Profiteering from Nintendo's amiibos

[Osha]

It's asshole-ish behaviour but what can you do ? I managed to get my personal Amiibos at retail price, besides Shulk which I paid 30€ for, but since I really wanted one, I coughed the cash. I don't like that, but complaining about it sadly won't keep scalpers from doing what they're doing...

 

[Deleted User]

I keep finding horrendously overpriced Ness amiibos on eBay.
Mainly talking about the first one.

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They don't even use real stock images.
I don't like when people use stock images to begin with because I find it somewhat shady, but fake ones? That's even worse.

 

[Vipera]

In a world of right and wrong, it is wrong that there's people who're only pre-ordering amiibos to profiteer from them, while the fans who actually want them are left in the crapper because they were only slightly a minute late but in the end, it's just business. Nintendo and the retailers don't care who the product gets sold to as long as it's gone.

Are you for real?

What a shitty title. I thought this was GBATemp, not Buzzfeed.
As for the post:

- It's not Nintendo's fault that those pieces of shit of scalpers are ruining the game for everyone. Want to blame someone? Try to blame the fuckers who bought boxes just to resell them and make an illegal profit

Again, what's ruining everyone's game are the scalpers, and Nintendo can't do anything about it other than limiting the purchasable copies of 1-2 units. If there weren't any, you could play a fair game and have a chance of buying one without some loser trying to take money away from you just because he can. They are parasites and I can't believe some users are defending them. Why bother with opening a legit business when I can just buy everything off someone else's shelves and sell them by myself without paying a cent on taxes?
It's childish to point fingers at Nintendo because parasites decide to ruin the game for everyone. They are offering a limited product you can find everywhere, without the fancy stuff on the cover.

It's not business, it's being an asshole. To do a business, you have to offer something. All you did was having the money to pre-order everything and now you are inflating the prices. I'm so glad the NES collectivism is dying over scalpers inflating prices too much.

 

[bowser]

I will never ever buy an Amiibo anyway because to me it's as bad as DLC. So I'm unaffected by whatever prices they go for.

 

[Deleted User]

I'd buy a Samus amiibo just so I could open train gates.

 

[WiiCube_2013]

Vipera @ Nintendo can indeed do something about it. A mass production of each wave.

You don't see Activision and Disney having issues with their Skylanders/Infinity figures, do you? You want one, you gotcha.

 

[Veho]

I'd buy a Samus amiibo just so I could open train gates.

Has that been confirmed, or did the guy just stick his subway card into an Amiibo?

 

[Deleted User]

Has that been confirmed, or did the guy just stick his subway card into an Amiibo?

I don't know, I haven't actually checked that yet. I'll do that later.

 

[Vipera]

Vipera @ Nintendo can indeed do something about it. A mass production of each wave.

You don't see Activision and Disney having issues with their Skylanders/Infinity figures, do you? You want one, you gotcha.

Nobody cares about Skylanders. They are action figures from one single serie of game. Amiibos have a wider range of games and they got a lot of interest.
They can produce only 1000 units, doesn't make the scalpers being less parasites. Leave people's hobbies alone and open a business, if you desperately want to make quick bucks. At least you will pay taxes.

 

[Sliter]

I keep finding horrendously overpriced Ness amiibos on eBay.
Mainly talking about the first one.

Spoiler

They don't even use real stock images.
I don't like when people use stock images to begin with because I find it somewhat shady, but fake ones? That's even worse.

oh come on this is like whit they do with the prices here lol wtf but is ness a rare or a common one?

I'd buy a Samus amiibo just so I could open train gates.

nice ahah I want to try it with buses of my city haha but firt I need a amiibo lolololo

Again, what's ruining everyone's game are the scalpers, and Nintendo can't do anything about it other than limiting the purchasable copies of 1-2 units. If there weren't any, you could play a fair game and have a chance of buying one without some loser trying to take money away from you just because he can. They are parasites and I can't believe some users are defending them. Why bother with opening a legit business when I can just buy everything off someone else's shelves and sell them by myself without paying a cent on taxes?
It's childish to point fingers at Nintendo because parasites decide to ruin the game for everyone. They are offering a limited product you can find everywhere, without the fancy stuff on the cover.

I agee you there , but limiting buys isn't much, they can use other name, other sites ... nintendo realy culd produce more but maybe with a demand? I Think they don't want tobe like NOA that keep wanting to sell old3DSXL with new "special verson" because there are much not sold, with everyone waiting the new 3DS relase forever, more than the gateway updates lol

 

[Deleted User]

oh come on this is like whit they do with the prices here lol wtf but is ness a rare or a common one?

He's not out yet, and you could only get him via GameStop/EB Games pre-orders, but I've seen villager for cheaper than the first one in that screenshot.

 

[Sliter]

but you guys are lucky, this happens only with the limited ones ... even comom amiibos here coust a hell from assholes that can import/travel to USA/europe/japan and come with a load of them :B(Or just act as proxy from an international store)
look:

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This maybe don't look much because the dollar vale is very high for us now , but yes, it's hight for common not rare ones ¬3¬
the cheapest we find here is around 80~90 and with this price the seller probably are a proxy from a international store (in other words, don't have the product in hand and will import it to your home from somewhere you don't know)
btw, see any actual photo of the product there? oh yeah .. same they told above, they also can be fakes >w>

 

[WiiCube_2013]

Has that been confirmed, or did the guy just stick his subway card into an Amiibo?

Read on Kotaku when it first became popular that while it gave the green light it wouldn't let the user pass.

Nobody cares about Skylanders. They are action figures from one single serie of game. Amiibos have a wider range of games and they got a lot of interest.
They can produce only 1000 units, doesn't make the scalpers being less parasites. Leave people's hobbies alone and open a business, if you desperately want to make quick bucks. At least you will pay taxes.

Skylanders have a variety of series too and whether they're popular or not that's not what matters, the concern is that Activision & Disney don't run into shortages like Nintendo does. Nintendo's aware of the situation and is riding the train.

If you weren't aware there was a time that Skylanders was the shit and kids everywhere wanted but then times changed. Same will eventually happen to the amiibos.

Btw, the Skylanders and Infinity figures have a lot more use in games than the amiibos. Amiibos unlock a suit for a Mii (MK8), power up (Smash), some content to use (HW), a mode (MP10) or a modified feature (CT). Infinity and Skylanders lets you use them as actual characters in their games and that's actually an awesome feature which I miss that the amibos don't have.

It'd have been really cool if the amiibos of each figure could've unlocked Captain Falcon, Mega Man, Sonic, Palutena, Pit, Dedede, Kirby and Greninja for Mario Kart 8 and so on.

 

[Deleted User]

but you guys are lucky, this happens only with the limited ones ... even comom amiibos here coust a hell from assholes that can import/travel to USA/europe/japan and come with a load of them :B(Or just act as proxy from an international store)
look:

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This maybe don't look much because the dollar vale is very high for us now , but yes, it's hight for common not rare ones ¬3¬
the cheapest we find here is around 80~90 and with this price the seller probably are a proxy from a international store (in other words, don't have the product in hand and will import it to your home from somewhere you don't know)
btw, see any actual photo of the product there? oh yeah .. same they told above, they also can be fakes >w>

Jesus christ.
Where are you looking, anyway? I don't think I've ever seen that site before.

 

[Sliter]

Jesus christ.
Where are you looking, anyway? I don't think I've ever seen that site before.

This is "mercadolivre", is like a south american ebay, but is hard really finding a good price here xD (and , I think, it don't work internacionally like ebay õ3o I mean , not at least inside south america lol)

also the price are in BRL (Brazilian ReaL [?])

Btw, the Skylanders and Infinity figures have a lot more use in games than the amiibos. Amiibos unlock a suit for a Mii (MK8), power up (Smash), some content to use (HW), a mode (MP10) or a modified feature (CT). Infinity and Skylanders lets you use them as actual characters in their games and that's actually an awesome feature which I miss that the amibos don't have.

It'd have been really cool if the amiibos of each figure could've unlocked Captain Falcon, Mega Man, Sonic, Palutena, Pit, Dedede, Kirby and Greninja for Mario Kart 8 and so on.

It's really deppends the game, in codename steam you can unlock fire emblem characters , for example ... probably nintendo will do something, stuff with sonic or megaman for example would be hard to make then apears on mario kart (but would be awesome lol) but it's a nice idea .. and DLC that you can use more than one game and put in your self to admire lolololo
Also there on japan the " Touch! sudden famicon machine"(or something like that lol) that deppending of the kind of amiibo you unlock a game... not sure if it's a demo or full game, minigame or idk my japanese is bad lol

 

[WiiCube_2013]

Ness is definitely going to be a rare amiibo and just today I saw one being sold for £30 but it can probably be sold for higher.

This is what Ness amiibo looks like in its packaging (from someone who already has him)

It's really deppends the game, in codename steam you can unlock fire emblem characters , for example ... probably nintendo will do something, stuff with sonic or megaman for example would be hard to make then apears on mario kart (but would be awesome lol) but it's a nice idea .. and DLC that you can use more than one game and put in your self to admire lolololo
Also there on japan the " Touch! sudden famicon machine"(or something like that lol) that deppending of the kind of amiibo you unlock a game... not sure if it's a demo or full game, minigame or idk my japanese is bad lol

You can unlock Mega Man and Sonic in Mario Kart 8 but only as Mii racing suits.

Also, it's really fucking cheap of Nintendo to only let people play a portion of a game for a physical DLC that costs £10/$12.

 

[Joe88]

Nintendos bible for producing amiibo's

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_scarcity

 

[Sliter]

Ness is definitely going to be a rare amiibo and just today I saw one being sold for £30 but it can probably be sold for higher.

This is what Ness amiibo looks like in its packaging (from someone who already has him)

You can unlock Mega Man and Sonic in Mario Kart 8 but only as Mii racing suits.

Also, it's really fucking cheap of Nintendo to only let people play a portion of a game for a physical DLC that costs £10/$12.

I know about suit but I mean the character itself :/ everybody know that it would be far better (someone really like to play with mii on mariokart ? XD)

about the amiibo looks good ... the only think is the eyes too big and a bit more far frome ach other than the artwork xD

I wonder who sculpted the main figure to make the copies ... we never heard about these awesome people õ3o

 

[Deleted User]

Ness is definitely going to be a rare amiibo and just today I saw one being sold for £30 but it can probably be sold for higher.

This is what Ness amiibo looks like in its packaging (from someone who already has him)

*snip*

I saw one for CAD $26.88 in total including shipping on eBay.
As far as I know, it could be fake since there are no actual pictures of the amiibo, but I'm going to risk it.

 

[Bat420maN]

I have only paid over retail one time. For a Pit and Little Mac off of Ebay, they were 78 bucks for both. Then about a month later I bought them both again from Bestbuy for retail price. I have every amiibo out right now for North America, and plan to keep it that way. This wave scares me though with three exclusives and all on the same day. Got Jiggly already, have a plan in place for greninja, and I am pretty much lost on Ness. Exclusives suck but, by the looks of all your flags none of you have to deal with that bit of madness.