But holy crap was it a feeding frenzy of scammers when the mig switch was announced. I want to say one of the major piracy subreddits banned the same guy like five times because he kept making new stores that would take preorders but never send the cartridge.
And it made sense. Anyone who was even slightly aware of jailbreaking and the like knew that Nintendo put a serial number with every single game and duplicates would insta-ban a console. EVERYONE wanted one and all the interest would dry up within a week of the first units reaching consumers.
So yeah. I hate the precedent of this (and look forward to people still glazing nintendo nonetheless) but it is also hard to really feel bad for scammers who were actively preying on idiots.
I can’t speak to that specific distributor.
But holy crap was it a feeding frenzy of scammers when the mig switch was announced. I want to say one of the major piracy subreddits banned the same guy like five times because he kept making new stores that would take preorders but never send the cartridge.
And it made sense. Anyone who was even slightly aware of jailbreaking and the like knew that Nintendo put a serial number with every single game and duplicates would insta-ban a console. EVERYONE wanted one and all the interest would dry up within a week of the first units reaching consumers.
So yeah. I hate the precedent of this (and look forward to people still glazing nintendo nonetheless) but it is also hard to really feel bad for scammers who were actively preying on idiots.