Trying to pre-order the PlayStation 5? Early sales for the console were quick to sell out on Amazon, GameStop, and Walmart, meaning Sony's next-gen console may be hard to come by this holiday season.
If you’re really desperate, you can turn to eBay, where merchants are already reselling their confirmed pre-orders for the $399/$499 console.
A quick search for PlayStation 5 pre-orders turns up hundreds of results from sellers trying to hawk their pre-orders usually for around $800 to as much as an ungodly $5,000. The more legitimate-looking listings show a receipt from the seller, which seemingly confirms they managed to snag a PS5 from a retailer such as Amazon or GameStop.
(Credit: eBay)
You can find some pre-orders for PS5 Digital Edition on eBay that are only asking $500, or about $100 more than the retail price. The merchant then usually promises to ship you the unit once it arrives in November.
We recommend you wait before purchasing the console from a third party on eBay. The Nov. 12 launch date for the PS5 is still weeks away and it's unlikely you'll be completely out of luck. (A Bloomberg report estimates Sony is manufacturing at least 11 million PS5 units for this year.)
In an interview with The Washington Post, PlayStation CEO Jim Ryan also said the company will have more PS5 units ready for sale than it had for the PS4, which sold an estimated 2.1 million units worldwide on launch day.
Still, the pre-order situation for the PS5 has so far been a mess. Sony previously promised the early purchase process wouldn’t happen at “a minute’s notice.” Unfortunately, that’s what exactly occurred yesterday when retailers began springing their pre-orders without any advance notice to consumers.
We’ve reached out to Sony on whether it’s going to replenish the PS5 stocks soon. In the meantime, the company itself is going to offer pre-orders for the console, but only to a lucky group of existing PlayStation customers, who signed up for the invites weeks prior. Yesterday, the company began sending out the invites via email, which will enable the customers to pre-order the console this Friday.
As for the Xbox Series X, pre-orders don’t start until Sept. 22. If you really want one, we recommend you check the retailers’ pages for order information throughout the day and sign up for their email alerts.
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