly keep an eye out or refresh that direct.playstation page until it re-directs you to direct-queue.playstation.com. Yesterday it went live at around 3:00pm, and two days ago it was 6:00pm, and I've seen it as early as 9:00am. I've tried everyday since last Thursday, and I'm 0-8.

 

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Just got notice my preorder series x will finally be shipped tomorrow from Amazon. I haven’t played video games since my ps2. I’m excited to see the advancement.

i’ve been hoping for a ship notification from my 11/12 costco ps5 order. yesterday i got an email and thought it was a cancel notification, but they were just letting me know it’s still going to be shipping week of 11/23. the wait continues, but hopefully it doesn’t get lost in the black friday piles of shipments

Just snagged another Series X for my nephew through Bestbuy.  The drop didn't last long but they did a really good job with it this time.  Store pick up only, and you had to go through an email confirmation.  F the bots!  

Well shit.  Took a look at bestbuy.com just now and they listed an "out of box" ps5 console as available and at a $25 discount off of retail.  I added it to  cart, clicked the checkout button and then was informed it was sold out.  *sigh*

Snagged a PS5 off of Kohls of all people last night. Supposedly they oversold and didn't shut their site down fast enough though so now I'm just waiting for my cancellation email, which seems to be about right nowadays.

2 hours ago, MillerEP said:

Snagged a PS5 off of Kohls of all people last night. Supposedly they oversold and didn't shut their site down fast enough though so now I'm just waiting for my cancellation email, which seems to be about right nowadays.

Did you use your Kohl's Cash?

No, got $150 in Kohls's cash for buying it though. Not sure what it is good for yet.
So far no cancellation email yet though, so I'm cautiously optimistic.

42 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

No, got $150 in Kohls's cash for buying it though. Not sure what it is good for yet.
So far no cancellation email yet though, so I'm cautiously optimistic.

Same. I'll take the free Kohl's cash though.

Snagged a PS5 off of Kohls of all people last night. Supposedly they oversold and didn't shut their site down fast enough though so now I'm just waiting for my cancellation email, which seems to be about right nowadays.

A buddy is a software developer for Kohl’s and they’ve been working all night to fix the glitch. They had 12,000 consoles in stock and the inventory system didn’t deduct sold units from inventory and they took in over 150,000 orders. Oops.

A buddy is a software developer for Kohl’s and they’ve been working all night to fix the glitch. They had 12,000 consoles in stock and the inventory system didn’t deduct sold units from inventory and they took in over 150,000 orders. Oops.
Haha, big oops.

Lol, So I have a 12.5% chance of getting one? Not great odds. So far no cancellation though.

1 hour ago, CooterBrown said:


A buddy is a software developer for Kohl’s and they’ve been working all night to fix the glitch. They had 12,000 consoles in stock and the inventory system didn’t deduct sold units from inventory and they took in over 150,000 orders. Oops.

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24 minutes ago, MillerEP said:

Lol, So I have a 12.5% chance of getting one? Not great odds. So far no cancellation though.

Not a math major I take it?

For those still hunting, try the HotStock app for iphone. Got a series x from best buy within a few hours of installing the app. 

Got the order cancellation email this morning. Back to the hunt.

1 hour ago, mapplewhite132 said:

For those still hunting, try the HotStock app for iphone. Got a series x from best buy within a few hours of installing the app. 

Installed this and got an alert that it was available at the MS store about 15 minutes ago.  I was looking at my phone when the alert popped up and they were already out of stock by the time the MS store loaded on my browser.

Appreciate the heads up though, maybe I'll get lucky.

Just now, The Royal We said:

Installed this and got an alert that it was available at the MS store about 15 minutes ago.  I was looking at my phone when the alert popped up and they were already out of stock by the time the MS store loaded on my browser.

Appreciate the heads up though, maybe I'll get lucky.

Yeah that sounds typical but just keep trying. It took me about 10 attempts to check out at best buy before it would go through. I also was able to get a new AMD cpu that is extremely tough to find right now. Tooks 3 or 4 notifications before I got one. 

Another tip is to be signed in to your amazon, best buy, target, etc accounts with your payment information saved. You don't want to mess with that stuff when you get an in stock alert. 

More info on the Kohl’s fiasco. They are honoring all orders that were for a single console. They’re paying Sony to get the additional consoles prioritized at an extra cost of $30M. If an order was for multiple consoles, it was assumed it was for resell and the order was cancelled. it was one dude’s job to toggle on a setting when adding the console to inventory system and he neglected to do so. I’m guessing he was told not to come in this morning.

8 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

More info on the Kohl’s fiasco. They are honoring all orders that were for a single console. They’re paying Sony to get the additional consoles prioritized at an extra cost of $30M. If an order was for multiple consoles, it was assumed it was for resell and the order was cancelled. it was one dude’s job to toggle on a setting when adding the console to inventory system and he neglected to do so. I’m guessing he was told not to come in this morning.

I only ordered one and I got cancelled this morning.

I can't imagine Kohls taking a bath like that over something that stupid.  That's a lot of $ for a product that 99% of the orders already expect it to be cancelled anyways.

5 hours ago, MillerEP said:

Got the order cancellation email this morning. Back to the hunt.

Yep, but free Kohl's cash is nice. I hope you like Van Huesen.

3 hours ago, SimonBolivar said:

Yep, but free Kohl's cash is nice. I hope you like Van Huesen.

Or Chaps

After about 10 alerts from the app, I've now got a Xbox X in my cart and am hung up on them accepting the payment method that already been stored in the Xbox store and that they charge every damn month.  Get there!

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