The 'I've successfully ordered a PS5' thread

Eircom_Sucks wrote: »

so good you said it twice lol

Haha not sure how that happened.

Anyone know if smyths had any additional units of thr xbox up for sale this morning? Trying to gauge if they will have any additional ps5s

I cancelled one of my pre-orders this afternoon but didn't see it come back up on the site, I wonder will they hold the cancellations for release day so they'll have some stock?

I saw a lot of xbox series x/s in Kinsale Road Smyths this morning. They were on the shelves and didn't seem to be waiting for collection as pre-orders, just seemed to be regular stock, I wonder are they keeping them for when the lockdown ends again?

markcahill1985 wrote: »

Anyone know if smyths had any additional units of thr xbox up for sale this morning? Trying to gauge if they will have any additional ps5s

They did not. Also the demand for PS5 if much higher than Xbox so I would be surprised if Smyths have not over sold like every other retailer here and UK.

I think the second wave is around 9/10th December. This is what Box UK told customers after they oversold in the first wave

dan786 wrote: »

They did not. Also the demand for PS5 if much higher than Xbox so I would be surprised if Smyths have not over sold like every other retailer here and UK.

I think the second wave is around 9/10th December. This is what Box UK told customers after they oversold in the first wave

Stock seems to be arriving, if they oversold you’d imagine they’d have told people by this point?...

Eircom_Sucks wrote: »

so good you said it twice lol

To be fair he spoke to two managers. You need to cite both sources.

ssshhh123 wrote: »

I asked in argos nutgrove today said wont have any as there going to uk first.

And just so you all are aware ... this "going to UK first" probably means that the Irish stores that are managed as branches of the UK operation are still getting plenty, but cannot send them to Ireland.

The reason? If there's any delay, simply shipping them from UK to Ireland for sale after 1st January may make them subject to import or export duty. No operations manager in their right mind would plan to ship stock over the UK/EU border so close to the end of this year.

All these UK stores won't be easily controlling stock in Ireland as they had before after 1st January, assuming there is a no-deal brexit (51 days to go).

3DataModem wrote: »

All these UK stores won't be easily controlling stock in Ireland as they had before after 1st January, assuming there is a no-deal brexit (51 days to go).

Very good point, looks like Ireland is getting shafted by default and it's obviously not going to be just on consoles. I'm convinced there will be a no-deal brexit, especially after boris got defeated yesterday in trying to break brexit rules to favour themselves .Hopefully we can deal with our European neighbours and leave the UK out of it.

so it begins....................................


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Hey_Listen wrote: »

I'd say that came from Argos Arklow today and now it's being flipped.

Why not wait ? Is it that urgent ? Don't pay over the odds for this stuff. It just encourages more of this crap.

Oh I agree that it’s stupid to pay when you can wait.

But thankfully I’m in a position where I was able to sell on my PS4 Pro too recoup the extra cost.

You can’t really blame people for wanting it considering it’s pretty much impossible to get a hold of one now.

Also it’s a console release so it’ll be last big enjoyment splurge I make this year.

dave1982 wrote: »

He's some scumbag. I'd love to do it so he don't get a penny outta it

It'd certainly be more charitable of the seller to pass on the pre-order for free, but in this situation it looks like the bidders drove the price up. I can't understand why people are that desperate for one.

dave1982 wrote: »

What happens if someone bids on that and don't pay. He's some scumbag. I'd love to do it so he don't get a penny outta it

In fairness (and i hate saying this because i agree with you) but he's not setting the price. These are the bids people are willing to pay. Little Timmy needs his PS5 for xmas so it's mummy to the rescue with the credit card. You could bid and not pay, not sure how that would affect your eBay status though.

Im willing to wait for my ps5 since its such a headache trying to get one now. Anyone know when the next batch might be released? Maybe early 2021?

Madman08 wrote: »

I got the e-mail from Gamestop a little while back telling me I'll be getting the PS5 on launch. Not heard or seen a dickie-bird since. Anyone else been contacted by them yet ??

P.S. my local Gamestop is closed so can't ring them to suss it out.

The concensus is to wait til after the xbox launch and we can expect them to start getting in contact.

My store is one of the closed ones, however they've emailed me with a coupon to the value of the two games I've ordered so that I can order them online (had to pay for delivery but what harm).
I expect the same will be done with the console.