IIRC, by the time there was the "Done is Done" announcement, everywhere was well out of stock after (several) restocks.

Its not like they suddenly slammed the doors in your face and said Sorry, We're closed.


If you placed an order, you should have it. Barring the crazy order calling in Europe or whatever from overseas customers.

i think a lot of US based stores need to have a serious look at their business practices. When you dont have a policy in place to offer a 1 copy per customer going on, then you are not doing your job. As you can see, a lot of people mistakenly think its Bethesda's fault this happened. Its not. They just produce the game and market it. They dont have any control (bar be part of the process to see who sells it in foreign countriees) over who sells it really and how they sell it.

The way I see it the Pip Boy edition was marketed directly for those people who either watched the E3 announcement live, were there to see it , or watched it almost immediatly after. And there would of been a big amount of people doing so. The people who found out about it from a secondary information source might be able to secure themselves a copy, but those who dont check media sources often were always gonna be flat outta luck.

EDIT: Im even betting as soon as Todd Howard mentioned the pip boy edition there were people writing emails calling stores a minute after he did so. People were already formulating plans on how they would buy one.

Unfortunately there are no more. There might be more done the line but I doubt it.

Also kick cancer ass. Sorry to hear you got it.

This one is sorry for all those who wanted the Collector's Edition and didn't get one, and also to OP for her health issue. It is for this very reason that Khajiit doesn't bother with Collectors or Limited Editions. Khajiit saves that for those who truly care about it!

The policy is set by Beth for copies per customer. GS stores never got any order from corporate to limit pre's.

threedog: Not in the case of EB or other game companies around the world. That or EB ignored the Bethesda directive and went with its own 1 per 1 customer.

What I'm thinking is that retailers can more then likely do a 1 for 1 if they choose. Kind of sounds like as long as beth never gave a strict directive each retailer could do what they want.

I'm sorry about your lung cancer, hope you pull through. It's a tough shake all around, I wanted a pipboy edition myself but didn't get my order in on time. I have a friend who's in the same boat....but that's life. There's people looking for the next biggest thing to make a profit on. Scalpers are scum in my opinion, but they won't be stopped. If bethesda had limited it to all the retailers, so only one per customer... all a scalper has to do is order them through different stores. The best thing to do is see if there is a cancellation at your local place, maybe you can get your friend to hold a pre-order for you.... though he sounds more like the kind of guy who'd sell it to anyone to make his quota, no offense.

OK... can anyone else see something inherently wrong with that ebay list of pip-boy editions... see how many are NEW LISTING FFS... There have got to be be ton of fakes out there...

On the UK ebay site there is a total of ONE pip-boy edition available (because he put Fallout Four instead of 4). Sounds like they have either been snapped up or ebay have trashed a lot of the fakes.

I expecting a lot of people to be getting Sand shipped to them!

Nyphrodel,

First of all ~ wishing you well in you battle with cancer.

I have a couple of thoughts, one was suggested by Gkk7z, a member here on the forum, that you can still use the phone app even without the Pipboy holder.

Also there is a giveaway you could enter, the Countdown to Fallout 4 givaway: http://store.gamesas.com/countdowntofallout4

Good luck with your efforts to find a Pipboy.

edit: According to the link, you would have a chance to win one every week during the month of October.

Just a note that was raised in another thread awhile back, all the current eBay listings for these are probably (looking over this again they may not be violating if they don't take payment, see below) in violation of eBay's rules. While eBay does allow the selling of pre-order items like this, the rules state that it must become available to ship within 30 days of the purchase date. I say probably in violation because I'm not sure sure if purchase date means end of auction date or the payment date. So I guess if they take your money now, they are definitely violating the rules

http://pages.ebay.com/help/policies/pre-sale.html

Ebay like Facebook does a pretty poor job of generally investigating dodgy stuff happening on its own website. Unless its someone selling Clones of Hitler or similar it really dosnt care too much what s going on.

I have actually put a complaint into Ebay about FO4 pipboy resellers.. absolutely nothing has been done.

Well I hope for the best when it comes to your health my friend.

As far as any more pip boy editions I doubt they will make anymore and now people are trying to charge outrageous prices for one.

threedog1421 and Neomorph: Based on this thread I went and spoke to my store manager friend at EB last night about what was being said in here. They had 3 emails from 'management' over in Sydney waiting from them the morning after the annoucement. He had a call BEFORE the shop operned about the Pipboy and they had Video for their wall mounted display tv 2 days after the E3 demo/release talk.

One of the emails was announcing the game (just a excitement blurb). The next one listed the prices (and that was already in the purchase computer they use) . The third was an email stressing the 1 per customer rule. It also stated that staff had to monitor the purchase system which would altert them as soon as pipboys sold out. One staff member didnt check the system properly and sold a copy they didnt have to sell.

All in all seems a pretty orderely rollout from that store at least.

First off, Thank you for posting your questions and concerns in a respectful and cohesive manner. The last Poll concerning the CE was rather...Colorful in his approach to say the least.

Being part of a Dev team, I notice a lot how people blame the games developers for things like this. Especially when they themselves know so little about the actual processes involved. I'm not saying OP is doing this, but I have seen some others in this thread and elsewhere that simply don't get it, or simply refuse to accept that they can't pass the blame onto Beth.

Bethesda did request that the Pip-boy Edition should be limited to 1 per customer. But ultimately they cannot enforce that. Some may uphold it, Others may, out of incompetence (Like the gamestop manager guy) let people get away with it, and others simply just won't care. It being an international product makes it impossible to regulate these things, even if there was a law against it in any one country. And even if Scalpers weren't able to grab more than one, those copies they would have bought could have just as quickly been grabbed by a different Gamer somewheres else. 1 per person still wouldn't guarantee one for everyone.

The fact that these products are done by manufacturing companies, with Schedules beyond Bethesda's product, has already been touched on. I don't think I need to dive into the logistics, shipping, manufacturing time and processes at this point in the discussion beyond what has been said.

All in all this CE has been done like any other, Bethesda actually stated they've made more of this than any other CE they've done, even. The difference, and inconvenient truth of the matter is this one was a particularly interesting product for a massively popular game, presented at a Major gaming event with thousands attending, and Hundreds of thousands, if not millions more watching online, and the sheer number of online Vendors with little to no regard for the companies request to limit copies caused them to sell extremely fast.

I don't think eBay cares since people are buying and so they are getting their fees, now. I posted that more because I thought it might be a way out for anyone who's bought one on eBay but is worried about getting scammed when delivery time actually comes around. I think if a buyer reported it then on a per auction basis eBay would do something for that buyer.

I have one on preorder though best buy. I was only able to afford one, but I'm thinking with my big muscly arms I won't even be able to actually wear the pip boy so I might just get a regular version of F4 amd hang on to my PBE for a while and sell it for a huge markup after all of them are officially gone and desperate people will pay out the nose for them.

You mean your fat arms

No, I don't. I mean my 335 pound bench pressing arms. But to be real a sec, real strong men look like this,

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/02/04/2554AB1A00000578-2939595-image-a-36_1423059311140.jpg,

not

http://www.qwallpapers.com/thumbnails/large_Body_Builder_Top_Abs_27932.jpg.

Body builders, like the latter picture, do have muscles and are stronger than an average person, but they achieve that super ripped look through diet manipulation. They aren't actually as strong as they look. The strong men, like that go to the competitions, the winners all look like the guy in the first picture.

Perfectly expressed, nicely done,

I have half a mind to bookmark your post and reference it whenever the matter raises its head again, which it will.

its a limited ediotion as in LIMITED COPIES they aren't going to make more, so stop complaining and either buy it on ebay, or murder someone for it. Also, the scalpers most likely dont have extra copies, but are random people who dont care about the game seeing it as a opportunity

Feel free to quote it whenever needed!

Well, as it turns out ...you may be in luck.

I was fortunate to place a pre-order from the Gamestop website for the PC edition of the PipBoy 4 collectors edition for PC. I never ordered games online to be delivered before so my confidence level wasn't high on actually receiving it...especially since Gamestop doesn't charge until it ships.

As it turned out, I was also refreshing the page at the Bethesda store on one of my other monitors at the same time and , what do you know, I got a preorder directly from the Bethesda Store. Paid for in advance and I felt I can trust the actual developer to ship it , so I jumped on it, paid for it in advance and got a nice confirmation email that it will ship when released.

So, here I am, with two pre-orders for the PC Pipboy edition. One is paid for (Bethesda) and one is pending (Gamestop)

I was going to cancel the Gamestop order, but hadn't gotten around to it as yet.

Sooo...back to my relevant "You may be in luck" statement.....refers to the fact that I LIVE in Rotonda West....which is just down the road from Venice. Ironic isn't it?

I have absolutely zero desire to ebay the extra copy. I was going to cancel the Gamestop order anyways, but hell...if I can help out a fellow LOCAL gamer....I'll keep the order and it's yours for cost if ya want it when it arrives.

PM me for relevant details if ya want.

That's cool of you to help this dude and you are selling it at retail price as well? Glad you're not like those low life ebay folk selling it far more than it's worth.