@Mach_Rider I rushed back here as soon as I saw it in my inbox! Hopefully this is good news for those who resisted scalpers a year ago. Although it seems access is restricted to e-mail addresses that registered their interest way back in the day, at least for the time being.
@Otoemetry in my experience, when they don't provide tracking and it doesn't arrive in a long time (say 1 month or so), you can still get your money back through the guarantee.
You'll probably have to give it enough time after the delivery estimate before you can action it but as long as it's covered, that's all that you need. If the seller doesn't reply to your contact attempts, you can ask eBay to step in and process the refund for you.
@Otoemetry eBay Money Back Guarantee. Make sure your purchase is covered by it. Also make sure the seller will provide tracking information before purchasing.
If it doesn't arrive and your purchase is covered you can request a full refund including shipping cost.
Now looking back... in hindsight... this is just a theory but I believe they took yesterday to run load tests on their European server. They were probably simulating the load levels they observed on Wednesday and adjusting server capacity on their cloud provider to a level that would be able to handle the demand.
Why else would the site have gone down again yesterday out of the blue if the product wasn't even there anymore? Yet for a good while it displayed the same 'overloaded' message as it had the day before.
Then today, having completed adjustments, they put it back in at around the same time they'd released it on Wednesday. Notice how smooth it went this time around.
Only problem is they neglected to notify anyone, so all that 'snuff' about registering your interest was effectively pointless in the end.
Again, that's just my theory... but makes sense in my mind.
Major congratulations to everyone who managed to secure one. It's been said time and again but anyone who's not a scalper deserves their reward a million times more after all they've been through.
For everyone who wasn't throwing their lives away pressing a button at the right time of day because Nintendo felt they didn't have to tell anything to anyone anymore, there may still be a chance they haven't put all the stock they're gonna have yet, so I guess there can still be hope they'll release more units after the dust settles on this first mess of a run.
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Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Collector's Edition Pre-Orders Are Available Again (EU)
@Mach_Rider I rushed back here as soon as I saw it in my inbox! Hopefully this is good news for those who resisted scalpers a year ago. Although it seems access is restricted to e-mail addresses that registered their interest way back in the day, at least for the time being.
Re: Random: Pokémon Scarlet And Violet Players Are Seeing Disembodied Heads
OK. Wow. At this point I think they should've slapped this one in the content warning section: https://rating-system.fandom.com/wiki/Fear_descriptor
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Collector's Edition Pre-Orders Are Available Again (EU)
@Otoemetry in my experience, when they don't provide tracking and it doesn't arrive in a long time (say 1 month or so), you can still get your money back through the guarantee.
You'll probably have to give it enough time after the delivery estimate before you can action it but as long as it's covered, that's all that you need. If the seller doesn't reply to your contact attempts, you can ask eBay to step in and process the refund for you.
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Collector's Edition Pre-Orders Are Available Again (EU)
@Otoemetry eBay Money Back Guarantee. Make sure your purchase is covered by it. Also make sure the seller will provide tracking information before purchasing.
If it doesn't arrive and your purchase is covered you can request a full refund including shipping cost.
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Collector's Edition Pre-Orders Are Available Again (EU)
Apology not accepted.
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Collector's Edition Pre-Orders Are Available Again (EU)
Now looking back... in hindsight... this is just a theory but I believe they took yesterday to run load tests on their European server. They were probably simulating the load levels they observed on Wednesday and adjusting server capacity on their cloud provider to a level that would be able to handle the demand.
Why else would the site have gone down again yesterday out of the blue if the product wasn't even there anymore? Yet for a good while it displayed the same 'overloaded' message as it had the day before.
Then today, having completed adjustments, they put it back in at around the same time they'd released it on Wednesday. Notice how smooth it went this time around.
Only problem is they neglected to notify anyone, so all that 'snuff' about registering your interest was effectively pointless in the end.
Again, that's just my theory... but makes sense in my mind.
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Collector's Edition Pre-Orders Are Available Again (EU)
Major congratulations to everyone who managed to secure one. It's been said time and again but anyone who's not a scalper deserves their reward a million times more after all they've been through.
For everyone who wasn't throwing their lives away pressing a button at the right time of day because Nintendo felt they didn't have to tell anything to anyone anymore, there may still be a chance they haven't put all the stock they're gonna have yet, so I guess there can still be hope they'll release more units after the dust settles on this first mess of a run.
No one can know because they just won't tell.
Re: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Collector's Edition Is AWOL In Europe After Online Store Confusion
It's back! Best of luck!