I was all set to grab one of these bundles, but then I saw the shipping options:
Standard (5-10 business days) - $9.85
Premium (4-5 business days) - $21.58
"Express" (3-4 business days) - $34.44

On top of the extra $35 in the base price, this just makes it too unattractive.

Still waiting for EB to take online pre-orders.

I reluctantly ordered one of the KBToys bundles. My fear is that I simply won't be able to find a cube by Christmas any other way. If I get in on the next Amazon pre-order or at EBWorld (if and when they ever offer preorders) I'll cancel however.

According to http://www.planetgamecube.com/news.c...n=item&id=2210, EB will start accepting pre-orders next Monday (10/15). The good news is that you get your choice of 3 of the available games (you're not forced to get "Luigi's Mansion"). The bad news is that the bundle supposedly contains a 2nd controller provided by a 3rd-party (Interact), as well as a book about the history of Nintendo (yawn).

FYI. Anotehr preorder. This one from bestbuy

Best Buy just sold out. I ordered from them to avoid getting a bundle. 5 minutes after ordering from KB, I found a better deal thanks to T-Wolves. Hopefully, they'll let me cancel without a BUY.COM-style runaround.

I have a question maybe some of you could answer. I was adding one of the bundles to my wish list at Amazon, and it asked for credit card confirmation...about things bought off of my wish list?? Will this auto purchase it if I have it in my wish list...I know this seems optimistic, but hey?

I cancelled my KB order last night. Of course, they put a pre-authorization on my card, so I have $400 that I can't touch for 3-5 business days.

Does Best Buy do that, too?

From my understanding, yes they do. I cancelled my Purple Gamecube order so I could get a Black one, and the service lady mentioned that it would take a few days to free up the pre-authorized amount of my first order.

Daryl

Looks like Best Buy has a few more blacks up for order.

ebgames.com will have some monday the 15th for order.

Does anyone have any idea when they will put up preorders, and what kinda bundles (ick) they will have? I only ask because they have an EBworld-esque "Sign up for our newsletter to get preorder info" page up. Any info would be great...thx.

Stoney, off the top of my head, the EB bundles will be $399 and will include:
1 console
3 games of your choice
1 extra Interact controller($5 extra for first party controller)
1 memory card
1 12 month subscription to some game magazine, dont know which
1 documentary video on Nintendo or something

I'm sorry, I copied my post from another post, and forgot to include the real question...What Bundles will GameStop.com have?

Any ideas?

From what I've read, Gamestop had bundles up for pre-order a long time ago, and have more recently announced that they will not be taking any more. Your last bet for pre-ordering online may be EB.

Thats what I figured since I'd need to be a supreme Mac-Daddy to get one at the next Amazon preorder on the 18th. Okay...thank you for the info....

Can't wait till tomorrow.

By the way, does anyone have a heads up to the time that EB will offer the preorders?

I just pre-ordered the gamecube at Electronic Boutique this morning. Not much of a line, only about 7 showed up by the time the store opened. The great thing about pre-ordering there is that you are not limited to their choice of games. The flyers they had were offering 7 games, but you can get any game they have in their system. So I wound up pre-ordering Rogue Leader, Smash Brothers and Eternal Darkness, the latter two of which do not come out until December. Also, the employee I talked to was not sure if you can upgrade the interact controller to a nintendo controller, so I guess I will find out later. All in all I think this was the best opportunity to pre-order.

EBgames.com started their pre-order at noon est. I think they only have two bundles available, and no choice of games so I would try to get it offline if at all possible.

Dammit, that sucks. EBWorld.com is really my last shot, because I don't have an EB near me...I'm the unluckiest bastard alive.

...hehe

mlister....are you sure that EBgames.com is putting up preorders today? Did you ask a rep, because i"ve been checking all day long, and the webpage hasn't changed from the normal, "join our mailing list to find out pre-order info" stuff...?

i talked to the manager of the eb in lakeline mall here in austin and he said you can only trade in the interact controller for an official one... which means you would get like 10-15 bucks for it then have to pay the difference.... you can't exchange it for full price though.

Try somewhere like K-Mart, Target, Fred Meyer, Walmart, etc. I'm guessing they'll have a lot to sell. You might have to show up early in the morning on release day, but if you really want one...

I know...but the question that I really need answered, is what is the EBGames.com situation?? Have they already sold out, have the even put them up??? Any info would help greatly...

Stoney:

From what I've read on other forums, EBgames.com had the cubes up briefly for preorder this morning, but took them down due to technical difficulties. I am signed up for their newsletter, and they definately are planning on selling them today...so keep refreshing! For more details, check out the message boards at

www.planetgamecube.com
www.ign.com

Okay...so you are saying that the will go back up at some point today?

they are back up

http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/ads/promo...le/default.asp

Also, you can call. Right before they came back up, I called and they let me preorder.

OK, my bundle did not include these. I was forced to buy Luigi's Mansion.

That's how everyone's bundles were, right? I didn't miss anything, did I?

did you buy online or in store?


in store you can pick you games and get all that other free crap


online you get what they give you

Todd B., I think the post you are referencing was referring to the b&m EB. There were only 2 bundles offered online, both without your choice of games.

Actually Eternal Darkness was delayed again recently. It's not due until first quarter 2002 now.

Damn. No EB near me, so I had to order online.

Is anyone else worried about their EBWorld.com bundle pre-order? Even though I got my order in, I'm worried that they might not be able to fill it at the launch date.

They've had the order page up for almost two hours now, and they're STILL taking pre-orders. I can't believe that they'll really have enough allocation to fill all the orders they've received in the past couple hours (especially since Amazon sold out in 60 seconds).

From their <a href="http://www.ebgames.com/ebx/ads/promos/gamecube-bundle/FAQ.asp">FAQ</a>:

Sounds to me like they're taking as many pre-orders as they can, but they might only fill a fraction of them. Even though my order was within the first half hour of availability, I'm worried.

There may be a chance of not getting yours, but the picture isn't as bleak as you paint it. I'm sure they have rough inventory numbers, and can garantee delivery with reletive accuracy. I think that that section of the faq was more of a disclaimer than a warning.

damn, i am glad I ordered my from the store. i'm #15 on the list out of 28

i ordered gc from outpost a while ago, but they sent me this email saying it not in stock, and i know its just an automatic email. but does anyone know how sure they are on shipping them right away? as in, gettin my gc without wating on backorders?

i think you'll be alright. i had one ordered from outpost.com but I had the credit card i used to preorder it stolen and they wouldnt change the billing method on it... i would have to wait till the credit card got denied then submit new cc info and i could loose my pre order spot. i was like uh, no... so i went to eb and picked what i wanted.

haha sorry to hear. thanks for the info, or at least encouragment. hopefully i'll get it.

They appear to be sold out of the cheaper bundle now...only the 4-game one is showing.

Also, I had a question...originally there was a lotta smack being talked about the fact that the extra controllers were 3rd party Interact controllers. I'm not sure about in physical stores, but no where on the website did it say anything about Interact, it just said an extra controller.

Any ideas?

crap! my amazon preorder now says that it will be shipped Nov 28th! to arrive Dec 3-7!! what are they tryin to pull!! these aren't preorders there just waiting till they get a bunch in and then shipping them..

i hope that doesn't happen to me with my outpost preorder....