Topic: How the preorders should've been done

I have be seeing this stuff about scalpers and such about these amiibos and I think Nintendo should've done this idea: limit the preorders by say having it one per customer. It maybe late, but Nintendo needs to do this idea.

Pre-orders are handled by the Store, not Nintendo.

True, but still. It would've been better that way.

Nintendo has no control over the stores. What Nintendo could do is produce more then they do and produce the same amount of each Amiibo so you don't end up with rare ones.

Most stores I have seen have put a policy in place where you are only allowed to purchase 1 amiibo of each type per transaction. That doesn't stop scalpers from just sitting at their computer going through the same process over and over so they have a lot more. I don't know how much more limiting stores could make it while keeping it simple enough.

Yeah. It's a sad truth. I once knew a collector/scalper. He was my uncle at the time until my aunt divorced him. And it is true some are worth more than others. I had a subscription to Toyfare magazine before it's discontinuation. Usually, female characters and villians sell more than hero figures.

But that wouldn't be in Nintendo's best interest. If they produced just as much of an unpopular character and he/she wasn't rare, they might not sell all of them. What they should have done is realized how popular this was going to be, and started making these amiibo earlier. There's not much they can do now, especially with a new line of amiibo coming soon. I'm sure their manufacturers have already started working on those.

The one-per-customer rule could probably slow things down or discourage lazy scalpers, but I think some get around that by using different addresses, credit cards, accounts, or whatever they need to get them.

Except then the popular ones would be rare. For example, let's say 2 million Marth's were made and 8 million Mario's were made. The average between the two is 5 million, but if 6 million people want a Mario, than there won't be enough Marios but plenty of Marths.