How do normal people get a PS5
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Buy the [censored] bundle from GameStop. I got 2 ps5’s this way and 3 other friends got one too. When the bundle gets delivered take everything but the console to GameStop and return it. I paid $535 with tax for each ps5 after retuning the bundle junk
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@schnauzerface said in How do normal people get a PS5:
I'm not willing to camp outside of a Gamestop next to a pack of unwashed neckbeards, and I'm not dropping a sweet stack on eBay to buy an empty box. So how do normies get a PS5? There are a lot of websites dedicated to tracking the PS5 restockings, but they all seem either sketchy or outdated or probably a front for the mafia.
If you've gotten a PS5, how did you do it? And what is your address and work schedule?
I was lucky enough to wake and check my email the night pre-orders went live on Bestbuy.
I'm a shop foreman for an elevator fabrication company. I go in anywhere from 0200-0500 and leave 1000-1300.Be extremely vigilant, sign up for updated stock alerts. There are a few twitch/twitter people who post right before a drop, follow them. I know a couple people who've had luck following the twitch/twitter people.
Also make sure you pre-register on any site you might use. This way you won't miss out fiddling with the process when seconds matter.
Good luck..
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I got 3 before Christmas. One I beat the bots online and got it through Walmart.com. Second one there was a rumor our local Walmart was getting 20 something. That morning to work I drive by and saw about 12 people in line and hopped in line waited a half hour and got it.
The third was right place right time. I went to GameStop to get wireless headphones for my PS5. While in line the phones started ringing a lot and the employees went oh my god they just dropped PS5s on us. Apparently GameStop didn’t even tell their employees and you could only purchase in store. So I was like might as well get one while I’m here.
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@oachs83_psn said in How do normal people get a PS5:
I got 3 before Christmas. One I beat the bots online and got it through Walmart.com. Second one there was a rumor our local Walmart was getting 20 something. That morning to work I drive by and saw about 12 people in line and hopped in line waited a half hour and got it.
The third was right place right time. I went to GameStop to get wireless headphones for my PS5. While in line the phones started ringing a lot and the employees went oh my god they just dropped PS5s on us. Apparently GameStop didn’t even tell their employees and you could only purchase in store. So I was like might as well get one while I’m here.
Next question is, what did you do with the extra ones?
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@hikes83_psn said in How do normal people get a PS5:
@oachs83_psn said in How do normal people get a PS5:
I got 3 before Christmas. One I beat the bots online and got it through Walmart.com. Second one there was a rumor our local Walmart was getting 20 something. That morning to work I drive by and saw about 12 people in line and hopped in line waited a half hour and got it.
The third was right place right time. I went to GameStop to get wireless headphones for my PS5. While in line the phones started ringing a lot and the employees went oh my god they just dropped PS5s on us. Apparently GameStop didn’t even tell their employees and you could only purchase in store. So I was like might as well get one while I’m here.
Next question is, what did you do with the extra ones?
A close friend of mine was needing one for her son so I basically sold that for retail. The third I sold for $750 at that time they were selling for close to $1k. I figured might as well help someone out and not gouge them like most were.
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@oachs83_psn said in How do normal people get a PS5:
@hikes83_psn said in How do normal people get a PS5:
@oachs83_psn said in How do normal people get a PS5:
I got 3 before Christmas. One I beat the bots online and got it through Walmart.com. Second one there was a rumor our local Walmart was getting 20 something. That morning to work I drive by and saw about 12 people in line and hopped in line waited a half hour and got it.
The third was right place right time. I went to GameStop to get wireless headphones for my PS5. While in line the phones started ringing a lot and the employees went oh my god they just dropped PS5s on us. Apparently GameStop didn’t even tell their employees and you could only purchase in store. So I was like might as well get one while I’m here.
Next question is, what did you do with the extra ones?
A close friend of mine was needing one for her son so I basically sold that for retail. The third I sold for $750 at that time they were selling for close to $1k. I figured might as well help someone out and not gouge them like most were.
Good man! Known you for a bit on here, played you quite a few times. Good on you. Hate the idiots ruining Christmas’ for people trying to buy one legit. Hate the idiots enabling these bots by paying almost double retail even more
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On another message board, some member were stalking the Sony site. They would make a post when they were available. Went to the Sony site, waiting in the virtual que and the. Waited in another one. Got into the store and got lucky.
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Follow Matt Swider from Tech Radar! And watch tip videos from others. Any little advantage you can have will help. I got mine from Walmart, but you need to use the App because its faster. You just keep hitting Buy now and it if says sold out or more stock coming in such time (I forget which it says) just keep hitting it. You’ll feel a vibrate on your phone when you get one in your cart. Best feeling ever lol Website is slower and you have to refresh the page. Watched a video to learn that. Good luck
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Alot of different people were good to follow with stock updates and suck
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@schnauzerface said in How do normal people get a PS5:
I'm not willing to camp outside of a Gamestop next to a pack of unwashed neckbeards, and I'm not dropping a sweet stack on eBay to buy an empty box. So how do normies get a PS5? There are a lot of websites dedicated to tracking the PS5 restockings, but they all seem either sketchy or outdated or probably a front for the mafia.
If you've gotten a PS5, how did you do it? And what is your address and work schedule?
Stockx. I bought mine off of that for $100 more than base price.
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@red_ted_is_back said in How do normal people get a PS5:
I just preordered online from JB Hi-Fi back in September and they called me a few days before release to plan a time to pick it up.
Nothing out of the ordinary.
I pre-ordered mine back in Sept of 2020 via Amazon the day preorders were out from the comfort of my home.
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You can get a PS5 from a site called Stock X if you don't mind paying a bit extra. It's more secure than sites like eBay, they'll test the console before shipping.
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I bought my series x with the help of a discord group. You join the group and select which rare item you’re looking to purchase and then it’ll notify you when that particular item becomes available among many of the retailers. I’ve bought two series x’s. Bought one for myself and then I bought one and shipped it to my friend and allowed him send me the cash via pay pal. Wasn’t hard. Just waited for the notification
I don’t know how to search for groups on discord , I was given a link to this but the name of the channel was either ‘ATR Stonks’ or ‘ATR Stocks’ I don’t recall , and I don’t know how to verify.
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Seems a lot harder to get in canada. I only know one person that has one. My wife gave me the money to buy one for Christmas and I tried for a couple months, but at this point I'm just going to wait until I can walk into a store and buy one. It's not worth going through hoops.
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I paid an extra $200 to get one off of offerup in December. I didn't feel like fighting against bots. I deal with enough of them in COD.
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I follow @mattswider on twitter for the re-stock heads up. It took me a week of trying, but I finally scored one at Best Buy. I used the money I get for participating in an experimental FDA drug trial to pay for it.
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@maskedgrappler said in How do normal people get a PS5:
Seems a lot harder to get in canada. I only know one person that has one. My wife gave me the money to buy one for Christmas and I tried for a couple months, but at this point I'm just going to wait until I can walk into a store and buy one. It's not worth going through hoops.
That will be at least a year probably longer.
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Simple 5 step process:
- Get Married
- Have Son.
- Wait 12 years.
- Son won’t stfu about it and wife goes nuts on discord groups etc till she happens to get one after like 300 attempts.
- Enjoy PS5
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@schnauzerface said in How do normal people get a PS5:
I'm not willing to camp outside of a Gamestop next to a pack of unwashed neckbeards, and I'm not dropping a sweet stack on eBay to buy an empty box. So how do normies get a PS5? There are a lot of websites dedicated to tracking the PS5 restockings, but they all seem either sketchy or outdated or probably a front for the mafia.
If you've gotten a PS5, how did you do it? And what is your address and work schedule?
If you have Twitter, follow ‘PS5 Stock Alerts’ and turn on all notifications from them. It’s how I got mine
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Call your local Walmart's electronic department and ask if they know when an order will come in. Find out what days/times the truck arrives.Get there the day before and the day of earlier than the truck. They do a number system based off of when you arrive. Stand in line and wait a few hours and you can have a chance. I got mine this way and I tried the other ways
