Lupin The Third
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Mister K did not give details but he has hinted it will be reassuringly expensive. Look at the price for the VF-1S reissue. Do not be surprised if we get slapped with an astronomical sum.
This actually concerns me that they might price themselves out of the market. Everyone thinks that people will pay $400+ for a Valkyrie due to the Bandai insanity last year, and primarily the shortages of VF-25S, followed then by the Yamato panic when they converted to Arcadia. However just because people asked and occasionally got insane prices on what was supposed to be a ~$150 toy doesn't mean consumer demand is there for sustained $300+ purchases.
For example I've paid so much for Valkyries this year that my wife gave me no slack today when I picked up two Sig pistols at ~$1200 each. Why? Becuase that's money damned well better spent than on another piece of plastic, albiet a very pretty piece of plastic.
I don't think the right balance for business success for Arcadia is going to be to just reissue what they've already done and ask more for it this time around; which is exactly what they've shown a desire to do so far. Look at what Bandai is doing in contrast; the V2 Renewals are such a significant retooling that it is actually worth replacing your V1s, even if you loved them and had no issues, and on top of it they introduced the 171 Alto,171 CF, 25A, new Tamashii packs, etc. Arcadia is giving us a reissue (Roy) and another reissue in a completely awful color scheme (VF-1J 30th). I am absolutely willing to give them a chance and support their future release, but so far I'm a bit underwhelmed. Maybe the YF-19 will be such an amazing retooling, like the Bandai renewals, that it makes my Weathered YF-19 and Bird of Prey look like junk; but the last thing I'm about to do is say "please charge me X amount of money for something that may only be worth Y".
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I've never seen HLJ sell web exclusives.
Ummm...VF-4G. Though not Bandai exclusives...
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LOL
You know you want to buy 12!
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And up on Ebay from the same scalper that had to cancel his RVF auctions IIRC....
http://www.ebay.com/ctm/Macross-F-DX-Chogokin-YF-29-
Yours for a mere $100 premium! Lol...
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Up at Big in Japan:
Although I'm not prepaying something almost 6 months in advance.
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RVF-25 is back in stock at HLj for those looking for a good price:
http://www.hlj.com/product/BAN980713/Sci
Nice to finally see that Bandai seems to be giving a crap! No more $200+ NY nonsense! Now just bring on the VF-25S
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Back in stock at HLj for those looking for a good price:
http://www.hlj.com/product/BAN980713/Sci
This is great! I already was fortunate enough to score mine at release with Otacute and AMJ but it is nice to finally see that Bandai seems to be giving a crap! No more $200+ NY nonsense! Now just bring on the VF-25S
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Has this become vaporware? Looks like it was ready to go......
I've been wondering this for a while. Where the heck is this release?!?1
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From that angle the color/design now looks really, really wonky.
Taste the rainbow.
I don't know, it seems silly this is the first release.
I have no interest in the paint scheme, I'd be curious on how many
Units they actually sell.I was going to grab a couple, but now I have to agree. I really want to support Arcadia but I;m suddenly not liking the crazy pain scheme anymore. But I'll be on board for pretty much everything else they are doing. Plus their new shirow figure....
Hoping to see this in color at WF!
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Street price of initial release of VF 19 kai is around $200, the YF19 with fast pack may be $250+ for initial run...
Even think it will be around the price for vf17D + fast packStreet price...haha. I like how here on MW we talk about toy jets like they're some kind of contraband.
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... shoji kawamori...
...Needs to not be a pissy little bitch if he is in fact the one they're worried about. He, and EVERYONE ELSE WHO WORKED ON SDF, could have done Macross II but they didn't want to. Honestly it does irritate me that it took so long to get to MII and then Plus. All the original showrunners acted like they were too good for Macross for such a long time. Then they come back after MII reinvigorated interest in more of the franchise, even though it was a bit of a disappointment, and they crap on it and claim it's an alternate reality unconnected to their work. Bunch of hypocrites, they'd probably have never worked another day on a Macross franchise had MII not come out.
HOLY GRAIL!
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HLJ really takes the cake with their shipping, so I do consider them pretty often (especially when it comes to Macross stuff I can actually obtain). I might start buying more bulkier stuff from them if their discount improves (so far the larger stuff like Riobots are about 1000yen difference, so I'll pass on those).
I love their private warehouse feature though. So convenient, especially when they have a sale going on.
I'm actually grateful to amiami for pissing me off so bad; because in doing so they got me hooked on HLJ's amazing Private warehouse system. Sure most everyone else will combine an order or two, or even the releases from a single month, but no one has a setup as efficient at the PW. It stuns me looking back at old orders how much I was overpaying for shipping because everything for the most part had to go piecemeal from AA. The 60 day setup is great also, especially when something comes out at the end of a month you can sit on until the start of two months later. If I wanted to clear out my PW right now it'd be $60 for shipping the 10 figures I have on order. With AA I'd have to pay $35-40 just for the 4 Space Adventure Cobra Figmas, and easily another $60 or so for each of the other sets of figures I have being held.
Which is why I don't even care if something is $5-10 more at HLJ. I can pay $60 to ship it all today or could have paid ~$160 for AA to piecemeal it to me. In the end the total price tends to cost less with HLJ if you build up you PW stock. Plus I'd rather pay $5-10 more for an item and be treated like a human being, rather than AA's belief that I'm a servant that answers to them. Oh my lord, I caused the "world's largest figure shop" (which I don't believe to be even remotely true) to overstock an item! Oh the shame! Oh the dishonor! Certainly they'll go under because of my two items, and not their snarky attitude or their complete lack of customer service!
When you pay for service you get quality service, when you bargain-bin shop you get the left behind droppings...I tend to think that collector's should be treated with a little bit of respect given the prices we pay for this kind of merchandise. If I was some kid peeing his pants in a toys-r-us while tearing open a blister-packed GI Joe I could understand AA's snarkiiness. But when you're buying 200+ toys that's a different subject. So I'll pay $10 a pop more for my 6 Detonator Orgun Riobots at HLJ knowing if there's a problem it'll be fixed and most if not all of the price difference will be made up in the combined shipping. Anyone not using the PW system yet should really do so, you will be very pleased with the way it works and the vast savings you will make on shipping if you buy lots of figures.
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I'm going to try to get from HLJ as well. If I don't score one when they put it up, I'll just wait until they put more up around release time. I'm tired of these games, paying higher than MSRP and then seeing these things go for MSRP or lower after release. No more.
Agreed. If you can't get them now don't jump for scalper prices as Bandai finally seems to be getting stock under control. Look at this nonsense....
...as long as no one feeds this troll then he'll be selling his for 14,700¥ at release. Speaking of trolls...
Just to be fair, I've found that as long as you fallow their terms of service and try to maintain a level of civility and politeness when contacting them, AmiAmi are a perfectly amicable retailer to do business w
Right because I caused them stock maintenance problems because of two figures that I overlooked the payment requests for out of $3000 spent with them last year. Two figures that when I received order cancellation notices I immediately requested a reinstatement of the order so I could make payment...yet Amiami had already resold them, thus I wonder how stock problems could even apply, and would not assist me. They chose to sell the items to someone else before even allowing me a chance to correct the oversight. I don't know why I'm even responding to you, you are such a troll it hurts. All you do is spout mental dribble; do you even think before you post? Of course not.
I love your thinly veiled implication that I wasn't civil, in fact I was both that AND was highly insulted that they sent me harassing emails over two orders they cancelled and wouldn't let me pay for! Seriously, go spend $3000 with a company and then have them send you nasty, and I do mean NASTY, rude emails over $75...oh wait, you couldn't even afford to spend that much given how I see you bitch and moan about prices in the various thread. Why don't you crawl back under the moe-hentai-pedo rock that you scurried out from under and go back to the pervy anime figure thread where you belong? And I'm not going to even entertain your absurd implication that you have civility, those who do have something don't have to brag about it, those who don't...well...
Feel free to spout whatever further mental dribble comes to your inane mind, but I've blocked your posts so I won't have to see any further nonsense from pedo-meo-boy so you won't be getting a response. The troll can go crawl back under pedo-anime-girl-rock and die now.
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Daaaaaaamn!
crap just got serious.!
And that just happened..! Lol
I mean , that stinks when you spend so much of your hard earned money, and a company just wipes their ass with you.
I think the customer service of a company is what makes a company.
Anyone can sell left and right,but not many companies will take care of their clientele when they are needed.
Sorry to hear that brother.. I've never purchased from them, as I always try to stick with HLJ and NY because I've had customer service issues but have always been resolved.
I've actually always liked HLJ; in fact my first ever direct from Japan import was with them; the massive MSIA Dendrobium Gundam. I just fell out of import shopping for several years and went with Amiami for a while since they were the only ones who had the Thunderforce V Shooting Game Historica ships available when I was trying to find them. In the beginning I thought they were great but their behavior towards the end of last year simply stunned me. When I first told them to piss off and cancel all my preorders they didn't respond, just kept sending me payment requests as new items that I was now buying at HLJ or elsewhere became available. Finally they sent me another nasty email to which I again stated I would not do business with them anymore and if they kept bothering me I would post my story, and all the emails with them, on MW and other collector's forums that I'm on as well as their company facebook page. They finally got the clue. Then they closed my friends account because he was, unknown to me, trying to send me a b-day gift via them...so now it's on! Lol. I just haven't had the time to compile the whole sordid affair into a concise version yet but at some point I will and I'll do exactly what I told them I would. Isn't social media grand?
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I think Lupin did... he got 4 lol
I've been lucky I'm on night-shift at ti's not busy at work whenever there's a preorder :0
I actually got mine elsewhere. I don't shop with Amiami anymore, they're a bunch of aholes and sent me guilt trip emails over two ~$75 items that I missed paying for last year (mostly just an oversight on my part), I had even requested that the two orders be reinstated when this occurred and they couldn't be arsed to bother. So after spending ~$3000 with them last year they started sending me emails about how I was "hurting their ability to run their business", maintain stock, etc. I laughed at them about how I can somehow run my businesses and maintain stock properly but they can't do the same and yet they're supposed to be the "world's largets" online figure shop; told them to piss off and I'd never do business with them again. They have truly rotten customer service, should have known the first time I opened a box and saw the stupid little "we won't help stupid gaijin if there's a problem" notices that they throw in the boxes.
They even deleted a friend's account entirely because, after I told them to piss off, he wanted to send me a gift and when he updated the address of the item he was buying me to come directly to me they cancelled his account! He didn't know anything about my beef with them until then, and they deleted his account because I told them what a bunch of shitheads they are...PATHETIC, HORRID, PUTRID excuse for a company. I will never do business with them again and I discourage anyone else from bothering now whenever the chance comes up.
Meantime I've moved everything over to HLJ; so far I've purchased 200,980¥ worth of product from HLJ since January and have another 518,662¥ worth of items on order...all of which Amiami could have kept but instead they chose to be dicks because they cancelled two orders on me that I still wanted to try to pay for. Absurd.
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Gonna turn in too. I gotta figure out this BART strike and an alternate commute tomorrow to work. Sleep and real life awaits!
Good luck to everyone still looking.
Fire them and give their jobs to someone who won't bitch and moan for being able to feed their families. Unions are such bullshit; even with over 70% of the govt economic "Stimulus" money being illegally funneled into unions they still want more. Unbelievable the world we live in...good luck dealing with that nonsense.
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"can't really complain" is a little harsh... we've been programmed to think of 35 minutes as an eternity now. After all, there's a lot of people (less informed) who will wake up tomorrow to find it went on sale but it's already sold out everywhere.
Given that this went from completely unknown before Friday (unless I missed a previous announcement, please correct me if I did) to presold Monday morning I can imagine a lot of WTF moments in the next few days for more casual collectors.
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Alright let's start the wagers on NY's first marked up price....I guess 16,000¥
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lol, nobody wants to pay up front.... lol me included!
Understood. It's a bit much for a company to expect you to prepay on something 4 months before it releases.
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All the folks saying "good night I missed out"...ummm CDJ still has them....and they do limit to 1 per customer.
Well someone paid attention, the last 2 just sold out.
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Don't worry NY will probably be back with stock and there will be enough to go round come October. I think this will go the way of the 171 and rvf
Especially since anyone who missed out was probably competing against one of NY's buyers.
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The Hobby Search orderind procedure is a piece of super slow crap!
Agreed. It is hands down the worst process possible.
Missed it all. I'm off to sleep.
CDJ still has 2:
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/goods/goods_detail.html?KEY=NEOGDS-90706
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Scored one on CD Japan.
Subtotal 14000 yen Shipping 5000 yen Total 19000 yenThat's the only problem with them is the shipping is about 18,000¥ more than the actual cost. It costs 32,000¥ to ship a Valk to the US via EMS, yet they charge an almost $20 premium on the shipping. Really tacky in my opinion, but I guess it's no worse than NY charging actual shipping but $20 extra for a Valk.
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