Why I can’t pre-order yet? null

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Aaaa · Accepted Answer

I have been checking for the past almost 55min refreshing the page and it still says “Coming Soon” - did they open the pre-orders up earlier than the agreed upon time 45 min ago?? If so, and they already sold out, that is very frustrating for the people trying to follow the agreed upon release date and times...

Answered by Aaaa 5 years ago

KlatuBerataNicto · Answer

One word. Bots. Theyre already gone bruh. Best bet is to hope you can grab one early on launch day in person at store, as nobody really advertises when they have more pre-order stock online. Even if they did, the bots will beat you. Just dont buy one from an ebay scalper whatever you do. Let them rot

Answered by KlatuBerataNicto 5 years ago

XboxUser · Answer

I think best buy should have better controls to block bots. File a complaint on bestbuy.

Robert · Answer

Just let’s all these bots who bought them all up get stuck with them you know they all did the 34.99 a month plan which adds up to 840 bucks so just let them get stuck with it and hold off don’t buy one from any of the bots

Answered by Robert 5 years ago

Stormey · Answer

This is bs I’ve been up for hours !!!! And all I see is coming soon after refreshing FOR HOURS it never said available then I get a sold out y’all got me F’d up y’all wasting people’s time man. DO TF BETTER

Answered by Stormey 5 years ago

paul · Answer

Spoke with Best Buy through chat yesterday. They said they will have more opportunities for pre-order purchasing. No exact details yet, but be on the lookout for that .

LMC331 · Answer

This was a horrible experience. The minute it’s was released I got one in my cart and it just hung when trying to check out. Then would disappear from my cart. I would try again and after much time got another and the same thing. This happened multiple times. Unless you have a bot you can’t get someone on Pre-releases. It is so frustrating.

Answered by LMC331 5 years ago

MannyLegacy · Answer

Stinkin Bots!!!.......I wish there was a way to control the use of them. Then people that really want it, for personal use, can get their hands on them. Instead, the inTerWebz is now flooded with ridiculously high priced resale.

Answered by MannyLegacy 5 years ago

DMSGAMES · Answer

Just be patient and keep trying to refresh I was on my phone for about 25 minutes refreshing the page and i finally got one ordered.

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The same thing just happened again :/

John · Answer

I had to refresh for about 3 hours to get mine

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The bots are still eating them all up in March of 2021. These companies are garbage.

Pkms · Answer

hi, were you able to order? i am currently in the same situation and im worried i wont be able to get it. i have been refreshing the page for over an hour now and it automatically said "sold out" i will be trying again tomorrow morning,

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Its tomorrow

Yessie · Answer

How and where do I preorder

Slippy · Answer

They are still not out yet

ihatethisplace · Answer

i have been at it now for like 2 hours i had one in the cart and about to confirm purchase's and when the page refreshed it took the xbox out of my cart and i was left with nothing now i have a preorder page but it keeps telling me i casnt put it in the cart because of some error

TheFantom253 · Answer

kinda blows that I had to setlle for the series S becuase the X is constantly bought out by bots

ThatDude · Answer

Preorders went live at 12:00 pm est, instead of the 11:00 pm est to try and avoid congestion. It didn't matter, as preorders still sold out within 1 minute.

MikeTheMan · Answer

I finally got a series X on Best Buy it was Terrible Today I think I had heard that Best Buy actually ended up doing their pre orders an hour later from the scheduled time Also I must have gotten lucky because I didn't get one until like an hour and a 1/2 later from when they were Going live at Best Buy And it said everything was gone and then all the sudden it just pops up pre order outta nowhere I was like wow I couldn't believe it From there it took another 30 minutes just to add it to the car and then another 30 minutes to click the check out and put my payment info it was the most ridiculous Situation I've ever seen Buying something in the end it was all worth it though score one for us taking another series x away from the bots

luke · Answer

idk man

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I don’t think they even have enough to put in multiple store in the us much less nation wide

GShock75 · Answer

One Word: SCAMS 
Much like the bots snatching up all the inventory or because BestBuy wants you to pay them 200.00 to have a "preferred chance" of being selected as someone that can purchase the Xbox, SCAMS EVERYWHERE.

Carol · Answer

Per order Xbox x

GORDO · Answer

Bots just arrived to F8Ck this up!! thanks to the freaking covid 19 , evething was online and Sh##T and now, we are out of consoles and the scalpers at ebay ,amazon and so.. want to sell it to you for freaking 800 to 1200 USD. that's just lame.. I hope when the console fever ends, this fools are stuck with a dozen consoles so they can't sell them at the price they wanted to,

Bulldog19x3 · Answer

Y'all better be getting more units in than you are , their are people like me with broken disc drives that can't afford to fix their Xbox one , but have been itching to get their hands on a series X ... just so they can replace what they have !

westcoast · Answer

I'm not sure if you are on the west coast as well, but midnight all time zones made it impossible for any of us on the west coast to get this. We even tried to login at 9 PM as that would obviously be 12 on the East Coast with no luck. I'm sorry you're in the same crappy boat as my husband.

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People on ebay and Amazon bought them all

Edward · Answer

When can i pre-order

Luxk123 · Answer

I don't know why yours has more dislikes than the others bc yours is the only factual one. I copped an S by refreshing over and over again on release day. This is meant to the guy saying to refresh. Not the original question

Shim · Answer

I wonder if the series x released a little later because I got mine at 11 pacific time as well as 3 of my friends

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I bought one yesterday and got a message telling me that my order was cancelled because they couldn't verify my information.

Infantryman65 · Answer

The reason it wasn't open was because the website was having difficulty since so many people were getting on it at once. It said coming soon then opened up around 1230. Then went down again because of the traffic on site. 45 minutes later you were about to order them again.

Al84 · Answer

The site was running awful yesterday. I got lucky and got 1 after the site told me there was a problem and to try again later, so I kept my internet and cart open. Then it told me it was sold out but it let me check out and got an email confirming my purchase, bestbuy was the 4th site I got 1 into my cart and the other 3 sold out in anywhere from 2-5 minutes, I think I got 1 here at around 12:45 EST, the other sites all told me they were sold out after I entered my cc information

THISisBS · Answer

Started pre order at 11 and had nothing but problems. 11:45 I was finally able to complete order because website was wrecked (constant problems) just to be pushed out; Because product was sold out. Website was bombarded by bots supposedly, leaving it impossible for many to succeed. Hoping to hear further plans to combat such a problem. 
 I've as well been hoping to hear from people/friends good news on their end but they didn't have no such luck. We are all going to have fun with this headache. As much as I'm hoping, I hope those of you have struck good fortune and succeed sooner then later.

xero · Answer

I had to keep refreshing the page for over an hour after the pre-order time before I was finally able to get my order in. I had the same problem that most people had with the error messages and only the "Coming Soon" banner thing. Other websites were literally kicking me, 404ing, or were simply out of stock between the time I clicked "Add To Cart" and the time I went to confirm.

Anonymous · Answer

I refreshed and dealt with errors for 3 hours in order to get one. Thats how every online pre-order goes cause of bots. You have to be super lucky. Like some others have. Said show up in store EARLY on launch day and thats your best chance go get one!

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I have been also refreshing my page for over an hour and I’m out in Hawaii

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https://www.ebay.com/itm/274689040941

Joseph · Answer

When is the date that I can order the xbox series x?

Pshark1967 · Answer

Best Buy sells bots for around $70, I highly doubt they’ll block the same bots they sell

NoNickname · Answer

The pre order date was September 23, 2020. on that date, it was available for pre-order, clearly the inventory has been taken with other pre orders before you tried to do it. Every store gets a certain amount of inventory for that item and unfortunately they are sold out until the next inventory and nobody knows when that will come.

ItsMe · Answer

I was able to place a pre-order 90 mins after they were set to go live, it looked like they were trying to keep bots from scooping them all up by randomly having the button come up and only letting so many orders through at a time.

digi · Answer

Yup, yesterday the second it went live I had one in my cart, entered cc, shipping address, then submit. Crash city, endlessly for 2 hours. Then finally it just vanished from my cart. FBB.

Ronnie · Answer

This was a cluster. Thankfully, some retailers (Best Buy included) did a staggered release. I was online at 10:59am EST and it showed "coming soon" for the next 10 minutes or so as I kept refreshing. I called Best Buy customer service and they said they'd sold out in less than a minute and then the site crashed. I had friends tell me that they kept refreshing and were able to get one. I got mine at 1:47pm.

Truthhurts777 · Answer

The system was crashed I got mine off Amazon prime it took me 6 long hours and lot hustling get one

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Yes you got to keep refreshing your screen. I also got mine at 3:45pm est time

Shroommaster · Answer

unfortunately all gone within a minute. Chances are very likely you will not be able to get one for at least a month. Black Friday and Christmas they will be completely sold out everywhere I bet. So better luck next year.

ZANTiX · Answer

I kept refreshing the page and after 10 try's, one landed in my cart and was able to buy it. It's posable someone cancelled the order or someone times out and I was lucky to get one.

Liquid · Answer

For me i was rushing to the microsoft store website and it was fustrating because nothing would load so i tried it on my phone then it loaded on my computer, i kept trying multiple times to add it to my cart untill it said that i reached the limit of iteams i can have which is the 1 consol per buyer rule. It still wouldn't show up in my cart so i refreshed the page loaded back into the Microsoft website and went straight to the cart. If I was able to do all that and beat some bots to it then i dont see why it wouldn't let you

Clint · Answer

I was able to preorder mine just after 3:00 ET. Tried at 12:00 ET earlier today and wouldn’t work. Hope this helps.

Justin · Answer

It’s nice to see the most distressful thing right now is not being able to order a new game system. 
Warms my heart.

BOUNCHBoY · Answer

Preorders are working now, I was running into the same problem. Hope this helps!

SlabbGodd · Answer

Change your store to 60607

tomp · Answer

got mine at walmart in 20 seconds no issues

MicrosoftOutreachTeam · Answer

Due to record-breaking demand, Xbox Series X|S consoles may not currently be available. If you have not been able to pre-order, be sure to check back with Best Buy. We expect more consoles to be available November 10th.

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