HG Blows

9 minutes ago, crackpot said:

DHL? To which country? I don't know why they quoted me for EMS when they know it's not available to the US yet. 

27 minutes ago, bleecher said:

HLJ charged me 3100 yen for 3 day DHL shipping

To the US? If so, that's not bad. 

Dhl to US, california

Amiami is charging me 5100 yen to ship mb freedom 2.0.  I shipped 2 mafex and a shf ginyu  together for 2500 yen is it really that much bigger?

Welp, about a month and half ago I had my strike parts shipping switched to ferry, and they did that in a day.  Still haven’t shipped though.  Last message i got said they’d ship soon, that was a month ago.

+1 for @rick.vale, quick & easy to deal with.

+1 for @kkx, fast shipping, nicely packed.

These look great. Have you guys considered using bondo for filler/smoothing?  Also, VF-5000 when?

WTH?  When did they announce this?

https://www.nippon-yasan.com/figures/31677-metal-robot-damashii-side-ms-freedom-gundam.html

I guess I haven't been screwed by them as much as some.  I only really buy web shop exclusives from them, and aside from the VF-31A (wasn't thrilled that order numbers way past mine were getting theirs shipped before me) and SSP (I blame this more on covid then them) debacles, I haven't really had any issues.  

My ticket to switch shipping for the SSP's turned around pretty quick, but there's been no movement on them actually shipping them out, so we'll see how that goes.

But yeah, they're definitely shady as hell.

5 minutes ago, kkx said:

If you can't wait to have the strike part on your VF-1S hiki, I have a set for sale in the for sale forum. <end shameless plug>

A lot of people give up on NY. I really don't understand why they are having trouble getting stock for the strike parts. Did they totally over committed. I forget what price they are selling them for. Maybe it is impossible for them to source the item with the current price without make a loss.

NY had been bashed often enough, but I still find it really hard to understand how they can imagine it is ok to run a business this way.

Still, sometime, they are the only place that have item in stock, and I do use them when I feel like gamble.

 

I thought the issue was that they just couldn't ship them due to the JP freeze, not because of a stock shortage.  Did they say something about not being able to fill orders?

5 minutes ago, Chronocidal said:

I'm going to take a shot and see what NY will offer to get my strike packs shipped.  I might go for the ferry, honestly, but I'm mostly just curious what they will say.  The shipping I already paid was over $70 for EMS for some bonkers reason, considering my four pack sets should fit in the same box an average VF-31 or VF-1 DX comes in.

I switched mine to ferry last week, but they haven't shipped it.  I just sent another note today asking if they would ship them out soon.

So NY sold out of Roy's @ 35,000 Yen before Nin Nin @31,000 Yen, that's interesting.  I guess NY has less risk stock wise.

I lost out for a weird reason.  Paypal wanted me to verify my full card number, then enter a security code provided via text, and then finally reset my password.  I have no idea what that was about.

it's gonna be a blood bath, many collectors will be lost tonight.

My Snow White arrived on Tues, bought from Nin Nin, which is nice, but it reminded me that I paid way too much for it

Finally decided to just switch my NY DX SSP order to ferry, at least I'll know it's on the move.  They replied in a day, and they gave me store credit back for the difference.

I don't think I've been successful on a DX PO night at HLJ or AmiAmi since they updated their websites.  But I'll be there tonight to fail again.

+1 for @VF-1A Cannon Fodder, easy, smooth transaction 

I like the engineering updates, and the fact that the cockpit in robot mode doesn't look like it's squeezing a cockpit poop out when viewing from the front.

Does Sentinel ever re-release their products?  Or is this gone forever?

+1 for @dafob, quick responses, and payment.

Got my standard snake eyes fig from amazon, has a super loose hip joint, otherwise nice fig

4 hours ago, Kuma Style said:

Where’s the blue shirt from?

Why are Storm figs labeled as 1/12 when they tower over shf and 6in scale figures?  

Weird that Hana is being available to order on the US site before the asian markets.  Has that ever happened?

Eva bundle is up on bluefin, $325 before tax/shipping.  Looks like you can add and checkout, even though the page isnt live.  

33 minutes ago, nathans82 said:

Yep, offering them to all my good people at MacrossWorld.

Damn, thats a great deal.