With the holiday season comes a huge demand for next gen tech - and a big ticket item
for this year is next generation consoles - like the Nintendo Switch OLED, the Playstation
5, and the Xbox Series X. My husband and I have successfully nabbed not one, not two,
but three consoles using a few simple tips that literally anyone can do and no, you don't
have to buy a bot to get these. So now that we've successfully obtained our consoles,
I wanted to share how we did it, so hopefully you can get one before the holidays.
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Even though stock has improved over the course of 2021, these consoles are still difficult
to find, and due to supply chain issues, chip shortages and shipping delays, we're seeing
plenty of "out of stock" notices from retailers this year. But my hubs and I really wanted
to get our hands on our favorite consoles, so he did some digging and first he found
a PS5, which he gave to a friend. Then we got an Xbox series x and eventually a PS5
for us. ALL AT RETAIL COST! We didn't have to pay any outrageous prices or deal with
scammers on ebay.
Desperation can really make you pay a lot of money for rare ticket items but if you
are patient, you can save yourself hundreds of bucks and go through a legitimate retailer
who can offer return policies, purchase protections, and warranties.
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So the first step we recommend is signing up and making an account on all of the retailers
who are known to get restocks of these consoles. That includes GameStop, Best Buy, Amazon,
Walmart, Target along with others like Newegg, B&H Photo, Adorama, Sony, Microsoft, Sam's
Club or Costco. When you sign up on these sites, fill in all your account information,
especially anything that would be required during checkout - like your name, contact
info, shipping address, and credit card or payment details. This will ensure that once
you do find a console in stock at one of these, you won't have to fill in a bunch of text
boxes during checkout. Everything will be prefilled for you and you can simply skip
to payment and purchase. Those few seconds can be incredibly valuable when competing
against other buyers.
You may have already known that, but here's a pro tip. Sign up for a password manager
and don't clear your browsing session to prep for a console restock. I know this goes against
my own privacy recommendations for deleting cached browsing history and cookies but here's
why: If you go to purchase a product at a retailers site where you have an account,
you'll still have to sign in with your username and password. BUT if you have your username
and password already saved in your browser or your sign in is already cached, you won't
have to type those credentials in, in order to access the prefilled account info. If you're
already signed in, that'll save some time. And if you need to sign in, having a password
manager automatically fill those credentials in for you so all you have to do is click
sign in, is way faster than typing in your password and praying you got it right while
you're panicking as a thing is selling out. Again, valuable seconds.
If the retailer lets you choose a brick and mortar store to set as your preferred location,
choose one in the event they offer local pickup. In our case, both PS5's and the XBox Series
X were picked up from a local Best Buy location instead of shipped. We found that we had the
most success when focusing on local stores as opposed to just online retailers and I
suspect that's because we had less competition and less bots we had to beat. Some retailers
do list inventory for their brick and mortar stores so you can do a shipment that arrives
in x amount of days or you can pickup on fulfillment day.
Something I've done for product releases or restocks is asking about shipments. I've physically
gone to my local stores and asked them when they usually put new stock out, when they
get truck deliveries, and asked for any tips on buying a product. Some stores won't let
you reserve a product, but they may offer to hold one for you if you ask nicely. Some
stores will not tell you any of this information, while others - it may depend on who you ask.
Building a relationship with the manager or just becoming a familiar and kind face that
is a re-occurring shopper at a retailer can help you get an advantage. Calling around
to ask about stock is a good idea too, since I've noticed some stores, like Target in my
experience, don't always show accurate stock levels online, but if you call and ask, they
may be able to hook you up. Your mileage may vary on this but the worst they can say is
no, we don't have any. So it's worth a shot and be nice to employees - it is not their
fault if they don't have any in stock.
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Ok, so you've got your accounts set up and you're prepped for those product drops but
how do you know when they're happening? Other than reading rumors on literally every tech
news publication, we nabbed all three of our consoles by using Twitter. There are three
twitter accounts you should follow - these are the ones Mr. Snubs used to get notified
of restocks immediately. Those are Matt Swider, Lord Of Restocks, and PS5 Stock Alerts. Each
of these account holders tweets (usually with affiliate links) whenever a restock is about
to happen or has just dropped.
Using the twitter app for iphone or android, you can sign up for push notifications for
any of these accounts, or any other accounts that may be crucial to the buying process.
Push notifications will push a little text box bubble to your phone's lock screen or
notification bar whenever the account is updated with a new tweet. You can click on the notification
to go straight to the tweet in the twitter app to then click right to the product page
on a retailer's website.
To enable push notifications on your twitter app, tap your profile icon, tap settings and
privacy, and tap notifications then tap push notifications and choose whichever ones you
want to receive. For notifications from specific profile accounts, go to the profile for whoever
drops alerts, click Follow, tap the notification bell icon, then choose All Tweets. You have
to have notifications turned on for your app in order to get notifications from the specific
account.
That's it. That's how we scored three rare consoles - one for a friend and two for us.
And it took some patience and some trial and error, but it worked. I hope that this works
for you too because I know how hard it is to get a new gaming console
but it is possible. Set yourself up for success so when the time comes, the process is a breeze.
Subscribe if you found this info valuable and let me know if this process worked for
you. You can honestly use this for anything, not just video game consoles. I'll be around
if you have any questions and thank you so much for watching. See y'all later! Bye ya'll!