wait wait wait.. I thought ALL the servers went down. Are you telling me I only the eshop went down and I could have removed it by using my password? jebus crust.. I thought it was all down. I kept getting an error that it failed to connect to the nintendo servers. Pain. Much pain. Hours spent...
Made an account just to post here. THIS worked for me.
For an added bonus, I unplugged the power cable.
Having a wii u with a NNID on it now that the servers are down meant even if I had the password to the account, it was impossible for me to remove it. Imagine buying a wii u day 1 and having...