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I'm not 100% sure I understand Nintendo's tactics with the Amiibos right now... like... they do realize they're losing out on money by not making these more widely available, right? Just putting money in the hands of scalpers, that's what they're doing!
So my fiance bought a Dedede for me today. He wasn't going to tell me, he wanted to keep it a secret until my birthday on Saturday, but I was voicing my Amiibo frustrations and how I didn't even care about getting Dedede and Meta Knight anymore... and he told me. He said he didn't like that I was so upset over it and had been trying for weeks to get me one, and he finally got a good deal. <--- my ugly happy cryI'm still not bothering with this new wave. I'm also feeling pessimistic about the yarn Yoshis, Dainty. I'm not 100% sure I understand Nintendo's tactics with the Amiibos right now... like... they do realize they're losing out on money by not making these more widely available, right? Just putting money in the hands of scalpers, that's what they're doing!
Quote from: MoonbeamStar on April 02, 2015, 05:00:40 PMI'm not 100% sure I understand Nintendo's tactics with the Amiibos right now... like... they do realize they're losing out on money by not making these more widely available, right? Just putting money in the hands of scalpers, that's what they're doing!I'm convinced it's intentional - create artificial "rarity" by woefully understocking demand. Leave it a bit for them to rise in price on Ebay. Re-release a huge amount and watch as everyone who originally wanted one buys one, and maybe one to keep MIB because it's ~super rare~ and as would-be scalpers buy up loads to hope to sell online. Cha-ching.
So sad, im feeling really pessimistic about the yarn yoshi amiibos lol
Quote from: CupidStrikes on April 02, 2015, 05:16:14 PMQuote from: MoonbeamStar on April 02, 2015, 05:00:40 PMI'm not 100% sure I understand Nintendo's tactics with the Amiibos right now... like... they do realize they're losing out on money by not making these more widely available, right? Just putting money in the hands of scalpers, that's what they're doing!I'm convinced it's intentional - create artificial "rarity" by woefully understocking demand. Leave it a bit for them to rise in price on Ebay. Re-release a huge amount and watch as everyone who originally wanted one buys one, and maybe one to keep MIB because it's ~super rare~ and as would-be scalpers buy up loads to hope to sell online. Cha-ching. I too believe that it is intentional. In my personal opinion, Nintendo doesn't care WHO buys them, as long as they sell (I think that the company is struggling more now than it ever has, and it stumbled in to an unbelievable, and accidental gold mine). I think its why North America was the last to get pre-orders and why there was absolutely no information about it; it whipped the people in to an absolute frenzy. This was the worst wave yet, with pre-orders across the board selling out in minutes. Even if scalpers make up the majority of the buyers, that is still money in Nintendo's pockets and numbers that they can throw out to the press. What happens to the amiibo after they sell it isn't there problem. It is also meaning people are going in to stores more frequently looking for these things, and are more likely to make a random purchase just because they are there and likely disappointed (I've seen it a couple of times now where people have gone in wanting a pre-order or an exclusive and have bought a random one off the shelf just because). If Nintendo does anything to make it look like more are coming, or that everyone who wants one can get one, that frenzy begins to eventually die down, and they will ultimately start moving less product. I think that in some way Nintendo is DEPENDING on the scalpers.Likewise, I think that they are dangerously close to tipping too far the other way, irritating their fans to the point where they will begin to lose support and customer's trust in the company.