Most Effective PS5 Restock Notifications and How to Get Faster Checkouts

Urian B., Tech Times 10 December 2020, 10:12 pm

The new Sony PlayStation 5 has proven problematic to purchase as it seems that when new PS5 stocks become available, they are then automatically sold out within only a matter of minutes. While some people were able to add the PS5 to cart, the problem was when they were reportedly checking out, the stock is no longer available.

A thread on Reddit by u/52Johan shared that the buyer had missed out on the previous Target PS5 restock and was hoping for another chance. The user then stated that they really needed to prepare themselves. The user then asked where to get PS5 restock notifications as well as how to improve chances of getting the PS5 checked out fast as a bullet.

Before answering this, it is important to note the whole process of buying a PS5:

1. Notifications

The first step for gamers is to get notifications and act quick on them. PS5 restock notifications can be found through a number of processes that will be explained later on.

2. Website/Store

Once the PS5 restock notification has been received, buyers need to act quick and go directly to the store/website that sells them. Moving fast within the website/store would increase the buyers chances of buying the PS5.

3. Check out

The last but not the least, this step is oftentimes overlooked and can cause the loser to miss their chance to buy the PS5. Some people move slowly through this process missing out on the opportunity to buy a PlayStation 5.

PS5 restock notification

One of the most effective free PS5 stock notifications is following @Wario64 on Twitter and making sure that the notifications are turned on. The only downside, however, is that users will get tons of notifications from other things on Twitter. Another technique would be to create a specific Twitter account just for following Wario64 and getting notifications from that account alone.

There are also other means of notifications but this one has been endorsed by quite a lot of people who have reportedly been successful in buying the PS5. This method has been able to help a number of people get their hands on the PS5 without having to buy from scalpers that drastically markup the price.

How to buy PS5 fast

In the Reddit thread, there was a method that was specifically focused on checking out since this is a problem oftentimes overlooked by most buyers. It was given by u/dorbiman who stated that in order to achieve faster checkout, the user was already logged into their own accounts at Walmart, Target, Bestbuy, as well as GameStop and already had a payment method pre-setup.

This was able to save the user time as the user reportedly did not have to put in the card info or even addresses. Basically, all the user needed to do was to add to cart and proceed to spam through the typical checkout process.