darkSpyro

Just got an email from Amazon.de regarding Scarlet Ninjini. Used the translate feature in Gmail.


Good day,

Amazon.de has a good message to your current order:

We are pleased to be able to announce that the following goods can be shipped earlier than announced:

"Skylanders: Giants - Character Pack Scarlet Ninjini (exclusive at Amazon.de)"
Previous Estimated delivery: 27 April 2013 - 03 May 2013
New Estimated Delivery: 23 March 2013 - 28 March 2013

For more information about your order, see "My Account" on our portal page ( http://www.amazon.de ).

(Please do not reply to this letter, because the e-mail address is set up only to send but not to receive e-mails.)

Kind regards

Customer Amazon.de
http://www.amazon.de

Really? Where are you located? After seeing this I checked my email and haven't gotten anything yet. I checked the order# for mine and it says it's set to deliver on the 14th lol I'm in the States though so I doubt it. Course now I'm scared they might screw up and send me a regular Ninjini.

I'm in Tacoma, WA. Added some screenshots in case anyone thinks it's fake.

Mine said March 23-28th the day my order was placed. I wonder why you had April to begin with.

When the item first went up it had the delivery date mentioned above. They have since moved it forward, and if you ordered after that you won't get an email (because it didn't change for you). My order has always said what his email said, shipping on the 14th, delivery on the 23rd-28th, because I didn't order until several days later.

I too suspected possibly a regular Ninjini, but once they posted a packaged image I think it is clear they know the difference.

I didn't get an email, but my date shows as March 23rd-28th.

Didn't get the email & I'm currently vacationing in Los Angeles...

So, do you guys use a translate program? I'd order except I can't read the web site lol.

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So, do you guys use a translate program? I'd order except I can't read the web site lol.

If you use Google Chrome as your browser, it will detect and offer you the option of translating from German to English (or whatever). Since it is a robo translate don't expect perfect grammar, but it is good enough to figure out. It doesn't work for the image buttons though, but those you can figure out if you are familiar with Amazon. Also, you can use your Amazon ID on the site as well, so you don't have to enter information. Your Amazon.de orders do not show up on the US site though, only on Amazon.de.

I only ordered mine yesterday and my date was March 23rd-28th as others have said. My friend also ordered one yesterday and she just told me that she received an email saying that hers has shipped!!. I'm thinking she maybe misread it...I dunno.

Maybe they didn't have enough when he ordered but now they do, so that's why yours has the earlier date and now they emailed him to say the same.

how do you get that???

Wait, so is it exclusive to Amazon.DE? Or just exclusive to Amazon and will come to the us

My estimated delivery date is March 14 (however, it hasn't shipped yet) -- I'm wondering how it will be getting to me by then if it hasn't shipped.

^ I thought the same thing but then I looked more closely at the order. Looks like it'll actually ship out on the 14 and get here between the 23rd and the 28th.

I'm glad I got my order in early since it seems to be backordered.

I just heard in my ToysRus...that they will get Scarlet Ninjini next week (as per a manager). Hopefully, it will be true. I will check next week!

^ It'll be nice if it's true but don't get your hopes up too much. Could just be that the manager is mistaking Scarlet for the regular Ninjini. It's amazing how little some of these people actually know about the game and characters. One clerk at a Gamestop last week when I grabbed S2 Spyro and Wrecking ball was also trying to tell me that Sprocket was a character he'd never seen before.

I find it amazing when I know more about a popular game than Gamestop/Best Buy employees.

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I find it amazing when I know more about a popular game than Gamestop/Best Buy employees.

Why? The employees are mainly in it for the money and, even if they were into video games, have other interests. It's, you know, a job for them and most only care as much as they're told about a product.

It's ok I had a nice TRU guy looking for a wrecking ball for me on Sunday, he thought since I was buying Leg Lightcore Chill that I was looking for Leg lightcore wreckingball, It was funny but after correcting him he didnt have either.

"VORAUSSICHTLICHES VERSANDDATUM 14. März 2013"
"EXPECTED DELIVERY DATE 14th March 2013"

Yeah, the shipping out date is tomorrow.

I'll wait here with The Secret Popcorn.

I got no email, but even when I ordered March 3 it said I should expect it March 22 to April 1. So I dunno. Maybe I just placed my order late enough to get the current timeline. I DO feel like when I placed the order it said it would ship out March 15, and last I checked it said March 14, but the Expected By date hasn't changed.

And I just copied and pasted stuff into Google Translate to translate individual pages, and used Character Map to type out what buttons said, then again used Google Translate. I find it to be rather effective. Also, my family is Dutch, and there are similarities between Dutch and German (which natives would never admit to) which helped me confirm the translations I got.

I'll try to wait until at least Friday evening to log into Amazon.de again to see if it says it shipped.

And yeah, it's listed as an Amazon Germany exclusive (not Amazon as a whole). I suspect this is temporary, and eventually - probably after 30 days after they become available - she'll be exclusive to all of Amazon, I figure Amazon Germany is too specific to last.

hopefully gonna get a shipping confirmation tomorrow.




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Quote: davesmsperfect

I find it amazing when I know more about a popular game than Gamestop/Best Buy employees.

Why? The employees are mainly in it for the money and, even if they were into video games, have other interests. It's, you know, a job for them and most only care as much as they're told about a product.

That, and they also have people expecting them to have obscure information about a number of different games and products. Most Skylanders questions directed to them would be asking about restocks of the NORMAL figures. And even then, if you can find someone who knows the difference between Hot Dog and Hot Head, you're money ahead.

Much as WE may follow Skylanders and the release dates for variants, your average Gamestop / Best Buy employee will worry about knowing things like when the Special Ultimate Collector's Edition of Tomb Raider is coming out, because that's what they'll get asked more often each day.

It is hard to fault game store employees for not knowing every thing about every single game. There are far more people coming in asking about a new Mario, what is going to be in this year's Madden or what's the story about the new hot first person shooter. Skylanders are popular, yes, but for a barely over minimum wage job you cannot expect an in depth knowledge about every game - the stores simply don't train them that far, and the information they send in corporate emails is pretty slim. Every once in a while you will get someone that is exceptionally well tuned in, but that is more of a result of their own interests happening to coincide with what you are looking for than the company giving them the info.

Another thing that is working against them is all of the parents/people coming in with bad info. If you don't know that much about the game and some person comes in telling you that Thumpback is out in November and you don't have anything else to disprove it, then how would you know any better? Next person comes in and asks where is Thumpback, so you say "I think he is out now", and there it spreads.

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It is hard to fault game store employees for not knowing every thing about every single game.
Another thing that is working against them is all of the parents/people coming in with bad info.

True that!
I wish that parents who are (in actuality) uninformed wouldn't blab so much at electronics and game store personnel. And I wish that electronics and game store personnel wouldn't spread hearsay.

C'est la vie, though.

Well, at the moment it seems to be unavailable at amazon.de. So you can't order it right now. But it still says that it will be delivered on Friday.

I still haven't received that email. I use Hotmail & I hope that it didn't end up in the Junk section...

For those keeping track, Scarlet Ninjini is now shipping. Or at least mine is.

My went to "Shipping Soon" just a bit ago as well.

Does anyone actually speak German (better than Google Chrome)?

Mine shows shipping soon (to the US, if I'm lucky..), but it is listed as "Aufgegebene Bestellung", which is being translated as a "DISCONTINUED ORDER". Also, under order status it says "1 Bestellung in den vergangenen 30 Tagen aufgegeben", or "One order in the last 30 days abandoned".

I'm really hoping that this is a bad translation of "Open Order" or something ...

Mine says the same thing so I think it's just a bad translation.

You might want to check that your payment method worked. Some banks need to have international authorization from you.

Nah, everyone's order says that, it's just a robot translation. It's fine.

My order status is Shipping Soon and the order details says "Delivery #1: soon sent"

good luck all

Mine says order being prepared for shipping and and it will be ready within hours to a day. I can't wait good luck all...

"Bestellung aufgegeben am" = Order placed on

"1 Bestellung in den vergangenen 30 Tagen aufgegeben" = 1order placed in the last 30 days

Just checked on my order. Amazon.DE says shipping soon and my bank shows a pending charge for $22.50 to Amazon.DE so it looks like everything is going through smoothly. Mine also says the whole "discontinued order" thing and has said it for the past few days but as I already said everything is still progressing nicely.

"Aufgegeben" CAN mean abandoned, but that is not its meaning here. "Posted" would be closer in this context. All it is saying is order placed.

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Does anyone actually speak German (better than Google Chrome)?

Mine shows shipping soon (to the US, if I'm lucky..), but it is listed as "Aufgegebene Bestellung", which is being translated as a "DISCONTINUED ORDER". Also, under order status it says "1 Bestellung in den vergangenen 30 Tagen aufgegeben", or "One order in the last 30 days abandoned".

I'm really hoping that this is a bad translation of "Open Order" or something ...

Mine says the same thing, and translates the same, but it still says it'll ship today (disturbing since other people here are reporting changes, like that's it's shipping now). It looks like it's not possible to place orders anymore, so I think that's what the negative stuff means.

By my estimation it's now 8am in Germany (I know it's 8am in neighbouring Holland, and last I knew they're in the same time zone), so we should be seeing stuff soon, those of us who aren't seeing anything yet.

EDIT: I notice a change! When it's showing my order summaries, the More Options button (one of the few things I don't need a translator for) now only has 2 options when it had 4 before, when I was trying to find a way to up the order to 3. Now I can only Cancel or Write a Review.

Im in the same boat as most of you. My card was charged on the 13th & the site says that it will ship today. (March 14th)

"Eine Bestellung aufgeben" means "to place an order".

[EDIT] Oh, too late, CrazyCanuck already explained that.

Yup, I got charged as well, and it now says "Shipping Soon"!

I'm shipping soon as well, and have a delivery estimate of 16-18th (to the UK) No sign of them actually taking the money yet however, but that may well just be my bank being useless

Am UK to hope to receive this weekend, for some reason I doubt that, they did take money when I checked my online account last.

Decided to check on my order also. It states it will ship today. As I was looking I received an email stating that it has shipped and I will be receiving it March 21st. I refresh the order status online and it now states the same.

Mine has now shipped. I'm sure I'm not the only one. Next update on arrival.

I just noticed something about my orders from amazon.de.

I actually placed two orders. I placed one initial order for 1 Scarlet Ninjini so the kids would have one. A couple of days later I went back and ordered a second one so I could offer to another local collector I run into while hunting for variants. I wasn't sure I'd get the second order since it was placed a few days later. Well it's actually my second order that is posted as shipped now while my first order is still pending. Just odd that the order placed first (by at least two days) wasn't processed first.