Bowser Jr., Dr. Mario and Olimar amiibo Now Available for Pre-Order on Official Nintendo UK Store

I need to get Dr. Mario!

Dr Mario looks like he's going to use that pill like a suppository.

I can't believe how many are listed as "sold out". That's insane Nintendo.

Does anyone know if they ship to the U.S.?

@Undead_terror - Nope Still available approx. 25 minutes after I received the email But in fairness I'm sure it won't take long :-S

These 3 amiibo look soooo nicely done

@Undead_terror You have to scroll down, those 3 amiibo are between "sold out" ones.

Never mind, they do not.

I fear the day when Olimar pre-orders go up in the states...

Thanks I got mine ordered

Gotta get a Dr Mario. He's my fav in Smash.

Got in a pre-order for Olimar, but I'll hold off on celebrating for a day lest I get a dreaded "sorry, we can't fulfil" email. Sooo lucky with Jigglypuff!

@Jab187
No you think you have yours ordered until the cancellation e-mail hits you in the face in about 4 months. Well I should not be so negative....good luck!

Out of those; I'd totally get Dr. Mario.

And they're gone.

@NorthLightSuplx

Well I never had this problem before and I ordered quickly so im good thanks.

And they're actually now gone...

...At least Jr. isn't store exclusive. >.>

@BigBluePanda Yah beat me to the post

Absolute joke, thanks Nintendo sending me the email once it's sold out. I have every amiibo, up to date and Every other one preordered. I'm not paying through the nose for these, your a fu##ing joke company

Damn they sold out already!

Good thing im sitting on my PC mashing F5 all day lol.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu## You!!!!! Nintendo!!!

Nooooo I have missed out ! There was no warning!

dammit i just got the email and theyre gone already, wanted dr. mario. thinking i might jack collecting the stupid things in. wonder why there was no advance notice of the pre order date and time like the last wave?

And they are already on eBay.

@Nautical-Rudie it's a Dam joke, for true collectors. Makes me wonder why i bother

@Chasloyal I'd love them mate, how much you asking for though? I haven't paid more than £10.99 for an amiibo yet

Well, back to the £15 Game orders...

Anyone keen should favourite the @NintendoUK Twitter account, you'll get alerts when they Tweet, so I went from the Tweet to the online store and preordered Captain Olimar. Least I hope I have, got a confirmation email anyway lol. Good luck, I hope fans are able to get their hands on the Amiibo they want

@PinkSpider
I've paid as much as 42 quid for the gold Mario and 25 quid each for Shulk, Meta Knight and Pac-Man so I know this might be ruthless, or even perhaps heartless, but I will buy to sell at profit any Amiibo that comes my way.

I'm in Austria indefinitely and I know someone in retail over here who has already taken a deposit to guarantee me 2 each of pink yarn Yoshi, blue yarn Yoshi, Pikmin & Olimar, Zero Suit Samus, Dark Pit, Palutena, Greninja, Jigglypuff, Dr Mario, Ganondorf and Bowser Junior which are slated for 28/05, 26/06 and 08/07. The mrs will take them back to sell on Ebay back in England like she does with any I get hold of over here each time she visits

I am prepared to pay stupid dough to get Amiibos I've not got so why should I feel bad about selling some at profit when they come my way at regular prices. That is how capitalism works and we live in a free market economy.

@Chasloyal
Don't worry Nintendo will cancel your order down to 1 of each Amiibo.

Happened to me when I ordered multiple Greninja and Jigglypuff.

@Chasloyal pass

@Jab187
I got this hunch Nintendo won't know who my source in Austrian retail is, just saying

@Chasloyal
You just came here to troll huh?
Your obviously talking out of your a hole mate

Nintendo needs to make enough to get the secondary market disinterested in them. It's as simple as that.

@Jab187
How do you work that one out, is it that far fetched to strike up a friendship with someone that works in a video game shop then? Nobody stopping you, or anyone else for that matter, from doing the same.

As I have already pointed out, I am prepared to pay inflated prices to get Amiibos I need for my personal collection so I see absolutely nothing wrong in getting a few extra in to sell on to help finance mine.

As for me coming here to troll, says the kid who trapped off at my post hohum

@chasloyal
So let me ask me a question.
What does your order with Nintendo Online Store have to do with your 'contact'?

Obviously nothing which is evidence of you talking rubbish.
Plus you come here trying to antagonise others by offering a scalper service in broad day.

Your a joke.

Get the hell out of here.

@Chasloyal I thought they were limited to one per customer?!?

Well ive missed it even though check website every day.
Once Ive got all the smash ones i wont be collecting any others.

Managed to get a pre-order in for Bowser Jr and Olimar before they sold out! Dithered over whether to get a Dr Mario (I already have Smash Mario and made a decision not to get more than one version of a character) but the fact that they sold out made up my decision for me!

@NorthLightSuplx "Don't worry Nintendo will cancel your order down to 1 of each Amiibo." Agreed! I had a run-in with Nintendo regarding my two copies of Splatoon with all three of the amiibo and the t-shirt and they cancelled it.

Ugh Nintendo get your act together why is this sh*t still happening? WTF

@rjejr
Marth is at Nintendo World Store right now, if you're interested. You're the only one I know who lives in New York and is within driving distance of the store. So I thought I'd let you know

Got my Dr. Mario amiibo! I'm pretty sure he acts as a regular Mario amiibo in other games and seeing as I don't have a Mario one yet, it'd be nice to have a fairly unique one. (Even better if he turns out to be rare!)

@immensechicken follow @NintendoUK mate and get alerts when they Tweet, they'll have a link straight to the online store, that's how I got mine in time

Unbelievable. Why Ninty can't just make as many as people want to pre-order is beyond me. I planned to get all Amiibo but these stock issues have saved me, and lost Nintendo, a lot of money.

@Jab187
well It actually means I will already have some fresh highly desired Amiibo back in blighty to list immediately when Mickey Mouse Hermes deliver them week after next rather than wait till she's over here next month and takes back that big batch with her.

When you're the full time carer of a dying relative on the other side of Europe and don't as much as get a penny in wages, never mind state benefits, for doing it things tend to be quite tight financially. So it ain't like my mrs is over every week you know, and she's of course got a full time job, kids bla bla bla

So it's another wee something extra to keep my Ebay ticking over till the she's over at the end of June/start of July. This is no wholesale global Amiibo touting operation, it's merely making my hobby a whole lot cheaper. I got Marth, Toon Link, Zelda and Lucario for 80 Euro off some trader over in Dortmund Germany today because my own Marth and Lucario back in London went for 50 quid the other day.

The only positive about this pony situation I'm in is I do have plenty of spare time to buy/sell stuff here n there. So if it means I can make my entire Amiibo collection pay for itself or make a small profit all the better. Hope that clears everything up for you, not that I owe some random on the interweb an explanation but that's how it is in the real world.

Preorders of a product should not sell out like this. Preordering should allow Nintendo to get an idea of the demand and then actually make more than that demand for the people who don't preorder.

@Shinnos I got no idea because I have never ordered any Amiibo from Nintendo direct before, if they spit back one each of my order so be it as I'll be getting most of mine from my man over here anyway.

@MJKOP Just to let you know... Your link to Nintendo UK's Twitter doesn't work as it redirects people to www.nintendolife.com/users/NintendoUK

Try this link. https://www.twitter.com/NintendoUK

Waste of time as usual, wouldn't and evening slit be a bit fairer given that a lot of us, you know, work during the day

@Pablo17 spot on mate!

now you're playin' with powah...lame powah

Managed to get mine. Was hoping they'd be up on Game, but I'll take what I can get

@emiingham They might be available on GAME.co.uk eventually... I am looking out for GAME.co.uk to add preorders because I want those amiibo...

Lol have fun guys! Good thing I don't care amymore!

@jab187 well said to the scalper in this room, wern't in the mood for his trolling bull sh*t cheers man. Cheered me up if a little. I have written a big compaint to Nintendo as I have had it with having to do this every time I want to buy these. My son can't enjoy his games to fullest content and I cant enjoy my collection because of these scalpers. Can't believe @chasloyal has the nerve to even offer them on this web site at a marked up price, dude has some balls...i think

Though I'm a big Pikmin fan, the more I see Olimar's amiibo, the less I care about buying it. On the other hand, Bowser Jr. is looking more enticing every time I see him.

@Achoo

Nintendo UK store has a one per person limit and will cancel orders that ask for more than one.

You buy one amiibo and three more get released...

You can't say they're not prolific with these awesome unavailable items that they're making.

@PinkSpider
No prob.
We don't need sad scum like that on here he should stick to ebay.

@Achoo Scalpers won't be able to scalp if there's a one per person limit.

@PinkSpider
You just said 'scalper' but according to you you're from the UK so what's with all this septic terminology eh? If you're going to slag me out at least do me the service of using British English and call me a spiv or a tout eh! What next, you're off to an awesome soccer ball game to watch the tot-ten-ham hotspurs?

If you're so tight you refuse to pay a bit extra for your nipper please at least refrain from bringing your nipper in to it eh. I very much doubt your income is lower than mine and if it is then maybe you should be reading him a book rather than blowing your dough on the latest generation consoles with all the games and accessories that come with it for him.

If I was trying to flog anything in here I'd be spouting off my ebay ID don't you think? It seems to me you and plenty like you nowadays suffer from this outrageous sense of entitlement that you deserve everything for nothing because of some obscure notion that you're more worthy than others are. Well sorry there ain't no such thing as a free lunch and seeing you've already confirmed you're that much of a scratcher you won't even buy your figures for 15 quid from somewhere like Game or Amazon you are going to miss out.

And as for muggy @Jab187 calling me "scum" hohoho absolutely priceless. I wonder what terminology you use for the nonces of the world like Gadd and Harris or mass murderers like McGuinness and Mugabe then? Giving it the big bunny like that shows you up for what you are, a spoilt little boy who got sand kicked in his boat during playtime on his first day at primary school.

Enough said

@Chasloyal
Nobody asked for a wall of text and your life story.
You cant even answer my question?
You came here to troll the evidence is on the wall.
Your 45 years old and still live with your mother.
Go troll somewhere else and stop disrupting this otherwise peaceful community.

@chasloyal these are for my personal collection not my kids, they play there own games and i read them plenty of books and do plenty of activties with them so dont come in here assuming you know me!!!!
I'm not being tight, im refusing to pay some fu**ing selfish pr*ck money for something he cares nothing for and is out to make a quick buck off of the people that actually care about these things. And the reason i use the words i use is because I have spoken to more Americans than english on here.
Next time dont come here bragging about how you can sell me something at an inflated price, you will just come off as a tw*t. Im done with this subject now p*ss off

@Chasloyal
Did you do these as one order? Since they'll cancel them outright if you have 2 of the same amiibo as an order. it Happened to me when i ordered two Ness and they cancelled both when it came to processing

@Jab187
I'm 42 actually and I live on the East London/Essex frontier whilst my mother's is 10 miles from the Hungarian border in Austria so you're not on form at the moment Sherlock, you must try harder

@PinkSpider
well that told me then, I'm getting very negative vibes here and I seem to be upsetting exactly the type of people that can't stand me in the big wide world either

@spideyroxas
yeah ordered them all in one order and I have no idea what the procedure is on Nintnedo UK's Amiibo policy. I know that Matthew Moulding's mob have taken over Ninty operations in Britain and that don't bode well. I got my gold New 3DS XL without a problem the day it released but my special edition Majora's Mask never arrived. Seeing my other half was flying out to me the following week they wouldn't mark it down as missing in the post so they refused to send a replacement and that was that, they did eventually issue a refund about a month later.

I missed Ganondorf and Dr. Mario...it's not as bad as missing Ness, but still.

Back to lurking Amazon.

The news goes up and then they're sold out. How am I supposed to check this while I'm at school? This better not happen in the US because I need that Bowser Jr. Amiibo!

What a complete joke

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/281697324569?navSEARCH

So those of us who have a job miss out again... Poopoo and Naanaa.

@Tender_Cutlet I have a job pal, start at half six in the morning, finish at three. I was lucky and got Captain Olimar. Just saying, good luck to you

Let me guess, the "Article Update" was written at the same time as the original article ?
Seriously though, were 3 waves behind as of now, i hardly doubt that we will ever see them around here.

people reaction of amiibo being sold out in a nutshell:
FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU...........................................................!

Undoubtedly this is a case of high demand and ridiculously low stock. Its like Nintendo has chosen to ignore the supply problem completely.

@Chasloyal Not quite sure I'd describe the East London / Essex area as a frontier myself, don't remember the last time I saw any cowboys around here... Although they'd clearly be preferable to insufferable twits, who have nothing better to do than troll online...

Now in regards to your comments and behaviour, do you honestly not realise how you've come across as being no better than a guy showing off about his sports car... Everyone assumes he has a small tanny whacker and I'd hazard a guess that that's what most of the posters of comments on this article are thinking about you after the way you came in to the thread, showing off and then trying to rub it into the faces of those who were unfortunate enough not to get something that they have an interest in...
For a 42 year man-child you seem to be lacking some manners so maybe the next time you pop back to see your dear ol' Ma in Austria you could ask her for a refresher course...

@JaxonH - Thanks, but you should probably take me off the interested list, as I'm not. Well OK I am, but Im still not getting them. I do check the Ni tendo World eebsite regurlaly though just in case. Im thinking sbout the midnight opening for Splatoon next week. Who needs sleep?

@rjejr
Ya well, Marth is one of those $75 Amiibos so I thought it was worth a mention.

Witcher 3 should be here in an hour or so. Got a little over a week to play and then it's Splatoooooon time! You ever send that invite btw?

@Charlosa
Should I replace the term frontier with the word boundary perhaps? Seeing I live on a road that has some inhabitants under Essex County Council and others under the London Boroughs I thought frontier was quite an apt description. I wasn't aware our manor leads the way in top notch trolls but if you say so who am I to disagree, any recognition of achievements is always welcome.

I would go along with your analogy of me piping up like the not so blessed wee man with his big sports car to be honest but when you're a sufferer of Charette's Syndrome like me it just happens and I mean no harm by it. I think it's safe to say I have got better things in my life to boast about than getting a few Amiibos at RRP but they wouldn't be of any relevance in here so if the shoe fits n all that. Just for the record though, dinlow flashy fast motors really ain't my thing. I can assure you I am just as capable of getting a speeding ticket in our ickle Mazda runaround than any wannabe Roland Ratzenberger in his Porsche is.

I haven't denied being a man child in many a year so no observation prizes for that spot fella but it's still a compliment from you to say so, thank you. You couldn't have read through all my contributions thoroughly though, as you'd have noticed I am actually in Austria already. And though my mummy is a very sickly old lady she does always try lecturing me on my manners, or lack of them, but she's clearly not having any success after all these months of me being marooned out here eh.

Have a lovely evening, tschüß tschüß

Am I right in thinking these were sold out in less than an hour, I'm not very happy as I would loved to have bought them. I will buy them but I'm not paying more than £12.00 for them.

@PinkSpider Nintendo needs to deflate this bubble before it bursts.

Wow I was lucky this time. I was checking Facebook on my iPhone when I saw Nintendo post that they were up for preorder, so I immediately clicked the link and preordered Boweser Jr and Olimar.

I want the Olimar! HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO BE READY FOR THE US WAVE?!?!?!?!

Y'know what? I honestly don't even know what I was expecting. Nintendo have been idiots with this whole situation. They don't make enough stock, and when they DO get in restocks, what do they do? They only make a couple of new Marths, and make more Mario. I am REALLY getting tired of this BS. The only reason I haven't backed out of this, is because I REALLY want a Ness and Dr. Mario amiibo. They're basically for collection purposes, and them being used in games is a bonus. Long story short, I'm not surprised at what happened here, and I can already tell that this is going to happen with the next few waves. I would say that hopefully they'll learn, but the fact that they're STILL doing a sh*tty job at this proves to me that they haven't, they most likely won't, and a part of me thinks that they're actively avoiding the situation on purpose because nobody can be this stupid!

Meanwhile in NA we haven't even seen a peep of wave 4 yet. Not like any of it will hit shelves anyway.

@JaxonH - Well had I known it was a $75 amiibo

Yes, I sent it, you and Sin. Sin said he already sent you one but you never replied. He didnt' say it snotty like that, he just mentioned it.

@rjejr @sinalefa
Sorry for my procrastination. Accepted friend requests just now. I haven't been playing games for the last week so I wasn't on my Wii U. That's my story and I'm sticking to it

I'm already getting sick of these amiibo's. I have tried several stores with the same sorry results. Not going to pay scalpers because a friggen Donkey Kong is impossible to find. F#%& it.

@JaxonH No prob. I've been on my Wii about 2-3 hours every day for the past few weeks playing Xenoblade. Man, I can't beleive they passed up an HD remeaster w/ the map on the GMaepad for a 3DS port. I really really really really really want this game to be in surround sound but there's some issue w/ the Wii sound format on this game and the Wii U. I know XCX is coming but this storyline is so totally different. Jax you should tell your brother to play it, if I recall correctly he has good taste in games.

@rjejr
He actually already beat it a year ago. Been harping on me to play it ever since

Hopefully these characters will be taken into my local stores (unlike Shulk and Lucina -.-)

I wish you guys were as passionate about actual games as you are about this stupid amiibo crap. Nintendo really has you all by the purse strings

@Ichiban I'm just as passionate about the games thanks.

@PinkSpider you're very welcome!

If I wasn't sat in front of my laptop when I received the email, I wouldn't even had the chance to pre order. Managed to get them but I Do feel for the people who lost out on the chance ( I still feel the pain of missing out on standard priced Ness!!).

@Chasloyal you ordered two of each? Uh-oh. I preordered two Ness figures before that wave came out and they cancelled both of my orders.

@NintendoFan64 "Y'know what? I honestly don't even know what I was expecting. Nintendo have been idiots with this whole situation. They don't make enough stock, and when they DO get in restocks, what do they do? They only make a couple of new Marths, and make more Mario. I am REALLY getting tired of this BS. The only reason I haven't backed out of this, is because I REALLY want a Ness and Dr. Mario amiibo. They're basically for collection purposes, and them being used in games is a bonus. Long story short, I'm not surprised at what happened here, and I can already tell that this is going to happen with the next few waves. I would say that hopefully they'll learn, but the fact that they're STILL doing a sh*tty job at this proves to me that they haven't, they most likely won't, and a part of me thinks that they're actively avoiding the situation on purpose because nobody can be this stupid!"

Judging by that long amount of text, no sarcasm intended, but you may want to consider changing your username.

@rjejr "I really really really really really want this game to be in surround sound but there's some issue w/ the Wii sound format on this game and the Wii U"

I have managed to get my Nintendo Wii U to play in Surround Sound. It is just played through the the Digital-Input mode.

I live in Australia and I have every amiibo from wave 4 to the mewtwo amiibo on pre order! Thank god

@Alundra-1998 I was already considering changing my user-name because, well, my current one is pretty generic. I still love Nintendo, but the way they've been handling this just REALLY angers me.

I don't know how it is in the UK in search of Amiibos in store. I just know from what i read on this community. I live in germany and as everywhere else with the last waves the stock of Amiibos have been very small, each store only gets a maximum of 2 per Amiibo. On the german official Amiibo site u don't have the opportunity to preorder Amiibos.
In the bigger cities the Amiibos in stores sell out very fast, at some retailers you can also preorder, which you as a customer would reserve 1 Amiibo from the max amount of 2 the store actually gets. What I have been doing when missing out on Lucina, I asked the multimedia retailer in which other stores in the country they actually have the Amiibo in stock, since the stores share the same warehouse management system. And so I could track down Lucina from a smaller village where they don't sell Amiibos so good. I had to pay extra shipping for the sending from the villages store to my local store, but I'm pretty sure that some retailers even offer it at no extra costs.
Maybe that even works in the UK, this might have been a good tip.
Good luck finding your most wanted Amiibos!

Instead of buying your missed out Amiibos over ebay, track them down in the stores for a normal price! Btw, yesterday I was the first at 2 different retailers to preorder a Ganondorf xD. 1 is from Gamestop and they always get some Amiibos from the the new waves, even if it's not many, orders from Gamestop never gets cancelled due to low stocks like on multimedia stores.

@JaxonH

It's ok Jax. I knew at least I had a chance during Global Testfire this Saturday for you to see it.

@Alundra-1998 - "I have managed to get my Nintendo Wii U to play in Surround Sound. It is just played through the the Digital-Input mode."

For Wii games? My Wii U games work great in surround, and maybe even some Wii games, but Xenoblade Chronicles was apparently created in some format that the Wii U won't process properly, I think it's lacking Dolby Pro Logic II. I read around a lot about it, but not too much b/c it's a great story so I am trying to avoid all spoilers.

@pinkspider

These are now available on Game UK!

There up for preorder on shopto. Bit mote expensive but they have not let me down yet!

@Chasloyal "I've found Hermes and Yodel are the worst by a country mile, never had any real hassle with any other courier firm it must be said."

Wow... That is quite interesting. Honestly. Seriously no sarcasm, but I have had many, many, many deliveries by Hermes and I quite often receive the items that I have preordered 1-2 days BEFORE release date.

What interests me even more is that I receive items ON release date even with... drum roll Royal Mail... O.o

@Jab187 What amazed me about the June 26th amiibo preorders on GAME is that they were actually up for 36 hours and what amazes me EVEN more is that they are still available to preorder even now...
I am referring to Palutena, Zero Suit Samus, Ganondorf and Dark Pit.

@Alundra-1998
yeah I don't get it either.
Considering Jigglypuff and Greninja sold out in seconds, being from a franchise as popular as pokemon, you would have thought they would have manufactured more of them.

Palutena, Ganondorf, Zero Suit Samus and Dark Pit are not as popular characters but they seem to have been manufactured by the bucket load.

Either the pokemon sold out due to sheer popularity or they were purposely manufactured in smaller quantities to keep the hype train going.

My guess is the latter.

@Jab187 Knowing Nintendo, you are most likely absolutely correct with that answer. lol

I have now acquired a pre-order for all of the following amiibo figures.

Jigglypuff
Greninja
Inkling Squid x2
Inkling Girl x2
Inkling Boy x2
Dark Pit x2
Zero Suit Samus x2
Ganondorf x2
Palutena x2
Yarn Yoshi Green
Yarn Yoshi Light Blue
Yarn Yoshi Pink
Yarn Yoshi amiibo Trio Pack (Yarn Yoshi Green, Light-Blue and Pink)
Bowser Jr. x2
Dr. Mario x2
Olimar x2

@Jab187 you my friend are an absolute legend, preordered all 3. I would like to shake your hand and buy you a beer. My boys happy to. He loves levelling them up in smash.

@rjejr I would love an explanation to how you did this, being trying to for a while now

@Larrykoopa18 there's a preorder for mewtwo amiibo?

@PinkSpider - "being trying to for a while now"

Did what, get surround sound out of my Wii U Games or Wii games? (Or something else entirely, I type way too much on this website.)

To get surround out of my Wii U games I actually went out and purchased a new surround sound system. I wasn't happy about it, but I knew before I bought the Wii U I would have to. On the bright side, it was only about $200 and sounds SO MUCH better than my old one. And now the old one is in my bedroom - no base speaker though - so I get 5 speaker sound out of my bedroom PS3.

For Wii games I think I set the Wii U to stereo and the surround sound system to some kind of fake or faux Dolby Digital. I'd need to check, it's been awhile, but it's not as easy as it should be, there are no audio settings in Wii mode on the Wii U.

Well after waiting for over 24 hours and checking my account every now and then to ensure that they hadn't cancelled my pre-order for all 3, I finally got an email from Ninty last night confirming my order... Phew...

@PinkSpider Pleased to hear that you got sorted at Game - I know how disappointing it can be for little kids and big kids when they can't get the characters that they really want...

@Chasloyal - Pleased to see you took my comments in a sensible way - think it's fair to say that you'd let your fingers run away with themselves on the keyboard, but good to see that everyone appears happy again However, please don't take a £10,000 unique Diddy Kong on ebay as justification to try and over-charge and scalp the sh!t out of those less fortunate in getting these stupid plastic figurines... It tends to wind people up the wrong way

@Charlosa well said mate, and I'm Glad I found them on game, I just hope they come through

@pinkspider
No prob glad you were able to order them.

@Alundra-1998
Well it seems Nintendo have kept to their promise and increased Amiibo stocks seeing as this latest wave are still in stock on Game.

@Jab187 "Well it seems Nintendo have kept to their promise and increased Amiibo stocks seeing as this latest wave are still in stock at Game"

Possibly. That could be the reason... But...
It is either that or it is because of this message on GAME's website.
"Please note: this item is unavailable to non-UK residents."

@Alundra-1998
Ok perhaps my gripe with Hermes is more to do with their absolute pony customer support/tracking/ETA once something is out for delivery, I guess they do eventually show on the day they're meant to. Whilst Yodel on the other hand, they make stagecoaches getting turned over by Sioux Indians in the Wild West look a more reliable option. It's no coincidence everyone that ordered the MK8 collector's edition with the blue shell figure this time last year got given a free DLC code of the game as an apologetic sweetener from Ninty............they used Yodel so loads n loads of punters never received the game on the Friday it came out, some were lucky to get it on the Saturday but plenty of others had to wait till the Monday!

@Charlosa
What's this obsession with British people wanting to talk like they're from redkneck Tennessee? I don't want to degenerate this in to another moody tête-à-tête but there's no need for it, plenty of suitable British English terminology out there not to use this backward 'scalp' expression that seems to be all the rage right now. I've noticed many of these who use this American patter that is disturbingly creeping in to our every day language invariably turn out to be types who are the biggest critics of American government foreign policy, oh the irony. Back to the crux of your response now, I'm not quite sure what you deem as touting 'the sh!t out of' people but I don't consider doubling up on RRP as extreme, especially not when there's seller fees, Paypal commission and postage costs to be taken in to consideration. As I said already, I was desperate for one of those Gold Mario Amiibos for my collection, he cost 35USD plus shipping and charges to HM Customs & Excise so ended up working out about 42 quid. Just because some of us inhabiting this planet refuse to pay premium prices for things we want I don't get their logic in slagging out people who provide a service to those of us willing to spend more. Do you go in a pub and kick off at the treacle behind the ramp pulling your pint giving it the you can get a can for a quid in the shop so you're not prepared to weigh her on the £3.50 or whatever the boozer is charging?

@Chasloyal And we're back to being defensive...
As a man of international affiliation, I don't feel the need to constrain the use of my English to the boundaries of the United Kingdom and often use terms and words from other countries, not limited to the United States. To insinuate that all those of British birth who use American terms, are from the redneck part of Tennessee is somewhat xenophobic, snobby and Anti-American in the least. As it is the term would be valid all over the States and with your comment, it could be read that you're implying all American's who use the term 'Scalper' are rednecks from Tennessee... But in regards to those of us in the UK who have grown up with American films; television; books; comics; magazines; computer games and any other applicable media, it’s not a surprise that American English terms have slipped into the English we use. Is that really so wrong, considering that some of the English that the American’s use is of older English than our own – Fall for instance is older and purer English than Autumn… For someone who appears to hold roots in both Austria and the UK I do find your attitude somewhat surprising as I would have thought you might have had a more worldly outlook. Maybe I'm wrong...

Back to the point about profiteering (I assume you prefer the use of that word as opposed to scalping) No one would complain about someone who puts something on an Ebay auction at a near RRP price, which through demand of the interested parties was pushed up to 2, 3, 4 or more times the value. What most people take offence of are people clearly starting the price at a point to clearly make an excessive profit in relation to the original value. Granted, if the market is willing to pay the price, then so be it. But you must know that the general consensus of this largely Anglo-American run website and its readership is to be largely against such activities and as such advertising your intent to do so in the manner that you did was always going to rile people.

Here endeth the lesson…

Charlosa said:

"Here endeth the lesson...."

Well said!

The thing that surprises me more than anything is that the Bowser Jr. amiibo, Olimar amiibo and Dr. Mario amiibo have now been available on GAME.co.uk for over 120 hours.

By "available" of course, GAME might not have updated and they could be completely out of stock already

@Alundra-1998

No they are still in stock.

We don't know if its because they no longer ship overseas (as you said) or if its because Nintendo have made more stock available.

Whats puzzling is that said Amiibo sold out instantly on Nintendo Online Store, but Game have bucket loads.

@ottospooky and @spideyroxas and @Shinnos and especially for you @jab187

I just received the confirmation email from Matthew Moulding's dark empire disguised as Nintnedo UK stating two, yes @jab187 that's TWO, each of Bowser Jr, Dr Mario and Olimar have shipped and are coming with pony Yodel again, what a joke!

But it does seem perhaps all my fall outs with Zavvi in the past mean they won't knock my orders back like they seem to do with others, just goes to show kicking off and moaning like a brat works