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Unsurprisingly, people are using automated bots to quickly snatch up SNES Classic Edition preorders

by rawmeatcowboy
22 August 2017
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If you're having trouble finding an SNES Classic Edition preorder, you're not alone. Thousands of people are in the same boat, and that's a boat full of very angry people. No sooner than preorders go live, it seems they sell out. How can so many people be so quick? They can't, which is why they're using the Tai Ding bot to do the dirty work.

The Tai Ding bot keeps an eye on preorders for you, and snatches one up as soon as they go live. The creators of the bot know there are quite a few people upset with this practice.

“People have realized that our bot puts them ahead of the competition. We have a 93 percent success rate. Basically our bot is able to "Automatically Cart" and checkout an NES [or SNES] without the presence of a person monitoring the computer.

It’s very much frowned upon by those who don't have the software and find it ‘unfair’ that others have the upper hand. The bot gathered a lot of attention last year around the release of the NES Classic. The attention died down after that but has begun to rise again during these past few months now that the SNES [Classic] is here.”

Multiple retailers have tried to shut down the Tai Ding bot service, but have so far failed. Seems like hot-ticket items like the SNES Classic Edition are going to be quite difficult to get through regular services.

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