Take our advice before the next PS5 restock, and learn from the mistakes of everyone who tried before you.
I’ve become something of a PS5 restock expert in 2021, helping nearly 20,000 people find the Sony console in stock by tweeting out when and where to buy it. Sometimes I’m able to tell everyone in advance, too, giving my Twitter followers a serious edge. But every day I see the same mistakes being made that prevent people from actually purchasing the PlayStation console of their choice, whether that’s the $499 PS5 Disc or $399 PS5 Digital Edition. You don’t have to follow my PS5 restock advice, however, you should know how to increase your chances as PS5 stock continues to be low in the US. Here are the biggest mistakes I see every day and how to actually buy the console by avoiding the very same pitfalls everyone else is making. This has become an obvious one – at least for my 500,000 new followers in the last 80 days: follow @mattswider on Twitter and turn on notifications. Why? Because each PS5 restock lasts only three minutes when the add-to-cart button is left unabated (some retailers like Walmart, Best Buy, Target and GameStop force you to attempt that add-to-cart button again and again for 30 minutes, but Antonline opens the floodgates and lasts under three minutes so that’s where we get that number). That means you’ll have very little time to act, with millions of people still wanting the PS5 console and hundreds of thousands trying during every restock. Many will enter, few will walk away with a ‘W’. Turning on notifications will send a push notification to your phone as soon as I send out a tweet about a PS5 restock. Every day – and this not an exaggeration, sadly – someone finds out about my PS5 restock Twitter account minutes too late. They message me that they might have just been scammed by a Twitter account posing as a reseller ‘verified’ by PlayStation.
