Video Games

One I pre-preordered through ShopTo, paid £1 or whatever it was back in like June to get on the list but it was no guarantee of being able to buy one at release. On the day preorders were announced at 9am the Amazon orders went live, I missed the midnight release from more stores because I didn't know it was going to happen but I managed to get one from Amazon. At that point ShopTo hadn't contacted me about the first preorder and I didn't know if they were going to honor that pre-preorder list or if I'd missed the boat with them. However a few days later they gave me the opportunity to get one so I did. I can't remember the exact date or time that I confirmed my preorder with ShopTo but I've read of people who did it minutes after me who didn't get one.

Even with both those preorders there was a chance either of the shops had oversold their allocation and would cancel, it's happened for many shops and Amazon did it for me for a different item a couple of months ago. So it's only now I've got dispatch notifications that I can be confident of them arriving. Even in the case both came through I thought it would be more valuable to sell one on at cost to a mate who didn't manage to get a preorder rather than just cancel it.