{"id":110883,"date":"2020-03-28T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/03\/fitness_fanatics_are_now_paying_ridiculous_prices_online_for_ring_fit_adventure"},"modified":"2020-03-28T04:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T04:00:00","slug":"fitness-fanatics-are-now-paying-ridiculous-prices-online-for-ring-fit-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/03\/28\/fitness-fanatics-are-now-paying-ridiculous-prices-online-for-ring-fit-adventure\/","title":{"rendered":"Fitness Fanatics Are Now Paying Ridiculous Prices Online For Ring Fit Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6dc80fe8b93d8\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/6dc80fe8b93d8\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"resize\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/U_Ck2c4BkIE?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1\" type=\"text\/html\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen>[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>There&#8217;s been on-going demand for Nintendo&#8217;s exercise game <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/ring_fit_adventure\">Ring Fit Adventure<\/a><\/strong> since it was released last October, and in recent months it&#8217;s become even harder to find due to the coronavirus outbreak \u2013 with shortages and supply issues reported worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Now, in North America, there seems to be some extreme price gouging happening on eBay, following the arrival of the game&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/03\/mario_splatoon_and_zelda_tunes_come_to_ring_fit_adventure_via_a_new_rhythm_game_mode\">musical update<\/a> earlier this week. It&#8217;s bumped prices up to <em>triple<\/em> the amount of the MSRP, making it more expensive than a Switch Lite. Buyers don&#8217;t appear to be phased by the asking price \u2013 with many of these extra-expensive copies selling out.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Nintendo Life\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/101062f15c9db\/nintendo-life.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/static.nintendolife.com\/blank.gif\" data-original=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/101062f15c9db\/nintendo-life.original.jpg\" alt=\"Nintendo Life\"><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Although Nintendo&#8217;s been running out of Ring Fit Adventure stock a while now, things got a little more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/03\/ring_fit_adventure_is_so_popular_it_keeps_selling_out\">complicated<\/a> in recent times when Chinese retailers started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/02\/ring_fit_adventure_sales_rapidly_increase_in_china_due_to_the_coronavirus_outbreak\">buying out<\/a> any stock they could get their hands on in February. This has resulted in global shortages and resulted in Nintendo&#8217;s president <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2020\/01\/ring_fit_adventures_healthy_sales_continue_as_nintendo_president_apologises_for_shortages\">apologising<\/a> for this inconvenience.<\/p>\n<p><em>Have you managed to locate a copy of Ring Fit Adventure recently? Leave a comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] There&#8217;s been on-going demand for Nintendo&#8217;s exercise game Ring Fit Adventure since it was released last October, and in recent months it&#8217;s become even harder to find due to the coronavirus outbreak \u2013 with shortages and supply issues reported worldwide. Now, in North America, there seems to be some extreme price gouging happening [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}