Ingress X kit pre-order NOT A PRE-ORDER???
I..... I can't even. You use a pre-order to determine how much a product you need to make, THEN YOU ORDER IT.
HOW THE F do you call something a pre-order, then lock out buyers because the pre-order is "sold out"??? So, does this mean there will be no orders moving forward? English is hard.
Tired of this absolute horsedung @NianticThia
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it seems it was like before very limited quantities whatever they had and sold out in 25min roughly...
Seriously Niantic, what is going on? People want to give you money for products, and you continually can’t get it together. It’s ridiculous.
Would have much rather they just say it goes on sale like before, not call it a preorder. Really screwed the pooch here.
A preorder doesn’t mean it’s unlimited. Should they have told us how many were available, probably, but unless it’s specific about selling for a certain time frame, one should assume there is a limit, especially with Niantic. In all my years of collecting vinyl, 10+ years of doing preorders, I’ve never assumed there was an unlimited supply unless stated, which is pretty rare.
Let's ask the dictionary what "preorder" means:
Ordering something before it's available for sale. That's it. The idea that "preorder" equals "unlimited orders" is myth encouraged by companies that use Kickstarter as a fullfillment system.
The first shipment for these subscriptions is in three weeks -- Niantic isn't going to find an affordable supplier of pins and patches who will take a "three weeks to produce a large but unknown number of pins and patches" contract, because there isn't a supplier like that. Niantic would end up paying a fortune to keep an assembly line empty and available for orders that Ingress players might make.
The only way you get "unlimited preorders" without that kind of financial risk for Niantic by greatly increasing the time between taking orders and shipping merchandise (which what most Kickstarter projects do, and it works there because Kickstarter trained users to accept it).
Anybody who thought Niantic would/could do unlimited preorders for this subscription just wasn't thinking it through.
Technically not a pre-order either though according to dictionary as they were available for sale.
The accepted meaning of pre-order is to place an order prior to production. Limited or unlimited productions another issue.
As per usual, it was vague and confusing communication. The store experience though was good.
Products have been sold online for over twenty years now. A "good" online store experience should be a given. 😝