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WTH, Amzon just canceled my order for Daemon X Machina!
- Thread starter Flevance
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It got canceles for all, confirmed by an Amazon Rep... Amazon was informed as per now Nintendo Is not suppling any units for this. As they have already plenty received from retail... Rep gave me $10 credits for this trouble....
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This makes no sense, the game can't be out of stock as it hasn't even been manufactured yet. There is no way Amazon even knows how many copies they would be getting, it's like 6 months from release.
Mine was canceled as well. Was going to email customer service later today. Them canceling the order means I've lost the Amazon Prime discount I had on the order. It makes no sense for them to cancel it as well since plenty of other things are allowed to be preordered and the delivery dates change over time.
I had Dragon Quest Heroes 1&2 preordered for over a year. It was originally put by Amazon.com until they decided to make that sku actually be Dragon Quest Builders. I have plenty of other stuff pre-ordered that is older then Daemon x Machina that is fine.
I had Dragon Quest Heroes 1&2 preordered for over a year. It was originally put by Amazon.com until they decided to make that sku actually be Dragon Quest Builders. I have plenty of other stuff pre-ordered that is older then Daemon x Machina that is fine.
Mine, too. If they truly will not be selling this game at all then fine. But if I see this go back up for sale later then I am going to bitch to customer service for them weaseling out of my 20% discount.
Legend! Thank you and the other kind souls here for your time!
no
all it means is that either nintendo is reevaluating their stock, delaying the game (but considering we're not even in 2019 thats not an option) or simply nothing
it's likely nothing
You are making a lot of assumptions. If I had to guess, Amazon didn't want to cancel anyone's preorder. My guess is they canceled it because either the publisher decided to stop selling games to Amazon or there is a business disputer between the publisher and Amazon.
One thing to keep in mind is Amazon used to have very low video game prices. That cannot have made publishers happy because Amazon sold a physical copy for less than a digital copy. Publishers and console makers didn't like this for the following reasons:
1) They made more money off of digital sales.
2) Digital copies cannot be resold.
So, Amazon was encouraging people to buy a version of the game which made them less money and could be resold. How happy do you think that made the console makers and the publishers?
My guess is the continuing supply issues you are seeing at Amazon (including weird pre-order issues, Amazon not selling Nintendo consoles itself, etc.) are related to Amazon's disputes with various video game industry entities. Amazon wants to pay the same wholesale prices as everyone else and then undercut companies like Gamestop, BestBuy, Walmart, etc. They console makers and publishers do not want Amazon doing this because it undercuts their own online stores and angers their other retail partners.
I could be wrong but I suspect I am at least partially right. I bet this is really about money and if I had to guess, part of the dispute is about Amazon charging "too little".
It could be more complicated than that. Remember, the price Amazon pays is less than the price listed on the digital stores. Also, Amazon tended to undercut a lot of other stores like Walmart, BestBuy, Gamestop, etc. This may be more about a publisher being angry about Amazon lowering its revenue by cutting into digital sales than it is about Amazon strong arming the publisher. It could also be a publisher being angry with Amazon for undercutting its other retail partners.
