Yes that’s right. It popped up in Hotstock, I tapped “buy it now” in the Amazon app, slid the thingie to the right, and that was it.
Hotstock? No. You only need that if you’re watching a bunch of different SKUs.
Cyrano
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I got a notification from HotStock today that Series X was available at Best Buy, but by the time I got there it was sold out, just like every time I have tried in the last few weeks. This thing is still very difficult to buy.
Yes, get used to that. It’ll take a bunch of tries. Frustrating, but still much easier than a 3080.
RickH
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Keep an eye on BB, they were the only place I could get both a Series X and a PS5. Best Buy beats other businesses by keeping bot-buyers at bay.
Heh, long week.
I got both consoles from Costco. I think the membership requirement keeps the scalpers at bay.
Every time I check their stock they’re out, alas.
Costco can and does often limit number of items for purchase, too.
I wonder if Hotstock covers Costco supply.
For what it’s worth, I have set up HotStock alerts on about 15 different 3080 SKUs and I’ve never seen a pop-up for Costco.
I’m 99% sure the one XSX availability alert I got was costco (before I decided to wait until later in the year to get it)
Cyrano
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HotStock lists Costco as a source it follows, and I have gotten an alert. I thought about getting a membership just to try to get an Xbox, but that’s taking it too far.
Thanks. Yeah, I see Costco is listed.
@Charlatan I don’t think Costco carries (or in my experience has ever carried) discrete video cards, so I’m not surprised you wouldn’t get an alert from them.
BTW, question for anyone: as long as the Hotstock test alerts come in, I’m good, right? I can be confident I’ll be notified?
How long does an “in stock” condition have to last to get an alert on my phone, I wonder?
Depends how often they check, but it’s pretty good. I used it for my CPU and had a script checking sites every 30s, and the Hotstock app usually alerted within one minute of my script.
I also used it for the XSX but didn’t have scripts going for that as I was just half-assing it, I wasn’t hardcore.
Reports coming in that the new Chromium-based Edge browser coming to XS will run GeForce now, meaning all your Steam and Epic games will work. Only issue is it doesn’t have mouse+keyboard support, but that could change.
