Just did it, and now I don't have to camp out! Thanks for the tip!

And they haven't put the PS3 on their site either. Which means there's RS's entire supply online. Not 7 for one store probably like 250 or more.

Done and done. Waiting in line is for suckers and poor people! Long live laziness!
Then again,

cant pre-order it. It just kicks you to the main page on any of the items for "pre-order"

Just looks like a web screwup.

Falconfire: I just rechecked and it still works. Maybe try a different browser.

No shipping to Canada?

Quelle domage!

Got mine, says it will ship on the 19th (which is sunday, so i'm figuring it will ship on monday)

Good looking out Gizmodo, i'll have a very happy girlfriend coms christmas day :)

I just ordered one at 11:25AM EST. Worked fine, maybe you can retry?

I just ordered one on 11:15am, but not sure if the pre-order is still valid for shipment on 11/19 or 11/20.. I got an e-mail confirmation saying it will ship when in stock.. Does that mean when the shipments come in or is mine backordered? Seems like Mark got a ship date already....

Wow! That worked great and I am eternally grateful, considering that I was planning on getting up at about 5:00 am this morning to wait outside a Wal-Mart. Since I am buying this as a holiday gift for my 8 year old twins, I'd just as soon sleep in tomorrow morning at let UPS do its thing. Thanks Again!!

I live in a small town with all old people, today at meijers, no one was standing in, line, I can just go at 12 at night and get one myself....though I dont have the money yet...

If you're going to use italics, make sure to close them.

I wonder if all the preoders are actually going through? it's been up for 20 min, and that kind of worries me

Wow! That was great and worked like a charm. Considering that I was planning on waking up at around 5 tomorrow morning to wait outside a Wal-Mart, you just saved me from several hours of sleep and aggravation. Since this is going to be a gift for my 8 year old twins, I can just sleep in tomorrow and let UPS do its thing.

Thanks Again!!

i just placed a preorder fine with Firefox 2.0

I think that works for the italics. If yer going to berate somebody for making a mistake, why not do it yourself?

YAY! For the win!!!

Anyway, I haven't really been looking at the Wii much. I've glanced at things, and I was skeptical about the motion controller. Now, looking at the titles and thinking, I'm a lot more excited about it. Excite Truck looks fun and Red Steel could be a really cool game if done correctly.

Can the Wii be used on Projection screens? If I pop it over to my buddy's house with the Hd projector with a 13 foot screen, will that work?

Red Steel would be a full immersion type game then....*thinks*

i spoke directly with radio shack...they are taking orders but they will not confirm nor guarantee any shipping dates...i was told it could be as late as january or febuary before the systems get shipped

I decided to give it a shot- I don't trust Radio Shack, but if it doesn't ship soon I'll just cancel and try on Amazon. Or something.

Worked for me ! Gizmodo Rocks

Awesome. This is so much easier than camping out at Best Buy. =)

Gizmodo you rock! I ordered mine. However, I went back to check and you can no longer see the preorder page so it might have just sold out. Thank God I got in just in time!!

Apparently starting your post with an italics closer does not save it... hmm, tried to fix it, oh well.

If it is still working... makes me wonder, how can they have that many?

Anyone have any Canadian places that still are accepting pre-orders today?

I just got off the phone with the Shack and they are telling me that even though I received an order number there is no promise that I will be getting a unit at launch.

The whole purchase transaction went off without a hitch but I became suspicious after checking my order status and seeing my info and then upon re-checking the status I got a message that it was an invalid order number/zip code. I am hoping that I got in on time and they will ship before Christmas so i am letting it ride until i can get another one form another vendor.

BTW: The Shack rep asked if I would like to cancel my order.

I am not giving up hope yet because the Shack came through on an Infocus HD projector i bought from them for $600 in a similar retail frenzy.

It was noscript >.> I let scripts through and pre-ordered.

Wiiiiiiiiiiiii.

ordered mine at 9:18 pacific time, but now just got a back order email from Radio Shack, with no info on when it will be shipped. Hopefully its shipped monday.

Like Siafu, I just got off the phone with a representative and, even though I got an order number, I probably won't be getting one. Thanks Radio Shack!

Page not available. But definitely better than getting shot or robbed while camping out at Best Buy....

I got a email about backorder/advance order so this is legit, and its going through

Anyone else order and then get an email with the following:

Thanks for shopping with us at www.RadioShack.com. We have received your order XXXXXXXXXX-YYY, which includes backordered item(s) that are unavailable for immediate shipment. Once we receive the item(s) in our warehouse, we will begin processing them. At this time, you will receive an order confirmation e-mail with updated tracking information about your order.

I got the backorder email now too. I will keep my fingers crossed. The Shack is a heavy hitter so they will get units if units are able to be had.

I check my order status on the Wii that I ordered at 11:15 am. The status says uit's on hold until release date.

They must have stopped.

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I also looked for it on their site, but I couldn't find the nintendo wii. :( Oh well... looks like I'll get my camping gear.

"I got the backorder email now too. I will keep my fingers crossed. The Shack is a heavy hitter so they will get units if units are able to be had."

if you read the subject its a backorder/advance order email. and if you check the site its got a different code than a straight backorder.

I think thats what the shack is sending out to let you know its on preorder.

Once again my RS "Account Status" page has changed to reflect a "Item(s) on hold until release date: 11 / 18 / 06" message. Looks like my nephews are getting their Wii. Thanks Gizmodo, this saved me from a long cold night outside in Buffalo. Holla atcha boy if you're ever in the Ruff Buff and i'll buy the chicken wings and beers!

There were no representives from Radio Shack available for product shipping information. Some people have said they have called Radio Shack, but to my knowledge they have no customer support for weekends. Right now, the status for my order for the wii is, "item on hold until release date." It does show they have the units. They sold out pretty quick.

Oh no. They stopped. I should have ordered it earlier! =/ I was going to order one tonight. No Wii for me. But I've heard from some of my friends that the local BestBuy doesn't even have a line in front of it. And his cousin works there and says they have plenty of them. I'll check tomorrow.

Mine got cancelled.

Lame.

hey' mine just got cancelled also...sucks, gotta go stand in line now!

Mine got cancled too, fucking Radioshit.

If you got the confirmation email with the preorder/backorder status, go check your order status on the website. They all got cancelled and the emails were incorrectly sent. The rep I talked to "didn't know why I would have gotten that email". The orders were incorrect from the morning and were all cancelled according to the rep I just spoke with.

Thats kinda fucked up, Radioshack yet again cant get their fucking act together.

No wonder no one ever uses them

Mine got canceled too; stupid company. Back to scavenging.

Yup, mine got canceled too AND they haven't refunded my money.

What a bunch of idiots...

yep mine was charged too, bunch of fucking morons.

Great. Sorry everybody. Just in time to not camp out today.

Not your fault Mark.

"Due to unforeseen circumstances, the product was inadvertently placed on
the website in a "Pre-sale" status. We have subsequently removed the
product from our online catalog. We sincerely apologize for this
inconvenience. Your credit card will not be charged for this order. We
recommend that you retain a copy of this e-mail for your records."

I'm in the same boat. I sent Radio Suck a nasty email. We need to organize and drive them out of business. The shouldn't be around to do this to the public again.

I sent the following email to Radio Shack customer service. I urge all of you to do the same if you haven't already:

To whom it may concern,

On Saturday morning I was browsing the Radio Shack website and noticed that you were offering the Nintendo Wii as a pre-order item. I had been planning to purchase the Wii as a Christmas present and was worried that I was either going to have to wait in a line somewhere or spend the next month calling stores and/or tracking down this item all over town. So when I saw that one of my personal favorite stores, Radio Shack, was offering it as a pre-order I was extremely happy and immediately placed an order. Soon after I received a confirmation email with a status of back order. This seemed to confirm that the item would ship once it was released to the public (11/19).

After getting such a confirmation I felt that things were set and I would receive the Nintendo Wii sometime next week. I went about the rest of my day and didn't even bother attempting to go to any of the midnight launches for this highly sought after item because I felt secure in having an order placed at Radio Shack.

It wasn't until Sunday that I realized that Radio Shack had completely let me down. Shame on you! I also discovered, via an internet blog site, that you had done this to hundreds of people. I cannot fathom why you would go to the trouble of creating a pre-order web page for this item, accept payment information from hundreds of people and then turn around and cancel all the orders in an email that appears to be stating it was all a mistake. How does a pre-order website get posted by mistake? Did you get hacked? If you did, I would like to know because you now have personal information and credit card information from hundreds of people whom you have no intention of accomodating. Being in the internet security field myself it behooves you to release such information if that is the case.

On the other hand, if this was indeed a mistake on your part, I would like a more realistic explanation. I have been a Radio Shack customer for life and have always thought highly of your store. There have been many times where I could purchase electronic parts and components online for a bit less but I have patronized my local Radio Shack instead because I have always had a fondness for your stores.

Sadly, unless you can convince me otherwise, this is an unacceptable stunt that you have appeared to pull on hundreds of people. Given this, unless you can correct the situation, I will no longer shop at another Radio Shack, nor on RadioShack.com, again. That is a promise! I will also post my experience on every blog site so that others know what happened to me and why my family will not have a Nintendo Wii as expected thanks to this poorly executed product pre-order by Radio Shack.

I urge you to do the right thing and do one of the following:

1) Accomodate the people who placed orders by providing them with the product they ordered.

2) If that cannot be done then you have no other option than to come clean and explain exactly how it is that you would place a pre-order page on your website with seemingly no intention of honoring the orders in the first place.

3) Offer everyone who was duped by your poorly executed pre-order plan a gift card or redeemable coupon for a free Wii game or peripheral at your store.

You have a chance to redeem yourselves. I hope that you will do the right thing this time.

Sincerely

(your name)

To all you narrow minded dumbshits that blame RadioShack for this unfortunate incident, do not, blame yourselves as it was you who CHOSE to place the order in the first place. Yes, this was a pre-order, which means that nothing is guaranteed on launch it only means that your orders will be filled on a first come first served basis.
As far as the order glich goes give them time as I am sure that they are conducting an internal investigation as to what happened, and as they say you will get more bees with honey.
So my advice to you all is to shut up and backoff.